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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Best Trigger Point Chart Set: Torso & Extremities 2nd Edition Paper Deals

Trigger Point Chart Set: Torso & Extremities 2nd Edition Paper Unmounted
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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I purchased this product to have for my massage therapy business. As soon as I get them framed, they will come in handy.

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Useful for either students or LMTs, very easy to read and show clients as well. Excellent condition

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Schoenhut 12 Note Thumb Piano - 1204W Review

Schoenhut 12 Note Thumb Piano - 1204W
Customer Ratings: 4 stars
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Once the thumb piano arrived I couldn't wait to open it and once I did there was no disappointment I love the sound

it looks perfect the only thing is that the middle key doesn't perfectly line up with the sound hole or at least

mine doesn't but thats OK I'll be having fun with this instrument for along time.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Reviews of LeapFrog: Turbo Twist Spelling

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Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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My son is an 8 yr. old who is beginning 5th grade. He is a very good student. His only difficult subject is language arts (Spelling). This turbo twist spelling has captured his attention, motivated him, encouraged him and rewarded him. He says it is cool fun! Most important to Mom is the reaction we see when he succeeds in spelling geography or fascinate correctly. Thanks leap frog. Note: Please parents/teachersencourage leap frog/leap zone to keep their web site affordable. We have used it and it is a gem. However, if the price prevents children who need it from using it... it is a waste of time and effort. A minimal fee is understandable... But let's work to make this available to all kids who need it!

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This little tool may help your child learn spelling without fighting. It has a decent word list embedded, but you can also expend it by buying cartridges, or, if you have the Mind Station, download words for your child's spelling curriculum that they use. The unit repeats the words that you misspell, making you try again, and if you did miss it once, and got it the second time around, it will slip it in again down the road, to reinforce the learned spelling. With the multi player mode multiple children can play against each other, even at different levels.

My only complaint is that it will only remember one person's identity. That is the only short coming that I have seen to the unit.

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I brought this for my Granddaughter, who was having a hard time remembering to bring her spelling words home. She is now! We go to the leapfrog web site enter her new words and she plays with the twister all week. Getting ear phones may help the parents like this toy even better.

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I purchased this TOY (as my son would look at it), to help him with his spelling. He is in the second grade. He loves it and so do I. I download his spelling words each week from the computer and send him off to play. He doesn't even realize that he is studying. He has scored 100% on all his spelling tests thus far. I highly recommend this. Then again, you can't go wrong with any Leapfrog product. I think I own everything they make. My children absolutely love to play with them, and I love that they are learning.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

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I bought this toy for my daughter on her first birthday. As a kid, my brother had an older version of this toy and I was expecting that when I puchased the Chicco Animal Cottage. In that sense I was a little disappointed. The plastic is much thinner and flimsier, the doors pop open easily without using the key, and the animals can fit through some of the holes at the top meant for the shapes. That being said, it is still a fun toy and both my one and four year old enjoy playing with it.

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I really dislike this toy. The keys and locks are nearly impossible for my child to use and she gets very frustrated. I'm glad this was a gift but am completely baffled at how many lame toys are produced. Don't they have focus groups for this kind of item? We hate it. Do not buy.

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Our great grandson loved this toy. He has played with it quite a bit and it stands up to daily pounding.

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Not that functional when the top keeps opening up so easy! If I stay whit my son I can have him play with it the right way but when I leave him, he just opens the top and gets the toys in and out hehe

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Color-coded animals, doors, and keys? And the concept of a master key? This toy may not be Playmobil quality but it's a mini-zoo's worth of fun. As the two-year-old said, "open the green door. green door and the yellow door. and white door. and people in it. the doors go open it! oh no! I locked it I locked it! I lock door. I lock door. I see it now."

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Monday, November 3, 2014

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This are as advertised basic classroom kit of fraction tiles. Good value and useful to have. I did find a set cheaper on ebay, but decided to keep both.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Review of Learning Resources Snap-n-Learn Number Bugs

Learning Resources Snap-n-Learn Number Bugs
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Really colorful and large enough parts of a 2 1/2 year old. Loved the carrying cas; added attraction for the toddler.

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I was expecting more. When I bought this, the description said it was a game, but it isn't. You can snap the pieces together, but the head is difficult for little ones. And you don't actually have to be able to count or recognize numbers. If you put all the red pieces together (red head with red wings) you will have the number of dots that matches the number on the head. It would have been more useful it you could match EITHER by color OR number (for example, one red wing and one blue wing gives you the number on the green head or two yellow wings gives you the number on the red head), but as it is it isn't very educational or useful for children who already know their colors.

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My nephew is almost two years old. He likes carrying the bug-filled bucket around the house and dumping the bugs on the floor. He loves popping the heads off the bugs and ripping their bodies apart. It sounds kind of sick, but that's what how it goes. He recognizes colors so he enjoys collecting the parts when we ask for specific pieces. He can count aloud and by using our fingers but does not recognize the dots as counting tools yet. As soon as we put the pieces together, he pulls them apart. The bugs are usually used in play with other toys, e.g., his tool set, his piano, and some silly puppets on a stick.

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My daughter has a bug fetish and this played right into it. The help her to learn colors and numbers. She often takes them to the bath and they work fine. I would recommend this to others.

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My 2 year old loves these! They're colorful and very durable. Each bug comes apart into 3 pieces and they need to match the colors to put them back together. This is helping her learn the names of the colors too. Then each bug has dots on it's back and the corresponding number on it's head to help with her numbers. Very nice, educational toy :)

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Cheap Fisher-Price PowerTouch Learning System

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Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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First the description: You open it up, slip in the book --simple enough for my son (3 yrs old) to do himself, even changing the cartridge - and switch it on, you are set! This is an incredible improvement over LeapPad and My First LeapPad for a totally self directed learning experience. He has never ended up frustrated while using this toy.

About the add-ons, I currently have two and he enjoys the I Spy even though he is not in the recommended age group. He is able to follow along anything it requires. The volume slide is so nice and easy vs having to hit + and symbols with a pen on the LeapPads. The Blues Clues one is for his age group and he loves that too.

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I own both the Leap Pad, and the My first Leap Pad for my now 3 year old son. I would pass on that and go for this toy. After more than 1 1/2 years of owning them, I still need to pull them out for him, and watch over and remind him to hit the GO circle etc. In fact, he probably prefers a paper book to them, given that with normal 23 yr old boy handling, the pen's contacts are iffy, and the pads shut off at random etc after just a few months of use. I have to say, he does truly enjoy the Dora, Thomas, Jay-Jay, Bob the Builder, Bear in the Big Blue house etc. theme books for the Leap Pad / My First Leap Pad also.

And as for Leap Pad Plus, lets just say that the same GO circle, and delicate pen problems still exist for a rambunctious boy :-) I DO like the Imagination Desk, which does get him coloring and sounding out letters and words quite a bit, especially with Pooh Bear, or Clifford. Wish they had a familiar character themed alphabet book too for that as well as the leap pad. If you look at the parent complaining about a stray wrist making other stuff on the page sound out with the Power Touch, imagine a stray pen touch resetting the entire page to some other GO circle. Much easier to teach them to point. At least, here the sounds relate to the page under view always. I pull out the Leap Pad occasionaly if I have a sore throat and can't get through the dozens of books he likes for night time reading. My son pulls out and plays with the Power Touch by himself. Enough said with that...

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We just bought this for my 2-year-old daughter for her birthday after having played with the display at Target over and over again. Her first response was "WOW!". This book is a big improvement over the LeapPad systems as it allows your child to use his/her finger to guide them rather than a pen. It is definitely more user-friendly for the younger kids because they do not need to touch the "go" circle to make the book work; a concept good for the older kids only. It comes with 2 books to get started: A Sesame Street book and a k-2 grade learning guide. If fisher price can get their power touch library expanded to include more titles sooner rather than later, it will give Leappad a run for its money.

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...First of all this goes from ages 3-8 instead of leap pads two age groups. (my first leap pad only 3-5 and regular is 4-8). Secondly I like that he points with his finger like you would in a regular book. Who reads a book with a pen? I would rather teach him to read without the stylus. It is a great product I am just hoping to see more books especially phonics.

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I first bought the "little touch leap pad" by Leap Frog for my son two months ago (which is actually the system in the leap frog series for the very youngest children, ages 6-36 months, NOT the leap frog system with the pen), and the Power Touch two weeks ago.

The Power Touch is a much better system for the younger child, even thought the recommended age is 3-8 yrs.

With the little touch you have to push very hard on a specific spot on the picture, pushing again and again until it makes a sound. Usually he would give up on a picture before it did anything, and it was even hard for ME to get the thing to activate! I have no idea how any 1 year old would do it, let alone a 6 month old!!! I was amazed to see how sensitive the Power Touch was (it would even activate if I only placed my finger in the air right over the picture!). And yes, sometimes my son would accidently brush a picture with his wrist (like other reviewers complained about), but as soon as he touched the picture he meant too, the sound would automatically switch to that new picture, so he has never become frustrated with it. In fact, sometimes he loves to switch rapidly from one picture to another (like all 2 yr olds, he's not exactly a model of patience!) and the power touch keeps up. He was VERY frustrated with the "little touch".

Another thing is the pages of the books. Leap Pad falsely claims that the "little touch" books are made to be sturdy/untearable for 1-2 yr olds. Instead the pages were made of regular paper. I'm really surprised that that such a well known company would put misleading statements on it's box. The power touch has laminated pages which are definitely sturdier (although it would be nice if they put out the younger books in thicker pages). Also, the books for the little touch are just terrible. They focus mainly on the ABC's, shapes, numbers, (which is boring to such a young child) with nothing else. The story line of the books were way too complicated for my son to understand (and he loves most books). Power touch has characters like elmo and clifford, which he likes a lot. I wish Power Touch had more books available, but one book really does have a zillion different pictures and activities that grow with the child.

Lastly, that dumb green "go" button on the Leap pad made it impossible for him to play with it by himself, and I had to always be pushing it every time he flipped a page back or forward, which constantly distracted him from the book. He wanted to read on his own, but I had to lean over and reset each page, or the words and sounds would be for a different page (now that is MUCH more confusing to a 2 yr old than accidently setting off a sound w/ a brush of the wrist)!

He plays with the power touch for an hour at a time, and loves it. He can read it all by himself, turn to any page he wants, and he even learned to change the books himself after a week! (The Power Touch books are so simple to change).

When he is older, maybe 4 or 5, I will probably get him a leap frog system with a pen (the leap pad for 4-8 yr olds), so he'll be able to get practice with writing, and the leap frog has a lot more for the older child. By then, he will be able to figure out the puzzling "green go" button. But until then, for a 2 or 3 year old, no system beats the Power Touch. The Little Touch Leap Pad was misleading, a complete waste of money and a big disappointment. Never have I bought a toy more disappointing, and this was expensive ([$$$] w/ a book)!

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I bought this for my daughter and she will hardly put it down. It has taught her so much in the short amount of time we have had it. It is so entertaining, with all the different characters

she loves. I would defintely recommend this over leap pad. With leap pad a small child has to remember to push the "GO" button everytime she turns the page, with fisher Price, all she does is turn the page.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Cheap Learning Resources Giant Magnetic Ten-Frame Set (LER6644)

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Nice large size, great for whole-group or small group modeling, it was purchased for our whole grade level. We love it!

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As the other reviewer stated, this is not a magnetic card frame its literally just a frame. I bought it to use on my white board but just found out my white board is actually NOT magnetic! So check your boards first! If I had known I would have probably bought the other magnetic answer card frames instead. All in all its a good product. I wont return it since my kids like to play/learn with it on the dish washer (our only magnetic surface around the house). I do think, 19.99 is a bit overpriced.

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The product photo is a bit misleading. From the photo, I was expecting a magnetic black ten-frame on a white board, which I can then use on a desk. Instead, you get four magnetic sheets. You have to punch out the color disks and their surrounding square from the ten-frame. The ten-frame is a good size and easy to manipulate. But, you will need a magnetic white board. Probably a great product for schools, but not for home use, unless you have a magnetic white board.

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Friday, September 19, 2014

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It's an excellent Bass Guitar. The quality is top notch. It plays great and sounds great. I would buy it again. I recommend it. I love it.

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The package came quick with everything in tact and the bass was even strung already for me so all I had to do was tune it which was easy since it came with one. Great for beginners and experienced players. The amp and chord are small and definatley not meant to be used in gigs but I didnt expect it to be all ready for hard rockin' quite yet. I'll probably end up buying another amp and longer chord but neither that came in the pack are useless and seem to be otherwise of decent quality.

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This is a great beginners solution to starting on the bass. I haven't owned a bass in a few years so I got this small set for 3 reasons.. 1) The price range was right 2) Pretty looking bass 3) Built in tuner

It's not a most beautiful sounding bass or practice amp but its the right price point to find out if you want to invest the money into better equipment... and I bet you'll still keep this bass around as a stage back up or a practice bass.

A Good buy for sure!

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Believe it or not, I'm actually doing this review almost two years after I originally received the bass.

I received mine when I did not know a single thing about basses, just to clarify. Over time by tampering around with it, I discovered a flaw with mine. It seems now that the problem with the bass I received was, when I applied tension on the neck by tuning it, it tended to bow the neck forward causing a "banana bow". Even if I tried to lower the action on the saddles or through the truss rod, I'll still need to tune the strings and I'll think I've fixed the problem but in reality, I'm back to square one. The conclusion I came up with is: the truss rod is weak, but it does work. So now it is hard to play it the way it is, but I still play it because it's the only the bass I own, but soon I'll be upgrading to a better one. Cosmetically, it is beautiful, the built-in tuner is accurate and functions when it wants to, the practice amp is alright and the electronics decent, but because mine came dysfunctional I'm giving it 2 stars out of 5.

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8 months ago, I was an inexperienced bassist learning on a friends guitar. I obviously was looking for a bass of my own. I wanted something stylish and well sounding, but not an expensive one like a Fender. After searching for a while, I came across this guitar. Let me say, I picked the right guitar. It came in 4 days, and shipping was inexpensive. The packaging was fine, and everything advertised came with it. The guitar I pulled out was GORGEOUS. The picture does not do it justice. It has a very natural feeling body and a beautifully sleek & shiny grey sunburst finish. When I picked it up to play, the amp that I expected to sound terrible, emitted a deep and smooth sound that I was surprised to hear. The bass itself was built amazingly, with no errors in its construction. I'm still using it today, and plan to buy a fender soon. Point is; it's PERFECT for a beginner who is really ready to start learning. Happy shredding, dudes! \m/

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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After teaching biology and Anatomy and Physiology for 30 years I retired from teaching in a public high school and took a job in a private middle school. One of the subjects I would be teaching was earth science. I had never taught this subject before. The video labs are terrific. I think the name is misleading. I think of them as a complete unit in a box. I would start by giving the students a pretest which is provided. The students thought the pretests were very hard. I would keep them and after going through the complete set of 12 labs in small groups doing the experiments, and answering the questions provided I would give them the test again. This time they would declare the test was easy. I let them compare the before and after and the feedback was all about how much they learned and how much they enjoyed the process. It did not take much time for me to be completely confidant in my ability to teach the subject. I struggle to declare a favorite video lab. Rock cycle, Minerals, Weather, the sun and our solar system, the universe. All are great.

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It is my experience that the manipulatives and activities in this resource really augment student comprehension of the rock cycle. I recommend it highly.

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I love this kit. My middle school and high school students found it motivational and fun to do. The video introduces the subject beautifully, and the activities, a full week's worth, are spot on to encourage student involvement in their own learning. Learning outcomes and all necessary worksheets and materials have been carefully and masterfully produced. As a career science teacher, I cannot recommend this videolab too highly. It is also wonderful for less science secure teachers, who will find it has done all of the ground work for them to simply plug in and use. Excellent!

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Saturday, September 6, 2014

PlanToys Pull-Along Zebra Reviews

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This is a beautiful wooden toy. The zebra when pulled along nods its head up and down. It has no sharp edges that could hurt a child.

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This is a winsome toy. It moves easily and the zebra bobs his head as the uneven wheels roll along the ground. Very well made and sturdy. It will last through many children and playmates. Would definitely recommend this toy and would buy it again.

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Just started walking and she loves pulling it around. Grabbed it right away and took it for a lap around the living room on Christmas!

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My daughters both loved this as toddlers. After about a year of daily use, it broke, so I ended up buying another one for my second child. A big hit!

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This is so cute, but doesn't do much. The alligator is much more fun because it at least makes noise as you pull it. I do like that it is made of all wood.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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I use this for my son (who has Sensory Processing Disorder) and he loves it! Getting 2 in a bag was even better, because we keep one in his backpack for around-the-town use if he gets worked up over something and needs a way to calm down.

Couldn't be happier!

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Compared to the old brush we were using this sensory brush is a dream it's durable has a handle and now my child doesn't giggle when we brush him. And so glad it came in a 2pack

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I have a 3 yr old son with SPD that needed the therapeutic brush. His therapist recommended it and it's helped a lot.

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Works great for children or adults who need sensory integration. Great for kids with autism. I recommend them for anyone who is sensory seeking.

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My 2 yr old is Autistic and his OT suggested that I buy this for him. The bristles are soft and he does not fight me when I try to use it on his skin. The top of the brush is shaped so it is easy to hold.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

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My son likes these cards, but has a hard time "stacking" them, since some are upright (portrait) and others are horizontal (landscape). This would be an easy fix for the manufacturers...

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I bought these to help my son with speech and to encourage him to talk. I wrote the naming word on each card so my son can connect the word with the picture and eventually notice the pattern more quickly. I love these cards. They are big, colorful and the photographs are clear. I would buy this brand again in the future.

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I love this toy. I use it to help teach about rhyming and it works. Each card has its own picture so it can be used in many ways. I play with as both a fun matching game as well as a sit down education game. The children love it.

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I am a speech-language pathologist who works in an elementary school. These cards are perfect for teaching children phonemic awareness and how to rhyme. They are large, colorful, laminated pictures. The price was reasonable.

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Friday, July 18, 2014

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Purchased this as a gift for my 10 year old brother. He loved this. It came packaged perfectly, shipped and arrived very quickly and all of the parts are in mint condition. Great toy for the price.

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My grandson will be very happy when he opens this from his "Papa" Christmas Eve! pefect for our budding scientist!

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Our glow in the dark power was missing so that was kind of a bummer. Otherwise the toy is OK but the description seems to promise a greater experience than what is actually in the box. My son is only 5 so maybe he will enjoy it more when he is older.

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