Customer Reviews

Once Upon a Time [VHS]

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This is one of the best. Keeps my 19 month old's attention. There's lots of songs and the stories are told in such a nice way. This along with 'sing and dance w/barney' 'Barney's big surprise, 'let's play school', 'Live in NYC', and Barney songs'-- seem to be the best in my 19 month old's opinion and my opinion. These are all well worth the money and are certainly NOT just 'typical' everyday barney TV episodes. I'd say that 'imagination island','sense-sational day' 'adventure bus' and 'alphabet zoo' ARE 'typical' 'everyday' barney episodes and are cute but, in my opinion, certainly are not as much 'well-worth' the money as the other ones I named above.

I'm 19 years old and bored by most Barney episodes but this one has to be the exception.

In case you haven't figured out already, the words "Once Upon a Time" prompt a visit from Stella the Storyteller. Her suitcase of props explodes and Barney, Baby Bop, Carlos, Kristen, Shawn, and Tosha help her repack it. While doing this, the costumed children and dinos act out (in this order): Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, and Goldielocks and the Three Bears.

Like all the Barney videos, this one has songs. My favorites are "The Spinning Wheel", "John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith", "Castles So High," and "Does Your Hair Hang Low". (This is the order the songs are sung in.)

I have watched this video several times, and it holds my interest till the end.

stela! the storyteler is on her bathrobe again orher vodeps are the same thing i love babby bop and stella the storyteler carlos tosha barney and the other group that i love the video i love the john jacub ginger haret smight his name is my name too it kind of scared naimi when the queen was crying she was runonh to mef ive never seen her get scared like that tryed it again she had no proublam being affraid this time the once upon a time i love with stella and barney on a jorney into story lamd to here a tail from long ago once upon a time once upon a time means a story to tell a fairy tall but with everybody everywhere omce upon a time means a story to tell a fairy tall when you here the words once upon a time

I think this is a good video. The children, Stella, Barney and Baby Bop were great, but one part needed some adjusting. I think the part that really need adjusting was when they told Rupunzel. I hated it when the witch got glue in her hair! Ugh! Try seeing if this is good for you!

My 21 month old son watches Barney all the time. We own dozens of tapes! Once Upon A Time is our most recent Barney purchase. Five minutes into tape, when Stella the Story teller came on... My son started shaking, crying and grabbing me. He was truly scared! He has seen Stella in many other videos and has never had a reaction like that! He usually enjoys her. I immediately took the tape out and later that day tried again. Same reaction, only stronger! I put in another Barney video featuring Stella the Story Teller (Time for Counting) and he had no problem... danced and laughed along like always. I must say, that I found nothing scary about the tape but since my son is a true Barney fan, I figure that something is not right. I will not show this tape again and do not recommend it to other parents.