Games Reviews

Received the Get-up Clippity Clop Horse two days before date stated by Amazon so was highly thrilled and excited. Excitement was short-lived when the 'press to activate' button on horse's head didn't work. The problem was the product is shipped with the batteries activated (presumably so potential customers in stores can hear the snorting and neighing before buying the product. After replacing the three dead AAA batteries, the horse neighed and snorted as advertized. The batteries in the horse's hooves are a different story. They were sent activated also (turned on rather than off). I don't understand this because no potential customer can hear the clippity clop without tearing the container apart to access the hooves. No amount of slapping the shoes on a floor activated any sound except the slapping on the floor. I hope my three-year-old granddaughter has better luck since I would certainly hate to replace these six-cell batteries before a clippity clop is heard. May I suggest that the batteries in an online shipment be deactivated or packaged separately insuring fresh rather than totally dead ones. Leaving them activated as done would seem to promote corrosion as well as disappointment. (But....perhaps I am beating a dead horse in my review....no pun intended.......) If replacing the batteries make the hooves work also, it will probably be worth it since my granddaughter is very special to me. A last comment......I have found no store anywhere in the Raleigh, N.C. area that carries the Big Boing in stock. I had no choice but to order it online. If that is the only way to obtain one of these noise makers then why activate the batteries if they can't be tried out in a store. Walmart, Target, and ToysRUs only offer them online....WHY?

My little daughter loves horses. When I saw this item on Amazon's features I bought it. It is a fun toy that two months later she still plays with. My only complaint is that the feet stopped making sounds after the first day of use. I changed the batteries (which are round photo-type batteries) but it did not help. It looks to me as though the feet can't take the beating of a four year old. Other than that it is a good product.

very cute. Daughter loves it. The sound in the hooves do not always work.

(...) I am upset. This toy is rotten and a truly poor creation for 6 year olds and up. You cannot load the bubble liquid into the gun and have to continue to dip the spout into a tiny bubble tray that holds the liquid. Messy, inconvenient and a total disappointment. How are you supposed to go out to the park and enjoy yourself when you have to manage the gear that comes with this stupid toy? Poor design and expensive, and even if you got it to work, you have to order refill liquid online.
DO NOT BUY!!!
I feel bad for my little girl. She was so excited. What a disappointment.

I was really disappointed with this bubble toy, My 5 year old was practically heartbroken. My son had wanted it very badly after seeing it on TV. The toy itself looks fantastic but turned out to be a big pain. Since he is only 5 years old, I planned to prepare the toy for him and let him squeeze the trigger. I'm quite able to handle most gadgets but after reading the instructions and figuring out what fluids go where and when to press which switches, we ended up with a big mess rather than any decent vapor bubbles. The cap of the vapor fluid would leak (alot) every time I attemped to fill the vapor chamber. And then you have to dip the blower in the bubbles each time. It was far too complicated, time-consuming and messy, unless you have older children who can handle the set-up by themselves, and consider it worth their time,I would not recommend this toy.

My 5 year old was disappointed, he thought it was an automatic bubble gun. Had to keep dipping the tip into bubble mixture to get it to work. For the price it wasn't really worth it.

It's a bratz babyz doll. It is what it is! Much less skanky than regular full-size bratz. My 8 year old loves it and most of her fellow 2nd grade girl friends have these dolls too. Seems VERY durable, I would be totally comfortable giving this to a 4 or 5 year old.

I get relly sick of hearing that baby bratz where thongs because its not true bratz in genral are surposed to be pretty and cool if every one would leave bratz alone or bought one before they said all this it never would have happened what bothers me the most is that kids dont get to play with bratz cause there parents hear this story and dont buy it for them but in my books bratz are the best me and my friend have been playing with them since the day they came out and i have never had a bratz toy break I love love love love love love bratz!
But i do wish they would make more kinds please mga lisen to me!

I have had my cloe doll 4 about a year now and she is played with everyday but yet she has no scratches no dents and is in the same condition as when i first got her she is verry verry durable.

Santa brought this for my 3 and 6 year olds for Christmas. Although they both enjoy playing it, the age for it should be lowered. It is not at all challenging for my 6 year old. I wonder now if ANY of the 6-8 games will be a challenge for my oldest. It's great for the 5 and under kids, but I will be have to upgrade to Leapster L-max or something for my oldest next Christmas.

If you've got a "Princess", then she's gotta have it!

I purchased the v smile system as well as this game and my children
love it. They have played it about every day since Christmas. They are learning as well as having fun. It is a excellent choice.

Bertie is part of the Thomas the Train friends toys. We gave it to my 2-yr old grandson a few weeks ago. It is well made and holding up to a 2-yr old's playing enthusiasm. It has been played with daily and has been a safe and durable toy.

Only problem with this toy is that both brothers want to play with it at the same time.

This is one of my 2 year old son's favorite characters. It is a well made toy and has survived being thrown around...or as he says "Bertie Crash!".

I bought the above for my four-year-old granddaughter. She enjoys the LeapPad Book very much. It seems to stimulate her inquisitiveness, and she finds it to be lots of fun.

I ordered this for my 3 1/2 year old daughter. She has been trying to write her name before, but some letters give her trouble. I gave her this "book" and she loves it! We own about 10 First Leap Pad books and she plays with this one more than any (she even put down the Disney Princess one to play with this). She likes practicing tracing the dotted lines on the letters. She doesn't do most of the other games, but she enjoys tracing the letters. The music makes it more exciting than the preschool handwriting books I had purchased for her. She won't spend two minutes with those. It does seem that her "free" handwriting is getting better. She just received the L-Max for Christmas (we haven't opened it yet)and the Letters on the Loose game which I read was good for writing. I'm sure that with both of these, she will have writing down pat very soon.

We own over a dozen books for My First LeapPad. This particular book is my daughter's second favorite. In fact, we own two versions of it, one in English and the other in French.

My wife and I purchased this book because our daughter needed help with her fine motor skills, especially when it came to writing letters and numbers. She wasn't lagging or anything, but she made the mistakes all three-year-olds make when trying to write.

Through fun activities, this book taught her to write in strait lines as well as proper curved lines. She learned to correctly print both capital and small letters. She also learned to correctly write her numbers. We were pleasantly surprised by how much this book improved our daughter's fine motor skills and control over a pen.

Additionally, since her French lagged her English, the French version of this book taught her the alphabet in French and well as all her numbers in this language. Had she not already known these things in English, I imagine it would have taught her these as well.

This book is definitely one of My First LeapPad's best.

This volcarren wasteland is a great addition to the master set. My 10 yr old is wanting every set that comes with Heroscape and was thrilled that he got the wasteland.

Got this for my grandson to go with his set and he was thrilled. Loves the Heroscape game and wants more and more of it

I love the volcarren wastleland pieces and the "lava dudes". They take the game to another level. Imagine having a volcano on your game board!

In addition, they are of the same quality as the rest of the merchandise and Heroscape is fun to play, no matter what your age.

I brought this set for my 21month old daughter. They are prefect for her. She was trying to use daddy's garden tools, so I wanted a set that she could use. This set is made to be durable and long lasting. The cost of these tools are well worth it. My daughter will help daddy work in the yard with her tools. I love the colors and it has taken the abuse of a toddler and they have lasted. I would purchase these tools again if necessary.

Games has a simple objective -- get the Red car out of traffice. And boy! it is difficult and changelling at higher level. Set up the *cars* as described in cards and figure out a way to get the Red Car out.The best thing is complexity raange from very easy to very hard. So it captures kids interests and provides the extra incentive to move to the next level !!

Simple rules -- once you have placed the cars on the Grid, you can only move them forward or backward.

A great addition to this game is "Rush Hour 2, 3 and 4 Gift Pack" for less than $12/-. Each set has 40 cards or in total 120 different combinations are possible. The highest level is really really difficult. Meant for the "Pros" only !!!