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Bubble - Bundle with Thomas & Friends Interactive DVD Software

Publisher: Bandai
Media: Toy

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Rating: - Bubble machine and games

I bought the whole set for my children Christmas 2006 and it's still sitting in a bag in storage under the stairs. We tried using it initially. It was a pain to set up because it's not that compatible particularly with the more expensive DVD players and the bubble machine we purchased for Christmas day wouldn't work at all so we had to return it to exchange. Wish I hadn't bothered though as my children found it quite boring in the end. They'd much rather go on CBeebies on line.

Rating: - What a disappointment

We bought two of these ... one for my son, and one as a gift for my niece. We also bought several of the extra packages of software/DVD's. The one that my niece got was broken - we couldn't get it repaired or replaced because the company no longer supported them. So we sent that one back and gave them the "working" one, which turned out didn't work with their DVD player. In the end, that got thrown out as well, which left us with a load of DVD's that were useless that Amazon wouldn't take back. So a waste of money all round ... DON'T BUY!!!

Rating: - bubble with teletubbies

The bubble plus one game bundle now has a mrp of just £15 and each extra game just £5 due to the fact that bandai who produce the console are from the end of the year(2006) no longer producing goods for the pre-school market. It isnt like most games...its more like watching a DVD and every now and then some buttons flash so the child can get involved. Its very basic but for pre school kids i think its amazing and is well worth the money. For £40 i now have the bubble and every available game which will last my 2 year old a good couple of years i would think.

Rating: - Great educational toy

I bought Bubble for my Two and half year olf for Christmas, we had Balamory with it and also purchased Tweenies.... It took abou half hour to set up, ( does not work with the four year old expensive, DVD) works well with our cheap £30 pioneer DVD players though.
Once set up, it was fab.... the child is better off sitting quite close to the DVD, sometimes it does go off on a tangeant, but this can be resolved by pressing the 'OOps' button.

Great fun, But needed to get plently of games as she loves it!! Away play is great too!! I actually have found the away play to be easier and it does work out better for me if I'm busy as I ahven't got to resolve any problems when she gets overexcited turning the pages non stop.

The only thing I would have cjhanged about this machine, is that I would have put the Power button somewhere where she would not continually turn it off!!! It should be on the back out of the way!

Rating: - tears and disappointment for 60 pounds

As much as I like the idea of interactive toys this one can hardly be called interactive. It does not match the good reviews I have seen.

My four year old was thrilled at first to see all the buttons and lights. Enthusiasm which turned quite nasty since it took over two hours to set up this thing.

Even though Bubble advertises that it is pre-programmed for Sony players (mine is PS2, one of the latest), it took ages to look through many different brochures, cartridges, a book, pamphlets and 3 different DVDs to figure out that the real problem was. (Try that with an exited four year old at your side). Problem appeared to be that the (not so well built book) was supposed to be pressed against the back of the remote!!! Quite a problem since my son had rolled up the book in frustration during the programming process. To make a long story short, we managed to get it working in the end. (To save tears I recommend taking half a day off work to configure, then giving it as a present to your child.)

Finally my son gets to play. We both sat in front of the TV. I wanted to see what could possibly be worth all this.

My boy lost interest after 5 minutes of playing. I continued playing, to see if he would become interested if someone else was in control. I don't blame him for not wanting to play, it is such a boring game.

I am tempted to conclude that my son must be very intelligent (which he is without a doubt) and that this toy is just for smaller children but the problem is that I actually found the navigating quite complicated and difficult to figure out which buttons to press.

Sometimes you have to press many times before something happens and very often the interactivity is limited to only one button at a time.

Balamory is nice as a program but doesn't really work as an interactive version – at least not for Bubble, since there is little interactivity, many songs and lots of time spent introducing characters and scenes. The structure is quite strange. After a terribly long introduction; you get a choice of what to do, then you will see quite long introduction then there will be one question with (only one or two possible answers and) a rather long solution once the child answers.

And no- you cannot navigate and choose games with the pages, you have to follow the TV. Rather terrible message for a small child.

So after 10 minutes of boredom, I decided that it just wasn’t worth it and put the remote on the shelf and there it will most likely remain.

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