26 December 2011

DVD Review: Dora The Explorer: Dora Loves Boots

My family and I recently received a copy of the newest Nickelodeon DVD release, Dora The Explorer: Dora Loves Boots, to review.


No, not the shoe style - her best friend, the purple monkey! Dora Loves Boots contains four episodes, including three brand new to DVD! In "Boots' First Bike", the Delivery Duck flies in with a postcard of a shiny yellow two wheeler bike for Boots, and he's super excited to get his very first bike! It's ready to be picked up, and this episode is full of "firsts" as you'll see Baby Blue Bird take her first flight, and Lil' Piggy sail on her pirate ship too. In "Bouncy Boots", Boots gets his favorite boots back from the Shoe Shop - but they don't feel like his boots. When he puts them on, he starts to bounce! Uh oh, these aren't his! It's bounce time for adventures on the way back to the Shoe Shop.

In "¡Vacaciones!", Dora and Boots are going camping with Diego and Little Jaguar. They meet up with lots of other friends, too, and help Isa water her veggie garden before she leaves on vacation as well. Uh oh, Swiper has swiped their snacks! Can Diego and Baby Jaguar help rescue their snacks back? And in "The Big Red Chicken's Magic Wand" (LOL at this title!), The Big Red Chicken is doing magic tricks and turns Boots into a chicken too! In the chaos, the wand is broken! They'll have to do a bunch of things to enter the Wand Shop, including a math game to get the Giant Dice to disappear.

While there are no special features on the DVD itself, inside the box is a certificate for a free "call" from Dora. It's good through August 2012. We're saving this as a surprise. ;)

Dora The Explorer: Dora Loves Boots will be released this coming Tuesday, December 27th, 2011. Full screen format, it is not rated, but geared towards the preschool crowd. The total running time is 95 minutes long. The suggested retail price is $16.99, but Amazon has it available on pre-order for $13.99 as of this posting. (Netflix users: this title is not currently available, but be sure to add it to your DVD queue to be notified when it is)

I received a copy of this DVD in order to view it and share my thoughts on it. All opinions are my own.

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