Advantages: good quality, popular character Disadvantages: top comes off very easily
I bought the peppa pig campervan for my three year old son at christmas. He had been going on about it for months and by the time I got round to buying it they were out of stock in a lot of the shops so I started to panic as this was obviously one of the 'must have' toys this year. Luckily I got one in woolworths for £19.99!
On christmas morning he was over the moon when he opened it so that was worth the £19.99 for a start. When it came to opening it, it was not easy! As with many toys theres loads of cardboard, sellotape and plastic ties, it probably took about half an hour to get out of the packaging!
The set comprises of the campervan (the top comes off) with fully functional awning. This is operated with a dial at the side of the roof. The other bits are the figures: peppa, george, mummy pig and daddy pig, a little ...
Advantages: All items fit nicely into the boot of the camper van, good for storage. Disadvantages: Toy is difficult to get out of box
I bought this for my son's birthday as he is a big Peppa Pig fan.
I was a bit weary of buying it to be honest, as he has had the Peppa Pig house and playground sets before and not really played much with them.
The advantage of this toy is that it's got wheels and anything in this house with wheels gets played with!!
When I opened the box, the toughtest part of this toy is to get it out of the box. It is well packaged, but too well, to the extent that you can't get all the bits free easily. I still have a couple of them plastic tie things stuck to the campervan as I had to snip hard with scissors and I now can't free them!
The campervan's roof is very easily removable for ease to put all the characters in and out of the vehicle. The only thing is comes off too easily at times and my son gets a bit cross with it. There are ...
Advantages: Some stunning trance anthems Disadvantages: One dodgy track
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Product details
Title
New Roman Times
Performer
Camper Van Beethoven
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Alternative
Release Date
11/10/2004
Recomended Retail Price
12.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2004
Label / Distributor
Cooking Vinyl / Essential Music/Cinram Logistics
Engineer
John Morand; Alan Weatherhead; Brya
Producer
Camper Van Beethoven
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
711297471724
Additional notes
Album Notes
Camper Van Beethoven: Jonathan Segel (vocals, guitar, violin, synthesizer); David Lowery (vocals, guitar, piano); David Immergluck (guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Victor Krummenacher (guitar, bass guitar); Greg Lisher (guitar); Chris Pedersen (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Alan Weatherhead (guitar, pedal steel guitar, synthesizer); John Hickman (autoharp, midi, background vocals); William Grishaw (piano, synthesizer); Kenny Margolis (keyboards); Chris Molla (synthesizer); Miguel Urbiztondo (drums, percussion); Ches Smith, Frank Funaro (drums); Lauren Hoffman, Casey Martin, Teddy Blanks, Julia McCauley, Anne Hege, Nina Gates, Darion Arnette (background vocals). Recording information: Sound Of Music, Richmond, Virginia. Camper Van Beethoven's first new effort in 15 years, NEW ROMAN TIMES lives up to the high watermark set by 1988's OUR BELOVED REVOLUTIONARY SWEETHEART and 1989's KEY LIME PIE, the band's most mature and accomplished statements. The stylistic eclecticism that characterized those albums is in full force here with rock ("The Long Plastic Hallway"), Balkan dance ("Sons of the New Golden West"), country ("Militia Song"), experimental prog-rock noise ("White Fluffy Clouds"), even disco ("Discotheque CVB"). In addition to its appealing, kaleidoscopic sound, NEW ROMAN TIMES boasts some of the group's finest songwriting. An allegory of political crisis in the early 2000s, the record follows the adventures of a young Texan who joins the military, serves in battle, comes home wounded, only to join a militia group and eventually become a terrorist. The narrative contains veiled references to 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the foreign policies of the Bush administration in brilliantly incisive and satirical songs like "Might Makes Right" and "Hey Brother." Always adept at experimental musical statements (on "Come Out," the band remixes minimalist composer Steve Reich's song of the same name), CVB's profound thematic text raises the caliber of their achievement. This album was worth the wait.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The album] finds the Cali sextet charging through gypsy jams, psych-rock and scary-funny folk songs as it documents a parallel-reality America..."
Spin (p.124) - "[A] sweetly embittered geopolitical epic about the not-too-distant future..." - Grade: B+
Uncut (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[F]rom oddball Middle Eastern instrumentals to arch Kaleidoscope-type rockers to picture-perfect folk-rock..."
CMJ (p.4) - "[T]here's plenty of violin freakouts, post-ironic surrealism, faux-ska and middle eastern prog..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Prelude
2.
Sons Of The New Golden West
3.
51 7
4.
White Fluffy Clouds
5.
That Gum You Like Is Back In Style
6.
Might Makes Right
7.
Militia Song
8.
R 'n' R Uzbekistan
9.
Sons Of The New Golden West (reprise)
10.
New Roman Times
11.
Poppies Of Balmorhea
12.
Long Plastic Hallway
13.
I Am Talking To This Flower
14.
Come Out
15.
Los Tigres Traficantes
16.
I Hate This Part Of Texas
17.
Hippy Chix
18.
Civil Disobedience
19.
Discotheque CVB
20.
Hey Brother
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