![]() ![]() ![]() Happy Place: In A Tad of Christmas Cheer, after Edison fails to send Tad back to his proper reality following his It's a Wonderful Life wish, the two discover that Tad tore himself out of the picture of his family and they literally need to find the torn piece.Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Everyone in the Learning videos are this trope, not counting the baby versions of Leap, Lily and Tad in toys.Fantasy Helmet Enforcement: In the Scout and Friends videos, notice how Axel automatically puts seatbelts on the characters during the "I'm With You Scout" song.Expressive Ears: In the Scout and Friends videos, Penny certainly has them.Distant Duet: Tad has a heartbreaking one with Mrs.Disembodied Eyebrows: In The Letter Machine Rescue Team, many of the letters have these, so though sometimes the appearance of it depends on what angle they're shown at.Later, he is seen in the Letter Sound Presentation. Cool Old Guy: The E Trainer is shown to be one as he is seen teaching the E letters to make the "eh" sound.Continuity Nod: In (Learn to Read at) The Storybook Factory, Quigley brings up Tad's adventures at the Letter and Talking Words Factories.Christmas Special: A Tad Of Christmas Cheer.For an example of a brother and sister, Mr.Call-Back: In The Magnificent Museum of Opposite Words, the guests of the museum at the time of opening consists of characters from previous DVDs Phonics Farm, Numberland and Adventures in Shapeville Park.Breakout Character: Professor Quigley, who was originally designed as the teacher of the original DVDs, went on to get his own (short-lived) game series on the Leapster L-Max, containing Letters on the Loose and Counting on Zero.Art Shift: The Letter Machine Rescue Team marks a shift to full CGI from the past DVDs' Flash Animation.Also many noticeable minor improvements from Letter Factory right up to A Tad Of Christmas Cheer. Art Evolution: A major one that crosses with Art Shift between A Tad of Christmas Cheer, and Let's Go To School!.The series goes through a few reboots, from using tad and Lily in a different style of episodes teaching the same concept, then focusing on Scout and his friends going through the same concepts, and finally a CGI cartoon focusing on Tad, Leap, and Lily learning the same concepts. The next couple of episodes focus on using said letters to make words, before shifting to numbers in Math Circus, where anthropomorphic numbers perform circus acts of adding and subtracting. Anthropomorphic Typography: The first episode, Letter Factory, involves the protagonist, Tad, learning his alphabet at a factory that produces anthropomorphic letters.Other animals, however, are more or less the colors that you'd expect them to be. Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: There's Scout the green puppy, Violet the purple puppy, and Eli the blue cat.In "The Letter Factory", Tad learns that every letter makes different sounds.In (Learn to Read at) The Storybook Factory, the lesson is that you should take your time and be patience if you want things to get done quickly.Two other CGI DVDs have since been produced. Leapfrog has since proceeded to put Scout and his friends on the bus and brought back Leap, Lily and Tad in the 2014 video The Letter Machine Rescue Team, which also marks an art shift to CGI. This was followed by Adventures in Shapeville Park and The Magnificent Museum of Opposite Words in 2013. The result was the first two Scout and Friends video, Phonics Farm and Numberland, following a new continuity. In 2012, it appears that Leapfrog had gotten tired of Leap, Lily and Tad and decided to focus on Scout and his friends instead (not surprising, as at that time, Scout and Violet were Leapfrog's cash cow and toys from the company of that period primarily featured the two puppies). This was followed by The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park and Numbers Ahoy in 2011. This was followed by Math Adventure to the Moon in 2010. Upon returning from the hiatus, the first video released was Let's Go to School in 2009. During this hiatus, the three main characters (and Edison) were completely redesigned and many of the supporting were Brother Chucked or Put on the Bus. Then the series went into another two year hiatus before the next video. This was followed by a two year hiatus and then A Tad of Christmas Cheer in 2007. It was followed by The Talking Words Factory in the same year, The Talking Words Factory 2: Code Word Caper and Math Circus in 2004, (Learn to Read at) The Storybook Factory in 2005. The first title, Letter Factory, was released way back in 2003. LeapFrog regularly releases DVDs featuring animations of the characters its franchise created. This page contains tropes that applies to the DVD releases. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |