Fisher Price Learning Sensation Play with Letters Desk

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• ASIN: B00005BUTA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,514 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Product Description

Product Description

When it comes to learning the ABCs... let the good times roll! This preschool desk features innovative technology that provides a fun and engaging way to learn the alphabet, phonics, spelling, and more. Just roll any letter tile to magically bring it to life. Teaches key prereading skills through the power of sight, sound, and touch. Fun sounds, music, and special textured letters add to the multisensory experience. Requires three AA alkaline batteries (not included).

Three Ways to Learn:

Teach--Introduces the alphabet (A to Z), corresponding phonics and words, plus fun sounds and colors.

Test--Quizzes preschoolers on letter identification, color recognition, and simple spelling.

Tickle--Plays fun music, and kids can create a musical "letter rap" by rolling any tile.

Additional Features:

• Writing surface with dry-erase marker encourages writing skills
• Textured letters and Braille for tactile learning
• Letter display area for spelling practice
• Spelling and picture reference card
• Storage area and carry handle
• Volume control and automatic shutoff

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

224 of 226 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great concept but dissapointing!, November 7, 2001

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MomOf3Girls (Alta Loma, CA United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher Price Learning Sensation Play with Letters Desk (Toy)

My 3 year old loves learning letters and phonics and trying to learn to read. She chose this toy at the toy store in reward for potty training. She couldn't wait to 'drag' those big block letters accross the board! I was so happy she chose something educational. We opened it and what a dissapointment! It is a GREAT CONCEPT! She loved dragging the letters accross the board to make sound (the name of the letter, phonics sound, and letter beginning with it) is said clearly when you drag a letter. The PROBLEM IS that it is just not refined enough. Literally a third of the time, the letters don't read. Even when your child drags the right letter it asks for, it sometimes will not read it giving them the feeling they got it wrong. It was very glad I was sitting there to tell her it was right and to keep trying. Sometimes she had to drag it again and again and it still wouldn't read and we would have to turn the thing off and on again and start with a new letter. I couldn't even get it to read 1/2 the time after she failed even after doing it perfectly as instructed in the manuel-which 3-year olds don't read so what good is touchiness like that in a toy! Total frustration within 10 minutes. The toy has an ON button that is not clearly marked, you just have to know that is the right one. The other 3 buttons for modes of play are confusing. You press the note button for a 'song' about the letter. But it takes forever to play this little intro song and meanwhile, your kid has dragged several letters accross the thing trying to make it work. By the time the intro song is over, they are over with it too and pressing other buttons to get it to work which only confuses the machine more. The other two buttons are a button that makes it ask for certain letters and a quiz button. The questions are fine. My kid was very excited to answer as she knows alot of her letter already and yet 1/3 the time it didn't respond to her rolling the letters. Again, this is a great fun and educational concept but not refined enough. I truly would have rated it the tops for education if I was only rating it when it worked! But, I don't see how it can teach when it doesn't respond to your child's answers half the time. I am going to keep trying to convince my little girl that she should bring this poor working toy back to the store and pick another reward but you know how hard that is for kid's to understand. She wants to play with it so badly but is already walking away from it each time she trys. I am so glad I opened the package carefully! Skip this one and get the little letter desk that comes with a magnetic chalkboard, word cards with cut outs where the letters magnetically fit into, and magnetic letters. It is not electronic but great fun and still taken out every other day here after 6 months. It is by Fisher-Price as well and I think it is called the ABC something and it is much cheaper and self-correcting in that the correct magnetic letters only fit in the word cards! My girl loved being able to 'spell words' with this. Good luck.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I did not buy this due to neg reviews, however........., January 4, 2002

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher Price Learning Sensation Play with Letters Desk (Toy)

my son rec'd it as a gift, and it is an excellent product. First of all, it does work. It works perfectly as long as the batterys are fresh. The only time it did things like the previous reviewers described was when the batterys were low. My son played with it all the time for three months before it started saying the wrong letters. A quick change of the batterys and it worked wonderfully again. When my son rec'd this he was just starting to learn his letters. If I remember correctly, he knew AB and C. Now he knows the entire alphabet, and will say things like D,D is for drum. The only thing I would change about this is make it so that it says more than one word for the differant letters. The toy is excellent, and I would strongly reccomend it. I will even be purchasing this product for all of my nieces and nephews. Any toy that teaches a child something is excellent.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Letters don't read, November 28, 2001

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"liniweenie" (Kailua, HI United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher Price Learning Sensation Play with Letters Desk (Toy)

I love to purchase fun educational toys for my children and was excited to get this home for them. When each block is dragged across the desk it is supposed to "read" each block. The blocks should say the letter, the sound it makes and a word beginning with the letter. Unfortunately, the desk doesn't always read the letters and it often took several tries before it did. There are games that can be played too, but my children never got that far since they couldn't get it to respond properly. This would be a great toy if it worked as it is described by the manufacturer. Fisher-Price needs to improve this toy before I would recommend anyone to buy this. I think the LeapFrog Read and Write Phonics desk is a better purchase if you are looking for a toy that will help with letter recognition, phonics, writing, and spelling games.