Customer Reviews

There Goes an Airplane [VHS]

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My son is just 3 years old and he is far away from becoming a professional of the wide blue yonder, or anything else.
Like many kids of his age, he looks up frequently to the sky and points "look at that plane!", as if he had a factory-installed radar, and at the table he announces that a spoon is about to land, so the noodles will be met at gate 4.
Like many kids of his age, he drags me along, to and across every airport and airfield he sees, and he loves to watch the planes come up, down and around.
So... I began to look for books, videos and other stuff to please him and, at the same time, if possible, recover for myself the power to decide when to go to the nearest airport.

Then I found there were:
1. Movies with planes. He may laugh out loud with Rocky and Bullwinkle, which is imaginative enough for a kid, but sure I will not let him watch Pearl Harbor for a while. Oh, yes. He once had chosen Pearl Harbor at a video store.
2. He's had enough with Barney and the Little Airplane, Bear in the Big Blue Jumbo and Teletubbies Go Flying. He says he's ready for something more extreme.
3. Discovery videos about planes. They are fun and instructive, but you cannot imagine the reaction of the relatives when a 3 year old starts repeating "the force which makes helicopters try to rotate in opposite direction to their rotors is called 'torque'" (toddler pronunciation, please).
4. Videos for pilots. Expensive and much too difficult to translate from 'plane English'.

Then I found this one, fun, instructive, easy, realistic and yet imaginative, containing all real live action he demands, showing from the backstage many real planes just like the ones he sees at the airport.
Now I have decided to buy the entire collection, including fire trucks, garbage trucks, police cars, trains, boats, spaceships and that bunch of big funny noisy machines I don't have in my backyard to show him.

This video is excellent --his words, not mine.

Reading the existing reviews, I thought I'd add my 2 cents. My son (2 1/2 years old) *loves* this video. His other 'There Goes a...' favorites are: Train, Fire Truck, and Bulldozer. As to the age-appropriateness, I think it really depends on the dispostion of your child. And as to the 'buffoon' issue, yes, Dave's a little goofy at times but he always points out safety issues to counter that and the entire series is extremely informative in general. And I'd much rather watch any of this series, *with* the slap-stick than something like Barney or mindless cartoons. We try to limit tv so our son watches these and Sesame Street and that's about it.

My kids love this video and watch it over and over again. It's extremely educational, starting with a brief history of the Wright Brothers' first airplane and moving all the way to present-day jet-liners. The narrator, Dave, is funny and talks right to kids ... not at them. I enjoy watching it myself. I couldn't recommend this video more highly.

Dave Hood's series "There Goes a .... " are informative and entertaining. Personally I think this is the weakest of the ones we've seen, but our three-year old loves it. I think too much time is wasted on trivia and it's painful to watch the airline attendant tell us how she greets passengers and shows us where the stirring sticks are located, but try to tell that to your kid! Pilot Dave rides in a stunt plane, a passenger jet, an aircraft carrier and a jumbo UPS carrier, among others, and lots of fun is had by all.

We were given this video as well as There goes A Train. We do NOT allow our 2 1/2 yr old boy watch TV, only a limited number of videos. We LOVE this series and am ordering many more. Not only is our child entertained by the videos, but he is also learning about planes/trains. We do not let our son watch ANY video unsupervised and we find these videos "not bad" for adults also - I learned things I didn't know about trains & planes and I'm 40! We also do not approve of cartoons and find this a great series. Our son loves these videos and asks for them by name!

MY 2 YEAR OLD SON LOVES THIS VIDEO.IT IS EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE,IT SHOWS KIDS,PASSENGER PLANES,FIGHTER JETS,THE BIGGEST AIRPLANE!MY SON WANTS TO WATCH IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER....

This is one of the best of this "there goes a" series. (See also Spaceship and Boat). Good ol' Captain Dave is fun for kids to watch and admire, and he really teaches about the various vehicles. Luckily he's pretty entertaining for adults, too-- funny, self-deprecating, with good writing. My 3 year old loves him!

We were given this as a gift. My son loves it so much that I am ordering all the others. What also makes it much better than Barney, Teletubbies, etc. is that his older siblings can watch it with him and not go brain dead. Pilot Dave is goofy, but little kids like that. I highly recommend this video.

MY 2 YEAR OLD SON LOVES THE "THER GOES"VIDEOS AND THIS ONE IS NO EXCEPTION.IT KEEPS HIS INTEREST THE ENTIRE TIME.IT IS EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIVE,IT SHOWS THE KIDS ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT PLANES.OF COARSE MY SON LOVES THE CRAZINESS OF PILOT DAVE

My 20 month old son enjoys this video but not as much as the others in this series (There Goes a Truck and There Goes a Boat). Cute story, nice depiction of various types of aircraft though not as good as the other videos that Dave Hood has done. Good, clean, family entertainment. Unfortunately the video quality is fair due to the age of the tape (1994).