Mega Bloks Smart Build Piano

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Product Features

• Kid-friendly keyboard with big, soft and colorful smart builders blocks
• Hundreds of playing possibilities translating into hours of fun
• Playback button for hands-free musical enjoyment and dancing
• Instructions for one song are included with more available online
• Research shows a direct correlation between playing an instrument and academic achievement, specifically enhancing creativity, concentration, coordination and patience

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18 x 5.2 x 12 inches ; 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00169LXC8
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 00513U
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 months - 10 years
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,793 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)

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• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
Research shows that kids benefit greatly from early exposure to music, and music education experts advocate incorporating music into children's lives as soon as possible. With the MegaBlocks Smart Builder Piano, your little one can get hands-on with music from a very early age. Children can play the keyboard and experiment with making their own sounds, or they can connect the music blocks to the keyboard to create different musical arrangements. With its many creative functions, this toy provides many levels of fun that grow with children ages 1 through 4.

Children will love creating their own sounds and music. View larger.

Color-coded keys makes learning new songs easy. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Musical toy gives kids a fun, hands-on introduction to making music. The Bad: Could be a bit more durable. In a Nutshell: Innovative music toy gives kids tools to learn about music and freedom to experiment with sound. At a Glance Ages: 3 to 6 years Requires: 3 AA batteries (included)

"Smart Builder" Blocks Create Music Fun and Learning
The Smart Builder Piano features a piano-style keyboard with eight oversized keys that are perfect for little hands. It comes with seven "Smart Builder" blocks: three song blocks, three instrument blocks, and one "beat" block. These blocks can be stacked on the keyboard's three prongs.

Without the Smart Builder blocks, the keyboard plays with a piano sound. But if you connect the xylophone or electric guitar block, the keyboard will generate those instrument sounds. Stack on a song block -- "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Old McDonald," or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" -- and the keyboard will play that song. Press the "play" button to hear the song in its entirety, or your child can play the song herself on the keyboard. The piano will play the song regardless of which keys are pressed, which makes it exciting and easy for your child to experiment with the song's rhythm and tempo. With the "beat" block, a fun percussion beat is added to the arrangement.

Over 100 Different Configurations
We especially like how the toy lends itself to fun experimentation, with the ability to create over 100 musical arrangements by stacking the Smart Builder blocks in different configurations. Kids can experiment with stacking up a song and two musical instruments; two songs and all the instruments; or even put all of the Smart Builder blocks together to hear what happens.

We also like that kids have the option of creating their very own music. Our two-year-old tester naturally started playing the keyboard and was delighted with making her own sounds. The only problem was that some keys on our test keyboard were prone to sticking, which made it a bit difficult, though by no means impossible, for her to play with complete ease.

The Smart Builder Piano also gives older kids a fun introduction to "reading" music. The instructions include the sheet music for one song, which is written in color-coded notes to correspond with the keyboard keys. The keyboard is also compatible with MegaBlocks toys. Your child can incorporate the keyboard into her MegaBlocks building, or she can play with the keyboard on its own. We really like the sheet music and color-coded keys, but we wish that more sheet music was available. If it's available online, we couldn't find it.

The Smart Builder Piano requires no adult assembly. It comes with 4 AA batteries, but you'll get better functionality if you install fresh ones before play.


Product Description
Strike up the band with buildable blocks to create a real working piano for tots. Kids use chunky Mega Bloks pieces to put together a keyboard that features songs and lights. There are six song blocks, four beat blocks and?four?instrument blocks. Measures approximately 12".

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fun and educational, November 11, 2008

By	JD (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This toy combines all the fun parts about being a kid - building, making music, knocking it down and starting over again! It is great for creativity and also motor skills. My neice likes to change the instruments to create different sounds. Overall this is a lot of toy for the price and the as an added bonus it works with the other blocks she already has from mega.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mega Bloks makes Good Use of Time, January 12, 2009

By	J. J. Virginia "TwoDogs" (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Purchased this as a Chritmas gift for our 6 month old daughter. She is a little young yet to get the full benefits from it but we play together and it is great fun.

The toy has two volume levels and both settings are parent friendly. The piano has an auto play mode or your child can beat on the keys and make their own music.

There are three nursery songs the piano will play, each song is its own blok (Mary had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle....Old McDonald). There are also three intruments that are linked to bloks (guitar, drums, xylophone) as well as a laughing blok that when plugged in makes all kinds of silly sounds our daughter gets a real kick out of.

The idea behind this piano is you take any of the bloks and plug them in on one of three posts on the top of the piano. The piano recognizes which bloks are plugged in and plays the songs or instruments or both. If you want to hear Mary had a Little Lamb with drums and guitar in the background plug in these three bloks and away you go. I can see this being educational as it allows for many different combinations of songs and instruments so I expect our child will experiment when she gets a little older as we do with her today.

The toy is durable and it has good battery life and is easy to clean. The bloks are big enough for little hands and the keyboard is colorful and easy to play. The only change I would like to see is the depth of the piano is not that great and it will tip over when an excited child with limited control of their limbs gets really pounding on the thing. In all though the weight balance if very good except when the bloks are struck instead of the keys!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Was disappointed, January 13, 2009

By	Stacy S. Miller "Cole's Cool Mom" (Saltillo, MS USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

I thought this would be a good toy for my 17 month-old little boy...he has some Mega Bloks at home he plays with and this seemed like a good addition. But it has some issues...for starters, you can't leave it "on" so that he can touch it and it will play. The whole time it's on, it makes a sound periodically. So, you have to leave it off and turn it on whenever he's around. Second, it has 3 different blocks that are supposed to play 3 different songs, but it will play 2 of them at the same time, even though you only have one song block on it. I've yet to really figure it out. I'd check out the different little musical pianos first before selecting this one.