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List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $69.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: LeapFrog
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Manufacturer Maximum Age: 10
Amazon Minimum Age: 48
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Toy
Brand: LeapFrog
EAN: 0708431307070
Feature: The preschool gaming handheld that connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, an online experience that lets you see what your child is learning.
Label: LeapFrog
Manufacturer: LeapFrog
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 48
Model: 30707
Publisher: LeapFrog
Release Date: 2008-07-01
Studio: LeapFrog
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Features
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The preschool gaming handheld that connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, an online experience that lets you see what your child is learning.
Play and learn school skills on the go or connect online for extra activities and rewards.
Library of over 30 exciting learning games featuring characters kids love.
Included and additional games teach skills in a range of subjects, such as language arts, reading, mathematics and science.
Parents can connect online to the LeapFrog® Learning Path to see what their child is learning. Kids connect online for extra activities and rewards.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The LeapFrog Leapster 2 is such a bright, fun handheld, they won't believe it's educational! Children learn school skills from the animated games, interactive touch screen and stylus while playing with more than 30 games featuring characters they love. The games cover everything from language and reading skills to math and science concepts. And the Leapster 2 system offers many options for creative play. Leapster 2 is the only handheld preschool gaming system that connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, an online, interactive tool that allows you to see what your child is learning. Kids can also connect online for extra activities and rewards, while parents connect to get updates and see firsthand what their children are learning. With additional games featuring your children's favorite characters, there's no limit to their learning. This is simply the best way to entertain and educated your children so don't wait and pick up this up today.
Included and additional games teach a range of subjects:
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: SD card feature does not function
Comment: I purchased two Leapster2s from different stores and neither one could detect an SD card. They could not detect a new SD card nor a used one that I cleared. This negates what was a major selling point for me which is being able to download free games and for my daughters to be able to save artwork and such to the cards. I might as well have bought the regular Leapster and saved my money. I checked out the Amazon comments a little too late. Others have complained about the SD card feature with the Leapster2 and their are complaints about picture quality with the Leapster Lmax. When companies give you less than what you are paying for it is called a "RIP OFF". I used to expect more from Leap Frog. Boy do I wish Sony made a competing product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great educational toy
Comment: The leapster 2 is fantastic, great quality, my son has dropped it several times and nothing has happend to it. He loves the new games that came out to go with it and even the ones that are already on the system.
Its very educational too, he's learned to write all of the letters in he alphabet and do addition and subtraction. It really makes learning fun. Better than a game boy.
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Summary: Already in Storage
Comment: I bought this for my 4 year old son a week ago and so far we are really disappointed. I did a lot of research and chose the leapster 2 for my youngest son. I should let you know that my family is very electronic oriented. Both my children have been playing games for several years on the internet and both have had leapster type reading books as well as some simple hand held games. WE also own a Wii that both kids absolutely love. here is my rundown of the good and the bad:
the bad:
* upon turning on the device we are greeted with a Siezure warning. We have to sit through this every single time we open it up. Grrrrr.
* the preinstalled games are fun and exciting - for about 5 minutes. My son actually gave me the device to play with after he got bored with the games. This was upsetting since I really wanted him to enjoy the machine. The story line to the games are not very engaging and some games are too difficult technically. I actually played the rocket game and had a hard time trying to keep up - the idea of the game is similar to space invaders but the controls move so slowly that it is impossible to destroy the numbered rocks in a timely manner to go to the next number. Also, during play an announcement for the next number is hard to hear because of the blast in the background. I end up losing a spaceship because of this.
* I plugged the device into my computer to access the features online. Fortunately (not really) it was late and I had 30 minutes to spare for the two times my (very modern) computer locked up. The next day I tried to navigate the website to track my sons' progress and to download any rewards he may have won. Somebody shoot me now.... that experience was absolute torture. It's hard for me to believe that this company with all of it's wisdom could have such a poorly designed sight. I had a difficult time understanding what and where to go to make the thing work. I even looked up instructions on how to delete a player name from the device since our babysitter thought it would be a good idea to put her name in - the website instructed me on the consequences of deleting a name but never told me how to delete the name. Double grrrrr!
* For the pricetag it's disappointing to only get installed games which are not well designed. I am headed to the store to purchase another game cartridge and cross my fingers that the game is a little more engaging for the 30 extra bucks I'm going to spend.
* 4 AA batteries. I can see this being a problem on long trips. just have to make sure there are extra batteries around.
* Accessories - I have to buy more accessories to get comfortable with the device - a charging system is a separate purchase as well as a carrying case. Why couldn't that have come with the device already?
* The display - so far the display output is poor- the details and light strength are not very good quality and leave much to be desired. This is by far the most disappointing issue. The only person that can see the screen clearly is the player so it makes it difficult for me to help my son with some of the games.
* the Stylus pencil - I don't understand why the stylus is used to get into the game and then when you start playing the games you have to dock the stylus and use the controls. I can foresee the stylus as a potential problem as my son has already tried to carry the device with the stylus and lanyard.
* the price - I just feel that for the 70 bucks I paid that I should have gotten a lot more out of this. I think (with the 1 week experience that I have) that 40 dollars would have been fair - 50 dollars would have still had me unhappy.
The good:
* the device seems to be sturdily built. At least that's my assumption since it is quite bulky for my 4 year olds' tiny hands.
* So far there seems to be a good selection of games. But I have to admit my fear that the games may be bad and every new game will cost about 30 dollars each.
* I put a 2gb SD card in and so far not a single problem.
I have a feeling that this device will quickly phase itself out with the boring games and the sub par display. I don't see our family holding on to the device for more than 6 months because so far we are unimpressed. As a matter of fact my 4 year old son has already put the device in storage and I'm trying to salvage my purchase as you read this. I recommend you do more research before you purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beware of pre-installed games
Comment: The preinstalled games are "Dragons to the Rescue". The first game is just a digital art game -- simple but innocent. The second game is the reason we took it back. It is supposed to be a learning game where the Dragons collect crystals and answer questions to build words or numbers. But at the beginning there is a mean storm cloud that evily says, "I HATE the sun and all the pretty colors." He goes on to laugh wickedly. I'm sure this game is considered "tame" to many other computer games, but frankly, I was shocked knowing this was a Leapfrog product. I guess I assumed the pre-installed games would be Tad and Lily and Professor learning to spell or something like their videos. I called customer service to see if the games could be removed, but was told they can't be. My husband and I both thought it was inappropriate for our five year old daughter. We will be looking for something else.
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Summary: SD card woes on Leapster 2
Comment: I have created a fix for anyone to try. I am an IT hardware person and was fed up with waiting for leap frog to fix it so I tried to fix it myself. I have gotten great feedback from this fix so try it out. http://jdrwebnow.net/leapster2_fix.html Any questions or comments email me at jdrhunter@gmail.com
As for the device itself my four year old loves the games and I hear her repeating...reciting what she is getting out of it. I have on occasion turned it on and played the walle game. I do wish the batteries would last longer.
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