Learning Resources LER3080 Critters: Ranger & Zip, Along with Your New Playful Story Book Adventure, Endless Coding Challenges with Interactive Playset, Feed, Pet and Make Friends

This was for our 4 year olds birthday and she loves cats so we knew this would be a hit!It is super easy to program and use. Imogen soon understood how to make it move. It has a simple mode of just pressing the arrow buttons (forward, left, right and backwards). It is a little hard to visualize the distance traveled with the forward and back movements but with a little practice you soon get the hang of making the cat move where you want to.It is a fun a novel toy!It seems well made. The small kitty is cute too and has a magnet which triggers a meow noise which adds to the toy's appeal.Some of the extras are just props to use to navigate around.Outside of the programming mode there is a cute dance mode where the cat moves with music it plays, a sleeping mode, a sentry mode and feeding modes.These are just pre-programmed modes where the cat moves or makes sounds with the press of the buttons.To be fair that is all this toy will do so be mindful of the price. We got this at a really good deal.As for replay value, this will depend if your child likes the programming side of things or whether this will just be something to pick up occasionally to play with just for the sounds.Overall for us, a thumbs up considering the price we paid.

My nephew liked it straight away (he's 3) but after a week and playing with it with his older sister, he is beginning to understand the ways you can make it move and starting to problem solve to get it where he wants it. I think he will discover more with it over time. A good educational toy.

The media could not be loaded.  My little girl loves this. The bunny itself is really well made. And the way it is programmed is very simple. However the parts that come with it are cheap. The tree stump doesn’t work, the small bunny is supposed to roll off when you press the lever. It just isn’t made well enough so the small bunny doesn’t roll off as the panel inside the trunk doesn’t go high enough. The swing doesn’t stay on. It’s very loose, so doesn’t swing the other bunny. It’s such a shame as the main toy is fab. But for £40 I would have opted for the smaller set. I feel like spending the extra would have given us more, but it’s just given us extra plastic stuff that doesn’t work with the main product. Can’t send it back as she loves the main rabbit. The rest is just sat at the side not being played with because it doesn’t work.

Bought for my sons 5th birthday. He loves it, and got to grips with how to put in a code quite quickly. We set up challenges, and he really enjoyed working out how to get Rumble and Bumble together. A great introduction to coding.

A lovely toy that is easy to use. A great way for children to use coding. The large dog is good quality, but the other items come apart easily and the cardboard items get bent too easily.

My daughter loves this set. The large cat has arrows on top which enable you to programme it manually. It also has lots of cute accessories which you can make the cat explore via programming their location in.

I thought this would be better than it was. It doesn't really teach a child to code as it only teaches left and right and how many times to push the button. Sadly got boring very quickly. Its comparable to the old Big Trax from the 80s.

It’s a Xmas hive so will update in the new year