Review of Disney DVD Bingo: A Fun Game for the Whole Family

The Easter Bunny hopped his was through my sisters home last night, leaving behind 2 giant baskets filled with chocolates, clothing, jelly beans, and of course games for my niece and nephew.

I stopped in long after the Easter Bunny's arrival, and made my way into my niece's bedroom. Her and my nephew were glued to the television with large Bingo boards in their laps.

I love Bingo, so I sat in to see what the heck sort of Bingo game this was. One look at the Bingo boards and I realized this was a kiddie version of the game. On their Bingo boards character's faces such as Peter Pan, Jasmine, Pooh, Jafar, and Mickey glanced back at me paired with numbers next to their photos.

This was cool because my niece who is still learning with numbers could pair the character photos that would display on the television set every 15 seconds. Instead saying 'I got B9', she would say 'Hey I got Jasmine!' Which made things easier for her.

After watching them play a round, I then decided to jump in. Once we were back at the DVD's main menu we got to choose what type of game we wanted to play. Regular Bingo, Pattern Bingo, or Blackout.

We went with Blackout. In this game you have to fill the entire board to win.

Inside of the box that the game came in their were about a hundred little red chips with Mickey Mouse ear logos drawn on in white. These chips were for the board obviously.

Once the game began we were at it. Me, 25 years old, up against a 5 year old and a 10 year old. It was on!
 
The game started out like I expected. A large picture of the number paired with a Disney character would pop up on the screen. Moving on to the next number was 15 seconds, which at my age is excruciatingly painful. For young kids though, 15 seconds was the perfect amount of time needed to see if they had that character/number on their Bingo board.

About 5 minutes into the game suddenly popped up on the screen a sort of intermission called 'WILD CARD'. During Wild Card intermissions we were forced to watch a one minute clip from a random Disney movie. Small clips of Bambi, Peter Pan, etc, etc, would play. After the clip was over we were then given a free space to put over any character we wanted, so long as it was in the proper colored line, and the line was not already filled with chips.

At the end of the game if someone calls bingo, a large screen will pop up to display called numbers/characters. This is to double check to make sure you don't have any cheaters in the room!

Overall we had a lot of fun playing Blackout. The pattern bingo game, and regular bingo game sort of flew by faster than we liked, so we stuck with playing Blackout for awhile.

My niece was really into the game, and my nephew enjoyed kicking out butts throughout the game. Both of them really enjoyed the minute cartoon clips that would pop up randomly throughout the game.

Although this added a lot of time to calling a win, they did both enjoy it, and it was nice seeing clips of my childhood cartoon classics.

My sister told me that the Easter Bunny may of paid around $20.00 for the game. In my opinion it was twenty Easter dollars well spent. The kids seemed to enjoy it, and families alike would also find enjoyment playing this together. It truly is just as fun as regular Bingo, only the kids can get involved, making it a really great family game.

I highly recommend Disney DVD Bingo to families with children. It's a nice way to spend time together on boring rainy days. It also helps younger children recognize numbers, colors, and match up characters.

You can find Disney DVD Bingo at local toy stores down the board games isle.