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LeapFrog® Leapster® Learning Game Thomas & Friends Calling All Engines! | 
| Brand: LeapFrog
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $24.98
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Seller: PLAY ON 2
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 760
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone
Age: 4 - 6 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 1.5 x 5.5 x 9
MPN: 030435
Model: 30435
UPC: 708431304352
EAN: 0708431304352
ASIN: B0008FUCY6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Help Thomas & Friends finish building the airport after a hurricane hits the Island of Sodor! | | • | Choose the correct letter to help Harold pick up barrels. | | • | Sir Topham Hatt needs your help to set his watch and keep the Engines on time. | | • | Follow the story, play games or build your own Thomas train track in the train depot. | | • | Teaches phonics, word building skills, counting, telling time and reading comprehension. |
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Product Description
Join Thomas and Friends on the Island of Sodor for fun learning games and an exciting interactive story. This Leapster Electronic Book teaches essential pre-kindergarten and kindergarten reading, story comprehension and math skills. Use with Leapster Learning System or L-Max (sold separately).
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| Customer Reviews:
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So Much Fun and Educational Too !! - a review of "Calling All Engines" January 23, 2006
Pam Tee
78 out of 78 found this review helpful
We just got this game and I have to say it's a hit with both the children and myself. (My children are boy and girl; almost 4 and almost 6).
One of the features I like is that there are places for three different people to sign in. Some of the other games have just one place and everyone else is "guest". Not terribly useful if you are trying to accumulate points.
With this Leapster Book you have five basic activities. The games have two levels. Level One is pretty much on the preschool level, while Level Two seems to be geered more for Kindergarteners. Level Two of the Making Tracks with Thomas game, for example, involves simple mathematical equations.
Story Options
There are two story options.
With the "Read with Me" option, the narrator reads the story with help from our Train friends.
With the "Read and Play" option the story does not progress without you clicking on either the forward or backward arrows. This version of the story lets you click on characters to see what they have to say, and there are also games interspersed to keep little ones from getting bored. (Valuable Blue tickets are hidden here.) You can also click on individual words and hear them pronounced.
***Games***
Harolds' Barrels
The storm has scattered drums and crates all over the harbor. Using the arrow pad (and the A-button when you are over the right crate) you. This game teaches listening skills, letter recognition and work building.
Cranky's Cargo
Cranky has to load cargo onto the right cars. The challenge here is to get the right cargo in the right hold. Number sequences, patterns and skip counting are taught here.
Making Tracks with Thomas
Tracing the track, you take Thomas to the correct location. Children do pre-writing practice (tracing the track) and learn numbers. On Level Two they will be using equations.
Pocket Watch
Your child can learn about clocks and time using Sir Topham Hatt's pocket watch.
Train Depot
Elsewhere you earn red and blue tickets. This is where you spend them, adding extra trains (you start out with Thomas), additional track (you begin with just a circular track), and special features such as a water tower, chocolate factory, etc.
Children learn/practice counting, and one supposes the value of money.
Five Stars. Graphics are typical of LMAX. The game features our favorite Steamies plus Harold and Sir Topham Hatt. Children have the opportunity to learn about time, money, numbers, patterns, and telling time. There are two levels of play.
Great Learning with Thomas September 6, 2005
Sandra Iniguez (New York)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
My son loves this game for Leapster. It has a great Cranky the Crane game that teaches patterns. It also has a Harold The Helicopter game that teaches to put together 3 letter words. And the best game is tracing the track using the pen. It has helped my 3 year old to write letters on his own because now he has the hang of using the pen and tracing. All the games give tickets that are used later to purchase all their favorite Thomas friends and tracks to build their own railroad. Plenty of fun and they do not even know they are learning definately worth the money.
great game November 6, 2006
mommy (boston,MA USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a great game.I bought this for my son and he is not even 3 yet. He knows all his letters and numbers, but he did not know the sounds of the letters.It's been 2 weeks since he got it and he already knows all the sounds, plus he can figure the basic math skills taught in this game.Great product.
All Aboard..... January 8, 2006
my3boyz (Highland, IL United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a really great game. My son loves to find all the hidden blue tickets within the story. He seems to prefer doing that over playing the games. The tracing the tracks game is a little hard for him because it seems a little touchy. We have about 8 leapster games total between my 3 and 5 year old sons. My 3 year old likes his Finding Nemo game the best but this comes in second!
Great learning tool especially for Thomas fans August 19, 2006
S. Steinberg (Pleasantville, NY United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I got this for my son's 4th birthday. He LOVES Thomas but is not too keen on learning a lot of his pre-reading skills. He needs help learning how to write/draw and although he recognizes all his letters, he doesn't know all of the letter sounds or really get the concept of combining those sounds. Other games and things I've tried have failed to get him interested. He will play all the games to earn tickets to make his train set more and more elaborate and leans along the way, BRILLIANT! There are several games. One that teaches letter sounds and sounding out words with Harold the helicopter, one that teaches pattern building with cranky the crane, and one that teaches fine motor skills involved in writing where you have to trace the tracks with a pen and also basic math because the child has to count dots to know where the train should go. It also has a feature where the child can read along with the Thomas story and even answer basic reading comprehension questions. The only downside to the game is that eventually, the child can collect everything available at the depot and then has nothing left to buy with the tickets. Still, a great game!
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