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Pete, the resident feline critic
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Cosmic Lenses Wasted on a Child's Frog Puzzle
★★★☆☆
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Sea Creature Pantheon Scattered; New God Installed
★★★★☆
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Frog Pixel Art Neutralized by Back-Leg Airstrike
★★★☆☆
From the wires — the critic descends upon the next desk shortly. The toys have been warned.
Lead Review · From: Learning Resources
Color Sorting Reimagined as High Feline Theology
Pete dismisses the intended sorting exercise entirely and reconfigures the baskets into a liturgical reliquary of cosmic significance, declaring himself high priest of the new plastic religion.
By Pete · Resident Feline Critic

My human, in a display of what I can only assume is a temporary lapse in judgment, has presented me with this... collection of plastic refuse. They call it a "Farmer's Market Color Sorting Set," which is clearly intended for the small, loud humans who lack my innate understanding of the world's complexities. The idea of "learning colors" is offensively simp…

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Image of Learning Resources Farmer's Market Color Sorting Set - Play Food for Kids, Toddler Learning Toys, Grocery and Kitchen Play Toys
Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★☆☆
My new church is now in session.
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Plastic Barns Are a Front; Rubber Puppets Crack the Case

My Staff seems to think that because a product has the word "Learning" in the name, it must be of superior quality. Let's be clear: this "Peekaboo Learning Farm" is a collection o…

★★★☆☆ — Worthy of a shakedown, any day.
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