Monday, December 7, 2009

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With this smart handheld system, children learn valuable school skills through a variety of animated games and activities. Kids use the interactive touch screen and stylus throughout 30 educational games featuring characters they love. The Leapster2 System also offers several options for creative play. Little learners can easily connect online for extra activities and rewards. And best of all, parents can use the Leapster2 to connect to the LeapFrog Learning Path, an online, interactive tool in which parents can get updates and see firsthand what their children are learning.

Leapster2 System comes with built-in starter games; additional software sold separately. Requires 4 “AA” batteries, not included. Measures 13″W x 10.5″H……..

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Technical Details

– The preschool gaming handheld that connects to the LeapFrog® Learning Path, an online experience that lets you see what your child is learning.

– Play and learn school skills on the go or connect online for extra activities and rewards.

– Library of over 30 exciting learning games featuring characters kids love.

– Included and additional games teach skills in a range of subjects, such as language arts, reading, mathematics and science.

– Parents can connect online to the LeapFrog® Learning Path to see what their child is learning. Kids connect online for extra activities and rewards.

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Customer Buzz

 “Stephanie’s Christmas” 2009-12-05

By L. Grisso (Tulsa, OK)

This is an awesome learning toy. I’m sure Steph will enjoy it as much as her older cousins have throughout the years.

Customer Buzz

 “So far, the Leapster Original seems better” 2009-12-02

By Chris (Florida)

My daughter loves her original leapster, but it’s getting rather aged and often turns itself off without warning.

So we get the leapter 2, thinking it will be an upgrade from what we had.

First experience, opening it. Difficult to get out of packaging, gets small scratch from it’s own plastic packaging during fight to get it out.

Second experience, won’t accept my daughter’s name as a user name. Not a difficult name mind you: Gina. Half hour spent trying to get it to work while she eagerly waits to play it. Another half hour on hold with customer service (by now, she’s on to other things), finally find out that the leapster 2’s ‘bad word’ filter is tripped by the name ‘Gina’ and it can’t be entered. Get around it by putting a space between each letter. Customer service says sorry, but they can’t allow kids to put bad words into their games. Gina is a bad word? Besides, let the parents do the parenting.

Third experience, daughter puts in her favorite cartridge, PetPals. She has three puppy names on it, all with points she has gained from the playing she has done on the original Leapster. Leapter 2 boots up to the game, and says ‘you have to delete a name to enter a new one’. She doesn’t want to enter a new name, she just wants to play with the ones that are already there. Game won’t let her do that. Just gets stuck on the ‘you have to delete a name to enter a new one’, even though we aren’t trying to enter a new one.

This time I email customer service. Four days later, they reply to ask ‘if’ it will work if I delete one. Well, we don’t want to delete one, and shouldn’t they ‘know’ if it will work, or what’s wrong, or what I should do to fix it?

So… the Leapster 2 sits on my desk, unused. My daughter has returned to using the old original one that turns off without warning. Shouldn’t this have all been easy to do, enter her name, enter her cartridge, and play? Will likely return this one.

Customer Buzz

 “REALLY Disappointing” 2009-11-30

By Nikonian (Massachusetts, USA)

This item is a major disappointment. It is touted as an educational game for preschoolers through age 8, but neither of my kids (the preschooler and the first grader) are getting much out of this device. The display quality is quite poor, making playing these games difficult at best just because of the inability to clearly see the graphics. The graphics are very bitmappy and jaggy, and the brightness is never right. No matter how I adjust it, it is either too dark or too bright. There’s just no happy medium. It also has to be angled at precisely the correct angle, or nobody can see the screen. This makes helping the preschooler with the games nearly impossible.

I was immediately disappointed with the opening announcement when I powered up the unit. If I had known that this game has been known to cause seizures in “sensitive individuals” I never would have opened the box. We also have to see this announcement every time the unit is powered up. Then we got another announcement….you MUST go online and download games to be able to use it without a costly additional cartridge. The website isn’t exactly intuitive. It took me awhile to figure out where I was supposed to go to get these games (pardon me, the ONE game that you are allowed), and I’m no slouch on the net.

The software that comes with the untit on CD installs on my PC, but won’t connect to the internet. It also won’t recognize the Leapster when it is plugged in to the PC. Luckily, it runs on my Mac without issue, but I had to bang my head against the wall with a crazy preschooler crying and begging to get his toy back before I tried it on the Mac.

This part just irks me…you have to pay additional money for a protective case. We’ve paid a small fortune for this thing already. Shouldn’t it COME with a case?? Maybe even one that holds the cartridges?

This is splitting hairs, but at this point I’m pretty fed up–the string on the stylus is too short to get the stupid thing out of the stylus pocket. Who decided on the design for this one? Whomever it is needs to be fired. If you can’t figure out how much string it needs to reach from point A to point B, you really need to be finding another job.

I would NOT recommend this toy to anybody. We’re all frustrated and ready to send it back.

Customer Buzz

 “Leapster 2 review – not too durable” 2009-11-17

By T. McLaughlin (California)

My son has used his leapster for about 1 year now. It started freezing up 2-3 months after we bought it. This wasn’t happening too much, as we would just restart it and it would work fine. I should have sent it in to get it replaces but I didn’t. We are having problems with it right now as it restarts with cartridge games for some reason. I have submitted a question to leapfrog and am awaiting an answer. I suspect we need to buy him another unit.

My 4 year old son loves it and plays the games all the time in the car and at home. It keeps him busy in the car on long trips too, or if we are in a restaurant and he gets bored. The cartridge games are a bit expensive but it gives the unit some flexibility from the rather boring built in games it comes with. The games are easy to lose as well for young children, as we have lost one of the cartridge games that we bought. I would definitely suggest buying the AC unit to plug this in when you can as it goes through batteries VERY quickly. Besides the games being expensive I would suggest this unit very much. I am not sure if my problems of freezing and restarting are a normal complaint with this unit or not, but with the education and enjoyment my son gets out of playing it I will be fixing it or buying another one for him.

Customer Buzz

 “So Much Fun” 2009-10-23

By Jackie Fowler

My son loves that he can play and learn at the same time. He is also able to plug it into the computer or play games on it.

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