Customer Reviews

Shelcore Sound Beginnings Groove 'N Go Music Maker

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

 

 

I purchased two of these as gifts for children in the family. The box says you can make up to 125 different songs. Maybe it should read 10 different sounds. The toy seems to have a mind all its own. It makes noise rather your playing with it or not and it makes the same music over and over. We've tried rotating the rings, removing a ring and pressing on the head, all which the directions say will give you different results. No matter what it does the same thing over and over. I ordered other toys made by Shelcore and I would say about 3/4 of the toys I ordered made by this same manufacturer do not work.

This is a colorful stacking toy with a friendly stuffed "face" but not much more than that.
It does play music, but as another reviewer mentioned it seems to play the same few songs over and over on its own schedule. It also does not dance or move along to its songs as the text on box seems to claim it will.
I have this toy out for use by a group of 8 children and it hasn't held anyone's interest longer than a few minutes. It's headed for the Goodwill, unfortunately.

I just purchased this product at Toys R Us on sale about 33% off. When I got home, before I opened the box, I read the reviews. To the person who could not get her toy to move & dance around: like most electronic toys these days, this toy is loaded with cheap, limited-power heavy duty batteries. To get the full effect of the toy, change the batteries to quality, fresh alkaline batteries. After I changed the batteries in my toy, it THEN would dance around when I pressed the "sound beginnings" button. To the person who says this toy does not have an off button, it DOES: the selector switch has three settings, display mode (for in the store), the off mode (push the selector switch to the center), and the regular play mode. I think toy is adorable, and well worth the money I paid. I do think the concept (selecting different sounds/tunes to create different songs) is beyond my 14-month old, and maybe even beyond the comprehension of an 18-month old. But I can compose the "songs" for her, and she loves listening to them and watching the toy dance and spin around. I'll bet before long she will discover the button that gets the action going! Also, because of the nature of the toy, I think it will older kids, also; maybe even up to 4-5 years old. I think this was a good purchase, and I may go back & get some more for gifts while it is on sale!

I got this toy for my 18 month granddaughter. It is much bigger than I thought it would be and so much fun! The sounds are different from most toys - human sounds rather than computer generated. So much fun that even my 16 year old daughter loved it! With each turn of one of the rings you get a different type of sound (boing, or a child laughing etc.)You combine those to make music and fun. I am VERY happy with this toy.

This toy was very reasonably priced. So I tought you might just get what you pay for. But to my surprise. This toy offered way more than I anticipated. The circles actually come off. They spin, light up,dance,and it moves, sings, and talks. It was a great purchase. Our 6mo old loves it.

Overall, this is a fun toy. My two year old and seven month old both enjoy it. It moves around and makes a bunch of noises and such. A previous customer wrote that they were disappointed because it doesn't make different combinations of music as billed in it's description. They are right, it doesn't. It will just make the same noises over and over again. Which is why it didn't get 5 stars from me. But it's still a fun toy anyway.

If you buy this toy, find it somewhere else. Mine came from Toy Town and never worked. I changed the batteries and then changed them again and it still didn't work. The box had been open and it's my opinion that they sent me a bad one to start with. I called and I e-mailed them over and over everyday since Christmas and I still haven't gotten a response. Finally after much arguing Amazon said they would credit my account. I now notice that Toy Town is selling the same toy for 10 dollars more. Guess I was the unlucky person to get scammed by them sending me one that never worked. Beware. As far as it working? I have no idea since mine never did.

I was really surprised that this was packaged in the "on" position. By the time the gift made it from my house to the intended recipient, I was dying to get rid of it! It is extremely sensitive, so it makes noise all the time. A parent's nightmare! The child did like it, which is what really matters I guess. I would recommend this a pay-back gift to the child of the wonderful aunt that gave your child a drum!

This toy has scared the crap out of every kid it comes into contact with! Its ok at first, but it starts moving around, and its kinda scary. I bought it for my 2 year old a few Christmases ago, and cant find anyone to give it to because no one likes it! LOL

This thing is pretty funny.

Pros-
-entertaining for children-DD got this when she was almost 2, still plays with it occasionally a year later. Niece (18 months) thinks it's hilarious and loves it when she visits.
-good for stacking
-works with all of the pieces or none on it

Cons-
-little loud, no volume adjust (if you don't like loud toys with vaguely annoying sounds--i would NOT get this one)
-goes off easily if bumped (it was going off as I wrapped the thing for christmas!!) and it plays for a little while (enough that you're cringing if you've got a sleeping child)
-Not sure about the rhythms, etc...supposedly it's educational--you can change the sounds by turning the rings...but DD has never really 'got' that and doesn't really play with it that way.