Baby Airlines - Airport City Adventures
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that? Baby Airplanes - Airport City Adventures? is a freemium app, offered for free with options for in-app purchases, that can include advertising inappropriate for the age range of kids the game targets. To unlock free content, such as additional colors for planes, kids must watch video ads that can include graphic excerpts from shows such as? The Walking Dead and True Blood. Ads can be removed for $0.99, but even then, additional purchases are required to unlock all the content, with the fully unlocked, ad-free app totaling $4.99. Without the ads, the game is a reasonably fun exploration of air travel for younger kids.?What kids can learn
Each part of the airport features a different activity for kids to explore and learn with, though the activities don't change over time or increase in challenge.
Kids are empowered to solve problems and fix the planes using early literacy skills. The challenge doesn't adapt, though, so kids may tire of the activities quickly.
On-screen fingers demonstrate what kids should do. Kids can earn money to spend in the Duty Free Shop for completing different tasks, though it isn't clear how they earned the money.?
What's it about?
BABY AIRLINES - AIRPORT CITY ADVENTURES lets kids role-play working at an airport, doing jobs that require quite a lot of maintenance and cleaning up. They can work on the plane's exterior in the "Body Shop," painting it and adding accessories. They can fix the plane's mechanics in the "Fix the Plane" shop, and do maintenance of the cockpit in the "Flight Simulator." Then they can shop in the "Duty Free" shop and clean the plane before passengers board. More airport features -- the "Control Tower," "Lost & Found," "X-Ray," and "Check-In" require an in-app purchase to unlock.
Is it any good?
Once the ads are removed,? Baby Airlines - Airport City Adventures? is a pretty fun role-playing game for kids, though it quickly becomes repetitive once kids have visited each of the stops in the airport and is much more focused on tidying up than flying. Parents will have to unlock the Control Tower for kids to do any actual flying, and even then, it's the same experience over and over in each of the buildings at the airport. This ad-driven game can get quite pricey quickly but doesn't offer much content for the price.
Families can talk about...
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Families can visit an airport to watch planes take off and land to entertain and educate kids interested in flying.
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Talk to kids about the steps involved in flying on a plane, both from a passenger's perspective and a pilot or an airline employee's perspective.
App details
| Devices: | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire |
| Price: | Free-$4.99 |
| Pricing structure: | Free to Try |
| Release date: | September 17, 2014 |
| Category: | Kids Games |
| Topics: | Cars and trucks |
| Size: | 50.30 MB |
| Publisher: | Kids Fun Club by TabTale |
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Minimum software requirements: | iOS 5.1.1 or later; Android 2.3.3 and up |
