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ELC Pocket Microscope

Description: Brand: ELC / Type: Science / Can also be used as a torch with ability to angle light, viewer and focus, also has a ... more

ELC Pocket Microscope ... specimen storage compartment and an actual specimen slide.

Newest Review: ... son had his 5th birthday, and he received a gift from someone of a £5 voucher from ELC. Finding very little in the store that ... more

... captured either our or my son's imagination (a lot of the products seem to be aimed at the more gullible baby & toddler market - I say more gullible because "newbie" parents often start off with a more romantic view of parenthood and are initially attracted by ELC's 'caring' image), we at last settled on a small plastic "microscope" offering up to 100X magnification, which was conveniently exactly £5 in price. This product proved to be a frustrating waste of time, of dubious educa...more

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ELC Pocket Microscope: "Microscope" a waste of time (435 words)
by - written on 21/08/00 (Very useful, 351 readings)
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I am no fan of Early Learning Centre, a chain of stores which masquerades as some kind of socially-concerned, caring provider of 'educational' toys (no guns or Pokemon etc. to be found within). I can only comment on a few products but so far my experiences have not been good. To begin with my son received a present from his grandmother of a kind of megaphone/voice changer. This was ok in principle. Unfortunately it didn't work. The dud toy was returned to the store, and there followed some quibbling and a suggestion that it had been broken as a result of rough use. Grudgingly ELC eventually accepted that it was faulty and exchanged it for a new ... Read the complete review

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