Customer Reviews

SparkTM Talking Microscope

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I expected better quality. This was a Christmas gift for a six year old and when unwrapped it was the perfect gift for this child until we inserted the batteries and found that the battery housing would not stay closed, which meant the microscope would not operate as it should. Thanks to the inventiveness of other family members a disaster was averted and smiles prevailed.Spark (tm) Talking Microscope

This is a nice little microscope for children just beginning to understand the parts of bugs and insects. My daughter, who is five, enjoys changing out the slides to view different insects, but gets kind of grossed-out over a few of the slides and has put them aside. Because of this, she's become a little bored with this toy. It's too bad that there aren't additional slides to purchase that displayed more than just the traditional spiders and flies, such as: butterflies, dragonflies, fireflies, ladybugs...you know, the "girly" ones! For those of you with bonafide bug-loving children though, this little microscope will definitely hold their attention....The microscope has some interesting facts (though the monotonous voice does get tiresome) and the slides are very durable and come in a nice case.

We got this as a companion to the Spark telescope, which is great. This is also a very good toy, with very good images and information. There is no built in storage for the slides, however, which makes it a bit cumbersome, and the sound is not quite as good as the telescope.