 
Talking Odyssey III Interactive Tabletop Globe
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This is an excellent product for nurturing the love of geography in your child. It teaches many different and relevant facts besides the basic country names, capitals and continents. My kids particularly loved the indigenous music of various countries. The games are also good and provide a lot of challenge. This is a tool to instill the love of geography in your child, and help keep that flame lit for the rest of their lives. Clearly, there is even more to learn than any one product can provide, but this globe is something I would highly recommend for teaching geography to elementary school children. Best of all, it makes it fun!
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I recently bought a Talking Odyssey III Interactive Globe as a present for my daughter to help her hone her geographical knowledge and for its entertainment value.
During the couple of hours we were able to use ours before the wand for locating places on the globe stopped working, I was able to make some observation. The globe is easy to set up and easy to play. There are several skill levels ranging from easy to moderately challenging, and it is fun to race against the timer and compete with one's self or another player.
The games, however, are quite repetitive. Being asked to find Micronesia or The Hague during every third or fourth game somehow loses its novelty. One player may have to hunt all over the globe, which is as it should be, but the next may get five countries in a row, all in Africa, to locate, which is not exactly a level playing field. Apparently the algorithm driving this program is anemic and forgetful.
This replica of the world is itself quite small, so locating cities or tiny countries in crowed portions of Europe or Asia requires squinting and hefting the globe up inches from one's face to try and find Luxembourg or the Vatican City. (But after being asked to find the same locale repeatedly, that deficiency does not matter as much.)
The wand itself proved the fatal flaw in our globe. It simply quite working, leaving the globe to repeatedly squawk "look in the southern hemisphere" or "fly 4,500 meters northwest" even when we were dead on blotting out Guam with the tip of the wand.
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I gave the overall rating of this globe a two-star rating because it did not come with any instructions. We played all day on this globe...the whole family! But the stylus would work some times and not others. Overall it's a good, fun educational globe,
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I got this for my grandchildren for Christmas and it ended up being used by the adults as well as the children. Very happy with the overall preformance as well as the educational aspect of the globe.
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My son received this globe as a gift. The first time he picked it up -- he picked it up from the top, not from the bottom - the globe separated at the equator. Our globe was only held together at the equator by a flimsy strip of tape.
All of the circuitry and wires were hanging out and it took my husband about 20 minutes to fit it all back together. We're going to try some crazy glue to prevent this from happening again. Maybe we got a defective item. I can't believe they're all made this way.
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