Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube | 
| Brand: Munchkin
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.94
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Rating:  241 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Toy
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 3
Batteries Included: Yes
Age: 6 months - 4 years
Battery: 3 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 6 x 7.6
MPN: 03106
Model: 3106
UPC: 735282031014
EAN: 0735282031014
ASIN: B00004TFLB
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 5 individual instrument buttons (harp, flute, French horn, piano and violin) |
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Product Description
The Mozart Magic Cube is a true breakthrough in music education. This exciting learning toy teaches how sounds combine to form true polyphonic music, and is appropriate for all ages. Just press one of the musical sides and hear the instrument play on. Your child can compose and arrange millions of musical masterpieces. Measures approximately 6" x 6" x 6". Requires 3 "AA" alkaline batteries (not included). Awards: - 2000 National Parenting Center Seal of Approval
- 2000 Parents Choice Approved Award
Amazon.com Product Description
A true breakthrough in music education, the Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube will be music to your baby's ears. Providing hours of interactive play for budding young composers of all ages, this award-winning toy is the perfect musical foundation for little ones. 
The Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to create baby's own Mozart masterpieces. View larger. |  | The Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube offers: - Sounds from 5 instruments.
- Soft, rounded corners for baby's safety.
- Fun and entertainment for babies of all ages.
|  | | Music Education in a Cube
Fun, creative, and inspiring, the Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to create eight Mozart masterpieces. With a touch of a button, this interactive cube lets your child add or subtract from any combination of five different instruments, including harp, French horn, piano, flute, and violin. Each selected instrument button flashes along to the beat of the music. An orchestra button even plays all the instruments at once. Baby-Safe Design
Designed with durable plastic construction, the Magic Cube features bright colors such as yellow, green, purple, and magenta. Made with soft, rounded corners, it's easy and safe for baby to hold. The 6-inch cube requires three AA batteries (not included). |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 236 more reviews...
 The best baby toddler toy ever February 23, 2001
erynn (Tacoma, WA United States)
249 out of 252 found this review helpful
This was purchased as a gift for my 1 yr old and became the immediate favorite of both my daughter and her 3 yr old brother. This is the first game that they can both play together. It keeps them occupied for hours, and the music, while clearly electronic, closely mimics the sound of real instruments and is not at all irritating- so we don't mind listening to it for hours. It is also exceptionally durable, having now been dropped, kicked, licked, and knocked out the car window. No cracks, no broken pieces, and still plays as well as it did the first day out of the box.
 If you live in a musical household, pass on this toy... November 23, 2003
156 out of 232 found this review helpful
Although the concept is an intriguing and potentially enlightening one for an infant/toddler, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. As a musician and engineer, I acquire and test out many toys claiming to enrich a child's musical tastes/abilities, etc. As a musician, the sound this cube produces is so terrible, I shudder every time I hear it. When I first heard it, I immediately thought the batteries were dead and changed them, only to discover that brand new batteries made no difference whatsoever. My 11 month old son pressed the buttons eagerly to see what would happen, frowned, and then quickly pressed them again to make it stop and pointed at the CD player from which there is almost always some sort of music playing! He by far prefers a CD or even an MP3, so this toy has now been abandoned. The distinction between the different instruments is very slight. My violin sounds nothing like this supposed violin sound. The rest of the instruments do not resemble their real counterparts very much either, and even the intonation is not exact. As an engineer, I know that even the simplest synthesizers and even the most terrible audio compression algorithms produce better audio quality. Why couldn't the engineers of this toy make this sound better? If anything, I would think the audio auality of this toy would put a musically oriented child off of music entirely. For this price you can buy a better electronic keyboard and play with truly different sounds with your little one. As for selection, aside from a few obvious ones that are acceptable, there are numerous more interesting and more familiar pieces composed by Mozart. I'd love to know who chose these pieces and why. So far, this toy has mostly been thrown around. As such, it has not yet broken, though I too have experienced the need to turn it off and on again in order to get it to function "properly" again. So, I would wait for a new version of this toy to come out with considerably better electronics before buying. Or, at the very least, listen to it at the store before you buy it to see if you can stomach the sound yourself.
Fun music with fun play. July 1, 2003
Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States)
107 out of 112 found this review helpful
I am on my second child and this toy continues to be a favorite.The cube has six buttons. It will play one of six Mozart tunes. One button switches between the tunes while the others turn on and off specific instruments (piano, violin, harp, french horn, flute). The cube has rounded corners with durable rubber bumpers that make it both safe and durable. It is amazing how much abuse this toy can take. My oldest received the toy when she was 13 months and now nearly three years later she is still playing with it as is her younger brother. A little pricey, but very-well made. A toy that will last from one child to another.
Greaat for babies of all ages! October 15, 2001
55 out of 56 found this review helpful
We bought this last year for Christmas for our (then) 18-month-old. She loved it, but the real surprise was last month when our 10-month-old discovered it. To say he loved it would be a real understatement!! He loves to crawl around after it and will play with it for 30 minutes at a time--amazing for a baby to play with something for that long.The music is a pleasure to listen to, especially compared with most musical baby toys. Like the other reviewers, I would have liked the addition of a volume control, but otherwise this toy is perfect. The batteries even seem to last a very long time. I was amazed that my 2-1/2 year old and 10-month-old can be mesmerized by the same toy.
My son loves this toy!!! October 28, 2003
Mike (Irvine, CA United States)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
My son received this toy when he was 4 months old, and was instantly taken with the music. Now at 15 months, he still loves this toy, but he can also press the buttons to make the music play himself. I have noticed that he almost always presses the flute button, so I think that he has learned from this toy which sounds he likes better. So not only is this toy great fun for little ones, but it is also educational. I have also given this toy as a gift to many of my friends babies and have always gotten positive feedback.
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