Even though Pleo was discovered in the wilds of California, USA – it’s surprising to learn that 60% of Pleo sales take place in Europe – with only 10% of Pleo’s being purchased in USA.

It’s hard to imagine why this should be the case, as the vast majority of information about Pleo seems to come US sites, Perhaps the US Pleo community is more vocal than us timid Europeans?

Can you explain Europe’s, and specifically the UKs love affair with Pleo?

Do we just love robots and dinosaurs more than the Yanks?

Thanks to the Professional Vegan for contacting Pleo manufacturers Ugobe and confirming that, yes, the Pleo is vegan.

OK – we all know that the Pleo can only eat the leaf pack supplied in the box (and little kids fingers, hee hee!), but Ugobe have confirmed that no animal products have been used in the making of the Pleo skin, but they cannot confirm that other parts (e.g. the glue used in the Pleo internal parts).

As a fellow vegan, it makes me happy that Ugobe have taken the time to respond so quickly to this question.

Our Antipodean friends can buy the Pleo for $449 Australian dollars, which works out at about £215 quid. Not bad at all.

The cheapest price for the Pleo in the UK remains to be on offer (and in stock!) from Amazon – who have it for just £199, a full £50 cheaper than other online Pleo retailers.

Seeing that the kids are back in school and thoughts are already turning to Christmas toys for 2008, now is the ideal time to order a Pleo early before they become as rare as real dinosaur eggs (or all bought up by EBay profiteers like last year…sigh).