Hi-5: Making Music, Vol. 3

Worth buying even though some good segments were left out....
This DVD was kind of disappointing to me, I love Hi-5 and I was anxious to get the first look of Syd and Yaz doing their segments in the studio, but the segments that they picked for the DVD were not the best of the "Making" "Machines" and "Music" show weeks. Those diehard fans that have the previous DVD "Music Magic" already have "Feel the Beat" three times on the DVD, I would have loved to have seen "Some Kind of Wonderful" on this DVD instead. Plus I have no idea was robots have to do with music. Hopefully Wellgo will put some feelers out at the yahoo boards and pick a better selection of segments for the next DVD. This DVD was definitly missing some of my favorite music and machine themed segments, like :

1. when Shaun sings, he can only sing in the bathtub

2. Karla singing Popstar Parrot or Rock Melon

3. Building a Fence -- an all-time favorite

4. Lumpy Oatmeal Blues

5. The one where they are all dancing disco with the wigs...

Some funny stuff inside...
OK. It has an orange box (not a red box like it should look like)
It has the same structure as the previous 2 volumes.

But something is missing: there are no recent videos of the group between scenes (the other 2 volumes have them). So you can see only kids.
The great thing is the Read Along option. There is also the sing-along and karaoke features for the 3 theme songs.

One thing I don't get it: the order of the videos. It has "Robot Number One" song but it's from a different year than the other videos. It has a video from TEAM episodes but the TEAM's song is on volume 2... Well, I suppose that i don't have to care since this video is for kids. And my 3yo son loves it but not so much as he loves the "blue hi-5" (as he calls the volume 2)

Also there are 2 short videos from the new members: Jasmeen and Sydney. Both of them look like rehearsal videos but they are OK. Sydney reminds me the classic cheerleader boy's scene with Ferrel on SNL...

Excellent!
My children and I became Hi 5 fans about 5 years ago. Back then I looked for DVDs and couldn't find them. I now have a 2 year old that watched nothing on TV-until now. I finally can get 45 minutes to do something, like clean, while she is awake. I don't like my kids watching TV all day, but I'm not going to pretend I don't need a break during awake hours. One feature I really love about this is that you don't have to press play when it comes on. No waiting for previews and not being able to fast forward to the menu. Another great feature is that it automatically repeats itself without any children screaming "ITs OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!". I loved this movie so much that I bought 2 more DVDS. If you are familiar with the show, you will love these movies.

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