Activity Toy Reviews

I am not sure why Amazon says it would ship in 24 hours when it has been more than 2 weeks and still they have not shipped. It is frustrating to see false advertisements from a public company.

I purchased for my son after he would not leave it alone in the store. He plays with it every day. The Vtech website has printouts for more "funny pages" so he can use as many as he wants. He loves the dancing free play feature.

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The crayons that are given are the same as regular crayons so you don't have to worry about what happens when you use, lose or break your crayons that they provided when you purchased it.

I'm excited to get home after work to show it to my 4.5 year old daughter and we will work on our letters & numbers but have fun with it.

All our children love temporary tattoos. This one is special because you can color them yourself. We purchased this for my son's 7th birthday and it was a great birthday activity for all. Needless to say, I & the rest of our guests were covered in art when the day was through. The tattoos stay fairly well if you don't get scrubbing them too hard & are easy to put on, they don't stick and peel like some we've tried. They offer varied styles of tattoos, everything from dragons to sports. All in all this is great fun!!

I do wish there were a few more tatoos in this kit, but you can continue to use the markers and draw free hand tattos when they are gone. They were easy to apply and fun to color in for the kids. I was a little skeptical after reading a few of the reviews, but I am glad I decided to purchase this anyway.

this is fun now because i like making tattoos so its nice and me and my friends play with it when they come over:-D

I read the reviews and still bought this and the shed for my bob the builder fan. This stuff really is terrible. My son wanted over and over to build the house as shown on the box - it can't be done.You just can't build anything - not even the face of a house. Not even because the magnets do not hold but because there aren't the right shape bricks.

He uses the bricks now as Skip's load but surely there are cheaper things for Skip to cart around! Also the Bob the Builder Shed is terrible - I super glued it together in the end as if you just touched it, it fell apart. The vehicles and die cast characters are A+++ but the other stuff is utter rubbish. Get Wendy and Bob on e-bay!

But if I could I would. My 3 year old son has every one of the bob the builder toys. The trucks and vehicle toys, for the most part, are great. Every single one of the playsets are junk and will fall apart the first time you play with them. They are of poor design and as you see in other posts they can be dangerous. DO NOT BUY ANY!!!

We have the Bob Toolbox playset, and it is junk, too. The only good thing about this set is that you get Bob and Wendy, and at least they don't break. If your little one likes Thomas the Tank Engine, buy those playsets instead. They are so much better made that it is ridiculous. They cost a bit less, too. The take along Bob vehicles are nice, but the larger talking vehicles, junk as well! My four year old loves his Bob the builder toys, but they are a huge pain because the design and quality are shoddy. You do need to know that before you buy. These are not toys you can set up and feel confident that they will get hours of trouble free play. The pieces fall off, some of the pieces do not fit properly. It is annoying, but kids love it.

My 2 1/2 year old daughter loves her old doodle pad so much it was time to get a new one. We saw this and thought it looked great! It is a joke. Not only are the markers dull in color, they do not erase off the screen at all with the eraser. Also, we found that even when using the traditional magnet pen we had trouble erasing the screen. We went from having a doodle pad be a independent play toy to one that she needs constant help with. Stick with the plain old doodle pad - which is what we went back and got!

Great product with pro's & con's like most. The drawing board lights up blinks & glows. Includes 3 glow markers, 5 tracing templates & eraser-plus a storage drawer for the markers and a separate storage slot for the tracing templates.

Offers quite a bit more than your traditional Magna Doodle, but with that come some inconveniences. For one be prepared, to assist your child in removing and returning the tracing templates to the storage slot. Which, is far to narrow for a 3 or 4 year old to maneuver without tearing the templates.

My 4-year old loves this product and does an amazing job of tracing the pictures, but erasing the pictures is an entirely different story. We used the dry eraser per the instructions and ended up with a mess and a scratched drawing surface. So, we've resorted to first wetting the eraser then drying the drawing surface after with a paper towel. This has worked out very well and my preschooler can do this on her own.

One of the biggest cons for us is not being able to purchase additional markers without buying the accessory packs, which include 3 markers and 10 tracing templates. Although, the cost will only set you back about four dollars, we've already purchased 3 accessory packs leaving us with 35 templates, which is about the max the storage slot will hold. At this point I would rather just purchase 10 markers.

This is awesome. My 5 year old and my 21 month old each have their own. They would always fight over one so we had to buy another. They sit next to eachother and doodle for hours. And ask me to draw (which I love) We have so much fun with it. I don't much care for the markers, although the ones that came with ours are very bright and colorful, its a pain to clean the color off (will only come of with a wet cloth, then a dry one) the dry eraser for the markers doesn't work for crap. Its really neat that you can color your pictures but I get tired of cleaning it off for my 5 year old every few minutes and end up telling her "Lets not use the markers anymore today" They are better for an older kid unless you don't mind keeping some wet wipes handy to clean it off every time. But the magnetic pen, the drawing part is just awesome. My girls never ever ever get tired of playing with this. We also have a smaller one that we take with us (it helps keep my toddler quiet in church and other places)
I think just about any kid would probably love this toy.
Sometimes we have to pull the erase thing across it more than once, but that is really not a big deal. Be sure and read the instructions before using this. It says to color the screen in completley and erase several times before using it to draw. That could be why some people have problems with it. Maybe they did not read where it says to do that.

My brother has one of these and it was all our, then 4 year old, son could talk about. Every time we went to Uncle's, he had to play Bulls Eye Ball! His obsession at Uncle's became his obsesson at home after Uncle bought him one for Christmas. This was two years ago. Two days ago he hit his high score of 212 on 30 second blitz! Needless to say, he has blasted his dad and mom's ability to ever keep up with him. (he turns 6 tomorrow) His other scores are 2.2 seconds on 25 point rush and 67 bulls eyes on bulls eye ace. We have passed this Bulls Eye Ball on and now have the "blue one" (shows the score and time) and the "yellow one" (has a new game). Yes, he is obsessed!

I'm a freshman in college and me and my fellow roommates all play this on a regular basis trying to beat high scores. Currently I have a score of 197 on 30 second blitz, 2.4 seconds on the 25pt rush, and 33 bulls eyes on bulls eye ace. I seem to be getting better and better each time I play. Great game for all ages!

I purchased this as gift for my nephew's 10th birthday.
He hasn't put it down since!
It's great for adults and kids....take it on road trips!

This was not fun at all boring and she only played with it one time Definately a waste of money

I got this and basicly had the same problems everyone else did and every time i tried to play with it the middle part would fall and when you did get it to stay up the images were so blury that they gave you a major headache needless to say this went back to the store less than 3 hours latter i would not recomend this to anyone

PS. i only gave it one star cause u couldnt give it a O

This toy is not good at all! its hard for the reflecters to stay still and to connect. its hard to trace the picture because you can hardly see your hand! plus it the picture moves, thats it! you have to start all over again. its better if you just take a piece a paper and putting it over the picture and traceing it that way, trust me i ended up just doing that.

You have never seen something like this!! I thought I knew all the cool toys. It stretches and bounces back ... wow !!! And it works again and again. My 12 year old son and I spent 8 hours stretching and releasing it last Monday (or was it Tuesday ... I can't remember). BUY THIS TOY!

luv the game lots of laughing and creativity,,,,need a reply re new words /cards available??...thank u badabing

My husband and I meet with friends once a month to play games and even though we all bring different games each month, this is the only game we end up playing every single time. The other couples specifically call us to remind us to bring it (as though we would forget). Each card has two words on it, you select one word from the card and the other team has to guess what the word is. But the game tells you whether you have to draw the topic (like pictionary) or act (like gestures) or speak. But sometimes it tells you that you have to do the other word on the card. It also keeps track of who's turn it is to play and who should guess. It adds up each person's points and tells you who the winner is at the end. It's lot's of fun. Love it!

I bought this because of the price, mainly. I didn't expect much. I was surprised! We (adults 40+) played this the other night and one almost needed medical attention from laughing so hard. This game is a hoot. It's voices get a little repetitious and it "burped" a couple of times but other than that we had a great time. We did miss the next player instructions a few times, but it's because we were laughing so hard! Let your hair down... you'll enjoy this game!!! I ended up buying more to give as gifts.

This is fun and great idea for toddler who can't color very well. But it's very costly since there are only about 10 special made pages that the invisible pen can drew on. Once your toddler is done with those 10 pages, then this book and pen is useless.