Jeri Jacquin

Coming to DVD from SHOUT! Kids, the Sesame Workshop and created by Joe Fallonis the 3-disc family fun with SESAME STREET MECHA BUILDERS: The Complete Series.

The new superheroes on Sesame Street are Mecha-Abby Cadabby, Mecha-Cookie and Mecha-Elmo and their first adventure is when a mysterious pie hangs over the city. A note from aliens lets them know why the pie was sent but the three superheroes might have made a huge mistake. Now the Mecha’s have to go into problem solving mode working together using their powers!

The Singing Stonehenge are about to perform when the Mecha Builders show up. Berta is upset because the stones are sneezing instead of performing. Ranger Nat wants to show the world their show and this is where the Mecha Builders come in to help make the show a success! Ranger Nat finds himself in a situation where he needs help. They hear his cries for help as Mech-Abby flies over the park to find his location. Each of Mecha’s try to work out how to get him out but not before more of them get stuck!

The Mecha-Builders visit Farmer McFarm and see a space ship coming their way. Mecha-Cookie knows rockets belong in space and not on a farm. Next door is a rocket launching site and the Mecha’s want to return it. They want to help to get the rocket into space and its time to put their minds together to create a solution. When a Big Ole’ Boulder decides to take a roll down a hill, the Mecha-Builders need to find a way to put it back. Berta really needs it to happen so she can take her picture with it for Mr. Pinecone’s traditional wall!

Celebrating Food Day in the city park, putting up a banana split in the park, the workers forgot to put the split in it. No one can celebrate until someone can split the banana and the Mecha-Builders are up for the tasty task. The city is busy building and a local birdie mistakes a pretzel-magnet for food, mayhem happens as metal objects are caught up in the magnet’s powers. Its time for the Mecha-Builders to find a way to turn off the magnet! Heading to Tree Top Wood Station, the train loaded with eggs loses its brakes. The Mecha-Builders have a problem to solve getting the train under control!

It is Heroes Celebration Day and setting up a party screen in the city park, a series of events make setting up a mess. Needing a big screen to show all the heroes like teachers, firemen and police, the Mecha-Builders truly want to solve this problem. At the city park, an ice slide is up for the children to play with. The problem is that the ice slide is starting to melt. When the slide is closed, the children are sad and the Mecha-Builders need to find a way to slow down the melting.

On the farm, the chickens want to have a car race but, for some reason, the chickens in their cars aren’t moving. A race can’t be won by any chicken if the wheels aren’t moving and that’s a problem for the Mecha-Builders to solve. In the park, Ranger Nat is putting up his telescope to catch a comet that is due. When the telescope is blocked in the road, the Mecha-Builders find a solution to get the telescope where it needs to be before the comet arrives in the sky!

The city is about to have an amazing book reading day but when aliens land, they get the wrong idea when they see books and a trash can side by side. Now the Mecha-Builders have to find the books and do some earthly explaining to their new alien friends. While delivering slime, an accident happens and slime is all over the city. No one can reach the off switch, well, maybe one of the Mecha-Builders can!

Ranger Nat is hiking through the woods and finds a map that he thinks leads to buried treasure. The Mecha-Builders want to help find it since Ranger Nat can’t seem to read the map. They are thrilled to solve this particular mysterious problem. The Zee-Mobile comes to the farm to help create a maze in the farmers corn field. The problem is when the Zee-Mobile goes haywire, the Mecha-Builders come to help find Zee who is now lost in his own maze!

SHOUT! Studios has grown into a tremendous multi-platform media company. Releasing new animated features such as the exquisite Long Way North, and the epic fantasy Beauty and The Beast. Also, their own original horror film, Fender Bender gives fans a good scare. For more of what SHOUT has to offer please visit www.shoutfactory.com.

Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit media and educational organization behind Sesame Street and the amazing television show. Teaching children since 1969, Sesame Workshop is a force for change and a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger and kinder. Reaching over 150 countries, Sesame Workshop tailors to the needs of the culture and communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.sesameworkshop.org.

The episodes include on Disc One – They Sent Us a Pie, Dust in the Wind, Pull Together, Lift Up and Lift Off, That Ol’ Time Rock Rolls, Make Like a Banana and Split, Magnet Mayhem, Stop That Train, Picture Perfect Park Party, Sun Block, Roll Chicken Roll, Ramp Up Up and Away, Yip Yip Book Book, Stick to It, The Treasure of Tree Top Woods, and Zee Makes an Amazing Maze,

Abby, Cookie Monster and Elmo are heroes-in-training with a focus on STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. There is more fun and adventure in store when Grover, Rosita and more come to visit the Mecha-Builders.

Each episode has a problem and the Mecha-Builders work through several possibilities until they create a solution that solves the problem. It is such a wonderful way to show children fun, adventure and four of the most wonderful learning tools with STEM. My own granddaughter is fascinated with science and, even at 8-years-old, she absolutely loved every episode talking her way through the Mecha-Builders problems.

These are only the episodes in Disc One so you can imagine, if these first sixteen episodes are so filled with adventure and inventions, that leaves two more discs of family fun. The Mecha-Builders each have their own set of powers and when they talk out the problems and realize that each brings something special to it, the solutions are creative and pretty darn amazing.

In the end – they have problems to solve!

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