Disney Learning Toddler from Disney Interactive and Imaginext Battle Castle from Fisher-Price and Vivendi Universal
By Howard Berenbon
Disney Learning Toddler from Disney Interactive
The new Disney Learning Series from Disney Interactive offers learning with the aid of their wonderful cartoon characters. With Disney Learning Toddler, Kids (ages 18 months to 3 years) will interact with Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, and Olie plus all their friends in this 3 CD educational package covering math, languages (French and Spanish), letters, vocabulary, colors, shapes, memory and more. The CD series offer high-resolution graphics animation, music and sound effects, everything you need interact with your favorite Disney characters.
CD 1: Disney’s Mickey Mouse Toddler
Your toddler will enter into the world of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto for activities with numbers, letters, shapes, music and colors.
CD 2: Disney’s Winnie the Pooh Toddler
Toddlers will join Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Roo and Christopher Robin in the 100-Acre Wood to learn some French and Spanish, play a guessing game and burst some letter balloons.
CD 3: Rolie Polie Olie, The Search for Spot
Help Olie find his dog Spot by searching the house. While exploring, kids will find lots of fun activities including making music in the kitchen, scuba diving in the bathtub and building functional spaceships out of furniture.
This is a very affordable set of excellent educational CDs that any parent can and should offer their toddler. Kids will have fun interacting with their favorite Disney cartoon characters while learning some basic skills.
Disney Learning Toddler is a 3 CD set selling for $18.99 and will run on any multimedia PC, Pentium II 166 MHz or faster, 32 MB RAM with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and an 8x CD-ROM drive. It also runs on a Power Mac G3 233 MHz or faster with 64 MB RAM and an 8x CD-ROM drive.
Imaginext Battle Castle from Fisher-Price and Vivendi Universal
Imaginext Battle Castle is fantasy game with a knights in shining armor theme from Fisher-Price and Vivendi Universal for boys ages 5 and up. The goal is to become king by battling rival knights, enemy ogres and even a dragon. Kids will build castles with all the normal castles things: cannons, drawbridges and towers, and earn swords and armor for the final battle to defeat Dragomont’s dragon. The game offers excellent 3-D graphics and realistic sounds for your journey to become king of the castle in this medieval world of dungeons and dragons. Kids will find 26 adventures for hours of fun.
The game is recommended for boys, but I know several girls (including my 8-year-old daughter, Becky ) who love battling monsters and enjoyed this medieval adventure. As a bonus, they include a small plastic figure of a knight in shining armor, which includes a helmet, a lance and a sword. Perfect for kids who like to play the dungeons and dragons type role-playing game. In fact, both my girls are in the process of playing dungeons and dragons. This is similar to a board game involving dice, pencil and paper, and does not use a personal computer.
Imaginext Battle Castle sells for $19.99 and will run on any multimedia PC, Pentium II 266 MHz or faster, 64 MB RAM with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and a 24x CD-ROM drive. It also runs on a Power Mac G3 300 MHz or faster with 64 MB RAM and a 24x CD-ROM drive.
Software Companies Mentioned
Disney Interactive, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
Phone: 1-800-228-0988
URL disneyinteractive.com
