Fisher-Price Star Station Entertainment System

My daughter first experienced this toy at her caregivers home and now she has her own that "santa" brought for Christmas. Its so much fun for her since she loves to sing and dance and seeing herself on screen is an added bonus. It was a bit pricey but you would spend that much on yourself to have a game you enjoy so why not for your kiddo? Its durable (*from what I can tell) and the extra cartridges arent too expensive. You can even get some via amazon used at a big discount. Overall, fun and exciting. We all love to play with it! We make video's and record ourselves. A BLAST!

I just purchased this toy for xmas this year. It was hard to find and i ended up paying more than the manufacturers retail price but still think it was worth the money. The toy is simple to set up (color coded cables that tell you exactly where it should connect to your tv or vcr) and so easy to operate that my 2 yr old twins were able to use it unassited. I had originally purchased the Playschool Dance Cam -but after reading the poor reviews decided to get this version of the toy instead. The picutre quality is NOT 100%..but it's a TOY. we have a regular (non high def tv) with average lighting in the room and the pic quality is the same as watching a home movie. Is it super crisp? no. but ITS A CHILD'S TOY... My kids are 4 and 2 and they loved seeing themselves up on the screen.
The only thing that could be better with this product is that the songs -although listed as classic songs like "if you're happy and you know it"..are stepped up versions so my kids didn't recognise the tunes at first. They quickly caught on though and still enjoyed it from the first day...
All in all. i am very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone NOT looking for a high def dvd recorder quality picture. (remember, it's a toy for a small child, not cutting edge technology)

I normally don't purchase any toy unless it is rated 4+ stars on amazon. However, after reading the reviews on this toy and really analyzing what others said the pros and cons were, I decided to take my chance on this one even though it only had about a 3.25 star review at time of purchase. Let me say that I am so glad that we took the chance! My 3.25 year old LOVES watching herself on "TV" any time we go anywhere that has a security camera. She also loves to sing, dance, and play her toy guitars. So I thought that this would be perfect and we took the chance on it. My daughter didn't exactly "get" what it was when she saw the box, even though I explained to her that it will play music and she can be on TV. But the minute we had the thing plugged in and she saw herself on our 42" LCD she was hooked. I have never seen her play for so long with anything. The cartridges are disappointing from an adult perspective. And we are an almost TV free household where she only watches maybe a total of a couple hours a week of TV, if even that, and only certain PBS shows. So the cartridges with theme songs from TV shows and/or "princess" songs do us no good. The unit comes with a cartridge with 4 songs and I purchased another cartridge with 8 songs only to realize that 3 of those 8 songs are on the cartridge that came with the unit. Whoops! And there aren't many song cartridges to choose from to begin with. They are also expensive for what they actually are (just 8 songs on the additional one we purchased). And we certainly would not purchase the ones with pop songs on it either. Oh well for that. But even with just the 12 songs combined on 2 cartridges of which 3 songs are repeated, my daughter plays with this for very long stretches of time. The unit can also be used with just a CD player. So the issue with the song cartridges is not the end of the world. Just a minor inconvenience. We have not had the toy long enough for me to rate durability. Bottom line is that I am very glad that we took a chance and purchased this toy. Well worth the money.

Isn't this what is known as 'price gouging?' Give me a break, it retails for $59.99 at most stores.

The sing along in front of a camera while watching yourself on TV concept is good here. The camera works quite well, but you have to have a lamp or two on, or be in a room with ample sunlight. The audio quality and volume is mediocre, mic range is not too good, and the songs should be sung in a more traditional sense, not the cheesy jazz rock style that is not even done well. There should also be more than 4 songs provided. For the fifty bucks or so we paid locally, I expected more. YMMV.