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Dora's Big Birthday Adventure

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My two kids loved this latest Dora adventure! Dora and Boots find themselves trapped in Dora's magic storybook, and have to work their way through the book to find the Wishing Wizzle and wish themselves to the real world in time for Dora's birthday party. Every time Dora and Boots get into trouble, they flash back to scenes from Dora episodes of the past that help them figure out how to solve their problems. This double-length episode was really cute, and my kids greatly enjoyed the re-appearance of characters and locations from long time favorite Dora adventures. Really well done!

The DVD also includes two older, Wizzle-themed bonus episodes, "Dora Helps the Birthday Wizzle" and "Wizzle Wishes," giving this DVD a total running time of about an hour and twenty minutes. Great Dora fun and highly recommended!

A new Dora DVD titled Dora's Big Birthday Adventure (released August 03, 2010) contains the 10th anniversary birthday episode aired on TV along with two other episodes. All three episodes feature the Wizzles and Wizzle World and form the Magic Storybook Trilogy.

"Dora's Big Birthday Adventure" - Dora is preparing to celebrate her birthday with her friends and family but a twisting wind blows Dora and Boots into the Magic Storybook and the Wizzle World. Dora ends up with a wishing crystal and must take it to the Wishing Wizzle before she can return home. Hmm, sounds a little familiar...what follows is a plot relatively similar to The Wizard of Oz. There's a mean witch (La Bruja) with flying monkey helpers, a nice Snow Princess, a star studded road, and even a scarecrow. To find to the Wishing Wizzle Dora must first find her way through Sea Snake Lake, The Dancing Forest and go over the RAINBOW. Along the way she looks into the wishing crystal and her memories of her family and friends (shown as hazy flash backs to previous episodes) help propel her over the obstacles. My children especially enjoyed the birthday celebration at the end of the show.

"Dora Helps the Birthday Wizzle" - In this episode about birthday wishes, the Birthday Wizzle is celebrating his own birthday. As he prepares to make his own birthday wish come true, a strong wind blows his wishing wand out of the storybook. Dora catches and works to return the wand to the Birthday Wizzle before the candles on his cake burn out. She goes through the Unicorn Forest and Dinosaur Caves and ends up on Wizzle Mountain. There's a Birthday Express train in this episode that appealed to my toddler son.

"Wizzle Wishes" - A little Wizzle happily holds a bag of four wishing stars, but a strong wind blows the wishes right out of his bag and the storybook. He follows them out of the book, and Dora helps him try to capture the wishing stars so that he can wish his way back home. They follow the path through a flowery garden and nutty forest all the way to the wishing well.

The new birthday episode is enjoyable to watch because it includes all the characters from previous Dora episodes. My daughter was happy to see the Piggies. The DVD cover we received includes a big pop up flap and a sticker sheet so that kids can actively join in the birthday fun. My kids also enjoyed counting the ten candles on the cake displayed on the cover. (Review copy received from Nickelodeon)

My kids loved this. Dora and Boots have to remember FOUR things this time. And too funny for parents. Watch for the parallels to the Wizard of OZ. My kids even had fun watching for them. I won't tell you and spoil all the fun...

I purchased this video for my 28 month old grand daughter. Wow, she sat and watched the
entire video. Now she even answers Dora back when she asks a question. This was her
first introduction to Dora and it was a WINNER.

The only real criticism I could see, except mabey that my three year old will no longer watch anything else was the cheap parody of Wizard of OZ that never really feels completed. Plus "wizzles", you would think that after 10 years of cartoons you could come up with something more complete. But this is a kids movie.

My 4 year old is a HUGE Dora fan and loves this DVD, I think we have played it weekly since it arrived,

I received this order in good time for christmas. The product was properly wrapped and sercure. My step daughter was very happy to receive this for her birthday!

And Barney, and other cartoonish characters that make big bucks from kids products. But... my toddler is crazy about her, so I buy into the hype. This is a very entertaining video for kids though and engaging for those long plane flights or not so scenic car rides.

My kids were excited to here of Dora's B-day. When I got them the movie they were so excited!

Dora is one of my grand daughter's favorite characters. But this video is her most favorite. Very bright and entertaining with educational input too. She liked it so much that her Mother bought one also. Very good video.