Dora the Explorer: Explore the Earth Review

Product description:Join Dora and Boots as they embark on a colorful adventure across the globe.  From the South Pole, to rainforests to tropical beaches, learn all about our big, beautiful planet Earth.

Episodes:

  • Mixed Up Seasons-It’s summertime, and Dora and Boots are having fun at the beach. But suddenly, they encounter the strangest sight-a snowman.The snowman doesn’t belong in summer and he will melt away if they don’t hurry and take him home to winter.Map tells them the way to go through all 4 seasons. Picking up more misplaced creatures, a flower in winter, Jack o Lantern in spring and a crab in fall.
  • To The South Pole-Rescue Truck arrives at Diego’s Animal Center to deliver a cute, little animal that’s really lost: a penguin! It’s up to Dora, Boots, and Diego to bring Pingüino all the way back home to the South Pole. Great adventure, traveling by prop plane, expedition boat and snowmobile to reunite Pingüino with his mamá and papá.
  • Save Diego-Dora’s cousin Diego protects and defends all the rainforest. But in order to save a baby Condor Diego winds up trapped himself. It’s Dora, Boots and all the animals in the rainforest to the rescue.
  • Beaches-Dora brings Boots a special present, a new floaty that will help him swim. Boots is thrilled, and they set off for the beach. But first they’ll have to go through the Dune maze, then fix the broken Boardwalk, and that’s how they’ll get to the beach.

Bonus features:

  • Moose and Zee Music Video-Neighborhood
  • Moose and Zee Music Video-Seashore

**** This movie is great for preschoolers, it has various episodes about seasons and different countries on earth.  Dora explores different continents and shows what animals or creatures belong there.  It also shows a lot of teamwork and helping each other, which is a great lesson for kids. My kids love Dora and i like that they can learn so much from her.

Retail:$16.99

Release date: April 13, 2010

Running time: 99 minutes long

My rating:9

Disclosure: I did not receive any compensation for this post, a product was provided by Nickelodeon.

iCarly iFight Shelby Marx DVD Review & giveaway4/4

Product description: “Join Carly Sam Spencer and Freddie as they help Carly prepare for the scariest fight of her life in the iFight Shelby Marx TV Special the most watched iCarly special to date along with the iDate a Bad Boy TV Special and more all in one dvd.

Episodes:

  • iFight Shelby Marx-Shelby Marx, the greatest female fighter challenges Carly to an exhibition match!
  • iLook Alike-Carly Sam and Freddie find look alike to trick spencer, so they can sneak out to a mixed martial arts fight.
  • iDate A Bad Boy-Carly dates a new guy with a bad rep. and finds out a shocking secret.
  • iCarly AwardsCarly Sam and Freddie honor the top 10 videos sent into iCarly.com over the past year.

Special features:

  • Behind the scene extras
  • Pilot episode of Big Time Rush

*****My kids love iCarly, they think it is so funny. We’ve seen each movie and episode a bunch of times. Shelby Marx gets tricked by Neville a little boy with a crush on Carly, so she wants to really fight Carly. They show her the truth and everything goes good with the fight. iLook Alike they use three teens who they think look like them to trick Spencer and go to a MMA fight, things go bad and Spencer ends up getting knocked out by a MMA fighter. Date a bad boy was funny, Carly hates a guy then they end up dating. She thinks she has herself a real bad boy, but then finds out he collects pee wee babies.  the awards show was another one that was not really that funny. iCarly has an award ceremony and Spencer made one giant trophy instead of 10 little ones. so he rushes to get them done while the awards are being handed out.  My kids have watched this movie at least 20 times since we received it. they really like it!

Retail:$16.99

Release date:March 30, 2010

Running time:139 minutes

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I am holding a giveaway on my blog for 1 copy as well as a twitter giveaway for 1 copy.

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Yo Gabba Gabba Birthday Boogie

Product description: Brobee thinks everyone has forgotten about his birthday and sings about his past birthdays with DJ Lance. Then, Brobee gets surprised by a big birthday party! He counts the candles to find out how old he is.

The episodes on this dvd are:

  • Birthday
  • Dress up
  • Talent
  • Ride

****Yo Gabba Gabba is the most educational show i’ve ever seen. I love the songs the sing for daily routines. We use them at our house.  Try it you’ll like it, and put the toys away. My children loved the birthday episode, fun new songs and counting with Brobee. This is a great show for any preschooler.

Release date:2/2/10

Retail(SRP):$16.99

Running time: 96 minutes

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Let’s Explore: Dora’s Greatest Adventures DVD Review

It’s time to explore! Help Dora play hide and seek, rescue Baby Jaguar, catch the stars and so much more. There are eight fun-filled exploring episodes on this DVD.

Lost Map: Who do we ask for help when we don’t know which way to go? The Map!  Map gets taken away by a goofy bird for a stick. The bird flies Map all the way to the top of tallest Mountain. Dora and Boots draw their own map to help rescue their friend.

Hide and Go Seek: Dora and her friends are good at hiding, especially When Señor Tucán hides in the Rain Forest. If they can find all eight friends, Señor Tucán promises to introduce his new baby toucans.

Journey to the Purple planet: Blast off into outer space as Dora and Boots set off to bring 5 stranded space creatures back home to the Purple Planet. Travel on a rocket ship, travel through the Milky way, catch a ride on a comet, and go past the space rocks to bring Flinky, Inky, Plinky, Dinky and Al back home.

Rescue Rescue: Baby Jaguar is stuck in a tree, Isa is stuck in a big sand hole, and Benny is stuck in his balloon on top of Gooey Geyser. Dora and Boots need help to put the right rescue steps in order to save all three friends in time. It’s got to be fast, the fastest ever! 

Boots to the rescue 412: Dora left her music homework in boots room. She needs Boots to bring it to her school so she can sing it to her class.  Boots is on his own and learns new Spanish words through the Up and Down Jungle, past the Robot House, and to Dora at school. (I speak Spanish and English too, I like them both how about you.)

Star Catching: Abuela gives Dora a special star pocket to catch explorer stars. She sets out to catch stars and catches her first one.Woo-Hoo The Peekaboo Star! But Swiper swipes the star pocket and ties it to a balloon that floats all the way up to cloud castle.  They set out to get Woo-Hoo back from the prince of the caste, but they need help from other Explorer Stars.

Star Mountain: Swiper swipes Dora’s favorite necklace and throws it all the way up to the top of Star Mountain! They need to run up the star steps, climb up the diamond, and go through ice wind and snow. They try to make it with the help of some Explorer Stars.

Swiper the Explorer Fox: Dora and Boots are playing catch when they find a lost baby fox. Swiper comes to swipe the ball, but when he sees the lost baby fox, he has a change of heart and decides to help. They set out and with Swipers help get past the volcano, over the prickers and thorns, and find baby fox’s mommy at the fox hole. Swiper even says Thank you!

****Wow over 3 hours of Dora, what a little girls dream! My daughters were mesmerized, even though some of the shows we had already seen on Nick Jr. My daughter really like Journey To The Purple Planet, because we have the video game for PS2.  I was really impressed with Swiper being so nice in the last episode, kind of gave me a different impression of the character now.  

There is also a bonus feature: The game Dora’s Explorer World. This is a very fun game and my daughter said she felt like she was a real explorer.

Release date: 2/2/10

Retail(SRP)$16.99

Running Time:198 minutes

Disclosure: I received a product for review from the company, no other compensation was received.

Diego Lion Cub Rescue DVD Review and Giveaway(closed)

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Description:It’s a big cat adventure! When Diego, Baby Jaguar and Daddy Lion head out to Lion Cub’s party, they discover some little lions in trouble. With Diego and Daddy Lion’s help, we save a Baby Lion stuck on a broken branch; we use our lion claws to rip Cousin Lion out of an animal trap; and we find Sister Lion who’s hiding in the tall grass. This adventure, plus three more episodes, adds up to over an hour and a half of Diego fun!

The episodes:

Welcome Home, Lion Cub-explained above

Diego’s ringed seal rescue– A ringed seal is in trouble in the arctic, and Diego needs to bring him back to ringed seal rescue home.

Diego reunites hippopotamus and Oxpeckerhippopotamus is moving to a new home at hippo lake, but needs Diego’s help bringing his symbiotic friend Oxpecker who’s stuck at the old river.

Diego’s orangutan rescue-when baby orangutan gets taken away in a canoe, he teams up with sister orangutan to help save him.

****We love watching all the different animals Diego rescues and learning about them. Traveling and learning about different countries too. Plus my kids always play along when Diego needs your help.  The learning is great with sound identification, matching, physical motion and visual skills. Plus learning spanish words too!

Release date: 1/26/10

Retail:$14.98

Running time:95 minutes

Rating: 9

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Spongebob Viking Size Adventure DVD Review and giveaway(closed)

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Description:Join SpongeBob and his pals as they go on a Viking-Sized Adventure, weather a storm, fill in for super heroes Mermaidman and Barnacleboy and meet Mr. Krabs grandpappy the pirate, guest starring Dennis Quaid and Ian McShane!
 
this DVD contains 6 episodes:
  • Dear Vikings- there is a viking them at the krusty krab for a promotion, so Spongebob sets out to learn all about them.
  • Ditchin-Spongebob sneeks out of school to attend Mermaidman and Barnacleboy’s book signing.
  • Pineapple fever– During  big storm squidward gets stuck indoors with Spongebob and Patrick
  • Chum Caverns-Plankton opens a new underground restaurant, but it could possibly put the Krusty Krab out of business
  • Grandpappy the pirate– Mr krabs granddad is coming for a visit, but he thinks he is  a pirate.
  • Cephalopod Lodge-Squidward is part of a secret society lodge, but Spongebob and Patrick get him kicked out.
  • Shuffle boarding– Spongebob and Patrick end up filling in for Mermaidman and Barnicleboy for a tourament, but get a little to carried away.
  • Professor Squidward-Squidward disguises himself as squilliam to teach at a music school, but Spongebob and Patrick show up and nearly blow his cover.

Special features:Animation art gallery, storyboard panels, character art.

****We love Spongebob he is so funny and a great children’s character. I love how Spongebob brings kids laughter and even learning to children.  These are not new episodes, I have seen them on Nickelodeon before, they do introduce new characters though (guest stars).

Release date:1/26/10

 Retail:$14.98

Running time:88 minutes

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