fun and frolics on the bus! (IQ Builders Playtime Bus)

Member Name: indigojade

Product:	IQ Builders Playtime Bus
Date:	15/02/01 (63 review reads)
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IQ builders learning bus

This fabulous toy has a multitude of uses as well as a great learning toy! The bus itself is bright yellow, and has pictures of the passengers and the driver on the side. In addition to this there are all the letters of the alphabet on the side in bright red plastic, and numbers from 1 to 10 in purple and green plastic, (don’t know who recommended the colour scheme!) The bus has black plastic wheels which actually do turn, and the whole construction is robust enough for my 2 year old to ride around on or stand on, especially when he wants something off the side! The bus also has a bumper on the back which doubles as a carrying handle. The 2 AA batteries are housed underneath the bus and are only reached by removing the screw in the cover plate with a screw driver.

On the top of the bus is a on/off switch and you are greeted with a little tune and the words ‘all aboard lets have some fun’. There is also the best function of all on the top of the bus, a VOLUME switch, it turns the sounds down a little, but good for saving sanity!.

There are four modes:

sounds of letters: In this mode when the letters are presses an English voice repeats the sounds of the letter, and the numbers that are presses are spoken. There are four shapes on top of the bus, these also have pictures of a horn, a key, the brake and a music symbol, when they are pressed in the sounds of letters mode they play engine, horn and brake or a tune.

shapes numbers and sounds mode: In this mode you are asked where a letter is, if you get it right a voice repeats the letter/number and plays a tune to tell you that is the right answer. If you get it wrong, it says ‘OOPS’ and repeats the question.

lets learn sounds and letters mode: In this mode you are taught the name and the sounds of the various letters, it is up to you to choice a letter. Press the letter ‘a’ and you hear ‘a
is the sounds, A is the name’. The numbers in this mode play a musical scale. The shapes on top of the bus when pressed say the name of shape, i.e., square, circle, triangle and star.

The last mode all about music,. when any of the buttons are pressed a short tune or sound is played, some of the sounds are a little strange and in fact I haven’t yet worked out what all of them are! Well there is time yet, we have only had it 2 years!

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