The latest adventures of “Dora the Explorer” in the latest DVD “Dora’s Butterfly Ball”. Featuring three fun, educational episodes for younger children, help Dora and friends help Mariposa the butterfly get to her Butterfly Ball in the sky, help her friend paint a mural and also help build a present for her father.Â
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DVD TITLE: Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball
DURATION: 69 minutes
DVD INFORMATION: Full screen format, Dolby Digital – English Stereo
COMPANY: Nickelodeon/Paramount
RATED: NOT RATED
RELEASE DATE: February 12, 2013
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner
Executive Producer: Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes
Story Editor: Rosemary Contreras
Supervising Producer: Jeff DeGrandis
Producer: Miken Wong, Marc Amiel
Supervising Directors/Consulting Producers: Kuni Tomita, Henry Lenardin-Madden
Directed by George Cialtas, Allan Jacobsen
Featuring the voices of:
Fatima Ptacek as Dora
Regan Mizrahi as Boots
Linet Adorno as Mariposa
Michael Longoria as Balloon Ride/Butterfly King
Dyllan Marshall as Baby Jaguar/Butterflies
Joaquin Mas as Singing Diego
Jacob Medrano as Diego
Alexandria Suarez as Backpack/Butterflies
Marc Weiner as Map/Fiesta Trio
Soar with Dora in these 3 colorful high-flying adventures! Loop-de-loop with pretty magic wings at the Butterfly Ball, explore art, and catch a runaway kite on Father’s Day! ÂVÂ monos!
Dora’s friend, Mariposa, needs to get to the Butterfly ball in the clouds. But Mariposa needs help in order to go up to the clouds to attend the ball and get her magical wings. Can Dora, Boots and Diego help Mariposa? Find out in “Dora the Exporer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball”.
Does your child enjoy “Dora the Explorer”? Or perhaps you are a parent who wants their children to watch a safe, educational animated show on DVD? With “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball”, children will be treated with a new episode plus two bonus episodes of “Vamos a Pintar!” and “Feliz Dia de los Padres!”.
In this new DVD release, “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball” features Dora and Boots along with Diego trying to help their friend Mariposa get up to the clouds for the Butterfly Ball in order to get her magical wings. Can they find a way to get her way up to the clouds?
For the bonus episodes, “Vamos a Pintar” features Dora and Boots painting a giant mural with Daniela and she needs Dora and Boots help in order complete it. Can you help them as well?
For the episode “Feliz Dia de los Padres”, Dora and her mother are working on a special present for her father for “Father’s Day”. Dora wants to make a kite, can you help her?
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball” may be heading to a new direction animation-wise as the animation is much more cleaner and vibrant. The backgrounds are well-detailed and CG generated. Even Dora, Boots and friends seem to have more shading for their colors and more frame animations. Even the map is now entirely in CG. The special is presented in full screen but is vibrant with the bright colors.
Audio is presented in Dolby Digital and dialogue and music is crystal clear.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball” comes with no special features.
EXTRAS:
“Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball” comes with a slipcover case and a sticker sheet.
Are you a parent looking for an educational DVD for your child? “Dora the Explorer” is definitely a series I recommend and with “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball”, you get three recent episodes of popular animated series on DVD.
I know for my family and I would assume for many other families, “Dora the Explorer” has helped a lot of children. May it be to introduce them to Spanish or increasing their decision making skills, the series continues to be popular in America and in other countries.
And with the release of “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball”, the three episodes help children learn about teamwork, a little Spanish and also creativity.
My young son literally grew up in his young toddler years watching Dora and through this series, it was very helpful in helping him develop skills on decision making and also learning a little Spanish. And I’m a true believer that these educational children’s shows is one of the reasons why he is doing so well in school.
I can easily remember watching him and seeing him really get into the series and taking part in the challenges. And now he’s older, doing exceptionally well in school but he has done well since kindergarten and even pre-school and I would like to think that children’s series such as “Dora the Explorer” were one of the reasons for why he is doing well.
Where most of the “Dora the Explorer” TV shows have been instrumental in teaching children Spanish and counting as well as teamwork, the same can be said about this latest DVD. You get a total of three episodes and while there are no special features, included for children is a sticker sheet.
Overall, “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball” is a perfect DVD for parents or relatives looking for safe, educational and fun episodes for children. Recommended!