Review of Hape Little Plane

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My daughter went crazy for her airplane.

I love that the wings are attached with stretchy string that collapses.

Hape makes great products!

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My daughter is 2 and was excited to get this in the mail. She loves airplanes so I expected her to love this and play with it a lot but the opposite is the case. The toy is great quality but is not played with often even by a airplane lover! It is light weight and perfect for small hands. I love it but my daughter does not use it. It looks cute for room decor but other than that we do not get the use out of it I expected/wanted.

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Perfect size for toddlers and very well made. Has survived many falls off our coffee table! Still not sure what the point of the moving wings is supposed to be, but my son loves playing with it.

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this toy is even cuter in person and the wings can flap up and down. Well made my son has enjoyed it.

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I bought this for my son's airplane-themed nursery. It's high quality and very cute, and I know he'll play with it as he grows. I think it's a little overpriced, but still worth getting.

Buy Leapster Arcade: Word Chasers

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I gave this 5 stars because overall I think this is a great game. It operates like the video arcade game pac-man did. The difference is, you choose the level you want to start and the Leapster then gives you a word to spell according to that level. Then you have to correctly go through the maze and find the letters in order. So for example, if you picked level 1, you may have a simple word like tag to find. Once the game has started, you have to go through the maze and find the T first, without bumping into another letter and so on and so forth. You can get bonus points by chasing mice after you correctly get each letter among many other things.

My son only chose to stay on level 2 so far today, so I am sure there are other things to do with this cartridge. One of the things I liked the most was that you had to spell the words out of "thin air". There werer no hints or anything to copy. It was learning through trial and error. I was originally worried about my son being bored becuase he is already a reader (5.5 yrs old), but it really was fun for him to figure out words he only knew in a "kid writing" sort of way. Having the Pac-Man arcade approach kept him interested.

I don't know what the price will be after it is back in stock, but we got it as buy one, get one and it was also reduced to 17.99 each. So I only paid 24.00 total with the shipping and tax. I think the original/non-sale price was really high though? If you have a reading kindergartener or 1st grader plus, they will like it. If your child can't read yet, this is too advanced and not worth spending the money yet.

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I bought this game because my daughter has been discouraged with spelling. This was a perfect choice. She loves to play and is quickly gaining confidence in her spelling ability. It is the classic example of a fun and educational toy.

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The game in itself is a good idea, but moving around on it is a different story. I tried to play it (and I do know how to spell) but getting it to move and turn was a pain. It was not one of my best purchases.

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I thought the game seemed dull, but my son likes it so my opinion is meaningless.

Kids are required to go through a maze and spell words while avoiding obstacles. Level one is 3 letter words, higher levels have larger words. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding what word the game is saying to spell but I guess it is just me because my son doesn't complain about it.

It isn't his favorite game (he has 12 leapster games total) I would say this is his 4th or 5th favorite game)

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Admittedly, we are not a high-tech bunch around here--no Xbox or Wii in this house, but my kids love to play their Leapsters and they say this game is great.

Cheap KNOBBY TEXTURE CHEWY TUBE GREEN

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This is my son's second favorite chew. (He prefers the P-shaped chew.) I would give this one five stars, but it can be used as a whistle by very curious kids, and is therefore a little annoying at times. :) Otherwise, great product.

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I bought this chewey for one of my students who was chewing up all the pencils in the room. He really likes it because it's not too hard and it provides lots of oral input. The downside is that it whistles and can be disruptive during class time and it's super slobbery. I'm off to find a new one that is not hollow and collects saliva like a trumpet.

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Of all of the Christmas presents for my 8 month old, this is his favorite. He's teething and will chew on this for 30 minutes at a time. It is smaller than I expected. It is the size of my palm, not my whole hand. It is easy for my baby (with low muscle tone) to hold on to this and yet it is big enough that he can't gag himself with it as he does some other toys. He enjoys picking at the nubs on the handle. A really great product!

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I bought these for my son who has oral fixations and this works great. He loves them also. They can be easily tossed in the dishwasher too.

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My three year old Grandson loves this toy. He easily get stressed out and uses this to chew on. It is hollow, moderately soft, and rugged. He loves the feel of the texture as he chews on it. Just be sure to rinse it off occasionally to keep it clean.

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Either an object d'art or something to use at your bar...really unusual and a great conversation piece at a party. Wild hostess gift!

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I was recently in Africa & found a porcupine quill on the ground on a walking safari in a national park. I picked it up but was later told that I could not remove it from the park so I left it at the lodge. I really liked the look & feel of the quill & decided to see if I could find one at home. I now have one and will mount it somehow along with some pictures I took on the safari.

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My son received this as a christmas gift, and thoroughly enjoys it. This is not a regular DVD. It is designed to go with the "Read With Me DVD" system (a separate remote control that works with it on your TV). A previous reviewer was not aware of this, so it should not have received a bad review for consumer error.

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My son is 5 and this was a great gift for him. He enjoys the many different activities associated with each DVD. Unlike a previous person complained, I was fully aware you needed the special player to view this DVD. The player is very easy to use and my son requires very little assistance from me. He sits for over an hour playing with each DVD!!!

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My 4 years old kid had a great time with it as he loved it first as 'just' a book.

I do think the upper bracket age of 7 years as advertised is somewhat too high

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This is a very cute Read with me DVD. I enjoy the images used in the story. My four year old son loves this storyline and has loads of fun with the games he can play.

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On the plus side, these posters are large and in Spanish. I did laminate them to make them more durable. I am not a teacher but I work in a school; the problem is that they are so large that I can't display them all at once due to the size of my office. I do use the months of the year with the birthdays written down.

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6 mo cannot stop chewing and banging these around! The rings are bright and colorful; our daughter loves them! She throws them around... they are soft and light so she cannot herself. Very good and well-thought product. Arrived on time and in good condition.

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I love this, my daughter loves this their squishy my daughter can chew them and play with them and their an easy clean up

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Good quality. Little one still likes playing with it it holds up and colors don't come off of it good

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Baby loves chewing on the rings, but her favorite thing is to use the post as a hammer. I didn't expect the whole thing to be so lightweight. All the parts are just air-filled plastic. I thought it would be more solid. We got this for her when she was 7 months, and she was able to palm the top of the post and just lift the whole thing in the air with one hand, which means she just dumps all the rings off rather than learning to lift them up one by one. Also, the post doesn't taper at all, so there's not really any challenge in stacking the shapes...they all fit regardless of what order they're stacked. She likes to play with it, so it still gets three stars, but I wish it were more challenging as a puzzle rather than just a holder for a bunch of teething toys.

Also, I noticed other reviews mentioned one ring being a rattle, but none of the rings on our set rattled.

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I have nothing negative to say about this cute, colorful stacker. The rings are each a different shape, and I think that is a real improvement over other ring stackers. The only thing that kept this from getting 5 stars is that only the top shape has a rattle in it. It would be really great if they all rattled, but it's still worth buying.

Review of STORY STACKER by Discovery Toys

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A pre-school teacher told me that I had to get this stacker. It didn't look that much different from others in the pictures, but it is incredible in about a hundred ways! First, it wobbles -safer and more fun. Then, each disc is numbered and has that number of objects painted on it -in the color of the next disc!!! Hard to explain but really let's kids figure out patterns and colors. Most fun it that there are three really cute animal heads, so when the kids have done the stacking, they make up little stories about the animals. Mine have even given them each names, and they make up different stories every day. I just saw that this won some awards, and it deserves them!

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Reviews of AmScope 3.0 MP USB2.0 Microscope Digital Camera + Software 3.0 MP

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I couldn't be more pleased with my purchase, this camera has exceeded all of my expectations and at a VERY attractive price. IT Guy thought it to be a "little pricy for a webcam" but I discussed that in my comment to his review. Basically, it is way more than a mere webcam. The camera and the software (very sophisticated) are tailored to use in microscopy.

In interest of full disclosure, I use mine strictly for still shots, so any issues concerning its video capabilities are beyond my scope of use.

The SW ran well on my previous computer (a 5 year old Dell D620) and runs fine on my new (albeit pretty powerful) new computer. (Again, I'm doing still shots, not videos.)

This particular camera (AmScope's MU series)is manufactured by ToupTek (their MA series is made by Tucsen). I selected the 3MP version (MU300) because it had the most light sensitivity of ToupTek's line. The lab across the hall has the 8MP version of the same camera which is a great camera also. However, the 8MP version was getting close to running out of steam at very low-light darkfield conditions. That is why I selected the MU300 to have more light sensitivity. (Either camera is far more sensitive to light than the human eye so even the 8MP version can see in much darker conditions than you can see.)

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As a retired biology teacher, I wish these cameras were around a few years ago. The AmScope 3 MP is so compact that I keep it permanently in one of the eye tubes of my binocular scope and use only one eyepiece for direct viewing. The camera is good at real-time scanning of a slide with no lag or jerkiness and I find myself looking at my computer screen more than through the microscope itself. The software is adequate, but some of the instructions are a little confusing. Other than that, I would highly recommend this camera.

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I installed a MU300 camera in the one eyepiece tube of an Olympus SZ microscope. This 1970ish microscope has a zoom of 0.7X to 4X with no eyepiece. The MV300 gives a magnification of approximately 20X to 114X on a 24 inch monitor running 1920 X 1200 resolution. The image was mirrored and that was easily corrected with the excellent software from AmScope. The software GUI allows control of the frame rate, picture resolution and many of the typical photo editing features such as contrast, hue, saturation, etc. This makes for a professional video microscope at a great price. NOT a toy! See my pictures above.

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Yes you can get the camera to work (and it performs well)......no thanks to the user manual....wish I could figure out how to actually use its capabilities.

Perhaps Amscope people will hear this and get a Forum going so users can help each other.

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I have been using a variety of cameras for many years now and have had varied degrees of satisfaction. My reference is to use a 12M Pentax which gives great resolution but can be not as flexible as I wanted.

This unit provides high quality stills and video. The quality and presentation is first rate with exceptionally good resolution.

I have also used this for video collection which I found exception when I prepare videos for histology presentations,

The software is generally quite good and my only concern is that the software sets off warnings in Windows 7.

This is definitely one of the easiest and best I have used side from my Pentax. My only concern would be proper color capture since I will analyze pigment diffusion and need some reasonable color standard.

Haba Jumbo Peg Board Review

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We received this is a gift and we fell in love. It is a beautiful toy and very solid and well made. I actually think the price is quite modest for the quality. My son has been playing with it since he was a year old. First he learned how to take the pegs out, then put them in, then colors, and now we are working with size. He also likes to use them in other way including stacking, places them in designs, and incorporating them into his play with standard blocks.

This will be a gift to every child I care about.

Note that not all Haba toys are manufactured in Germany anymore but this one is.

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It seems that finding children's gifts this year is more about safety than anything else.

Colored dowels in a block of wood. Boring? Quite the contrary. This is great for developing hand eye coordination, matching, counting...

The beauty is in the simplicity.

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I am such a fan of Haba toys! I have purchased several Haba items as gifts for other peoples' children but have not used them myself nor observed the children using them, so this has to be a qualified review based on the design and build of the item only.

The age range of this toy is 2+, but I purchased it for my 11-month-old great-nephew because it seems to me he can manipulate the pegs now and grow into full use of the pegboard well before he reaches the age of 2. (My daughter would have been using the pegboard before 18 months, as she was doing puzzles by that age.) If my prediction is true, this toy should have quite a span of use, from gnawing, to eye-hand coordination, to color, pattern, and size recognition.

The set is beautifully made and very sturdy, heavy enough to stay where it's put. (I wouldn't leave a small boy with missile-launching upper body capability, this toy, and a glass coffee table alone together. Just sayin.') The pieces are beautifully finished; I didn't find any rough places on the board or on any of the pegs. The colors are just as vivid and true as depicted and the pegs do not seem to be painted so much as imbued with color. The only concern is that the shortest pegs are a little too small for him to use alone at this everything-in-the-mouth stage, but his parents are aware and they have the options of withholding the short pegs for now, using it only with supervision, or introducing the entire toy when they deem it appropriate.

Just a beautiful multi-tasking toy, designed and built to be used for a long time and then handed down. This is not a toy for one child; it's a toy for a family's generations of children. Kudos to Amazon for making Haba toys, and others like them, available to us.

I know that price is an issue for many folks. But, in reality, some kids have many more toys than they need. So please, let them play with the two most popular and affordable all-time toy choices, your Tupperware and your random empty boxes. Then save up your latte money, stay out of the big box stores, and invest in your child's future with a few quality toys like this. And, if you can afford it, spread the word by giving quality toys or books to others. Choose excellence, and support it with your wallet. Kids are our future people!

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Nice quality toy. I bought this because the diameter of the pegs was larger, 1.5". This challenges my son with cerebral palsy to open his hands wider. Nontoxic paints and good quality workmanship. For more thoughts on toys for children with special needs, check out my blog at

The First Years Real Phone Reviews

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Okay, we haven't had this phone long. But it isn't too loud, and it makes a variety of sounds instead of just a couple annoying ones. It rings with different tones (just phone sounds on the learning mode; the fun mode has three songs--"The Farmer in the Dell," "A Tisket, a Tasket" [or maybe it's "Ring around the Rosie"] and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") and also plays snippets of conversation or a voice speaking the names of numbers that are pressed. In the fun mode, red lights flash in the green frame around the screen; in the learning mode, red digital numbers light up on the screen.

Our 13-month-old sat down on the floor of the store to play with the toy until we took it away from him, and he played with it more in the car and at home. I'm hoping it will distract him from our cordless phone.

We haven't found an on/off button, but the sound is quiet enough that I'm not too worried about it.

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This phone has kept both my now 11 month old and my 2 1/2 year old occupied and interested for almost a year now. It was my 2 1/2 year old's phone first and she loved it as much as the baby now does.

I only recommend, once purchasing this, to replace the batteries. The other reviewer pointed out that when the buttons on her phone were pushed the phone would say the wrong numbers. This only happens when the batteries are getting low, so it's a good indicator of when to replace them.

Once the new batteries are in, it works like a charm all over again!

This is the only electronic toy my kids own and I am SO thankful it's quiet.

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This product does not retail for this price. You can get a better deal just about anywhere else.

But it's a great product. My kid plays with it all the time. It died when it met the toilet, so I'm about to get another one (not at this price), but it held up great before that.

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I got this for my dtr when she was a baby. She is now 5 and still loves this phone. We still have it around the house somewhere. This phone is very durable. It's a typical hard plastic with rubber like buttons. There are two modes. In the learning mode, the display shows digital numbers 0-9 when the corrisponding button is pressed. In the fun mode, it has a light show. When a button is pressed, it plays one of a number of songs. Not all of the buttons play songs. ONe of them my favorite I think it's the number 5 button says "I love you". It's so cute!! And, there is a volume control switch for hi and low. The sound is not terribly loud on hi and when it's on low, it's great!!

I woudl recommend this to any of my friends and other parents!!

Great toy!!!!

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sturdy phone especially for the dropping phase the child goes thru. Buttons are big enough for a little one to press and enjoy.

The SpikerBox Reviews

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This is not a toy it is a scaled down version of the kind of expensive equipment that a scientist would use to monitor the activity of the nervous system. I am a neuroscientist, and I purchased two SpikerBoxes. Individually they allow my undergraduate students to hear neurons firing. Paired with a computer (and some free software such as Audacity) or with an iphone (and a free app from Backyard Brains) the SpikerBoxes allow my students to see neural impulses. When "piggy-backed" with a simple adapter kit available from the makers the two SpikerBoxes serve as a two-channel differential amplifier that (when coupled with a computer) allows the speed of neural signals to be measured. I have successfully recorded action potentials ("spikes") from cockroaches, adult meal worms, and earthworms.

There is considerable discussion about whether these invertebrates feel pain, or anything else for that matter. (Yes, they react to various stimuli, but whether they have any subjective experience that might be called "feeling" is very difficult to determine.) The makers of the SpikerBox are sensitive to this, and encourage the anesthetization of the invertebrates as they are prepared for use. I agree with this approach, and urge adults to review the proposed methods of anesthetization (ice water, alcohol, or even soda water) and oversee the use of the device by children. Used properly, the SpikerBox will not only teach people about the nervous system, but it will also encourage respect for, and the proper treatment of, nonhuman animals used for research.

All in all, a great product that might lead more students into neuroscience.

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We bought this product for our son to do science experiment. It helped my son to understand core principles of neuroscience easily. We are happy to get this kind of practical exposure at a reasonable cost and when we had questions backyardbrains cofounder Greg helped us with answers quickly and very approachable. we would recommend this anyone who has interest in NeuroScience

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This is a totally amazing product the first comercially available cyborg in a kit! I'm suitably impressed. As a toy, it's got some great educational value. As a research tool wow, what a steal. I think everyone should give this a go.

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Educators, especially math teachers, will find these coins absolutely useful for visual demonstration. They are particularly great for group settings.

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daughter and son (2 and 4) love this little set. The bolts loosen up over time...but from mormal wear and tear.

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The drum set was sent to my Grandson, early so great timing. He is over the moon just 3 but fits him to a T. His 5 year old sister loves it too. It is perfect size great value for the money the stool is great too. His smiling face says it all, wonderful item would recommend it to anyone!

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My 4yr old grandson love's it just the right size for him . The set is built sturdy he plays it alot

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This is the right product for a small child 3,4,5.A good price easy to assemble and takes a beating! Have no problems with this product.

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My son live his new drum set . It came quick and the buy was easy and cheep. It came with a small dent on the side but I knew it was not new because of the price. My son bust his first drum set from walmart and the drum head was not replacable so we got this one so that we could replace anything that may break.