Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Build wacky cars ... but with no place to drive them.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 5+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Download
Videos and Photos
Create a Car
Is It Any Good?
CREATE A CAR allows kids to stretch their definition of what a "car" is with some very imaginative parts and accessories to choose from, like fins, wings, jet engines, fishing poles, and time travel devices. The app definitely allows for lots of creativity. There can be some frustration in finding that certain parts, in the way they are drawn, don't really fit together well, and it seems like a flaw that wheels can only be placed outside the car's body. It would also have been really nice to have someplace for your vehicles to actually drive -- even a simple one-lane road -- but seeing your car spin its wheels inside the garage is the best you get. Still, creative kids can have a lot of fun mixing and matching these parts and pieces. It's certainly a decent app for the dollar.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : September 9, 2010
- Genre : Entertainment
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : August 25, 2016
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