This racing car is a puzzle

Advantages: Great puzzle
Disadvantages: None

...The big red racing car has pulled into the pits while the crowd cheers the other cars on. Help the team get the car back in the race by piecing together this exciting scene. Includes talk about points for added play value. £8.50 http://www.orchardtoys.com/advancedsearchresult.php?categoriesid= 2&incsubcat=1&sort=2a&page=2. Are the boys and girls in your family mad about racing cars? Well Orchard toys have just the jigsaw for them. This jigsaw is suitable for those aged between 3 and 6 years old. But if you have an older person whose development is not above this age then this is a good puzzle for them as the picture is not especially childish. This puzzle has 45 pieces and measures62 by 42.5cm. This puzzle is made of a thick card it's brightly coloured. The puzzle pieces are quite large not small and fiddly. I it has...

mumsymary 30.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Orchard Toys Big Racing Car Puzzle

Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Advantages: Very robust and firm wheel. wireless
Disadvantages: MAY STRIKE SOME AS "CHEAP" LOOKING

...This wheel comes extremely well packaged and may take you a few mintues to actually get into it but atleast this lends assurance that it will transport well when it was shipped. The packages comes in 3 separate parts: >Wheel >Pedals >Table attachement WHEEL: The wheel itself is covered in a highly durable rubber covering making it very easy to keep a grip on it, which is an important feature if like me yours hands can sweat in the middle of an intense race. The wheel also has all the buttons you would find on a normal controller and they are all intuitively placed. The X,Y, A,B buttons are placed in easy reach of the thumb so when driving they are easy reachablt. The trigger buttons are also present as large levers placed directly behind the wheel so as you can easily use them but with enough room between them and the wheel...

James.Egginton 25.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Race Driver: GRID

Advantages: Graphics, sound, gameplay
Disadvantages: No split screen multi-player

...Race Driver: Grid captures the atmosphere of every race, from the starting grid to the finishing flag. It's spectacular graphics set it apart from the rest with realistic and licensed cars that make the game as thrilling as it is. When you first start the career mode you set in an American muscle car race in the streets of Detroit. Your aim obviously to win the race but, this is the first time that you see the extent of the graphics and realistic sound effects. After finishing this race you have to race for other teams so you can gain enough money to refurbish your Ford Mustang Boss to mint condition. Once you have done this you are able to create your own team,this allowing you to enter any race that you wish, which you have a car for, as you work your way through you gain enough moeny to buy different cars. After a few races in every...

ljelliott1993 19.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Race Driver: GRID (PS3)

Wouldn't finish a race let alone win a Grand Prix!

Advantages: Fun character toy
Disadvantages: Damages easily

...I try not to buy my children new toys too often, for a start we don't have the space but I also don't want them to become spoiled and simply expect new things, so I try and keep such purchases for special occasions or for rewards for very good behaviour and achievements. The Roary the Racing Car and Marsha die cast set was one such reward after a particularly good school report for Christopher at the end of the last school year, we always let him choose his own treats and were perfectly happy to buy him this set at the time, we would later feel differently. Roary the Racing Car is a popular children's television show featuring race cars including the young hero Roary, Marsha is the track marshal and the woman responsible for keeping it all running. The Roary & Marsha set is one of many similar die cast sets which feature other...

piggypine 14.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Vivid Imaginations Roary The Racing Car Die Cast Roary & Marsha

A very detailed GT racing car simulator

Advantages: Detailed setup for the cars, realistic physics, good car details
Disadvantages: Trackside graphics could be better, in game music is not brilliant

...GTR is probably one of the most realistic racing games that you can buy, because the physics engine used the testing data from the cars, provided by the FIA. There are three modes available to choose from when you load up the main menu. There is the arcade mode, semi-pro (a simulation where there are various assists available to help you) and simulation (where assists are reduced, and the physics are very realistic). = Arcade mode This option is for those who do not wish to spend time tweaking their car setup with the myriad of options available in the simulation modes. There are four levels, ranging from sunday driver (full assists, slowest AI, 3 laps, 3 AI cars, damage turned off) through to speed demon (no assists, fastest AI, 9 laps, 9AI cars, damage to full). When you have chosen the appropriate level of difficulty...

thingus 27.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of GTR - FIA GT Racing (PC)

Race Driver Grid

Advantages: Graphics, Wide Variety of Cars
Disadvantages: Lack of qualifying, No set up options

...This is by far in away the best racing game that i have played in a long time on any format. The graphics are spectacular, the secenery surrounding the tracks and the cars themselves are brilliant. There is a large selection of cars of many different types and quite a lot of tracks. I particularly like the ability to create your own team as part of the career mode, this lets you paint the car pretty much any colour you like and as you win more races pick sponsers to provide money. However this game is quite arcadeish with how it goes about things. There is no qualifying to decide the grid, you seem to start where ever it feels like putting you and there are no set up options for you to fiddle with and ruin the performance of your car. Having said this these negatives don't really take away from the experience of the game, i just felt...

empireofdoom 09.06.2009 · Read review
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a racing zebra??

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: n/a

...I watched this film one Sunday afternoon and I could not believe that I had not seen it before this was a great children's film and was very entertaining. Just when you think your eyes are deceiving you yes it really is, it's a Zebra and he is really cute. This film like all animal films has animals that can talk. The film begins when a travelling circus accidently leaves a zebra in Kentucky on a miserable stormy night. The zebra is later found by Nolan Walsh played by Bruce Greenwood, a horse trainer who's given up his job after a riding accident killed his wife, his daughter Channing played by Hayden Panettiere who wants to be a jockey like her mum when she grows up, although her dad has other ideas for her, she decides to name the zebra Stripes who is voiced by Frankie Muniz. Stripes then grows up and as he lives near race...

jo_field26 14.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Racing Stripes (DVD)

Sky High Roary - The racing Balloon?

Advantages: Very catchy, addictive and entertaining
Disadvantages: Not very good extras

...As my son (18 months) is rapidly becoming a Roary the Racing Car fan, I thought that we should be one of the first families to purchase this DVD. Managed to order it online from Amazon, along with another item and got both for less than the high street price and free delivery to boot. Anyway...the review - The DVD is based on the adventures of a little red racing car called Roary. He stays at the Silverhatch race track with his friends. Most episodes feature Roary and his four racing car friends (Maxi, CiCi, Drifter and Tin Top. There are also two human characters called Big Chris (voiced by Peter Kay) and Marsha (The race marshall). On the surface this DVD looks every bit as good as the first one in the series (Roary's First Day), but it has 7 episodes instead of 5. Although I still think that is a bit meager. Also...

bferg 26.03.2008 (24.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Roary The Racing Car - Roary Takes Off (DVD)

Racing stripes, Always follow your dreams.

Advantages: Lots of fun and entertainment.
Disadvantages: Can be predictable and farfetched.

...One thundery night a box is accidentally abandoned in the middle of the road by a traveling circus. Nolan Walsh is driving along this road and comes across the box and discovers a baby zebra inside. He decides to take the zebra home to his farm next door to a racing track. Nolans daughter Channing names him Stripes. As stripes is growing up he decides he is going to race at the local track, not knowing in fact he is not a race horse. Stripes sets about training for his dream using things such as the mail truck to race against as practice. On the farm he makes many friends such as Tucker, Franny and reggie. Tucker helps Stripes with his training as before Nolan retired from training race horses Tucker helped to coach some winning horses. Channing also has a dream to make herself big down at the race track but her father stands in her...

Lele76 06.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Racing Stripes (DVD)

The race is on

Advantages: Brilliant fun family film, would make a great Disney ride!
Disadvantages: Not a classic

...either but human form is more realistic than robot. He looked more like something out of Star Wars and I just felt this didn't fit with the general idea of aliens that the film carried. Race to Witch Mountain is a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain which has been modernised to create a much more exciting and adventurous film. With Disney's spark of magic, and lots of action and special effects, this makes a brilliantly fun movie which will be entertaining for the whole family to watch. As I was watching the film I could just imagine what a perfect name and ride this would make at the Disney parks so I'm hoping that it will spring up somewhere within the next few years! Running time: 98 minutes Certificate rating: PG Director: Andy Fickman...

frankiefromings13 19.08.2009 · Read review
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