 | ON: Content is age-appropriate for kids this age. |
 | PAUSE: Know your child; some content may not be right for some kids. |
 | OFF: Not age-appropriate for kids this age. |
 | NOT FOR KIDS: Not appropriate for kids any age. |
TurboNick
Common Sense Media says
Nick TV episodes and games; hard-to-use interface.
Parents say
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Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this site's interface is a little hard to use. It's not always clear what needs to be clicked in order to select a game or video. Ads appear before and after the selected videos. Kids can watch whole episodes of Nickelodeon shows on the site, so if you don't want kids to watch Mr. Meaty or another show, you may want to keep an eye on them while they surf around.
What's it about?
TURBONICK offers kids a chance to watch popular Nickelodeon TV shows on their computers. Full-length episodes of series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, for example, can be viewed and rated. Sign up for a free nickname, and you can "snag" favorite videos and save them to your own private collection. Besides the available TV episodes, kids can see short features on Nick's kid celebrities, plus go behind the scenes of movies. Think you could be a Nick animator? Let your creativity shine in "Mash-Up Central," where you can select video clips, graphics, transitions, and music to make your very own Nick-inspired movie. This fascinating tool also lets you save your best work and email it to a friend. If yours is exceptional, it might even end up on TV! Other games are a letdown after Mash-Up. They include Nick-themed hangman games, as well as Simon-like memory activities. Registered users can post to the message board, which is really offsite at the "regular" Nick.com.
Is it any good?
The site's user interface is designed for low reading skills. Kids click on pictures rather than words. Unfortunately, the interface is a little hard to use. It's not always clear what needs to be clicked in order to select a game or video. Select a "channel" on the left; more choices will pop up on the right of the channel area. If you want to play a video, look for the "play" arrow inside that video's window. The Games section has a different set of controls on the top right. A more consistent user interface would be a welcome addition.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about how to plan their mash-up movies in the games section. This fun activity is less of a game and more of an interactive, creative movie-making session for families. How do you choose a theme for your mash-up movie? What elements do you like to include in your movies?
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great for kids
a great site where your kids ( if they are 5-13 years of age)
can chill, relax and watch there favorite nick shows.
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The problem with nick*/
I think it is sad that people can't go to a website and get a good service. nick*/ is the sad represent of this. First, when you go on the screen is never full. It always has big huge gaps where no info about it!! Then you can never get to where you want to go, because it never fully downloads!!! How wrong it is that all the technology that has made the world brighter, one website can make it look bad.
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A Waste of Time!
Unless you think your children are suffering from a lack of mindless Nickalodeon shows, I don't see the point of this site. The site might as well be a Sponge Bob site with a few extra shows thrown in, and the only creative aspect is a Nick version of Youtube.
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Turbonick
Torbonick would be perfectly fine if it could load the videos faster. I don't know why it is doing this but I know that it is not my computer. The videos can hardly be watched. They load the wrong way so you have to come back to your computer in two hour to watch the video and it still has so many problems with how fast it loads. I have tried it several times because it is a convienient way to view the videos and it is free. I guess I will have to wait for these shows to come on tv because it is almost impossible to even look at the viedo without it skipping the good parts or it plays the sound for the add when it is playing everything in the video. It would be a good site without this but thus problem effects everything on the site which means it is very very very very very very hard to use!!!
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turbonick
It won't work because I have windows media player version 10 but turbo nick is for an other version make it avalible for windows media player 10 thank you
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they did copy you tube but sucedd
i like it make play list
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