Slowing sales for Star Wars and Furby toys also contributed to the company's slackening earnings.
For those having trouble with the famous Furby language, there's an app for that.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Furby's mood is also affected by speech (be it from you or fellow Furbies).
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
These sort of interactions will alter Furby's character, sending it into a transformation with flashing eyes.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Furby also has no OFF switch, so the potential to drive parents nuts is fairly high.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Beyond the eyes, Furby looks largely similar to earlier units, if "slightly larger, " according to Hasbro's measurements.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
It's immediately clear, right off the bat, that we're not dealing with your older sister's Furby here.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
That's right, Furby is back--and with six times the memory of the original.
While Hasbro has some popular products, like the eerie Furby petlike robot dolls, its biggest categories are doing poorly.
In place of those familiar plastic spheres are two big LCDs that comprise roughly a third of Furby's body.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Pressing down on this starts Furby chewing as though it were being fed.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
The app also features a dictionary and meals for Furby, which are served up by flicking them in its general direction.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
The free Furby iOS app (available this month) offers up a translator that will listen to its speech and spit out its English equivalent.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Unlike, say, a Tamagotchi (or, you know, a real animal), Furby won't die if you don't feed it -- though it may get cranky.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
Furby's also got capacitive sensors in its head, stomach (also home to its internal mic), back and sides that react to touching such as tickling.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
The new eyes significantly contribute to Furby's range of emotions, allowing Hasbro to design different dot matrix pupils for different moods like anger and innocence.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
As with his predecessor, this Furby's got eyelids, though they play a fairly limited role, like opening up when it wakes up from sleep mode.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
The app duplicates the egg-shaped plastic toy that became a must-own sensation like Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo and Furby after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.
Furby's certainly a fascination.
ENGADGET: Furby gets a reboot for 2012, we go hands-on (video)
While many of us are busy ferreting out the best deals on everything from tablet computers and diamond earrings to talking Furby dolls and Chia Pets, experts advise that this is also the best time of the year to garner the deepest discounts on a new car or truck.
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