Still the Adorable Little Einsteins
GOOD: Three episodes go well together, typical Little Einstein fare, good lessons
BAD: One weak episode, no coverage of planets / space, DVD extras are worthless and not subtitled.
Little Einsteins: Race for Space comes with three episodes, one of which hasn't aired as of the DVD's initial release. One person reports it aired in Canada, however.
I understand the disappointment from other reviewers. The DVD case does say that it's two episodes plus one new one -- nothing about being an original movie like the other DVDs. The DVD also doesn't go into depth about the planets as one might thing from the title.
The never before aired episode, "The Treasure behind the Little Red Door," has kids and Rocket tracking a stolen treasure map to Hawaii. The art of the day is the Hawaii Ki'i (hula) statue and the featured song is "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Francois Gounod.
After stealing the treasure map from the gang, Big Jet...
No new episodes, misleading title (not space oriented)
Be aware that this DVD is not a new full-length movie, but rather a collection of three episodes. According to the packaging, one of the three episodes is nevore-before seen. However, here in Canada all three have been previously shown on TV, so none of them were new to us.
For those of you not familiar with this series, two DVD releases have full one-hour movies (Our Big Huge Adventure and Rocket's Firebird Rescue). All other DVD releases contain 3 TV episodes. Based on the product description, I was under the impression that this was a new one-hour movie, but it is not.
Furthermore, if you're expecting a space-related theme, you'll be disappointed. In the episode entitled Super Fast, they go out in space briefly, but that's it. In my opinion the title for this release is misleading as it is not space-oriented at all.
In short: no new material and overall a big disappointment as far as I'm concerned. Would not buy again had I known.
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very disappointed
My son is 5 and LOVES little Einsteins. He watches them over and over again. He was so excited when we finally got the DVD he knew we pre-ordered it and was patiently waiting for it to come. When he finally watched it, he actually started crying-very unlike him. He said the new "space" show wasn't really about space at all. We had expected that it would be about the little Einsteins traveling from planet to planet, learning about each one. It isn't. They just happen to be traveling through space chasing/helping some little pigs. What a missed chance at teaching kids about the planets! Again-we were VERY disappointed.
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