We bought this toy for our 5 year old son, he loves it. His three year old brother has fun with it too. The two of them run around the house searching bugs to vacuum up. Then they stare at them for a few minutes and we release them (or squash them when the kids are not looking, that'll teach those bugs to stay out of my house)

The suction is a little gentle, I guess that's needed so the bugs are collected alive and unhurt. This is more of a capture and study toy than it is a household bug eradication device. Either way, it works as advertised.

Quite a few reviews compared ZOOB to Legos which is to compare apples to oranges. I have been a major Lego fan since I could assemble two blocks, and have already purchased sets for my son, but Legos are more about building buildings, boats, man-made things in general, whereas ZOOB is much more organic allowing you to create living movable things such as dinosaurs, spiders, snakes, creatures of all shapes, including the primordial. You can also build cars and motorcycles, but the point is this toy is more for building singular objects rather than the cities and villages I used to build with Legos. The toy is sturdy if handled properly. It has been entertaining for the adults and children in our family.

I purchased the 12" Donkey Kong to replace the 7" DK, cause 7" was just too small.

When my 12" DK arrived I was hoping it would be a little better quality made then the 7" DK but it wasn't. Both were made poorly.

Stiching job just isn't very good.

Even New With Tags mine had a hole in it's back! My kids will definetly catch that and start pulling the stuffing out so I'm going to have to sew it up myself...

But if you're like me you'll buy the DK doll anyway so you have the whole Mario/Nintendo gang set... Just wouldn't be the same without DK!

I bought this a couple of months ago when looking to decorate my cube with some cool stuff, and Cthulhu is a great conversation starter...he spreads cuteness and doom in near-equal measures and I love having people come by and ask "whats that?" One lady said, "nice octopus!" and my response was "thanks, he'll swallow your soul!" Good laughs all around and a fun stuffed critter to have at the cube as he fits about anywhere.

This product shipped and showed up so fast. I was really impressed with the quality and the plushness. My grandson had asked for it from Santa. We took him and Bolt to the Bolt movie the day after Christmas. He was so proud to have it and just adores it. It was a fantastic buy!

I had my doubts about Mario Kart DS in the early stages of its development. Mario Kart: Double Dash (Gamecube) was never one of my favorite games, and I was hoping that Nintendo would stick to the roots with their DS edition of the high-selling, fan-favorite racing game. With Mario Kart DS, they've done just that.

It seems that the developers took everything great from Super Mario Kart (SNES), Mario Kart 64 (N64), Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA), and Mario Kart: Double Dash (GC) and put all of those elements into a single Mario Kart game. When you consider how wonderful all of these games have been and how much fun they still are today, that's quite an achievement. Mario Kart DS features some of the same gameplay modes that fans have seen for years: Grand Prix, Time Trial, and Battle. They're the same as always, with three ranks of difficulty in Grand Prix and several different battle modes in Battle.

Nintendo didn't stop with the classic game modes. In fact, they added another interesting mode called "Challenge" in which you pick up certain numbers of coins or do a set number of power slides in a lap under a certain amount of time. These challenges can be excruciatingly difficult but they make you a much more weathered Mario Kart player and therefore are a great addition to the game. Also, Multiplayer has come in the form of Nintendo's first WiFi-enabled online multiplayer DS game. The races in WiFi multiplayer are relatively simple but it's a great addition to the game nonetheless.

On the track itself, the controls are easy but don't utilize the DS very much--driving is done with the directional pad, acceleration and braking are done with the A and B buttons, power sliding is done with the R trigger, and item usage comes from the L trigger. This simple system goes alongside several classic items and three new ones. The Bullet Bill thrusts you forward knocking anyone in your path off of the track. The Bob-Omb explodes, causing anything in its blast radius to spin out and slow down considerably. Last of all, the Blooper spits ink on every other racer's screen, making steering very difficult due to limited visibility.

Visually Mario Kart DS stands out as one of the best-looking Nintendo DS games to date. It faithfully recreates some of the classic 3D tracks from Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash (like the ghost house level from MK64 and Luigi's Circuit from MKDD) while also bringing SNES and GBA tracks to life in 3D. Of course, there have also been sixteen new tracks added to the mix, making a grand total of 32 different tracks that all look unique but beautifully show off the wacky Nintendo universe. The music from all of the classic tracks return as well (even the GBA tracks) and the new beats are as catchy as the old ones. Sound bytes, like the different celebrations and yelps of pain when a character is hit with a shell, sound just like they always have.

Mario Kart DS is the essential Nintendo DS game. If you've almost given up on the DS, than you clearly haven't played Mario Kart DS and for that reason you're missing out. MKDS is being sold for $35, and if you see it how I do, that's $1.09 per race track and you could easily get more than a few dozen hours of enjoyment out of this before you want to play something else. Is Mario Kart DS worth it? I'd say so.

Our three year old son received Mack from his uncle for his birthday. He loves it! He plays with it every day. He and his twin sister put Lightning McQueen in the back and pretend to wash him, brush his teeth and get him oil from the refrigerator. I liked that this 2008 model comes with Lightning McQueen instead of having to purchase him separately. I would agree with some of the reviews from the older model that the plastic does seem a little cheap and flimsy in some of the smaller parts. But, so far it has held up to daily play by two three year olds without breaking.