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| Brand: LeapFrog
Category: Toy
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $79.97
You Save: $10.02 (11%)
New (26) Used (1) Collectible (1) from $69.99
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 427
Color: one color
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 10 years
Size: one size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 2.5 x 10.5 x 13
MPN: 30672
Model: 30672
UPC: 708431306721
EAN: 0708431306721
ASIN: B00134PLN8
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 18
 Leap frog Must fix the bugs before putting it on the market!! October 18, 2008
Dawn Boes (Mississippi USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have never been so frustrated with a product in my life. The product is a wonderful idea and my kids do love it. However, as a parent, I wanted to use the customization feature so I could help my children with their skills one step at a time. This feature is an impossible tool. Their website is disorganized as well as it just simply does not work. You get error after error with an apology. The apology is no good if they do not fix the problem. I really believe that this was a cheaply designed product. The connect feature is one of the main selling points and it leaves a lot to be desired. My recommendation is to wait a year before buying until they have sorted all of this out. It could potentially be a wonderful product.
 Good...in theory October 13, 2008
B. Brown (DC)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a good toy in theory. As a homeschooling mom, I was looking forward to an educational game that can track my children's learning. Unfortunately, ever since I purchased it, I have had to deal with bugs from the Leapfrog system. From something as simple as the fact that the program needed, Leapfrog Connect, would not install on my brand new computer. All I kept getting was that my computer did not meet system requirements. Leapfrog was no help. I finally discovered it was because my screen resolution was wrong according to Leapfrog Connect. Really. It runs just fine on my normal resolution but I had to go back and reset it to install. Ridiculous.
Second, the Leapfrog site kept bouncing back my registration and when it finally accepted it, it bounced back my login.
When I finally got on, I linked everything. It was great. Then the next time I logged on, everything was gone. So I created another "footprint". The third time I logged on, it was all back...now I have duplicate footprints and no way to delete them. Today I logged on and the footprints are there, but the links to the games are gone.
Leapfrog answers my queries, normally there's no real solution though. I am just frustrated with all of these bugs for a children's product. I could put together an Ikea bedroom set faster than it has taken to deal with all these issues. Oh, and my son has earned learning points...and Leapfrog has yet to set up the reward system as advertised.
This has a potential to be a great product for keeping tabs on your child's learning while s/he has fun. It's the waiting for them to get the bugs fixed (which should have been done before the system went on the market) that brings this system down from great to ok. I feel like I have the children's version of Windows Vista in my hands.
 I like it but, hopefully I will love it. September 30, 2008
Happy Mom Mom (Missouri)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
We have this product about 2 weeks! I love what the demo says it will do. But so far the website has failed to be complete on having everything up and running like they said. I think they should of got that complete before they started marketing the product.
I like that it has nice graphics, batterylife is decent, but we own one extra game so far the Didji racing for spelling words. (this is the whole reason I bought this system, was to help with my childs weekly spelling test) after purchasing you can only use words the Leapfrog has available...so your childs words are not on the master list, you can't enter them.
Also after uploading some of the speeling words for 2 weeks, I've noticed that the words they are quizzed on are not the words I've chosen...so that made me irratated, after spending about 3 minutes searching for matching spelling words.
Also right now they don't have the extra features like earning more points to change backgrounds and sounds working yet.
My overall review is I like it...but I feel like the demo made it sound like it was to good to be true and feel like it is.
Think we will love it!! September 28, 2008
Mom (Michigan)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just got this for my son's 6th birthday. Did a lot of research with this and other handhelds. I felt we couldn't go wrong with Leapfrog. He has never had video games before and we wanted an educational one. I was really leaning towards the Leapster but he is 6 so I wanted to get something he could grow with. This will definitely keep him busy for a few years till he can pass it on and get something new. So far he loves, it. He's in kindergarten so we are learning how to use it together and I have to help him with the questions but with a little explanation he can answer them. I would have liked it to a little more straight out of the box ready, you have to do some downloading and I am not an overly techo person, but it is fairly easy. I am sure as we use it more we will get into all the other stuff it has to offer, personalizing it and so on. Overall for the price, it is fair. The graphics are impressive and screen is appealing. I would recommend the hard case for it. I also purchased rechargable batteries but my eventually go with the charger. I really hope the games expand and they consider adding some geography and so on. Actually the game that comes with it is pretty fun!!
Better than a gameboy - barely September 15, 2008
anon_2003 (usa)
65 out of 66 found this review helpful
I was happy to discover my 8YO son enjoyed his Didj as much as his gameboy. However, I would like to see more "education" in the educational games. The games are similiar to gameboy, nintendo, etc games, but there is a little bit of educational material stuffed in there. It is in no way comparable to the Leapster (other reviewers - if my son was only 5 - he would still be on the leapster as it is a much better toy). However, since he had mastered all of the games leapster had to offer, we moved on.
Where the leapster is constant education, the didj is 95% games and 5% education (if you call it that). The leapster teaches, the didj just tests your knowledge. The games play for several minutes and then to get to the next level, the child has to "break a code" (or something similiar) by correctly answering 3 multiple choice questions. If the child guesses correctly then he is awarded points. Not much education.
One nice thing about didj is that children earn points that they can redeem online for games or mods for their didj. Yes, there is shooting in some of the games, and some are violent, but I have not seen any blood yet. I think leapfrog could've done better.
If your child is younger than 8 or 9, give them a leapster and hope leapfrog decides to make some educational games for Didj before they outgrow the leapster games. Didj is more like a gameboy than a learning tool.
Syncing: I was unable to sync with my Vista laptop even after downloading their updated software, but syncing with an older XP laptop worked fine. I am hoping to get in touch with Leapfrog tech support but they are only open during the hours I work.
Battery Life: I purchased the recharger with the Didj and I noticed the Didj has to be recharged more often than the Leapster. I would hate to put batteries in this thing.
Hardware: The unit is sturdy, just right for 6-10 YO hands. The graphics are great, superior to many small game systems I've seen and much better than the leapster, but it is not a touch screen. My son seems happy with the given controls.
If this was sold as a toy, I would rate it higher because it is fun. As an "educational toy", this is a big disappointment.
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