Customer Reviews

All About Fast Trains/All About Airplanes

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The DVD should be called "Something about Trains & Planes". There are hardly any fast trains in this DVD. This product seems to have been filmed in the early eighties & the only fast train they show is the Amtrak Acela express. The audio is also extremely poor. Extended footage of model trains, a parade in some town, and Santa distributing candies to kids from the back of a train!
Despite all this my son who is 3 loves it! He would give it 10 stars!

My son wants to watch this movie ALL of the time. It's kind of cute, with some catchy, you'll be humming them all day songs! We just ordered all of their other ALL ABOUT movies because we were impressed with this one. And that price for a DVD that my son loves....it's great. You can affod all 4 of them easily! Have fun!

While the video/DVD does focus on trains, they do not show any real FAST TRAINS for more than a couple of minutes. In fact, the movie shows more of a parade on a model train set than it does any fast trains. Once again, someone trying to make money off of a title, while showing very little knowledge about trains or railroads. You get what you pay for!

Got this for my three year old Grandson. He loves trains. He watches the train part over and over. He loses interest with the airplane part. It is a very inexpensive entertaining DVD. I would give the train part and A+, but not the airplane part.

Our 2-year-old is obsessed with all things that move - cars, trucks, trains, planes and, of course, anything with a siren. While trying to find videos on these topics, I came across the All About series. Some of the reviews were mixed, but for $5, I figured I couldn't go wrong. This particular video is quickly getting worn out in its first week at the house - mostly because, unlike some of the others in the series, the actual imagery focuses on the trains and airplanes and has less of an "education" or talking component than some of the other videos in the series. For our toddler, this video is more age-appropriate with a greater focus on visual stimuli. Here's a quick recap:

PROS
* Lots of train and airplane visuals - for us, the train segment is the clear winner and it's watched over and over and over ...
* Music isn't overbearing
* 30 minutes per segment, perfect for a short attention span

CONS
* The videos are older and the quality isn't superior. But, for a toddler, this is not a huge factor. He doesn't need Speilberg special effects to be entertained.
* For some kids, depending on their age, there may be too much talking/discussion about trains/planes. For our son, the trains segment is perfect, but he gets distracted when watching the planes segment.

Overall, for $5, not bad. Although I think this video series (in general) is more targetted at kids between 4 and 7 years old.

I am a mother of a 3 yo train fanatic and a 2 yo plane afacianodo. Both love the video, and for the price you can't beat it. Sure there is better photography and narration out there, but my sons ask for this video as much as their Disney and Thomas videos. They enjoy the "reality" of the video and I would highly recommend it for any child who enjoys trains/planes.

NO, there are few fast trains in this, but the slow trains are the more interesting ones visually, anyhow. We LOVE this DVD! My 21 month old son has now requested it 4 times in a row just today, and has requested to watch it everyday at least once for the past week. There's little dialog, which is good for him because he doesn't understand it anyhow. The model train sets are neat, as well. It's not meant to be highly educational, and is perfect for what we wanted; good visual appeal. The airplane side is a bit more educational, but still very visual.

We bought it more for the airplanes, but the trains captured my son's heart most.

This is just a fun visual view of trains and planes, not meant to teach your child all about them, despite the title. Perhaps if the title were different another reviewer wouldn't have taken exception to it. I'm not a big fan of the term "all about" in regards to anything, myself.

Maybe all our reviews will help others place if this DVD will be right for their child.

My 18-month-old son just loves the airplane part of this DVD. It is a great combination of light jazzy music, kid-type fun, and real information about airplanes. The "story" is "Airplanes A to Z", and they describe some part of flight for each letter (A is for airplane, B is for biplane, C is for co-pilot...) It is a great "documentary" aimed at young kids. I think it is especially appealing to my son because it is narrated by a child, and it show kids actually in the airplanes. There is some nice footage of many kinds of airplanes taking off, flying, and landing, as well as kids sitting in the cockpit of the plane, handling the controls next to the pilot. Pretty exciting for a young mind to think about doing that!

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the train part. There is a little bit of that segment that starts to give some real information about trains, and shows some impressive engines and passenger cars. But then it goes off into looking at a model train set (little plastic things) and a silly plastic figurine parade, with no trains in sight. Then suddenly, there is Santa throwing toys off the back of a train! It is pretty weird and not at all of the same caliber as the airplane portion. If your child is into trains, I would suggest getting something else. (However, for the price, you probably can't go wrong.)

I have a three year old son who absolutely loves this movie. We had a copy before and he wore it out. It's great fun for him.

My son loves this dvd, it was exactly what I was looking for, and it gave me an idea for where to take him. We are taking him to a "Day with Thomas the train" in NC