Disney's Winnie The Pooh Baby

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000059REC
• Item model number: 2209501
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 24, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,078 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
Winnie the Pooh and the other denizens of the 100 Acre Wood are ideal companions for guiding your baby through his or her first software experience. Their gentle silliness and not particularly linear behavior provide a perfect match for the vagaries of baby reasoning. Babies can help Pooh pull everything from bubbles to birds out of his honey pots. Use spoons to bang out rhythms on pans with Baby Roo. Point to body parts with Piglet. Paint with Eeyore, who glumly uses his tail as a brush. ("Green. Like the grass. Except when it's brown. Sigh.") Or play a bouncy game of hide and seek with Tigger.

With all five of these elements, your baby can initiate action by simply mashing a key (or five) on the keyboard. Music, colors, opposites, and counting are just a few of the many concepts these activities explore. A couple of smart touches are buttons a parent can click to control the play. A Good Job button causes the character to give positive feedback to your baby. The Do It Again button is for that thing near and dear to all babies' hearts: repetition. It exists so parents can make balloons float out of Pooh's honey pot ad infinitum, which is just how babies likes it.

Don't expect to park your baby alone with this CD-ROM. It works best when parents participate, using the mouse to move between activities and control the play. Fortunately, little surprises, flawless animation, and well-developed characters make this an easy one for parents to enjoy. Watching Piglet's fidgety hands and hearing Eeyore sigh as a rain cloud drenches his masterpiece is like being with old friends. Designers used a quilt motif as the central visual element of this program, and it's an appropriate choice. Winnie the Pooh Baby is as comfy as a well-worn baby blanket. (Ages 9 to 24 months) --Anne Erickson

Amazon.com Product Description
Disney's Winnie the Pooh Baby, designed to be used by parents and babies together, teaches a variety of early learning skills. Pooh and his friends introduce babies to shapes, objects, colors, animals, letters, numbers, seasons, music, and language. Parents guide their babies through several fun activities, such as Piglet Says, Pooh's Hunny Quest, Peek-a-Boo Tigger, Roo's Breakfast Symphony, and Painting with Eeyore. The development-enhancing activities are filled with music, humor, and all the charm of Winnie the Pooh and his pals in the 100 Acre Wood.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cute But Disappointing, June 8, 2001

By A Customer

My 10-month old baby sees me typing at the computer so much, it's only natural that her little hands reach for the keyboard at every opportunity. I was thrilled when I found this computer software, specifically aimed towards her age group (9-24 months).

In description it sounds great, but in use, it's very disappointing. The graphics are beautiful, and the opening and closing sequences caught my baby's attention. But aside from that, there is so little to do. I can't imagine it being entertaining for very long for any child.

I was hoping that each keystroke would cause an immediate reaction on the screen, accompanied by sound, but most of the movements and sounds are too subtle to be interesting to a baby. Even worse, sometimes a keystroke doesn't result in any action at all. For the most part, my baby ignores what's going on on screen.

Also, the most poorly planned part of this software is that it does not have a feature to deactivate the Control, Windows, and function keys on the keyboard. This means that if you let your baby loose to push whatever keys she wants, you end up with problems like the Start menu popping up, and once that is activated, pushing any other keys can cause all kinds of things to happen which you don't want! Even with you sitting right there holding your baby, in just seconds your baby can do stuff you didn't know was possible to your computer. Now, whenever I let her play with this software, I try to keep her hands away from the off-limits keys. This frustrates her, and is tiresome to me.

Software for babies is a great idea, but this one falls far short of what it could be. I definitely wouldn't recommend it, aside from the cuteness factor.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Grew on us, June 19, 2001

By	P. Gibbs (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This software didn't impress me at first, but my 13 month old son has come to enjoy it and request it. At the beginning, the Pooh characters wave to us, and now my son will come over to the computer and wave at it as if to ask me to start this software. When I start it up, he gets excited and starts banging on the keyboard. The software is based on the idea of "pressing any key", and then things happen on the screen. The graphics are a little lame, but the voices are quite good. It is a little funny at times, and the five different activities give it replay-ability. This software is a nice change of pace from videos, and I would buy it again.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lots of problems but cute looking, December 27, 2001

By	KNSudha (Saratoga, CA USA) - See all my reviews

not worth buying unless your baby is crazy about pooh, and I don't think any 9 month old would be so decided in preference. My son actually played with it since 7 mo old, and we found that the response times are so awful that even we could not see the correlation between key strokes and activities on screen, this was with a then year old laptop. Its slow but barely tolerable with our now 3 yr old computer. Further, all of the keys are not captured, so your son can shut down, change the display, or otherwise lock up the computer while playing by slecting random things from the start or windows menus. its hard(NOT POSSIBLE) to tell an excited 7 mo old to press only the spacebar or some other one key! At 17 months he is finally calmer and gentler to the keyboard, and knows to hit one key at a time but definitely not earlier.

He loves jump start baby, and sesame street baby just as much, and those are much nicer on your nerves, as you don't need to calm a baby upset because his game has disappeared, and keep him soothed while rebooting yet again! The mickey toddler is better built