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Summary: Clever and engaging for toddlers and up
Review: Tiny Planets is a computer animated educational show for very young children. It features two furry white aliens - thoughtful Bing and playful little Bong - who zip about their universe on a furry white sofa solving little problems on one of 6 tiny planets. On each planet a diferent range of topics is explored: nature, technology, self, sound, light and color, and "stuff" (physics and geometry). Each episode is fairly short - typically well under 10 minutes, and requires no reading or numerical skills, and so is suitable for toddlers and pre-K kids. However, I find that older kids will watch with some interest, even though the material is too easy for them.</p>
This DVD features 8 episodes in 2 groups of 4. At the beginning of each group is a short intro segment, showing Bing and Bong starting their day inside a giant crystal in their home planet, and introducing the narrator, Halley, the only character who talks (if you've the hand drawn "Maisy" series,then this approach will be familiar).</p>
The computer animation is well done, and adults will at first enjoy how cleverly it is put together. That is, until your toddler wants to to watch it for the 400th time. Mine loves these, and prefers them to most other videos we have.</p>
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Summary: Clever and engaging for toddlers and up
Review: Tiny Planets is a computer animated educational show for very young children. It features two furry white aliens - thoughtful Bing and playful little Bong - who zip about their universe on a furry white sofa solving little problems on one of 6 tiny planets. On each planet a diferent range of topics is explored: nature, technology, self, sound, light and color, and "stuff" (physics and geometry). Each episode is fairly short - typically well under 10 minutes, and requires no reading or numerical skills, and so is suitable for toddlers and pre-K kids. However, I find that older kids will watch with some interest, even though the material is too easy for them.
This DVD features 8 episodes in 2 groups of 4. At the beginning of each group is a short intro segment, showing Bing and Bong starting their day inside a giant crystal in their home planet, and introducing the narrator, Halley, the only character who talks (if you've the hand drawn "Maisy" series,then this approach will be familiar).
The computer animation is well done, and adults will at first enjoy how cleverly it is put together. That is, until your toddler wants to to watch it for the 400th time. Mine loves these, and prefers them to most other videos we have.
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Summary: No tongue twisters here.
Review: Bing and Bong are two friendly, furry aliens, who live in a giant crystal on their home planet. Every day, they travel to the six nearby tiny planets of Self, Sound, Light and Color, Nature, Technology, and Stuff, on a large furry white sofa, called the "Fantastic Machine". Their job is to solve the day to day problems of the resident "Flockers", before zooming off to the next educational and fun adventure.
There are eight learning adventures on this DVD, separated into two sections, "Sights and Sounds" and "Bright and Dark".
However, to get to them, you have to endure the long introductions, and the repetitive interludes between missions, which take up too large a chunk of the 52 minutes running time.
Bing and Bong are "vocabularily challenged", but the narrator Halley makes up for it with her chirpy chatter and rhyming summaries of each mission. (Warning! She registers 7.5 on the Richter scale for annoying-ness)
There's a really cool driving beat in the soundtrack, and you may find yourself humming the theme song at inopportune times, like board meetings.
Not your best vocabulary builder, but great for other cool stuff.
Amanda Richards, December 5, 2004
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