Parents or grandparents… Nickelodeon’s “Big Box of Play Dates Vol. 2” is more bang for your buck! Featuring three DVD’s with episodes from “Dora the Explorer”, “Go, Diego Go!”, “Wonder Pets!”, “Yo Gabba Gabba!”, “Blue’s Clues” and “Ni Hao, Lai-Lan”. Each episode is educational and fun for the children and also will keep them occupied during the summer at home or on long commutes. Recommended!
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DVD TITLE: Nickelodeon Favorites: Summer Vacation
DURATION: 6 Episodes (147 Minutes)
DVD INFORMATION: Full Screen, Dolby Digital
COMPANY: Nickelodeon/Paramount
RATED: NOT RATED
RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2011
Dora the Explorer
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh and Eric Weiner
“Big Sister” written by Valerie Walsh
Executive Producer: Chris Gifford
Co-Executive Producer: Valerie Walsh
Executive Story Editor/Producer: Eric Weiner
Supervising Producer: Jeff DeGrandis
Go, Diego, Go!
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes
Executive Producer: Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes
Head Writer: Rosemary Contreras
Producer: Miken Wong
Directed by George Chialtas
Blue’s Clues
Created by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, Angela C. Santomero
Written by Angela C. Santomero
Directed by Lucy Walker
Executive Producer: Todd Kessler
Executive Producer & Head Writer: Angela C. Santomero
Executve Producer & Design Director: Traci Paige Johnson
Wonder Pets!
Executive Producer: Josh Selig
Creative Director: Jennifer Oxley
Music Director and Producer: Jeffrey Lesser
Directors: Jennifer Oxley, Josh Selig
Supervising Producer: Mason Rather
Producer: Melanie Pal
Writers: Billy Lopez, Jennifer Oxley, Josh Selig
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Created by Christian Jacobs, Scott Schultz
Written by Scott Schultz, Christian Jacobs and Dan Clark
Executive Producer: Charles Rivkin, Nathan Berrett, Christian Demke, Jon Berrett
Producer: Justin Lyon
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Created by Karen Chau
Original Development: Mary Harrington, Karen Chau, Judy Rothman
“Hoho’s Big Flight” is written by Adam Peltzman
Executive Producer: Mary Harrington
Producer/Head Writer: Sascha Paladino
Directed by Dave Marshall
Featuring the voices of:
Dora the Explorer
Kathleen Herles as Dora
Harrison Chad as Boots
Marc Weiner as Map/Swiper/Fiesta Trio
Sasha Toro as Backpack
Go, Diego, Go!
Jake T. Austin as Diego
Serena Kerrigan as Alicia/Trees/Townspeople
Jose Zelaya as Bobo Brothers
Manuel Alfaro as Abuelito/Townspeople
Jessica Conde as Green Iguana
Wonder Pets!
Sofie Zamchick as Linny
Teala Dunn as Tuck
Danica Lee as Ming-Ming
Blue’s Clues
Starring Steven Burns
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Biz Markie as himself
Lance Robertson as DJ Lance Rock
Erin Pearce as Brobee
Amos Watene as Brobee
David Crespin as Muno
Adam Diebert as Muno
Josh Baily as Muno
Christian Jacobs as Plex
Emma Jacobs as Foofa
Lindsey Kraus as Plex
Charme Morales as Toodee
Melissa Rossiter as Toodee
Mark Mothersbaugh as Himself
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Jade-Lianna Petrs as Kai-Lan
Clem Cheung as Yeye (English)
Ben Wang as Yeye (Mandarin)
Jack Samson as Rintoo
Khamani Griffin as tolee
Angie Wu as Hoho
Jeremy Herzig as Mr. Fluffy
It’s a date! Boys and girls alike will find their favorite Nick Jr. characters in this Big Box Of Play Dates Vol. 2 DVD Collection, which includes three of your favorite Nickelodeon Favorite DVDs: Summer Vacation, Sisters & Brothers and We Love Our Friends.
The kids are out of school and just in time for the summer holiday comes Nickelodeon’s “Summer Vacation” DVD featuring six episodes from six different series. But wait! You realized that this summer vacation is three months long and one DVD is not enough to keep the children occupied nor is there attention span willing to watch a DVD over and over again.
Thank goodness that Nickelodeon will be releasing a DVD box set featuring three Nickelodeon compilation DVD’s titled “Big Box of Play Dates Vol. 2” featuring “Summer Vacation”, “Sisters and Brothers” and “We Love Our Friends”.
And on each DVD, you get a total of five or six of the popular Nickelodeon children’s educational shows (Dora the Explorer”, “Go, Diego, Go!”, “Blue’s Clues”, “Wonder Pets!”, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan”), all on this special DVD.
For “Summer Vacation”, you get six of the popular Nickelodeon children’s educational shows (Dora the Explorerâ€, “Go, Diego, Go!â€, “Blue’s Cluesâ€, “Wonder Pets!â€, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lanâ€) on this special DVD. For this DVD, you get episodes featuring everyone having fun outdoors while on vacation. May the characters be at the beach, on a ranch, in Hawaii or Mexico or on a car trip.
For “Brothers And Sisters”, you get five of the popular Nickelodeon children’s educational shows (Dora the Explorerâ€, “Go, Diego, Go!â€, “Blue’s Cluesâ€, “Wonder Pets!†and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lanâ€) on this special DVD.  As children welcome a new baby into the family (may it be their parents or a baby from other family), this DVD shows how happy a family can be with the addition of a new baby or even a visit from family who had a baby.
For “We Love Our Friends”, you get six of the popular Nickelodeon children’s educational shows (Dora the Explorerâ€, “Go, Diego, Go!â€, “Blue’s Cluesâ€, “Wonder Pets!â€, “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lanâ€) on this special DVD. The theme is “Love” and features the love one has for their family and friends. And also episodes that related to Valentine’s Day.
With each of these three DVD’s, children can learn Spanish and Chinese language skills, math skills, problem-solving skills, the importance of team work and more!
Included on “Summer Vacation” are the following episodes:
- Dora the Explorer – In “Baby Crab”, Dora, Boots and friends hit the beach to help baby crab bring his shell necklace back to his mommy on Crab Island.
- Go, Diego, Go! – In “Panchita the Prairie Dog”, Diego and Alicia are visiting Rescue Ranch when they meet Panchita, a prairie dog who needs a nice grassy prairie for her family.
- Wonder Pets! – In “Save the Hermit Crab”, the Wonder Pets take a break from their vacation in Cancun to help a Hermit Crab who has outgrown his shell. In the second episode “Save the Dolphin”, the Wonder Pets are in Hawaii and must save a baby dolphin trapped in a net.
- Blue’s Clues – In “Blue’s Big Car Trip”, Blue is ona car trip but where are they going? Help Joe play Blue’s Clues to find out how to stay safe in the car.
- Yo Gabba Gabba!– In “Summer”, Everyine in Gabba Land is singing and dancing to the theme of summertime.
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan – In “The Hula Duck Dance Party”, everyone is invited to Hula Ducks’ Island beach house for music and dancing games!
Included on the “Sisters and Brothers” DVD are:
- Dora the Explorer – In “Big Sister Doraâ€, Dora needs to hurry home! Her mother is having a baby…but will it be a baby boy or baby girl?
- Go, Diego, Go! – In “To Babysit a Boboâ€, while gathering fruit for the spider monkey fiesta, the Bobo Brothers three baby sisters run off. Help Diego and the Bobos find the babies.
- Blue’s Clues – In “The Baby’s Hereâ€, everyone waits for the arrival of Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper.
- Wonder Pets! – In “KalamaZoo†and “Back to KalamaZooâ€, Ming-Ming flies to KalamaZoo to take care of her baby cousin Marvin. In the next episode, Ming-Ming returns with her friends in order to rescue Marvin.
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan – In “Hoho’s Big Flightâ€, it’s the Big Lantern Festival and Hoho forgets to listen to Yeye.
Included on the “We Love Our Friends” DVD are:
- Dora the Explorer – In “Best Friends”, Dora and Boots celebrate “Best Friends’ Day”.
- Go, Diego, Go! – In “Sammy’s Valentine”, Sammy the Sloth is so slow and he is worried that he may not deliver his Valentine’s present in time.
- Wonder Pets! – In “Save the Love Bugs”, the Wonder Pets try to stop two Love Bugs from fighting. In “Save the Skunk Rocker”, the Wonder Pets must help rocker find a band to play.
- Yo Gabba Gabba! – In “Love”, Love is in the air and DJ Lance rock and friends singing and dance about loving friends and family.
- Blue’s Clues – In “Love Day”, help Joe figure out who his Valentine’s card is from.
- Ni Hao, Kai-Lan – In “Platime at Tolee’s”, While playing at Tolee’s treehouse, Rintoo accidentally rips Tolee’s new painting and Tolee doesn’t want to forgive him.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
The episodes featured in “Nickelodeon Favorites: Big Box of Play Dates Vol. 2†are presented in full screen and in Dolby Digital stereo. Animation features vibrant colors and dialogue is clear and understandable. Picture quality is dependent on the series as “Dora the Explorerâ€, “Go, Diego, Go!†and “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan†are animation-based, “Blue’s Clues†and “Wonder Pets!†tend to combine CG, while “Yo Gabba Gabba” is live with some skits that are animated.
But overall, this is for the children and the picture and audio quality should be satisfactory.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Nickelodeon Favorites: Summer Vacation” comes with no special features.
“Nickelodeon Favorites: Sisters and Brothers†comes with the following special features:
- Team Umizoomi Music Videos: Numbers Everywhere
- Team Umizoomi Music Videos: Acorn Flower Patterns
- Previews – Previews for upcoming Nickelodeon DVD release
“Nickelodeon Favorites: We Love Our Friends†comes with the following special features:
- Team Umizoomi Music Videos: Counting Song
- Team Umizoomi Music Videos: Celebration Song
- Previews – Previews for upcoming Nickelodeon DVD release
It’s summer time and if you have a toddler who gets easily restless during the break and also gets a little feisty about not learning from mom and dad when he/she was so used to learning from teachers, all of us parents have been in that position and sometimes you need positive educational programming for children for those three months.
And what best time than now for children to learn about summer vacation, having fun, getting involve with decision making and also learn about team work and safety than checking out the latest Nickelodeon DVD “Summer Vacation”.
“Sisters and Brothers†is a fun release for children and also parents who want to find DVD’s that can be educational as well as finding a DVD to help ease children with the concept that there is a baby coming. May it be mommy or daddy, relative or friend.
And “We Love Our Friends” features six episodes that deal with “love” and “Valentine’s Day”. From Dora and Boots celebrating the fact that they are best friends, “Go, Diego Go!” and “Blue’s Clues” dealing wtih Valentine’s Day” and also episodes of “Wonder Pets!” and “Ni Hao, Kai-lan” dealing with making up after arguments.
Once again, you get 5-6 episodes from Nickelodeon’s top childrens TV series and each are educational and fun for young children. My child was raised from these educational children’s shows and I do believe that it helped in his development as he is doing exceptionally well at school, especially when it comes to decision making and also an appreciation for other cultures and languages.
As for special features, two of the DVD’s have special features while “Summer Vacation” does not.
But what this DVD box set comes down to is more fun, more DVD’s for a great price! If you are a parent or grandparent, personally for me, one DVD is not going to keep my son’s attention, the more DVD’s, the more episodes, the better. So, I do recommend this DVD box set.
For the most part, your young children should be entertained by this release. All episodes are safe for children and parents will also be happy to know that they can learn from each of these episodes and also it will definitely help keep the children occupied at home or during those long vacation commutes.
Overall, Nickelodeon’s “Nickelodeon Favorites: Big Box of Play Dates Vol. 2†gives parents more bang for their buck and three DVD’s to keep the children occupied all summer! Recommended!