Product description: A colorful adventure awaits! You’ll be painted from head to toe in delight when you join your favorite preschool friends in these exciting adventures. Come along with Barney™ and find out how bright the sunshine is when colors dance in the air, Bob the Builder™ as he discovers rich cave paintings, and Thomas as he collects colorful items for a magic show. These adventures will show you the true colors of friendship and fun.

Episodes on this dvd:

• Barney’s Colors
• Bob the Builder Scrambler and the Colorful cave
• Thomas & Friends Smoke and Mirrors
• Fireman Sam Seeing red
• Kipper Rainbow Puddle
• Bonus* Fifi and the flowertots Blueberry Surprise

****This movie is very colorful, and fun. It has all your favorite characters and some great lessons behind it. My kids absolutely loved this movie and watched it 4 times in a row. Our favorite was watching Bob find paintings in the cave, and learn more about them.

Release date: 2/9/10

Running time: 53 minutes

Retail: $14.98

My rating:8

Disclosure: I received a product at no cost to me for my honest review.

Product Description:A little pinch of zaniness and a big dash of fun is the perfect recipe for laughter as Shaun the Sheep and his barnyard buddies Bitzer, Shirley, and Timmy get into more wacky shenanigans along with those fun-loving Naughty Pigs next door. The laughs keep rising, as the creators of the Academy Award winning Wallace & Gromit are on a roll, dough-ling out more sheep-herding mayhem by the baker’s dozen.

This DVD features 6 episodes

• Washday
• Tooth Fairy
• The farmers Niece
• Snore Worn Shaun
• Helping Hound
• Big Top Timmy

The Bonus features are a sing along with Shaun and the Mini Making of Shaun.

**** My kids have never seen Wallace and Gromit, So they didn’t know what to expect. They liked this movie, but kept asking why no one talks. Just noises?  I didn’t really have an answer, just that they don’t talk. My daughters favorite part was when the dog and the Farmers Niece were fighting over a ball and the girl started crying.  My kids also liked the sing a long.

Release date:2/16/10

Running Time:39 minutes

Retail:$14.98

My rating:7

Disclosure: I received a product through my partnership with Hit Entertainment. All thoughts are my own.

DVD synopsis:  

Meet Kelly and Chica, the hosts of TV’s The Sunny Side Up Show n the 24-hour preschool channel, Sprout.  Join them as they host this special collection of delightful adventures featuring your favorite friends, Barney, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina, and discover how quickly things can go from squeaky clean to terribly messy.  Throughout all the stories and with Kelly and Chica’s help, your children will learn that when friends work together, any job can be fun!

Hosts Kelly and Chica describe what a helping hand is and show young viewers how they can be helping hands at home by creating a recycling bin, putting away their clothes, turning off the lights and using kind words to help others feel better. So follow along with these five episodes and learn about the importance of  lending a helping hand!

The 5 episodes featured on this dvd are:

1. Thomas and Friends: Dirty Work
2. Barney:Litterbot
3. Bob The Builder:  Clean as a Whistle Bristle
4. Fireman Sams: Mothers Helper
5. Angelina Ballerina:  The Ballerina Ragdoll

 ****It’s very important to me that my kids learn to help one another, and this DVD really helps. It shows children the importance of lending a hand to others through their favorite characters. Kelly and Chica make learning so much more fun, my kids said Kelly and Chica are now their favorite. We really enjoyed this movie!

Release date: 1 /12/09

Retail(srp):$14.98

Running time:68 minutes long

Rating:8

Disclosure:I did not receive compensation for this review. I did receive a product  to facilitate my review.

Synopsis(from dvd case):Even when it’s wet outside you can still have plenty of fun, especially when you share your adventures with Thomas & Friends! Grab your galoshes and join the team as they prepare for rainy day visits and sudsy spills, and then get unstuck from a snowy situation in this collection of stories from the Island of Sodor.

There is a new host on the Island of Sodor, Driver Perkins(who will only be seen on DVD).Driver Perkins helps out all the engines as well as Sir Tompham Hatt.

There are 4 episodes on this dvd:

1. Playtime
2. Splish, Splash, Splosh
3. Slippy Sodor
4. Snow tracks

There are also interactive games on this dvd:

1. Lift and Load Crane game
2. Counting With Thomas

****This movie is fun and educational. Thomas meets a new engine name Charlie who only wants to play and Thomas doesn’t want to seem like he is not fun. So he agrees to race and have fun, but when he loses his passengers, he feels horrible. He gets to play in the rain and puddles. As well as play in the snow.  This DVD teaches how important rules are, and working together. We really enjoyed this movie.

The games are very fun as they teach counting and concentration skills.

Release date: 1/5/2010

Retail(SRP):$14.98

Running Time:46 minutes

Rating:9

To learn more about Thomas and friends go to www.thomasandfriends.com

Disclosure: I did not receive compensation for this post I did receive a product from Hit Entertainment to facilitate my review.

Synopsis(from dvd case): When Baby bop forgets to say “please” and “thank you”, Barney realizes it’s time for a lesson on how magic words can make other people feel good inside. As Baby Bop daydreams about a world without good manners, she realizes that being polite is not only important but it’s easy to do after all.

There are three episodes on this dvd:

1. Magic Words
2. Tea-riffic Manners
3. Caring Hearts

This DVD includes 20 songs like Good Manners, Please and Thank you, Being Together, and clean up.

Bonus features:

• Baby Bop’s tea party games
• cakes, cups and colors
• alphabet cookies

****I’m not really a big fan of Barney and never have been. I caught my kids watching it the other day when I came home, and I was surprised at how much they enjoyed watching it. This DVD features some great lessons on manners caring and sharing. I love how they talk about Manners. My kids are learning from this as they have been a bit selfish lately. This is a great movie for preschoolers.

Release Date:1/5/10

Retail(srp):$14.98

Running Time:65 minutes long

For more fun with barney visit www.barney.com

Disclosure: I did not receive compensation for this review. I did receive a product from Hit Entertainment to facilitate my review.