Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jan 24, 2001
Pros: Promotes learning on many different levels
Cons: The noise!
Summary: *Sigh*, yet another toy that talks and requires batteries. I sigh because they wear me out and for some reason my in-laws insist on purchasing these nerve-wrecking toys for my children. Leap Frog Fun & Learn Bus was given to my daughter at Christmas ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 14, 2002
Pros: fun, interactive way to learn letters and much more
Cons: none
Summary: This little bus is a great addition to your toddler's toy chest! There are 4 different modes to put the bus in.
The first is called "ABC Learn". When you child presses a letter, the bus tells him what the letter is and what sound the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 21, 2002
Pros: Cute, somewhat educational
Cons: oh the noise - the unrelenting noise!
Summary: This is the single most annoying toy in our home. It was given to my two year old for Christmas this year and as open minded as I try to be - I loathe this bus!
The Fun and Learning bus is a battery operated toy bus with five animal ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2002
Pros: Volume Control!! Turns itself off after a minute of inactivity
Cons: Letter are on the small side, difficult for little fingers to push
Summary: "We're riding on the bus with the alphabet, won't you push a letter and see what you get!"
This is truly one of the greatest toys I've seen yet. It has everything I think a toy should have and amazingly nothing that annoys me. I really had ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 27, 2001
Pros: helps preschoolers learn their alphabet, great colors, cute characters
Cons: ANNOYING! small letters, strange jokes, hard to discern letters sometimes
Summary: Warning: before purchasing this toy, I strongly recommend visiting a toy store and trying it out...and not just for a few seconds, but for the amount of time your child might play. This is one of the most potentially annoying toys your child will ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 6, 2001
Pros: Sturdy, Colorful, teaches letters & sounds; teaches animal names & sounds.
Cons: noisy & bulky; voice is muffled sometimes
Summary: My daughter received this for Christmas and she loves it. The bus itself is very durable plastic & has large buttons and letters for little hands to handle easily. The wheels actually roll. (My daughter actually sits on it and tries to make it go -- ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 8, 2001
Pros: Bright colors, interactive, educationally oriented.
Cons: Noisy and obnoxious.
Summary: My two-year-old son received the Fun And Learn Phonics Bus for his Birthday last November. This colorful bus captured his attention. He seemed delighted when he opened the present. My initial response was also very positive.
The greatest ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 9, 2001
Pros: Combines learning the alphabet with phonics
Cons: Sometimes difficult to understand
Summary: My daughter received the Phonics Bus as a gift for Christmas. We recently started teaching her the alphabet and my parents thought that she would benefit from learning the sounds of the letters as well. We agreed and so they purchased her the Leapfrog ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 29, 2000
Pros: wonderful learning toy
Cons: could be more clear with some of the letters
Summary: The triplets are, in addition to other things, developmentally delayed. This means that due to their extreme prematurity they are behind other children their age in many areas. One of those areas is speech and they haven't learned to count, say their ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 29, 2000
Pros: Fun & Educational
Cons: None
Summary: This is one my favorite and my daughter's favorites. She received it as a Christmas present.
This bus is a bright yellow school bus with Leap as the driver and other characters also. It plays the "Wheels on the Bus" song and also the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 25, 2000
Pros: Interactive testing of alphabet mastery, sturdy design (no easily removed parts), bright colors
Cons: no lower-case letters, not meant for alphabet intro
Summary: My wife purchased this $28 product last weekend for our daughter (20 months) who is just learning her alphabet. We snuck the bag in the living room while they were zipping around the house, screaming like miniature banshees. The minute they heard the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 20, 2000
Pros: On/Off Switch, Lots of Fun
Cons: Price is fairly steep, Can be annoying
Summary: The Phonics Bus was originally purchased for my daughter last Christmas (who was 2 1/2 at the time) in hopes that it would encourage her to take an interest in learning the alphabet.
She never took an interest in the toy, it disappeared and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 16, 2000
Pros: attempts to teach various phonics sounds, good variety of activities
Cons: speech is distorted, may confuse young learners
Summary: My daughter received the Phonics Bus for her first birthday. This is somewhat younger than the recommended low age of 18 months. But, she is finding the Phonics Bus enjoyable already. I, on the other hand, have frequently contemplated ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 13, 2000
Pros: educational engaging
Cons: noisy
Summary: This is a great toy. My little boy has enjoyed it for a year, when he was 18 months old he liked to listen to it sing and now that he is two and a half he is able to play the game of letter recognition. This is an attractive and engaging toy by a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 22, 2000
Pros: teaches phonics, uppercase letters, colors, volume control, on/off switch, goes off after non-use, sturdy
Cons: none
Summary: This toy was given to my son on his 2nd birthday by his grandmother.
This first thing he liked about it is the fact that it is a bus. He loves to push it along whether it's on or off.
The bus has an on/off button on the side ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 16, 2000
Pros: Teaches Kids Sounds
Cons: None
Summary: This is another toy that I got a great deal on at KB Kids. They have a surprise of the day and I got this for less than $10.00 there with a coupon. In the stores I believe that it is about 30.00.
The reason that I bought this is because it is ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 5, 2000
Pros: Great learning toy
Cons: no cons just a real overall good toy
Summary: I bought this toy for my daughter when she was 3. It really helped her learn her phonic sounds, and her ABC's. She would play with it for hours.
Now that she is older my son plays with it. It is a great toy to pass on down in the family. We do love ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 19, 2000
Pros: Will Keep Your Child Laughing And Learning For Hours
Cons: None, I love the school bus now !
Summary: We all have ridden the yellow cheese bus at one time in our childhood lives and educational learning of the positive sort is not the key element. But there is one exception lurking in your local toy store that will have your kids speaking as fluently as ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 11, 2000
Pros: Very Educational
Cons: A little loud
Summary: Let me first start off by telling you that my son received this as a gift this last Christmas so my bus looks a little different then the one they have pictured. The bus we have does not have any cut-outs for figures, this one is all enclosed and the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 30, 2000
Pros: great learning tool
Cons: none
Summary: My son got this toy as a Christmas present when he was 1 year old. At first, he didn't seem to play much with it, but as time went on, he loved it more and more.
The thing about the bus that attracted him the most at first was the song, ... read more
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