LeapFrog® Didj Custom Learning Gaming System | 
| Brand: LeapFrog
Category: Toy
List Price: $89.99
Buy Collectible: $29.48
as of 9/7/2010 12:25 MDT details
You Save: $60.51 (67%)
Seller: monster-deals
Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 3669
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 10 years
Modem: None
Display Size: 3.2
Battery: 4 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 2.5 x 10.5 x 13
Warranty: 3 months warranty
MPN: 30672
Model: 30672
UPC: 708431306721
EAN: 0708431306721
ASIN: B00134PLN8
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | First-ever gaming handheld that connects to the computer so kids can customize both gaming and learning | | | Totally customized gaming: Kids customize their characters, backgrounds, animation, music and more | | | Truly customized learning: sync the games to skills your child is studying in school | | | Library of games featuring favorite characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Wars and Indiana Jones | | | Included and additional games teach skills in a range of subjects, such as language arts, spelling, math and math facts |
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Product Description
Introducing Didj, the all-new gaming system featuring totally thrilling gaming and truly customized learning. It's the first-ever gaming handheld that lets you customize both learning and gaming. Just connect it to your computer to play action-packed games and sharpen your skills as you study what you need for school. Earn points as you play; then trade them for cool downloads to make each game your own. Expand your learning experience with a software library full of your favorite characters and themes. Software sold separately. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included.
Amazon.com Review
With games that reinforce skills like math and spelling, the LeapFrog DIDJ is a custom gaming system that parents won't mind seeing their children spending their afternoons with. Using your computer and the LEAPFROG Connect application, games can be customized to provide all kinds of learning opportunities for all kids between the ages of six to ten. 
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The Good: Entertaining, interactive system with educational games.
The Bad: The computer interface takes a little getting used to.
In a Nutshell: Customizable digital characters and worlds make learning fun. | At a Glance
Ages: 6 to 10
Requires: Four AA batteries and a computer with an Internet connection for set up.
|  | | Making the DIDJ Your Own
Before kids start creating, an adult will want to install four AA batteries (not included) in the DIDJ and set up the system. A convenient product guide pamphlet walks you through the necessary set-up tasks. This process involves installing the LEAPFROG Connect application onto your computer and transferring the included game, JetPack Heroes, onto the handheld DIDJ with a USB cable (included). Before you close the software down, kids will want to create their own custom avatars using the Didjerator. With a huge color palette to utilize, and the ability to make your avatar a robot with vampire fangs or dress it in a tuxedo with sneakers, it may take awhile to get each character perfect. Once this is done, the avatars can be downloaded to the handset and are available to play in any game that uses Didji characters. Fun, Customizable Way to Learn
The included game, JetPack Heroes, stars your favorite character in a fight against the villain Gooracha. Players use math skills to free the energy buddies they have captured and provide light and life for the entire planet. Quick fingers control the hero's jet pack and gun that is used to navigate the erratic landscape and stop enemy goons in between answering addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. Additional games that develop skills like vocabulary and spelling are available. One enticing feature of the interactive software is that points that are earned while playing, called Bitz, can be uploaded to your computer and then traded in for micromods, game updates such as new spaceships, backgrounds, or music. Interactive Education
Overall, we had a great time creating our own characters and immersing ourselves in DIDJ worlds. The computer interface was clearly designed with young computer users in mind, which makes it easy to navigate. Several point and click menus put a wide variety of tools at your fingertips. One cool interactive feature is the learning path. After game information is uploaded from the handset, parents can follow a link in the connect software to see their children's progress, making it easy to track success. Kids are sure to enjoy studying for tests when they can set the DIDJ to use their own math facts and spelling words, making this unique system a great investment. What's in the Box
Didj, USB cable, and CD with LEAPFROG connect computer application, which includes one game.
PC Requirements:
Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system
Pentium III 500 MHz processor
Monitor resolution of at least 1024 X 768
Available USB port
256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
300 MB free disk space
Internet connection
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 or higher
CD reader
Mac Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+
PPC G4 or any Intel-based Apple computer
Monitor resolution of at least 1024 X 768
Available USB port
256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
300 MB free disk space
Internet connection
Safari application
CD reader
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 Don't waste your money!!!! August 10, 2010
tightwadmom
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought a new Didji for my son for Christmas this last year. The "new" product that I can no longer buy games in the store for. I have loved what Leap Frog has been trying to do with educational toys and gaming systems and have bought almost all their products over the last 14 years. I am however very disappointed in how quickly they have started changing their systems that will not support the other games. The Didj is now their old gaming system and they have now came out with the Explorer which looks identical to the Didj. The Didj will not play Explorer games so if you buy this product please know that they are not developing any more games for it. What you see is what you get. The procut might be a good product but in my eyes it is a total waist of money if I cannot buy new games for it. Kids get tired of their games. They master them and then they are done. I cannot buy anything new for ours and now it is just sitting and collecting dust. Buy a DS! It may not have the educational games like the Didj or Explorer but it will atleast have new games and a huge selection to choose from! We have a first generation DS. They have since came out with the DS lite and DS i. All of which play the same games, they even play the old game boy games! Save your money and stop buying Leap Frogs products since they are just taking advantage of America's consumerism and creating new prodcuts and not continuing to create games for their other system that were only out for less than 2 years!
Discontinued! July 5, 2010
Aquarius
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're looking/considering this system, you may wan tto know that it has just become obsolete. Look instead at the LeapFrog Leapster Explorer Learning Game System (Green) or LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System - Green.
Leapfrog has just discontinued the Didj, and just came out with a brand new system, the Leapster Explorer. The Didj was not a success for Leapfrog. From customers reviews (both on Amazon, but also on the Leapfrog site itself) it appears it was flawed by bugs, and needed constant patches to fix the problems. Some customers also did not find the Didj games very educational. In comparison, Leapster 2 games get much higher rating for being fun and educational.
In contrast to the Didj, the Leapster2 was and still is a success for Leapfrog. It gets overall good ratings from customers. And kids and parents like the games for being fun and educational. The Leapster2 is NOT discontinued, and Leapfrog informs it will continue to support it and to develop games for it. I'm thinking, perhaps Leapfrog will discontinue the Leapster2 in the future too, that is if the Explorer becomes a huge success. But for now Leapfrog will continue with the Leapster2. So it's still a good and proven system to get. You can read my review on the Leapster2.
The Leapster Explorer is the brand new system (released on 1-july 2010). According to Leapfrog the Explorer is not a successor to the Didj nor the Leapster2, but an entirely new system with much better specs and functionality. It's too early to tell, but I expect the Explorer to become a success too, because I take it Leapfrog has learned from experience to make a much better system now. You can read my review on the Explorer.
We have the L-Max, Leapster2, and now also the Explorer. We don't have the Didj, but I have read a lot about the Didj when researching the other systems. I felt compelled to write a review when I saw pretty recent reviews on the Didj posted on Amazon.
I hope this information is helpful to someone. Thanks for reading.
Amazon review by Aquarius.
frustrated June 30, 2010
athome
this leap frog toy has been bitter sweet. The kids love to play it when it works. the problem is the batteries do not last!!!! And the toy continually needs to be connected to the leap frog site to be "tuned up". the "tune up" request can happen after a week of play or even one minute after a tune up. The didj requires a lot of parental help to keep it functioning. i would not buy this didj system agian even if it were [...] bucks it is too high maintenance and very frustrating.
 It's a good starting point June 14, 2010
J. Hartmus
Found this product on kids.woot very inexpensively. Our kids did not have any handhelds, so I figured that something inexpensive would be a good way to try it out. It does sometimes interrupt saying that it needs to be connected to a computer. But if you take the time to sync up before you are going on a trip, it works out fine. REALLY like being able to program in spelling words. DD always asks me to put her spelling list on it for her each week. Would like to be able to include words "not in their library" for the oddball stuff on her list, but I understand the programming challenges in that.
They have been dropped numerous times without ill effect. Do not try to use a dime to open the battery compartment. You will just get frustrated. I use a small screwdriver instead and they pop right off.
Overall, it is fine, especially for the price. I kind of like the limited games, because it also limits how much the kids want to play to a nice amount and keeps the expense down too. They love the Jetpack Heroes that comes with the game. They also like Racing Tiki Tropics. Hold off on Star Wars and Nancy Drew until they are solid readers.
Barely any game choices! Boring games! June 10, 2010
L. Kaplan (Massachusetts)
This game was a huge disappointment. We bought my 7 year old several game cartridges for the Didj and most of them bored (or frustrated) her so she just doesn't play them. I tried to find new games that would maybe be different but it seems like Leapster might be discontinuing these products (just my opinion) because NO NEW GAMES have come out at all and most stores do not seem to be re-stocking them. They'll have only 1 or 2 available, often on clearance.
I feel really duped on this toy. Though we did not have the technical issues that many reported (maybe because we have techie backgrounds?), the game itself is not much good for its original purpose - learning and occupying our daughter on long trips and whatnot. I think a DS is the next one of these we'll buy.
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