FLY Fusion™ Journal

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• This software works only with the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, and is not compatible with FLY 1.0

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 5.7 x 8.6 inches ; 5.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NVVOA6
• Item model number: 40559
• Our recommended age: 8 - 14 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,253 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

This software works only with the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, and is not compatible with FLY 1.0. Have a bad case of writer's block? Unleash your creativity with our interactive muse. FLY Fusion Journal gets your creative juices flowing with more than 350 thought-provoking questions and idea starters. All of your thoughts and ideas can be digitally encoded for privacy and uploaded to your PC, where you can e-mail them, blog them or just store them for safe keeping.

Product Description

Have a bad case of writer's block? Unleash your creativity with this interactive muse. FLY Fusion Journal gets your creative juices flowing with more than 350 though-provoking questions and idea starters. All of your thoughts and ideas can be digitally encoded for privacy and uploaded to your PC, where you can email them, blog them or just store them for safe keeping. Includes FLY Fusion Journal Installation CD, 111 Interactive journal pages, 400 thought starters, secret code marker, installation guide. This software works only with the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer and is not compatible with FLY 1.0.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than the original! Pretty journal and nice software., December 28, 2007

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DaMeg1331 "Meg" (Frankfort, KY USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FLY Fusion™ Journal (Toy)

Seeing as I wrote a review for the original Fly journal I wanted to do one for the new Fly Fusion journal. I was extremely pleased to discover that the new journal is a much better product than the old.

The journal itself is very nice, the sort you would expect to find in a bookstore in the nice blank notebooks section. It is hardcover with an elastic strap to hold it closed when you aren't using it. The entire thing is filled with interactive Fly paper so you can write in your journal and then upload to your computer (a HUGE improvement over the original with just that) in changing colors. The cover is blue and green with red metallic birds. Built into the journal is a sheet with categories for writing prompts that you can tap. There is a wide variety of these with some good ideas if you're into those. Obviously they are geared more toward a younger audience, but would be an excellent educational tool for writing and journal-keeping for kids. The ability to encode your writing using the Fly pen is also back and works nicely.

The journal is still geared towards girls but this new one is /much/ less overpoweringly girl-oriented compared to the first. Almost all of the writing prompts work for boys now too: Money, Friends, Music, Books, etc. The possible exceptions are Love Struck and Crush being more stereotypically girl-journal specific. The prompts are much more interactive now, sometimes asking yes and no questions before getting to the final question to write about.

I am an adult with a Fly pen and find this journal much more convenient for carrying around than one of the large notebooks of Fly paper. Leapfrog even sells replacement journals so you don't have to buy the software again to get another. It is also the sort of journal I would have purchased if I saw it in a store, Fly pen related or not. Congrats to Leapfrog for improving this product so much!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Could not get it to work ..., May 20, 2008

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J. Hall (El cajon, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FLY Fusion™ Journal (Toy)

I bought the Journal along with the pen and an extra notebook. The Journal software won't load on my pen. I tried taking other applications on and off the pen, and that was easy. I did not get the memory expansion module.

Anyways, I cannot use this software on my pen, and so it is useless.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Adult Fly User, February 8, 2008

By 

Deborah A. Reid "idea butterfly" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FLY Fusion™ Journal (Toy)

I too am an adult user of the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer. This Journal is a terrific tool! Compact and not as cumbersome as the notebooks which are more appropriate for school or work note-taking. I have no problems carrying around this lovely journal.

Points to note: If you want to write cursive and have it translated into text, you need to make SURE your lower loops from a line above do not intersect with the upper loops from a line below! This tends to make nonsense when translating to text. Also my smiley face became "Qvoogoegoaooodofloj" which is probably a good name for the face I drew. :)

Great hints for writers block too! This journal is a must have for Journal writers and users of the Fly Fusion Pentop Computer!

-Debbi