The globe arrived with the north pole axis popped out, but it was not too hard to pop it back into the cardboard globe and all was good. The toy has been a big hit, and while it is clearly meant for older children given the level of information provided, my young son and his younger sister love the "Continent game" and has moved on to harder challenges like cities and countries.
My wife, an elementary school teacher, would also highly recommend this globe for classrooms as well as being a great learning toy for home.
HOWEVER, one small warning, it is NOT VERY DURABLE in the hands of young children. We stored it on top of a short (table-height) book shelf and after only a couple of accidental (gentle) falls onto the carpeted floor, it is now broken at the posts that connect the main longitudinal ring around the globe to the base. Both of the "push-in" posts have now broken and the globe canno longer be held in the base. (one of these posts broke off in the base and we have not been able to dig the broken piece out -yet!)
I contacted the manufacturer (Replogle) and got an e-mail back after a couple days that they do not sell those parts separately from the globe. Rather than being able to buy just the longitudinal plastic ring, they can only offer the whole globe for half (or more) of the cost of the whole product.
So, parents of young geography lovers, be warned. This globe is not built to be a "toy" that can sustain even an accidental fall of just 3' onto carpet, and the individual parts are not readily available for inexpensive repair. The plastic parts at the connection points seem to break much easier than I anticipated and has rendered the toy unusable.
We are still deciding on whether to fix this globe or not, given the cost and waste of parts that are not broken.
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Our two kids, aged 11 and 7, love this toy. "Find the country" is easy enough for the kids to play, and some of the other games are challenging enough for those of us adults who think we are pretty well educated (turns out there is a LOT we don't know about the world!!!) The topics of interest are well varied; it's fun to hear the local music and national anthems of all the different countries, for example... We haven't explored all the ways to use this globe yet, but so far it has proven to be both very fun and very educational.Best Deals for Intelliglobe Deluxe
Like the title says (and one other commentor has mentioned) this is a cheaply made item. I am dismayed at what poor quality $100 US will buy these days.What I liked:
educational.
What I didn't like:
cheap
the MOST annoying thing about this, is that when you turn the pen on, it repeats a marketing/sales spiel EVERY 'freakin' time. For some reason I can't get past this "invasion" into my home.
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Great idea but there are problems. First, you've to hit the pen on exactly the right mark in order to get credit for the answers. I was on the correct country at times and it still marked it wrong in the trivia section.Most importantly Replogle's customer service is awful. They don't answer a phone, the voicemails are always full and when you speak with someone they're clueless and rude-all in all a bad combination for such an expensive globe!
Also, they do not give you the answers to the trivia. They say to Google the answers so you can learn them youself-seriously? What learning is there in spending hours Googling answers, other than the fact that the company is too cheap to put the answers on their Website so you could help out your child! Good idea just wish it wasn't from such as lousy and cheap company!
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Our son is 11 and has not been very interested in geography or using globes and my attempts to get him interested have failed miserably. The day the Intelliglobe arrived my son was so excited about its arrival that he was literally playing with the globe as I was trying to get it out of the packing box. As soon as he got the globe out of the box he disappeared into his bedroom and stayed there playing with it for almost two hours. He loves this globe so much that I find him using it almost every day. He begs me to let him use this for his geography lesson instead of his usual curriculum. Each time a friend comes over he shows them his globe and they play with it for quite a while.I am really impressed with all of the information that this globe contains, and the variety of subjects that it teaches. I have told several of my friends about this item and they are looking into purchasing the globe for their family.
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