Archive for December, 2009
Leapster Star Wars. I got this for my 4 year old. It’s a little advanced for him but LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game: Star Wars Jedi Reading is giving him something to work toward and he likes it since it’s Star Wars.
Fun, physical exerting toy. My grandsons are 7, 5 and 4 years old and love the running required for the game.
I recieved Stamina 1300 Magnetic Resistance Upright Bike super fast. This is a great product I love it. It came fast had all the parts a pain to put together but that may be cause I’m a chick. AAA+++
Blinky lights. Ive had these lights for about 3 or 4 weeks and I’m happy with both. The rear red blinky light is brite and very noticable from a distance. I ride on a shared trial with some atv traffic and I’ve been told by the atv riders that the red flashing light gets their attention from a pretty good distance away. Far enough away to know that I am there. Thats in the daytime. At night that little red blinky light shows up and can be seen from a really long distance away. The town cop here really likes both the lights in blink mode. The front white light does not light up very well to see in front of you but you can be seen from pretty far away. And thats the idea is to get a car or truck drives attention. They seem to be able to handle the rough trail that I ride on also and I have left my bike out Planet Bike Beamer 1 and Blinky 3 LED Bicycle Light Set the rain (my bad I didnt know it was supposed to rain)and the lights work perfectly. I am still on the same batteries that came with the lights. I am pleased and for the price I shoud have bought a couple more just to have in case one breaks.
Easy instructions, Great shipping, fast assembly, Great bike for Money. This is an initial review based on the first week of ownership.
ABF (the shipper) contacted us and asked when we would like Schwinn 240 Recumbent Exercise Bike delivered. It came when they said. I live on a farm lane and the driver could not get to my house due to the snow. No problem I am use to that. I drove my ATV to the truck, we loaded it into my trailer. He rode on my ATV with me to my house and we unloaded it in the room I wanted it. Excellent. The box was in great shape, solid.
My 14 year old son put it together in about 1 hour, then I reviewed his work as we spent another 30 minutes going over the nuts and bolts checking for tightness. He had the front cross leg on backward so it wouldn’t roll when we picked up the back, no biggie, we reversed it. It was easy for him to assemble.
Initial rides on it are favorable, make sure you tighten the seat fully after each adjustment. Don’t sit on it when moving the seat. So far the seat is the weak point. We’ll see how it holds up. You have to understand the programming to get the best use of it. I have had other equipment where you had pre-programmed courses to ride on.
There is no on/off button. Just walk away from it and it will shut off. I had to read that somewhere.
The drink holder is mickey mouse and probably won’t be used. I don’t think the basket will be used either.
I have read reviews on older models along the same line as the 240 and people complained about the packaging, shipper, assembly was too hard, instructions were poor. I had no issues with any of these, perhaps I got lucky.
Pretty OK. I have had this bike for about a month now and ride Mongoose Montana Womens Mountain Bike every day, mostly in town. It’s nothing fancy. I bought it (not from Amazon) fully assembled, but had to tweak the brakes. I really don’t know much about bikes and had not had one in 15 years. The bike is really nothing too fancy. The frame is a little more compact and I also experienced the problem with the tire hitting my foot on sharp turns. I thought I just had big feet. It isn’t too much of a problem. I like my little bike.
I love this game!!!!. Wow, this game is sooo cool and very excitingly fun to play!!! The 1st card game, or any game for that matter, that I can actually beat my husband at!!! A few reviewers have already explained game-play, so I won’t bore you all w/that 
-I do want to just say though that this game is sooo much fun to play!!! Just as much fun as the original Scrabble, this version can go by real fast, and it’s fun trying to race against the other person to slap down a card to make a different word, and try to be the 1st one w/no cards left. It kind’a reminds me of Stun in a way, if anyone even remembers that card game(1980s)?? When I play it, I just can’t seem to get enough and will say to my husband, “C’mon, just 1 more game?” I swear, I just love this game sooo much!!!!!!! Scrabble Blast is truely a “BLAST”!!!!!
Helped my son sleep. I love the Sleep Sheep. My son liked the ocean sound the best. The only thing I think I would add to this wonderful product is a remote or a longer timer. As a tired mom I had to get up and reset the sound if he woke up. It is a great product and that would just make Cloud b Sleep Sheep perfect.
Not Bad. The wuality is not bad, but later I found this same lotion without alchohol. I would prefer the non alchohol one
Nice, with some notable drawbacks. Pro: I like the semi-portability and ruggedness of the set– the magnetic clasp is nifty, and being self-contained is nice and elegant (too bad there isn’t enough room for a full Scrabble dictionary, but that seems kind of impractical save for an electronic solution). If you want to bring Scrabble Diamond Anniversary Edition with you to a coffee shop or something, it beats the basic boxed set and the bigger deluxe sets. The raised grid is nice for protecting against the odd bump to the board or careless brush when placing tiles. The cloth bag is much nicer than the standard plastic one. Very minor plus: wild tiles aren’t featureless blank tiles, but have a diamond etched into them, which makes it slightly harder to immediately identify them by touch when fishing for new tiles.
Con: Others have mentioned the odd bonus square coloring, which to me is an issue, albeit a minor one. I don’t think the lack of scorepads is a big deal– I can scare up some paper and pencil. A timer, while nice to have, again isn’t a big deal to me. However, one of the tradeoffs for having the raised grid is that cleanup is substantially more tedious than before– you can’t just fold the board and slide all the tiles back into the bag, picking up the few that may have spilled. You need to manually peel all the tiles from the grid, unless you want to dump them on the table/floor first, which really isn’t any better, and could lead to lost tiles. The other issue I noticed is that the tiles don’t slide as smoothly on the plastic curved racks as on the old wooden ones. It seems like a minor issue, but shuffling the tiles isn’t effortless like on the old racks, and I like to shuffle my tiles.
Other thoughts: It would be nice if the tiles couldn’t be distinguished by touch, to remove the temptation of fishing for wild tiles or specific letters. Simply painting on the letters seems to be asking for them to wear off, but maybe a thin plastic/epoxy coating or something?
Bottom Line: All in all, I can’t say this is a significant improvement over the base set, unless you plan to take it places now and then or are inordinately vexed by shifted tiles during games, as there are non-trivial tradeoffs that largely offset the gains. But hey, it’s still Scrabble.
