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List Price: $108.99
Our Price: $94.46
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Manufacturer: Fisher Price

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Amazon Maximum Age: 6
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 6
Amazon Minimum Age: 36
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Toy
Brand: Fisher-Price
EAN: 0027084417845
Feature: Smart Cycle is a Plug & Play (TV), Hardware/Software system. The child can customize his/her vehicle on screen (color/model etc.) and explore different themes (environments) that are sold separately.
Label: Fisher Price
Manufacturer: Fisher Price
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 36
Model: K5054
Publisher: Fisher Price
Release Date: 2007-05-01
Studio: Fisher Price

Features

Smart Cycle is a Plug & Play (TV), Hardware/Software system. The child can customize his/her vehicle on screen (color/model etc.) and explore different themes (environments) that are sold separately.
Games reinforce important preschool concepts like letters, numbers, shapes and colors. Child's favorite character friends offer help and encouragement during game play.
In Explore/ Encounter mode, the child pedals to drive through various environments, learning on the way.
In Arcade Games mode, the child can take a pit stop into an arcade game that is played with the joystick.
The toy comes with the Learning Journey software and other themes sold separately, which include Dora's Jungle Safari, Sponge Bob's ocean adventures, Hotwheels, Barbie, Space and Dinoland.

Accessories
Smart Cycle™ Dino Software Smart Cycle™ Hot Wheels Software Smart Cycle™ Ocean Sponge Bob Software Smart Cycle Barbie Software Fisher-Price Fun-2-Learn Smart Cycle Go Diego Go Animal Rescue

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Editorial Reviews:

Smart Cycle plugs right into your TV, ready to take kids on learning adventures like no other. As they pedal, favorite character friends guide them through learning discoveries, games and even exciting races. Other activities don't require pedaling at all. Includes Learning Adventure game cartridge with 3 ways to play:

1) Drive, steer and learn at your own pace--visit Math Mountain, Shape Lake, Number Fields, Letter Creek and other stops along the way.

2) Learn, stop and rest, but don't stop learning! Use the joystick to reinforce important learning skills with plenty of games and activities with different levels for growing kids.

3) Race--put the pedal to the metal as you race with cars on-screen, against the clock, or with another player.

Includes Learning Journey software and the other themes sold separately include: Nick Jr.Dora the Explorer Friendship Adventure, Nick Jr.Go Diego Go! Diego's Animal Rescue, Discover the Dinosaurs, Nickelodeon SpongeBob Squarepants Ocean Adventure, Hot Wheels Barbie Fairytopia.

Developmental Benefits: Teaches: upper & lowercase letters, numbers & counting, spelling, problem-solving, shapes, matching, creativity, spatial reasoning, motor skills & lots more! Requires 4 "D" batteries, not included. Measures 26.7"L x 18.5"W x 25.1"H. Weight Capacity 200 lbs.

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: Threads stripped after very little use
Comment: I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old. This bike was their Christmas present from grandma. My kids never really cared for the software/learning aspect of this toy. Kind of a good thing because it only came with one title, and the other games were quite expensive at the time.

Instead, they used this as an exercise bike, not hooked up to the TV. They pedaled for maybe 10 minutes at a time and would get off to play with another toy. After only a couple months I noticed the left petal would continually fall off. The threads had stripped from that pedal. Thankfully, my father was able to repair the petal but said the design was a poor one.

I gave this 3 stars. The pedal issue, high price of games and general lack of interest my kids had in this being the 3 reasons why.

I wish grandma had put the money towards a rocking horse or other ride on toy..

Customer Rating:

Summary: Really good, but has a few problems...
Comment: My 3 1/2 year-old loves her "bike"! The games are good for the most part, but the physicality of the cycle does have problems. She cannot change out the games by herself and I have to help her with them every time (and she has six games!). Occasionally, the game freezes up and has to be rebooted; the cord seems to have a short in it that allows that. I agree with others that wish that the games had some memory to them and therefore they do have to start over every time and could be different for different ages and siblings.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Still holds interest
Comment: My two little boys (aged 4.5 and 6) love this toy. After a year, they still play with it. To me, that makes it well worth the money. Both boys know how to hook it up to the television and insert the games. It can be difficult for the little ones to know that they've fully inserted the game. My six year old has a form of autism and some sensory issues. He gets good sensory input from cycling. I've found that learning while doing a form of gross motor activity seems to be helpful in retaining what is being learned. That's just an added bonus. We're looking forward to adding some new games this year!

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not worth the money!
Comment: We bought this for our 3 1/2 yr old daughter. We wanted her to be active indoors because the Florida summer is too hot to be outside. It was easy to set-up and she loved peddling it, but the games were slow, jumpy and didn't keep up with her. She is somewhat advanced in her intellectual development and is accustomed to fast moving games on-line and this just bored her. We turned it on and she wouldn't last 5 minutes, then she would tell us she was bored. She would sit on it and peddle it while watching TV. It's VERY sturdy. We had NO concerns about her safety, but she didn't like the slow games. We just didn't think it was worth the money to keep it. We had it less than 2 weeks, then returned it to the "major toy retailer" where we had purchased it on sale for $20 less than the current price on Amazon.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Waste of money.
Comment: The SmartCycle was on the top of my 3 year old's Christmas list shortly after they were introduced by Fisher Price.

While we haven't had any real problems with it, I'm still left feeling as though it was a waste of money. The graphics are terrible, and gameplay is slow and much more simple than initially expected. And, as other reviewers have mentioned, the lack of ability to actually save progress on games played makes for frustrating repetition.

Over the past 9 months my son has probably played with this toy about 5 times, at no more than 15 minutes each.

I can definitely see where some children would actually enjoy this bike, but it seems to be more of a novelty than anything.

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