Customer Reviews

Wheels on the Bus Board Game

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I encouraged a family member to pick this up for my son's birthday. He just turned 3 and is getting into "games" and after seeing the commercial so much, I figured this would be a good one to have. Well, I was wrong! The music is annoying because it just keeps playing and there's no way to stop it, unless you take the batteries out. The little figures it comes with are for nothing but show. The bus does not "roll around town" on it's own like the box and commercial say. You push it a few inches to the next person. You only have to get 4 tokens to win and the game is over immediately. My son got a kick out of the bus for about 10 minutes, but other than that, it's a waste of money. Also, if you are storing it in a toy box and the box turns over, all the pieces will fall out because the front of the box has the outline of the schoolbus and there is nothing there to protect the pieces inside. What a waste of energy this game was!

We have the bob the builder memory game which was 10 times more fun and much less money. Invest in something like that instead.

The game is for my two year old who simply loves pushing the bus around and singing the song..the problem is that the batteries only last for about 4 games..we have been thru 6 AA batteries (3 at a time) in less than four days..the idea of the game is very cute and entertaining for children as well as adults, but the battery problems make it a bummer..

This game is one of the worst toys I have ever bought. The bus itself is to blame. It plays the "wheels on the bus" song in a headache producing sound that I can't even explain EVERY TIME THE BUS IS MOVED!!! The main problem is that the mechanism that trips off the song when the bus is moved is so extremely sensitive, that a strong breeze will set if off. Even moving the box from one shelf to another will set it off if you're not careful to keep the box level (even if the ----- bus is on it's side in the box!) My daughter has even set it off while it's put away on the shelf by jumping up and down on her floor. It's unreal. Then, of course, once she hears it, she then has to drag it out and play with it because it has that kind of sound that kids love and parents can't stand. We have actually never gotten to play the game itself because the BUS WON'T SHUT UP. This would all be very simply solved if they would just put a VOLUME CONTROL on it, so it wasn't so piercing. An ON-OFF SWITCH would also help, especially when it's in the box. My daughter loves the bus itself, but as I said, I can't comment on the game. I would especially avoid this game as a Christmas morning gift, unless you want to spend Christmas Day listening to the Bus instead of Christmas Carols.

The game itself was a really good idea. My son loves it. As a matter of fact, the day I bought it, he didn't put it down. The one downside (and it's a big one) to the game is the fact that the school bus CAN NOT BE TURNED OFF!! The first set of batteries I put inside the bus died before the day was over. I'd only encourage you to buy this game if you own stock in one of the big battery companies.

Please save your sanity and money. I have a high tolerance for loud toys, repetitive sounds, etc., etc. BUT this game has tested my patience. The game is not fun for my daughter and thus offers no educational value. She does enjoy the bus and the music it plays over and over and over. We had to give this game away. There are so many other games that are more fun for your child and offer more family fun...most of which cost a fraction of the price of Wheels on the Bus. I suggest Hi-Ho-Cherry-O.

My 2 1/2 year old absolutely loves this game. It is teaching him memory and concentration skills, and it is also helping him to understand taking turns. I have read the negative comments about the music, and I can understand how it can get on the parent's nerves. It would be nice to have an off switch. But I try to just tune out the music and focus on playing with him - he just enjoys it so much that the music is only a mild nuisance to me. I only have one complaint, and that is that the bus stopped working properly after a month or so. It wouldn't play the music every time like it was supposed to. But I called Hasbro and they are sending a new bus, so all is well! Great game!

First the positive:
This game is very fun. It is somewhat educational in that you match color pieces for each player to their spots and must have some memory skills. It is cute and the music the bus plays is easy to understand and is not annoying. It is a great idea for a game.

Second the less than positive facts:
There really is no place to push the bus on the board very easily. We play it on the floor and push it around the board on the floor. Second, the little button on top is tempting to kids and thus we have listened to countless 'wheels on the bus' songs.

Overall:
If you look for games for your young child that are educational, this is probably a game to skip. However, if you look for toys and games that are fun and easy to play this is a good game. Even my two year old daughter was able to play this game with very little prompting.

There is another game similar to this but without the music called Penguin Pat. It is a bit more educational (counting and color matching.) We really like Penguin Pat at our house. If I had to pick one of the two, I'd pick Penguin Pat. You might consider looking at that game before buying this one. But Penguin Pat is a bit harder and my two year old has a harder time playing it.

I would most likely buy this game again and would probably buy it for other kids as a present. It is a cute game.

Enjoy.

This game was a waste of time. It made no sense and the musical bus just kept playing the wheels on the bus song over and over! If I hadn't received it as a gift, I would have returned it promptly!

The commercial for this game was very deceiving. looking at the commercial we thought the bus went on it's own. My 6 year old daughter became very frustrated because there wasn't enough room the move the bus on the board and she also wanted to know what the "little people" were supposed to do. She was trying to make the game seem fun for her little brother (3) but suddenly stopped in the middle of the game and said it didn't make sense to her. I felt the same way when I played. The objective to the game is not clear.

From the commercial, we thought that was going to be a fun game that was based on the song that my 2.5yr old daughter loved so much. I have to say that not even she enjoys playing it! All the game involves is pushing the bus from player to player, while playing a "memory type" matching game. Get Memory instead, serves the same purpose but a lot more fun and no ANNOYING music! The only reedeming quality of this game for us was that my 9 month old enjoyed zooming the bus around on the carpet.

As for the batteries issue, we are still on the first set of batteries 4 months later, but I think we have only played it about 4 times total.