Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Learning Workbench - It's time to work and play, it's time to build today! Your little fixer can pound, tap, spin, slide and drill while discovering the alphabet, counting, shapes, colors, opposites and actions. Three interactive learning modes and lots of tool friends bring the workbench to life, with more than 15 sing-along songs and tunes, along with lively music, fun sounds and phrases. There's a dancing drill, spinning vise, twirling paint roller, count-and-slide ruler, and rattling hammer. Baby can tap and pound three light-up pegs and sing a counting song. Volume control for quiet play. Since 1930, Fisher-Price has been in business to create toys that fascinate and stimulate a child's imagination. Fisher-Price was founded in 1930, hardly the best time to launch a new business as the shadows of the Depression still loomed over American business. Still, Herman Fisher, Irving Price and Helen Schelle combined their diverse manufacturing and retailing experience to create a toy company and confidently brought 16 wooden toys to the International Toy Fair in New York City. The whimsical nature and magical surprises of those first Fisher-Price toys quickly caught on and became the hallmarks of Fisher-Price ever since. Fisher-Price believes in the potential of children and in the importance of a supportive environment in which they can grow, learn, and get the best possible start in life. Fisher-Price supports today's families with young children through our breadth of products that includes GeoTrax, Imaginext, Little People, Laugh and Learn, Thomas the Tank, Thomas and Friends, Elmo, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Sesame Street, Smart Cycle, Ni Hao Kai-Lan, Toy Story and other learning toys and pretend play items.
I bought this toy several months ago after seeing it recommended in Parents magazine. My son loves this toy! He loves to pull the knob for the drill press, bang on the pegs and spin the paint roller. This has been the best $25 I've spent in his short life. It's withstood all the banging he can dish out and he loves the lights and music. I like changing the mode from time to time (counting/ABC's, tool sound effects, music) to mix things up for him and he someti..