A plastic snake

Advantages: cheap ,fun
Disadvantages: it breaks easily

...Plastic jointed snake. I was lured into the gift shop at the natural history museum in Tring by my grandchildren. I did not want to spend much money so the children were directed to the cheap toys and my granddaughter aged 3 choose a jointed snake. * cost. Availability. This jointed snake coast me 50p I think . It is available from other novelty shops and on line at http://www.tobar.co.uk Probably at Hawkins sport too. *Well for 50p you don?t expect much do you and we didn?t get much either. What we did get was an orange red jointed hard plastic snake. There were black eyes and on each of 6 of the body segments there is a black, yellow and white circles looks a bit like a target .As well as these 6 jointed segments there is the head and a tail segment too. These segments are all joined together by a couple of pegs this...

mumsymary 03.09.2009 · Read review
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Snakes and Ladders

Advantages: educational, fun for children, available at reasonable prices, easy to play
Disadvantages: not so fun for adults!

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snakes and Ladders ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snakes and ladders is a very simple board game that has been around for years. The aim of the game is to get to the 'end' first. The game is based on the roll of a dice and therefore is purely down to luck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How To Play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The board consists of rows of 10X10 numbered squares. There are pictures of snakes and pictures of ladders which connect one square to another. The players take turns in throwing the dice and move their counter along the number of squares that the dice states. If a player lands on a square where the bottom of a ladder starts, they get to move up to the square where the top of the ladder ends. If they land on the head of a snake then they have to go down the snake to the square where its...

ilusvm 07.09.2005 · Read review
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Play Wabbits & Windows? Nah! Snakes & Ladders!..

Advantages: A good kids game.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...Snakes and Ladders! An old game played by kids, A good classic game. You all know the rules, you have all played the game, so why are you even reading this review? Good question, yes, but the other question is, Why am I writing it? The answer is this:-. I start with the fact that the game is easy, so easy in fact that you don't even need instructions, you could get people who have never seen a board game before, to play around and have a good time. Age is immaterial, so is gender. This is a small game to stow away, so you won't have to throw it away to create more space, In the old games, the board folded in half, but nowadays the new ones actually fold in quarters, so the box is very small. It is one of those games that actually bring a family together, rather than causing kids to argue. This is I think the main reason...

smudgeybabes 10.01.2009 · Read review
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Snakes on a plane????!!!!

Advantages: Funny, fast paced
Disadvantages: Bit daft in places

...Samuel L Jackson stars in this all action film about well obviously some snakes on a plane! But there is a bit more to it than that! Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) witnesses a murder by big time mobster Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) in Hawaii. He is spotted and Kim comes after him. Samuel L Jackson is FBI agent Neville Flynn who has the job of getting Sean from Hawaii to LA in order to testify against the mobster and put him away. Reluctantly and fearing for his life Sean agrees to this. The FBI think of all possible scenarios of Eddie getting to the witness, but they didn't think of this one. The mobster arranges for numerous deadly snakes to be loaded on to the plane and then sprays pheromones onto the lays which each passenger will be wearing. (The flowers you wear around your neck in Hawaii). The pheromones cause the snakes to be...

kirkytracy 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Snakes On A Plane (DVD)

Snakes on a Plane Film Review

Advantages: Erm...
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything.

...David R. Ellis' Snakes On A Plane is a high-concept film that deliberately attempts to parody the guilty-pleasure, cheese-fest cult classics that many of us love. In other words, the movie-makers have deliberately created a horrible movie. (Yes, it's true, Hollywood really has run out of ideas.) The title sums up the plot, with Samuel L. Jackson playing his usual willing-to-expect-any-role-offered-to-him self at the forefront. For every random kill from a snake, the ex-Shaft actor spits some hard-edged philosophy that is supposed to motivate the people to come together and overhaul the venomous creatures on board the aircraft ("I've had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane"). It's a horror/comedy with some uninspiring acting, plenty of cursing, and some horrible CGI effects. Now, for a man that enjoys the good...

andycarrington 09.09.2009 · Read review
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Up and down the ladders and snakes

Advantages: Educational, fun
Disadvantages: can be boring if you are grown up

...Snakes and ladders, Played this game at school today so though I would write an opp. I seem to remember my grandmother having a set for us children to play when we visited Snakes and ladders. The game of snakes and ladders is a simple board game with counters and a dice. The board has numbered squares ladders are drawn on leading from a numbered square to a square of a higher number. It also has snakes leading from a high numbered square down to one of a lower number. The game is be played by two or more people as a race to see who can get to the top/end first to win. Each person takes a turn to throw the dice and then moves a counter the number of squares on the dice and if they land on a ladder they go up or if landing on a snake the counter goes down. Some people play it so that if you throw a six you can throw...

mumsymary 19.09.2003 · Read review
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The snakes are the real stars..??

Advantages: Good start.... and a few comical bits
Disadvantages: everything after the start really

...the tree finished his little chat with his oriental friend and someone took a few shots at the witness the only other action for quite some time was when the stewardess threw a tantrum when her passenger list went up the wall due to the FBI commandeering the first class?although there were a few half decent comical moments involving a fictional rap artist who has an aversion to dirty things, a dog in a handbag who takes a liking to the rap man and a rather camp sounding air steward who actually surprises everyone at the end..? But as for the alleged action I was waiting for, well, I had to wait another hour and a bit before I began to get back into the movie? it was basically seventy odd minutes of pure padding, consisting of some dodgy rubber looking snakes, who seemed to see everything in an illumines green colour, being released from...

blissman70 18.01.2009 · Read review
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Down the snakes, up the ladders.

Advantages: Fun to kill some time.
Disadvantages: See review

...Snakes & Ladders is a simple game which children enjoy to play anywhere, anytime. HOW TO PLAY You begin at the "Start" square, and roll the dice and move your counter that many spaces. The first one to get to the "End" sqaure, is the winner. It's not all simple, because if you land on a snake, you have to go down to the square where the snake trail ends. But, if you're lucky, and land on the bottom of a ladder, you go up to the square where the top of the ladder ends. Simple! TYPE OF GAME It's all luck. You roll a dice and move. It's THAT type of game! LENGTH OF AVERAGE GAME I'd say the average game takes about 10-15 minutes. It's fun to kill some time! MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PLAYERS None really, but I'd say 4 players, with a minimum of 2. HOW COMPLICATED IS THE GAME TO SET UP It's very easy to set up, you just...

AlexanderBanks 24.01.2009 · Read review
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Playing indoors at Snakes and ladders in Dunstable

Advantages: A place for kids to let of steam
Disadvantages: junk food

...I was visiting my daughter in the holidays and decided to take the children to Snakes and Ladders an indoor play centre in Dunstable. This is situated about on the outskirts of Dunstable on Blackburn road Houghton Regis, Dunstable. This is a small industrial estate. There is a soft play area at the Dunstable leisure centre, I have frequented there more often but my grandson is getting too big for there and the Snakes and ladders centre more challenging / suitable for him There is some parking here but I caught the bus in the centre of Dunstable with the 2 children and got off in the street next to Blackburn road. Just inside the Entrance is the admission desk price is £4.90 for under 2's over 2 but under 5 £5.90 over 5's £6.90 There is a limit on height for admission which is 4 foot 8in. Accompanying over 10's and adults £1...

mumsymary 07.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Snakes and Ladders, Dunstable

How Snakes and ladders was invented perhaps

Advantages: Helps children to learn to count
Disadvantages: No skill involved so lacks long lasting appeal

...to traverse upwards to the next level. The next level is exactly the same, but the direction he can move is reversed. Every so often Horrison notices a couple of trees with interlinking branches – they almost look like ladders – whipping out his wicked whip he is often able to climb up these trees and thus move up several levels in one go. As Horrison contemplates his progress he suddenly stumbles across a horrifying thing. Horrison, as you are all aware, has a mortal fear of snakes. Imagine his surprise and fear when he spies a gigantic snake, just as big as the tree ladders. As he attempts to sneak around the snake, the snake looks at him and gives him a look that says “You’ve got to be joking Horrison” – before you can say “arrrggggghhhhhh” the snake knocks Horrison onto his tale...

Simoncook1 19.07.2002 (24.07.2002) · Read review
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