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Our kids technology product reviews are intended to help you work out whether a toy, gadget or kit is a good fit for your child or family. There's lots of cool stuff available, but is it the right choice for the child or teenager that you are buying for? We'll help you make the right choices and get the best value for money.

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Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends assemble. We create gift lists to help you make good choices for kids technology which helps them develop the right skills for the future. We research the best in Coding Toys and Games, Making / Craft Tools and Kits, STEM/STEAM related gifts, Programmable Robots, Electronics Kits and Gadgets for Tech Age Kids and Teens.

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Get crafty with technology. Here we'll post all our ideas and projects using technology to get creative and making with kids. You'll find anything from making a lemon battery to a glow-in-the-dark Minecraft sword. Our projects are tried and tested on our own kids or at events we run, so we are sure you can have a go at home with your kids. Some of our projects use specific tech gadgets which we provide links for you to purchase.

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STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. In recent years there is an increased focus in these areas of study. We like to include Art and Design too, so we often talk about STEAM (A stands for Art). At Tech Age Kids we believe Coding is a new literacy and children need to understand how technology works, practice making skills and grow in their curiosity to make a better future for us all.

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Coding is increasingly being recognised as an important skill for children to learn. Some will learn to code at school or at a coding club, but it's brilliant if they get support at home too.

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We think it's really important for kids to get hands-on with electronics and learn how to make circuits and write code to control hardware. Younger kids can start with conductive playdough. For kids who like to combine craft and tech, littleBits are fab. And we love SAM Labs wireless electronics components for making it easy for kids to make Internet of Things inventions. Lots of electronics kits for kids have support for the Arduino microprocessor environment. The DuinoKit Jr is one of our favourites. Arduino is a fab skill for older kids and teens to develop.

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We love robots at Tech Age Kids, especially programmable ones. We've got lots of them and write reviews and projects that use them. Our programmable robots for kids buying guide is a good place to start if you're not sure what's available. Roby the mBot Meccano robot dog is one of our popular projects and has been with us to lots of events. Our Ozobot LEGO trailer is fab for kids who love LEGO and robots.

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We're advocates of the creative use of technology, but this needs to be balanced with developing physical skills such as papercraft, woodwork, clay modelling, technical drawing and soldering. If children don't develop these skills as they grow up then physical making projects can become frustrating rather than fun. The Maker Community uses the term 'making' as a broad term to include all sorts of artisan skills or craft activities. Being able to make things can lead to life-long hobbies or even careers. It's a great feeling to be able to take a project from an idea in your head to a real object that does something. We're particularly interested to explore products that combine maker skills with tech skills such as electronics but others focus purely on the physical making skills that are still important to modern making.

Skylanders Superchangers Wii - The Race is On - Review

Skylanders Superchargers Wii Starter Pack

We just bought the new Skylanders game, Superchargers.  It's our first Skylanders purchase, however my kids have played the game at friends and have surprisingly deep knowledge of the game already. Skylanders Superchargers is the fifth game in the series, starting with Spyro's Adventure back in October 2011. Tracy purchased Skylanders when it first came out and have since bought Skylanders Giants, Swap Force and Trap Team for her kids. She tells me, the new Superchargers is quite special as it's a new type of game play for Skylanders - RACING!

My kids have been asking for Skylanders for a while now. With a fairly old Wii at home, I was very pleased to find the game is available for Nintendo Wii. As this was our first Skylanders purchase, we opted for the Starter Pack. We are very familiar with Nintendo games, and the kids were very excited to find a guest character in our pack - Bowser!  He is a beefy character and a firm favourite in our house, so you can imagine the excitement when we saw him. What's really cool is the Nintendo characters, included in Skylanders packs, are compatible with Amiibo* gaming, so you get two options for the price of one!
(*Note: look at the bottom of the character for a revolving switch between Skylanders & Amiibo)

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So in our Wii Starter Pack we got 2 figures, one vehicle and a game portal (the pad you need to place your characters on to activate in the game).  We also got a poster showing all the figures and vehicles (20 of each) available for collection with the Superchargers game.  The pack also included a pack of BattleCast cards, which is a brand-new game coming out in 2016. (Be sure to follow Tech Age Kids, as we'll cover BattleCast when it is released - it is looking very cool).  My boys love collecting cards, so we are looking forward to the launch of BattleCast.

Age Rating


Skylanders Superchargers is rated 7+ for fantasy violence and allowing players to interact with other players online. My 4 year old happily plays the game with his 7 year old brother, however our Wii version doesn't have the online game function. As far as game play difficulty is concerned, it is very similar to Nintendo Mario Carts, and so my younger son, quickly got the hang of manoeuvring his vehicle through the race. The actual figures and vehicles look and feel like normal toys and so if your kids are not playing the game, they could use the toys in imaginative play. The vehicles actually have moving parts, which is really cool.

Superchargers as a first Skylanders Game


Skylanders Superchargers really lends itself to a new comer to Skylanders, as it introduces racing as a new game play. For the Nintendo Wii, the adventure is in the form of racing, and you don't get some of the other minigames, puzzles and battles that Skylanders is known for. However I am told this is available on other consoles for the Superchargers game. The kids loved the introduction and quickly picked up on the story of Skylanders, but mostly they just enjoy racing their characters in various Sky Lands. Personally I was a little disappointed, as I feel Skylanders Superchargers on the Wii is very similar to Mario Carts, and I thought we would get some of the battle and puzzle game play too. There is a lot of content for the Starter Pack, including virtual vehicles for land and sea (we got Bowser's plane in the pack for air racing.)

Racking up the Cost


Parent warning: Skylanders can become a very expensive game. However we like that Skylanders have thought about this, so you can use all your characters from previous series in Superchargers (unfortunately this isn't the case for us as newbies). We found the Skylanders Superchargers starter pack well priced and you get a lot of exciting game play. You can buy a starter pack (~$74.99) for Superchargers for many consoles including Wii, Wii U PS3, PS4, XBox One, XBox 360, 3DS and iPad. There's a Dark Edition starter pack which is slightly more expensive (~$99.00) but has 3 figures and 2 vehicles, where the standard starter pack only has 2 figures and 1 vehicle. Additional figures and vehicles are priced at ~$14.99 each and Combo Packs which include a figure and its vehicle is more expensive. There are 20 characters and 20 vehicles to collect, each bringing unique abilities and powers. You can see how Skylanders can easily become an expensive game to invest in. Some parents may invest in the game and then get kids to purchase additional characters with pocket money. Alternatively you may consider offering characters as rewards for achievement in school or clubs or behaviour. Tracy admitted to bribing kids with Skylanders characters - what do you think?

The year of Toy to Life Games


We think the biggest challenge for families this year will be deciding which "Toy to Life" game to purchase. Not only has Skylanders brought out Superchargers with additional figures AND vehicles, but Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars and Lego Dimensions are also launching their toy to life games before Christmas. Kids are naturally drawn to brands they know, so Lego and Star Wars may cause parents to think carefully about which game to go for. Toys to life games are great fun, but they can also cause problems for families that can't afford purchasing more and more characters. Maybe in the future there will be a library of characters that kids can borrow or perhaps you can swap figures with friends. If you are already heavily invested in Skylanders, then the Superchargers would be a great game and perfectly compatible with the figures you already own.



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