Editorial Review

Your Barbie fan can create home videos with the Barbie Wireless Video Camera. The frosted-pink camera, which comes with a detachable, handheld microphone; a tripod; a receiver unit; and a blank videotape, connects to your TV and VCR to transmit and record home videos. The camera itself is a compact and sturdy image transmitter, and doesn't actually do any recording. You'll need your VCR to do that. It's got a viewfinder, an adjustable hand strap and a built-in condenser mike, as well as a jack for the external mike. You can use the camera in two ways: to transmit live audio and video directly to your TV, or to record directly to your VCR while transmitting to your TV. The camera can be set up on a tripod. Although this camera can't be used outside or anywhere there isn't a TV or VCR, it could provide lots of fun at birthday parties and other family events. Requires six AA and two AAA batteries (included). --M. Sullivan ... Read more

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This CAMERA destroyed my TV
In just 1 afternoon of use, this camera caused my 27 inch TV to have permanent damage to the picture tube.There is now a giant discolored ring across the entire screen. No kids toy should be able to burn a giant discolored ring into a television picture tube!Avoid this at all costs or face trashing your TV! And, there wasn't anything in the instructions that stated that anything like this could happen.

The best gift
My child loves this soooooooooooooooo much.She got it for her birthday.And she is a skateboarder and now she can film her friends and her doing tricks.She does not care its Barbie.Her cousin Lindsey can flim Ashley skateboarding and they have a band called The idiots.Now she can flim them singing.They all loved it and wanted to know where I got it.Itold they to go to Walmart and look.My daughter said she love it.So you should buy this it will chang there world.Also if you want you could buy a spiderman one if you have a son.

barbie video camera
I purchased this toy for my 6 year old daughter for christmas. There was so much static that it could not be used.It was exchanged for another one, which also had so much static it had to be reurned.Thankfully it was easily returned to toys r us. ... Read more

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Just Like Home - Electronic Cash Register
I guess you get what you pay for.It's very inexpensive and the first thing to go is the hand held scanner, and it goes very quickly.I brought it back to the store for another, but the scanner for that one broke quickly also, and the salesperson said that there were a lot of complaints about that for this item.My daughter accumulated a lot of play money in different denominations so she could learn to count money, but alas, the drawer was too small to accommodate it. (The money that comes with the register is not realistic-looking, so it doesn't promote currency and coin recognition.)Basically, this toy may be fine for young children, but it doesn't grow with them because it won't last and even if it did, it has limitations that prevent its use from being expanded as your child's skills advance.Unless you're not interested in durability, longevity or educational value, you're better off with the Pretend and Play cash register from Learning Resources for three times the price of this one.

Don't waste your money
My Daughter loved this toy, I guess a little too much the second day the microphone stopped working, the Conveyor Scanner stopped beeping and the credit card slider stopped making noise as well. Buy anything else but this one.

the best educational fun toy!!!!!!!
THIS TOY IS SO COOL.IT HAS EVERYTHING FOR JUST TENDOLLARS.I HOPE THE PRICE NEVER CHANGES!!!AND I ALSO HOPE THAT EVERY CHILD WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE TOY AS MUCH AS I DID!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU TOYS "R" US FOR MAKING THE BEST TOYS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Read more

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A Camera for any Princess
This camera is great.We got it for our 4 year old to take to Disney with us and it not only took decent pictures but was very durable as she dropped it a couple of times.She loved being able to put all of the pictures with her and the princesses in the album and take to school for show and tell!!!!! Great buy for your little picture taker ... Read more

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Great item at a great price
My son has not stopped playing with this since we brought it home.For the price, it is a great quality and works great.It has a turntable inside that turns just like the real microwaves.The accessories that come alone with it are very durable.Can't beat this item for the price!

sucky toy
this toy is really not good. I know cause I used to have one and it wood always be brokeded down. you guys reely shoodin'by this toy cause its ungood.

Great Attention Keeper
My 18-month old son loves this toy! And what a deal at $10. It is quite realistic with a timer and turntable. While the timer is counting down a green light comes on which then turns red when the food is ready. And the included foods are cute and more nutritous items than some other playsets. This really has kept his attention and helped him learn to manipulate the buttons to make the oven work. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Here’s a rare indoor toy that’s likely to make kids excited to get outside. The Star Theater II home planetarium can be used inside a darkened room to project a vast panorama of stars on the walls and ceilings. It comes equipped with an audio CD to guide budding astronomers through the learning process as well as a hand held "meteor maker" which allows you to reenact meteors without waiting around for decades to see them. We found the scientific information helpful, accurate, and, best of all, approachable for even novice stargazers. The kit can also be brought outside to illuminate (rather than project) and serve as a map to the heavens. --Charlie Williams ... Read more

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What a WASTE!!!!
What we have here is a very cheaply made 'toy'.It is made of very thin plastic and has glow paint dots in the right areas.When used in a dark room it looks neat, but you don't have any explaination of what you are looking at other than the blurry words projected onto your walls.

My child is in the gifted program and I thought this would be a good tool to help teach astronomy.Nope.It broke within a few minutes being in my child's hands (8 yrs old).The only thing it taught my child not to place your expectations too high.To an 8 year old, this can be crushing. :(

2 thumbs down! If you buy it, you WILL regret it!Spend a dollar to print out some star maps and go outside with your child.It's a lot cheaper and they will learn more.

Worthless
Looking at the picture and description, this item looks almost identical to the National Geographic Star Planetarium that I bought at a science museum.Like all the other reviewers here, I regret my purchase.

A real planetarium projector is completely dark except for a few spots of light projected on the ceiling for the stars.This device is the opposite - it projects light all over the ceiling, with spots of darkness for the star.As you can imagine, that ruins the experience.For just a few cents more, they could have made the sphere dark with pinholes for the stars.At least this way, it would have made a cool nightlight.

The hand-held "meteor maker" is just a flashlight with a couple of filters.Unfortunately, the light is so dim compared to the projector itself, that you can't see the image it projects.

I wish I had examined the package more before purchasing it.I guess it just didn't occur to me that something designed by scientists would be so poorly made.

A piece of GARBAGE
We bought two of these. The first was broken in the box. The plastic is so cheap and so brittle it literally feel apart at the plastic seems.

We got it home, and much to my daughters disappointment, the globe is poorly constructed and blurry when projected. You cannot see th stars unless you have a truly sperical room. The connections were so poor that within 10 minutes the light bulb simply went out. We had to jiggle, twist and push the battery compartment to get the thing to work, only to have it go out in another 2 minutes. We gave up in disgust. I plan to return this piece of garbage and then call up ol' Unlcle Milton and give him a piece of my mind. ... Read more

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Worthless
Here are reasons not to buy this WORTHLESS "camera":
1.Flash worked 7% of the time
2.Expect button jams 41% of the time which means expect wasting two or three pictures per jam.
3.Strap was pre-frayed stringy mess upon arrival
4.Four rolls of 24 exposures = 17 pictures... thats an 18% success rate!?
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After spending two weeks on vacation with this camera we would have to give it an absolute zero.Paper cuts are more fun than this waste of time and money. I would not recommend this "camera" [...] ... Read more

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camera
I bought this for my daughter and niece and was surprised how good it was. It was easy to load and easy to use. My daughter used it all day christmas. I did not develop the pictures yet but the girls love and had fun with it. Great for a first camera ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Young photographers won't have to tell their subjects tosmile--the Real Camera does it for them. This colorful, plastic camera usesregular 35mm film (one roll is included) and is so easy to operate thateven little fingers can make it work. About 6 by 5 inches in size, thecamera has a smiling face up front, to provoke grins fromportrait-sitters, and a large handle to help steady the camera. The controlsare simple, focusing is done with an easily gripped knob, and there's alarge button for snapping the shutter. Waiting for the pictures todevelop might be the only frustrating part, because even a one-hourphoto shop seems to take too long for kids. --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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Doesn't work
Bummer, opened on Christmas Day and did'nt work from the start.Film doesn't advance.Too bad we didn't keep the receipt. Kids now use it as a 'pretend' camera, which is really what it is.

Broken hearted kids
I bought this for my grandson's 3rd birthday.What a beatiful and fun camera.The only problem, it doesn't work at all.It doesn't advance the film and if you can get it to advance it certainly doesn't rewind to take the film out.What a heartbreak.It's got such a great outside design and is so child friendly.Chicco should work over the camera part and this would sell big.The Fisher Price child camera works well, it's just too hard for a young child to use and has no fun features.Too bad the outer camera of the chicco couldn't be combined with the inner camera of the fisher price.Any young entrepreneurs out there???This would be a great science project.

Avoid This Cute But Worthless Camera
I could kick myself for ignoring all those other reviews which described this camera's unacceptable performance.The cute and kid-friendly design drew me in but after sending off the first roll of film and learning NONE of the photos could be developed, I discovered the mechanics are completely substandard.Now I'm finding it difficult to load and advance the film... thought I figured it out, then realized the film didn't thread at all even though the number indicator advances each time you press the button.Forwarding wheel seems to be losing its action, too.

Please don't waste your money; even disposable cameras would be more reliable and economical than this piece of junk.It's really too bad, because my daughter found the camera fun and easy to use.A better mechanical design would make this thing wonderful. ... Read more

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Surprisingly good!
If you're looking for spectacular, prize winning photos, you aren't going to get it with a pen cam. However, we use this camera extensively in our lab and in the field for dental prosthetics. For analytic photos and (in the case of my frequent goofing off) spur of the moment snapshots, this is a good product for the price. Nothing pretty, no fancy settings, just point and shoot. Good camera for a kid or for someone who isn't hallucinating that they are the next Ansel Adams.

It has its uses(web cam)
My daughter got this for a Christmas present, she finally got around to using it. As much as it is for a kid. it does not the most kid friendly software, it took me a little while to teach her how to use it. Not the greatest pictures but then again IT IS a kids TOY. THE ONE GOOD THING we have found with it. Is the web cam part of it. With family of out state and Internet connections, we are able to talk through a messenger and they can see her as they type to each other.

Better than a toy, but not for your family photos!
This camera serves its purpose - it's a good digital camera for younger kids. Note that it's sold in the toy department, not in the electronics department. It definitely is NOT for use by anyone looking for quality. You absolutely do need to remain still for a second or two when taking the photos. You do NOT get high quality pictures (but you're kidding yourself if you thought you would for $20!) The camera is cheap plastic but that makes it very small and very light!

The camera stores only 19 photos at a time. You can adjust the resolution to be even lower (!) and the compression to be higher so that you can have 38, 76, or even up to 152 photos. You can delete one photo at a time or all of them at once - but you can't see the photos until you download them as there is no viewscreen. There is no flash, so the pictures come out better in bright light or daylight.

The camera comes with quirky but functional software to download, edit, and manage the photos, as well as software to record, save, and edit AVI videos. You must be hooked up to the software to take the videos, which do not have sound. You can also take continuous photos to make an eight-second AVI video without the computer. The photo and video software is upgradeable, so you don't get all the features implied on the packaging (but I've found many digital products come with free software that does exactly the same thing).

This camera fulfilled my expectations. I bought it for my four-year-old and seven-year old so they could take their own digital photos - and they like it. I wasn't going to buy them a "real" digital camera, but this one really works, so it's good enough to be fun. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Thanks to a high-tech cyborg-inspired design, there is noreal secret to playing secret agent with Wild Planet's SpyCamera. But it will still thrill young espionage fans. Theincluded sunglasses (a must-have for spies) are impact-resistant,UV-protected, and have cool mirrored lenses. A tiny, manualadvance camera and an important-looking flip-down viewfinder bothattach to the glasses. Also included is a roll of Kodak 110 colorfilm (12 exposures). Pictures are snapped with a handheld squeezeshutter connected by an air tube to the camera. Subjects willdefinitely hear the camera click, but at least there's no flashto make it even more conspicuous. Parental assistance isrecommended while loading the film, which is best used outside ona sunny day. --Diane Beall ... Read more

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Not very spy like.......
I bought this toy like..... when I was 6 or something and I gotta say, out of like 28 pics 1 was developed!For some reason they won't turn ouy properly, or won't turn out at all!This is WAY too difficult for children ( I mean VERY little children, around 6 or 8) to use. Plus when I was 7 I walked around parks and stuff with this BIG old thing attached to my glasses!That's not very spy like, and what do people thinK?????It could be a lazer, or a camera recording them or something!Well, kids could get in a LOT of trouble taking pics of people and stuff.The reason I gave this 2 stars was because the glasses are good for a cheap set.So down to the point.At walmart you can buy a pen sized digital camera for 20 bucks. It's not very clear, but it is more spylike and will save the time of developing.Another thing!Not many places like ecerd or Rite Aid can develop this film!They charged my dad like (...)because they had to send it lots of places for it to be deveoped!So we payed 15 dollars for 1 pic!Well just be careful with this and I hope this was helpfull!
~Doug

This sucks balls for a living
it really does. it's not durablr, the pics don't come out and it's heavy crap. Nerds who don't know what it is are the guys who buy it. So are you a nerd 8-(.

Not A best seller
This toy is junk. I got it for Christmas and I could even get the film to get in there and I when I got it in there I couldn't take a picture! ... Read more

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