Barbie B-Creative Education Center

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 12.8 x 16.1 inches ; 4.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000095S6D
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,406 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

Product Description

Read and sing with Barbie, and have fun creating your own stories, art and music. The Barbie B-Creative Education Center is an innovative, interactive learning center that brings Barbie to life - simply plug it right into your TV. Designed to make learning fun, the engaging activities help teach your child ABCs, shapes, counting, reading, language and math. Measures approximately 12.5" x 6" x 16". Requires 4 "C" alkaline batteries (not included).

Customer Reviews

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No extra books/cartridges, August 7, 2004

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motyra - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Barbie B-Creative Education Center (Toy)

I purchased this "laptop" for my daughter and she really enjoyed it. I say enjoyed as while she played the socks off of it at first, she only plays with it occasionally now, typical kid.

We did have some problems technically getting it to work on TV, but once we had it working, it was kind of cool. My daughter, 4, really had fun with it. There are no cartridges needed to hook it up to TV, just use the cord it comes with. And you can play it without a TV but it is not as fun.

My only complaint would be there is no support offered for the product at the manufacturers web page. If anything, this lack of support has made me hesitant to purchase anything else made by Oregon Scientific. This is a simple clever toy they have created but they don't offer extra books, which I would be willing to purchase.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One Very Disappointed Little Girl!!, December 19, 2004

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Janet (Lascassas, TN, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie B-Creative Education Center (Toy)

My daughter received this for her 5th birthday. She was very excited waiting for us to get it hooked up to the TV. That was the last time I saw excitement (or even interest) in this toy. We were never able to get it to do anything but display a type of screensaver on the TV. As others have stated, the box mentions that it comes with a cartridge but the instructions say that the cartridge is not included. This was a HUGE disappointment not only for my daughter but for my Mother as well (she bought the game and even spent the money to ship it to us). Oregon Scientific doesn't offer any type of support nor do they even mention the game on their website.

My suggestion is to stay as far away from this game (and possibly this company) as you can. This toy could have had infinite possibilities but it's only been a frustration (and occasionally a hard surface to write on top of). We should have known to stick with Leap Frog products. In five years they've never failed us and they have excellent support and customer service.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Barbie EDucation Center, February 15, 2005

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Janet Donahue (ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie B-Creative Education Center (Toy)

This education center is nice, but Barbie products seem to be cheaper made than they used to be. Also, this item said nothing about needing a memory cartridge or a game cartridge to be able to connect this to your tv. We discovered another flap under the front of the package & only then did it tell you that you needed these items to connect to your t.v.