IQ Preschool Magic Sound Blocks Animals
Posted: June 3rd, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cheap Toys | Tags: Animals, Blocks, Magic, Preschool, Sound | 3 Comments »
IQ Preschool Magic Sound Blocks Animals
List Price: $ 14.99
Price: $ 5.00
Match two sides together to hear the animal sounds! Six different combinations make six sounds-dog, tiger, cow and more!
- Image matching
- Fun sounds
- Illustrated plastic blocks
- Six animals
- Ready to be paired together
A couple of issues,
Overall, a good product. However, after only a couple of weeks of mild use, it started misfiring some times: the child would press together 2 halves of a doggy, and a kitty cat would sound off instead… The doggy would too, eventually, but very confusing for a child who’s learning.
A couple of other minor things include the fact that the pictures are simply glued to the cubes, and on one of them the corner already started coming off and the fact that the toy does not come with batteries (perhaps my fault for not checking, but I thought I’d mention it specifically for the others).
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|Louisiana Grammie,
The blocks are cute and help hand/eye coordination. The only problem I found was that the animal sounds were hard to hear. The set I had for my older grandchildren were easy to hear.
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|Poorly drawn animals and cumbersome design,
With some effort, these blocks do the job of producing animal sounds, but they look awkward, and there is little fun in playing with them.
The animals are drawn poorly, in a sketchy style, and with strange proportions: for instance, the elephant looks as if it was fathered by a badger-dog. Even more annoying are large metal bolts protruding from all sides of the blocks. They are not shown on the picture, but they make the surface look uneven and ugly. These bolts need to be aligned precisely and touch the ones on the other block for it to make sounds. The kid is not rewarded with sounds for putting the blocks in the right position unless these bolts touch, which is not good for learning and makes it less fun.
I am keeping these blocks because sending them back is not worth shipping charges, but otherwise I wouldn’t buy them.
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