LeapFrog Leapster® Educational Game: Dora the Explorer

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Hola! Dora and Boots are trying to rescue animals, and they need your help. In this wildlife adventure, you can choose from five learning games and three interactive storylines that teach 45 essential pre-kindergarten and kindergarten skills. Requires Leapster Multimedia Learning System (sold separately).

This Dora cartridge for the Leapster was one of our daughter's favorite Christmas presents. Even though she had lost some interest in Dora she still was happy to receive this Leapster game. Our daughter already has the Backyardigans and Princess cartridges. This Leapster cartridge is a nice addition to her rotation of Leapster games and other toys. At 3.5 years some things on the Dora game are still difficult for our little girl but she still enjoys it. If your child likes Dora and has some Leapster experience I'd recommend this game.


I bought a used Leapster and this is one of the many games that came with it. After playing all the games I think this is the most suitable for my 3 year old, he is able to play many of the mini games that come in the cartrige without my help, he also likes Dora a lot. Great educational game.


Both my kids got L-Max's for Christmas. I bought the Dora Game for my daughter (she's 3) but she wasn't really into. My son on the other hand (4 years) loves this game. It is definitely his favorite. In all they have Dora, Letter Factory, Disney Princesses and Cars. My son likes Dora and Letter Factory, while my daughter enjoys the other two more.


I am six years old. I like to play games and look for animals with Dora. I play this game a lot. It is one of my favorite games. My other favorites are Kindergarten and Finding Nemo. I think anybody my age would love this game.


We got this for my sister along with the leapster. She loves Dora so we just HAD to get this. My sister's 6 and maybe she's growing out of Dora because she tired of this game very quickly and so did I. It was too repetitive and not quite as intersting as the Sonic game we also got. So in comparison, Dora was "borrr-ing" as my sister said when she switched to play another game.
So even if you child loves Dora, don't buy this game unless your child is under the age of 6. I think even the game was made special for kids still learning about up and down and counting and not for kids in school. It really itsn't worth it, and not very exciting. Remember to follow the age suggestions when in doubt, that helps. My sister was past the Dora game educational speaking, even if she still loved the character Dora.


This was given to our 3 year old daughter as a Christmas present because she got the Leapster for Christmas and she just loves this game. She got 2 other Leapster cartridges and doesn't play with those as much as this one. I don't care what anyone else says, this one is helping her to identify her letters and numbers - which is more important than just playing games and not learning anything. She has already come to me and spelled DADDY and MOMMY all on her own. Thank you for wonderful products Leap Frog!!!


My three year old absolutlely loves this game - and to think that he's actually learning something too!! This game was accidentally thrown out the window of our car on our dirt road in July (I thought it was lost)- I found it while walking our dog in November and it was squished, had been rained on run over etc. and it still worked in our Leapster. So the games are pretty tough too!


Being a huge fan of leapster, I wasn't as impressed with this cartridge as some of the others. My son loves Dora, so I was excited to pick this up but I found that it was too similar in content to the cartridge that comes with the leapster system. It contains much of the same content, just with dora instead of Tad in the background. I was hoping for something more original for the asking price.


Our daughter, Mary, age 4, received the Leapster system and the Dora game for her birthday in June, and she absolutely LOVES them. They are great learning tools, but they are fun as well. We already had to replace the batteries, so I can't wait for the rechargable battery thing to be available in stores!


The 3 year old listed by LeapFrog is accurate. Our son was zooming through level 1 at 2-1/2 years old. Maybe our son is above average. Haha.<p>The Leapster products are AWESOME!<p>Thanks, Brett

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1182 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 30423
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.60" h x 5.30" w x 1.40" l, .24 pounds

Features

• Dora and Boots are helping rescue animals and they need your help!
• Choose from 5 learning games and 3 interactive storylines
• Teaches 45 essential pre-kindergarten and kindergarten skills
• Letters & phonics, science concepts, counting and patterns
• Spanish language and critical thinking skills

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LeapFrog&reg; Tag National Geographic Kids: Activity Cards - Land Animals

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Discover over 40 interactive activity cards featuring National Geographic pictures of land animals come to life with the touch of the Tag Reader. Hear amazing animal sounds, learn fun facts and read new vocabulary words on each card.

This is another something different from the books and so educational even for adults. These Activity Cards are tab together so you don't have to worry about picking up all the cards all the time.
Great Gift Idea!
Leapfrog needs to come out with something NUMBERS to go with this Tag System!


Our five year old and three year old have gotten a lot of mileage out of the tag since we bought it. The books seem to get a little old after awhile but the animal cards have kept them rolling. One of the best features to the cards are the animal sounds. They love to tap the card with the monkeys... over and over and over again. Not recommended for parents that find repetitive sounds annoying. For me it's great, anything that keeps them occupied for 15 minutes is good in my book.


My girls love animals and learning about them. This is so much fun for them and they play with it all day long. It has several pages and on each one are two pages on each type of animal. one side gives a picture of the animal with the name and the other page gives a couple facts and where the animal lives and if it is endangered or not. It also tells if it is a reptile or Amphibian, ect. Very informative.


This is an amazing idea. It seemed strange at first that you had to twist the card to the top and that the second half information is on the card below it. However, You get used to it quickly. My daughter loves everything about these cards (we have both sets). It made traveling so much easier! I don't think we would have made a 10 hour car trip in one day without the use of these cards. Thanks LeapFrog! During that vacation, we went to the zoo and she was able to tell me details about most of the animals and the sounds they make. I learn something new from these every time she plays with this set.


This is a great product and my son loves playing with it. It is perfect for helping him learn to read.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1298 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 28114
• Released on: 2008-06-08
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.25" w x 2.00" l, .58 pounds

Features

• Use your Tag Reader to listen as land animals come to life in National Geographic pictures.
• With its amazing touch technology, the Tag Reader makes learning to read an exciting experience as words talk, pictures sing and stories live out loud!
• The Tag library includes over 20 books and games featuring characters from TV, movies and classic tales.
• The National Geographic Kids: Activity Cards - Land Animals introduce vocabulary and animal facts.
• Children can earn online rewards and parents can connect the Tag Reader to the online LeapFrog® Learning Path to see what their child is learning.

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LeapFrog&reg; Leapster&reg; Learning Game: Scholastic Math Missions

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Math Missions gives children a chance to save the stores of Spectacle City and develop real-world math skills. As they complete orders at a candy store, build a skyscraper and more, they'll learn to face math challenges in the real world.

Even though my kids do not list this one as their favorite, I notice it still gets plenty of play-time. So... not sure what conclusion to draw from this!


I bought this game to my boy over a month ago. He is only 4 1/2 years old but he loves playing with it. At first it was a bit difficult for him until he got it. He has learned a lot from this game. Of course, some games are still too difficult for him, but he tries and tries... Sometimes he asks my help.
There are 4 games, I believe. For egsample, in the Seafood Market you need to select the correct fish to balance the scale or in the candy store you need to find the right candy for the customers.
It's fun and educational at he same time. My boy loves playing it. He plays and "earns" more money (he has over $500)than he "spends" it on the arcade games.


This game has a lot of math as the name implies. There is geometry and reasoning, multiplication, addition, subtraction and knowing even and odd numbers.

The way the game is set up you earn money for each task you complete. The more you play the more money you earn by getting raises. You can spend the money at the "arcade" where you can play three non-math, non-educational type games (snake, moon lander, and this other one that I forgot the name of but you are in a castle type setting finding keys)

It's a nice game, and I like the money earning concept. The math games hold my son's interest as much as the arcade ones do, so sometimes he'll amass huge sums of money before getting over to the arcade. Other times he'll deplete all his money at the arcade... but it all evens out because once the money is gone he has to do more math games again to earn more.

This was well worth the money paid.


My 6 yr old loves this game and is learning math with it. I have always been bad at math so I buy whatever I see that can help her so that she does not have my problem. Well, it is working she loves math and loves to play with her leapster. She says that is her T.V, when she is not allow to watch the real thing and she is not afraid of math. She was the first one in her kindergarten class to master adding and substrating. It is all because of the leapster.woohoo!


My daughter has loved playing this game. She was having problems remembering simple math this gave her the review she needed in a fun way. Her math grades have improved and I am happy.


We got this cartridge for Christmas for my 6 year old daughter. She loves it. In fact, my older kids love it too. They compete to see who can get the most money saved up, and get their name on the high score list in the arcade. This was our first LeapPad purchase. We will definately get more.


My kids got Leapster L-max's for Christmas this year and this is my daughter's favorite game. She will play it for hours if I let her and she is learning! I am excited to see what other games are available for her. My 3 year old son absolutely loves the Letter Factory game. He is really learning his alphabet. It is so neat to see them having fun playing and learning at the same time.


The overall design is excellent. Teaching is nicely mixed with fun. The kids got quite intensive Money training. Excellent Addition/Substraction. The multiplication is on the light weight side.


Because my daughter excels exceptionally well in Math, the games are challenging her and this is what I lke about the games.


My son, who is now five, received his leapster last November. He has several cartridges, all of which he enjoys. However, the Math Missions game, which we recently purchased online, seems to have captured his attention in a way that the others did not. While all the Leapster titles attempt to make a game out of learning, this cartridge does an exceptional job. For example, instead of requiring him to identify that 4+5=9, it gives him three fish, weighing 4, 5 and 9 pounds each. He needs to figure out how to put them on a scale to make the scale balance. This is a much more interesting "puzzle" and it teaches what an equation really means, at an intuative level. Another activity reminds me of the old game "Mastermind", where he needs to figure out the right combination of candies to put in a box. Through trial-and-error and deductive reasoning, he can figure it out. It's a fun challenge that teaches important logic skills.

The incentive system is also well done. By earning money for doing math tasks, my son can then pay to play "video arcade" games, which are more fun than educational in nature. (The games are simple and just the right level of complexity for 5-7 year olds, along the lines of early video games like pac-man.)He LOVES these games, and is willing to spend hours doing the math puzzles in order to earn the money to play the video games.

This is a great game. I hope Scholastic puts out more cartridges for the Leapster platform.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #203 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 30447
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• Real-world mathematics challenges await you in Spectacle City as you use your skills to save local stores!
• Don't let trouble multiply at the seafood market--select the correct fish to balance the scale.
• Complete mathematics problems and earn money.
• Spend your hard-earned cash playing three exciting games at the arcade.
• Teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication, money and geometry.

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LEGO&reg; Creator Beach House

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Need to get away? Relax in your very own beach house! This colorful building is packed with fun and realistic details, from the big sunlit windows to the barbecue and umbrella. Includes instructions for rebuilding into a cozy cafe or towering apartment building. The second floor lifts off to see stairs and fireplace on the first floor. There's even a balcony and a skylight that opens. Outside sits a patio with table, umbrella and chairs, and even a barbecue grill with chicken. Realistic details include a mailbox, doorbell, flowers, walkway, light fixtures, chimney, tree and lots of windows. Beach House stands over 6" high and includes a 5" x 10" baseplate. 522 pieces.

Even though this got good prior reviews, I am always a little skeptical, but my 10-year-old truly enjoyed putting this together. The "little things" like the mailbox, barbeque grill, and chicken leg continually make us all smile. Well worth it!


This is one of the best house designs by Lego. Although it's a little smaller than I expected, the details outside are fantastic. I like that there are many windows and some can be opened so you can see inside. The second floor of the house is also designed to be lifted easily to see the inside of the first floor. I love the fireplace, the patio, the satellite dish and the grill. Luckily, I have small non-lego furnitures that can fit nicely inside the house. I just wish that they added a couple of people figures to complete the set.


This is a great toy but it is overpriced on this site... 29.99 USD can be found on other websites...


I purchased this for a ten year-old family member. He was very happy with the Lego set and immediately began to build the beach house. The instructions were easy to read for him so he built it himself. Afterwards, he showed me all the little details, taking the roof off and exposing the stairs. The piece of chicken on the grill was cute. Now I know what it means to say "we didn't have all this cool stuff as a kid" Very happy and had no problems at all with the online service and shipping.


My two daughters really love to build things, but the LEGO trains, policestations and bionicles can't really interest them. They received this as a gift and in 1 afternoon build their first house!
It has girl stuff like a kitchen with a piece of chicken(!) and it is fun to see 'm work together and build this!
Excellent toy by LEGO!


I had fun assembling Beach house. Will I deconstruct and build the other two? That is to be determined; right now I'm satisfied with building the model I chose. Assembling lego toys are a good way to keep your mind active during the summer lapse of schoolwork.


I bought this for my 9 yr old daughter's bday because she's constantly creating with her brother's fire station set. I was thrilled to find the beach house set, however, didn't realize it does not come with a single figurine. That's very disappointing. The pink Bellville Sunshine House by LEGO comes with an entire family, why not the beach house??? Otherwise it's a great set with many hours of creativity waiting to happen!


My 11 yo son loves playing with this Beach House. He saved up his money for a while to buy this for himself. They can build 3 different structures with this set - 2-story beach house, 3-story-beach house, and a cafe. Also, it doesn't take up too much room to store away like some other Lego sets do. If your son/daughter loves Legos the way mine does, this would be a great set for them.


I like this set even though I haven't put it together yet at the time of this writing. It's nice that Lego has started putting out housing for the minifigs again. I like the bar-b-que in the back and all of the detail on the box. I am looking forward to putting this together.


This is a cute set, my daughter has enjoyed it. It's a challenge to find "girl" legos, this set could be for girls and boys. Educational: Great for fine motor skills, following directions, and follow-through.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #113 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LEGO
• Model: 4517443
• Released on: 2008-01-18
• Dimensions: 15.10" h x 11.40" w x 3.00" l, 2.45 pounds

Features

• Need to get away? Relax in your very own beach house! This colorful building is packed with fun and realistic details, from the big sunlit windows to the barbecue and umbrella.
• Second floor lifts off to see stairs and fireplace on the first floor with a balcony and a skylight that opens!
• Outside there is a patio with table, umbrella and chairs, and even a barbeque grill with chicken! Realistic details include mailbox, doorbell, flowers, walkway, light fixtures, chimey, tree and lots of windows!
• Beach House stands over 6½" (16.5cm)high and includes a 5" x 10" (13cm x 25cm) baseplate!
• Includes instructions for rebuilding into a cozy café or towering apartment building! 522 pieces

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