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I Love Big Machines from TM Books & Video
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Product Description This is a TM I Love Big Machines DVD. An irresistible mix of big machines action, james Coffeys upbeat music and fun. Kids learn, laugh and want more. See giant bulldozers, excavators, cranes, graders, steam tractors and more big machines in action building highways, skyscrapers, pushing mountains of dirt and lifting steel girders. TM weaves teir magic once again to create a delightful show that both entertains and educates. Prepare to be amazed. It is 60 minutes long.
The Trainz SKU for this item is S11440454.
Manufacturer: TM
The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (M.S.R.P) for this item is $19.95.
Customer Reviews
My 2 year old loves it! Posted 14 July 2008
My son loves this DVD. He will sit and watch it all the way through (not many DVD's can do this!) I bought this before Christmas and by the time we opened it, we discovered "Part 1" did not work. And by the time I had time to return it, it was past the 3 month window from purchase. So if you buy it, be sure it works right away! We can only watch "Part 2"!
3 year old loves it Posted 23 February 2008
Real construction machines on job sites! What more does a vehicle loving 3 year old need. By far, the most requested video, even requested more than the Cars movie.
Great machines, but hard to watch Posted 09 December 2007
We got this for our 2 1/2 yr old son who is a big machine lover. Based on other reviews (for this product and others) we expected lots of great footage. I was quite disappointed, and so was our son.
The single DVD contains two tracks: "I Love Big Machines 1" and "I Love Big Machines 2". These aren't a series, and really have nothing to do with each other. They are very different quality productions. ILBM 1 is a series of disjointed images of machines, flashed up on the screen for 1-5 seconds. The images are shuffled so that there are hot air balloons, diggers, ducks, bulldozers, bridges, etc. in just random order. Completely baffling to me and my son. In the beginning and the ending, they flick through the images very rapidly, showing them only a split second each. I found this disturbing, and so did my son. I don't know why the producers of this DVD would want to encourage short-attention span viewing of something that can otherwise captivate a child. If there were negative stars for rating I would give this part of the DVD a -5.
I Love Big Machines 2 was completely different. It came on with some music and a coherent narration by a child. A variety of machines were introduced and nice footage was shown at a good pace -- fast enough to keep a child watching for the next bit, but long enough that they can see the dirt dumping out, or the gears turning, or whatever. The narrator tells us what the machine was called and what it does, while we watched footage of it working. I would rate this part of the DVD 4 stars... but...
The sound quality of the whole DVD is muffled and at times hard to understand. I might have raised my overall rating of this DVD to 3 stars if the sound were better.
Overall, this was not a bad purchase, but we prefer DVDs that have a more coherent string of thought. My son does not suffer from a short attention span, and can watch diggers and trucks for literally hours. (We live in an area where there is a lot of construction, so I'm referring to watching the real things, not just videos.) He loves the Dave Hood productions/ Real Wheels Travel Adventures (especially "There Goes a Bulldozer") as well as "All About Construction", and Totally Trucks "Dirt Monsters". I would recommend any and all of those DVDs above this one.
Good Video Posted 08 July 2007
Our only complaint is the quality of the DVD - it won't play on our DVD player but works on the computer..... Other than that - it is very much enjoyed by my three year old.
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