Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube  | 
 enlarge
| Brand: Munchkin
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.94
You Save: $10.05 (34%)
New (11) from $19.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  237 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Toy
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 3
Batteries Included: Yes
Age: 6 months - 4 years
Battery: 3 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 6 x 7.6
MPN: 03106
Model: 3106
UPC: 735282031014
EAN: 0735282031014
ASIN: B00004TFLB
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Promotion: Save $5.00 when you spend $25.00 or more on Qualifying Items offered by Amazon.com. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Terms and Conditions
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
| Features:
| • | 5 individual instrument buttons (harp, flute, French horn, piano and violin) |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Mozart Magic Cube is a true breakthrough in music education. This exciting learning toy teaches how sounds combine to form true polyphonic music, and is appropriate for all ages. Just press one of the musical sides and hear the instrument play on. Your child can compose and arrange millions of musical masterpieces. Measures approximately 6" x 6" x 6". Requires 3 "AA" alkaline batteries (not included). Awards: - 2000 National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
- 2000 Parents Choice Approved Award
Editorial Review
Music stimulates the brain and encourages early learning skills. This interactive cube lets children choose from any combination of five different instruments--harp, French horn, piano, flute, and violin--to collaborate on eight Mozart tunes. A solo flute might play an excerpt from "Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman (Twinkle, Twinkle)," or a French horn intone a theme from The Marriage of Figaro. Other choices include "Country Dance #5," "Come Sweet May," "Der Vogelfanger" (from The Magic Flute), "March in D," "Landler," and "La Ci Darem la Mano" (from Don Giovanni). Press the "orchestra" button and hear all the instruments play together. As the songs play, each selected instrument button flashes to the beat. The sound is not orchestral quality, but you get a fair electronic approximation of each instrument. Operates on three AA batteries (not included). --Tami Horiuchi
Amazon.com Product Description
A true breakthrough in music education, the Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube will be music to your baby's ears. Providing hours of interactive play for budding young composers of all ages, this award-winning toy is the perfect musical foundation for little ones. 
The Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to create baby's own Mozart masterpieces. View larger. |  | The Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube offers: - Sounds from 5 instruments.
- Soft, rounded corners for baby's safety.
- Fun and entertainment for babies of all ages.
|  | | Music Education in a Cube
Fun, creative, and inspiring, the Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to create eight Mozart masterpieces. With a touch of a button, this interactive cube lets your child add or subtract from any combination of five different instruments, including harp, French horn, piano, flute, and violin. Each selected instrument button flashes along to the beat of the music. An orchestra button even plays all the instruments at once. Baby-Safe Design
Designed with durable plastic construction, the Magic Cube features bright colors such as yellow, green, purple, and magenta. Made with soft, rounded corners, it's easy and safe for baby to hold. The 6-inch cube requires three AA batteries (not included). |
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 232 more reviews...
 Mozart magic cube fan September 5, 2008
It would be difficult to overstate how very much I enjoy the Mozart Magic Cube, because I have by now given more than ten of them as baby gifts. Parents love them; babies love them - in great measure for the music, but also for the power the child has to select music, change it, and to shut it off. I am about to mail off the last one on the shelf, which means I will be ordering at least two more very soon.
Sturdy, excellent product -- colors may be difficult for adults, but babies seem very pleased.
jag
 The worst toy ever! August 23, 2008
Most loud toys don't bother me... this one is the WORST toy ever. It's so loud (no volume switch-- at least on my model) and it doesn't stop. It ended up getting put away for good.
 Entertaining Toy July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My one year old son has played with this toy since he was 6 months old and it still entertains him. While the instruments do sound a bit synthetic, the toy still provides an introduction to different instruments and how multiple instruments can create a complex music piece.
Great product but gets old July 17, 2008
My friend's 1 year old loved it for like 1 month then she got tired of it.
Those Who Praise This Toy, Must Have Absolutely No Understanding of Music July 5, 2008
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
I am extremely disappointed in this toy. I spent a few months trying to find it, and was so excited when my mother finally found it on eBay. I quickly paid slightly more than the going price for the cube, but I didn't care, since the outstanding reviews it received made it seem well worth it.
Unfortunately, the toy proved me wrong within 10 minutes of arriving at my house. I started by playing each instrument separately, going for the violin first. I quickly realized that the track was actually a horrible synthesized violin - EW. To add insult to injury, the track was flat in some places, sharp in others. My husband thought it would sound better with all of the instruments playing, and maybe it wouldn't sound flat relative to the other instruments, but no - we then discovered that the tempos are all completely off. The flute is too slow, the harp is too fast, and the piano track is about the only track that actually sounds somewhat correct, in terms of the intstrument it's supposed to be and the song it's supposed to be playing. To the reviewer who said the cube made him shudder everytime it turned on, I completely sympathize. It makes your skin crawl!
Right now, my husband is pulling the cube apart to see if maybe he can tweak it to make it play a little better, but I'm convinced this was a complete waste. It's a sin, because my son absolutely loves the flashing lights and the music, and hitting the different buttons to bring the different pieces of an ensemble together, but I refuse to let him play with a toy that encourages rushed tempos and flat notes. Save your money, and pick up one of Mozart's CDs. Better yet, pick up the Baby Einstein Mozart CD; the Baby Einstein Orchestra uses simple sounds to recreate Mozart's most popular movements that make it easier and more enjoyable on baby's ears. And, they're actually in tune!
To the lot of people who rated this toy with 5 stars, perhaps you need to head back to elementary music class. Don't waste your money, unless you want to teach your child about rushing tempos and flat notes with disgusting, synthetic sounds.
|
|
|
