I bought the above Deadpools Assemble Minimates back in the Summer but haven’t opened them up as of yet. However, with the Deadpool movie coming out I wanted to open up the set so that I could display them, play with them and take a bunch of photos of them. The set is pretty great too, so many fun accessories. I love the accessory that looks like Thor’s hammer spinning around. That was a a nice touch.
Our surprise shipment from Disney Publishing of the Zootopia Books was great. The kids loved the books and I enjoyed reading them to the kids. I didn’t realize that the read-a-long would be the whole movie, sure there are some parts left out but I know the whole plot now. I don’t think that it would have been a major surprise otherwise but it does have some fun twists. I now think of it as a sort of Disney version of 48 Hours, the Nick Nolte/ Eddie Murphy movie in that Judy Hopps has 48 hours to solve a crime. That and she is teamed up with a less than trustworthy character in Nick Wilde. It should be a very funny movie overall. I can’t wait to take the kids to see it and also to get to play the Disney Infinity 3.0 figures of Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. More in the vlog including what I thought of many Batman and Superman animated movies.
We received a copy of the new Reading Rainbow DVD, “Reading Rainbow: Animal Café” to watch and review. We also received a trial membership to the all new Skybrary. Opinions are 100% my own. This is something I was truly excited to get a chance to work with this brand because Reading Rainbow was an amazing series and I am glad that it is available online for my kids to experience. Both of the kids love reading and Eva is already a high level reader at 7 1/2 years old. She’s reading chapter books like they are going out of style. Andrew has expressed a bunch of interest in reading and is making huge progress. Having two readers in the family is excellent especially since Allison and I love reading so much that a floor to ceiling bookshelf was one of the major reasons why we bought the house that we did.
The DVD was a fun introduction to Reading Rainbow for the kids. I liked looking back through the years to New York City. I think we will have many fun conversations around the hair and clothing styles from the past decades. Seeing the books come to life and being read by many famous people was also fun. I look forward to discovering so much more through Skybrary.
