Introducing Pink Panther Animal Rescue!, an imaginative new educational games DVD that teaches children positive values and stimulates learning skills quite dramatically! The foundation of the story line is based upon a non-profit volunteer organization who is working on saving endangered animals. The Pink Panther is recruited to help the organization.

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! is quite a delight for children to play and offers them games that go well beyond the scope of just recreational play. There are six separate games, all of which play an important role in further critical skill development.

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! is more powerful than meets the eye in regard to first impression. As adults, our first response is to think of anything which is associated with The Pink Panther to be simply fun and encouraging a jovial response from those who come upon it, but Pink Panther Animal Rescue! is really so much more than that.

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! encourages children to break out of the repetitive style of simple and redundant game play and adopt the use of their thinking and learning skills. Each of the six different exciting challenges provides a new focus and excitement for children which enlarges their current level of knowledge, stimulates memory level improvement, and has a substantial impact on a greater level of their problem solving skills. These are primary concerns in a child's development and Pink Panther Animal Rescue! delivers precisely what they need and in a proper proportion so that the FunFactor™ still remains prevalent.

As with any other product we evaluate, we rely upon independent industry professional's reports to be combined with our own evaluations to provide a more informative and well balanced end result. This way, those that have proven they "have what it takes" to be inducted have the assurance of knowing it was an honor well earned.

For Pink Panther Animal Rescue!, we chose to call upon the efforts of an Educational Development Specialist and a Behavioral Psychology Analyst to develop their evaluation reports of this product. It was no surprise to us at all when we saw the outstanding reports which were developed by these professionals about Pink Panther Animal Rescue!

Please remember that the information provided below is but a fragment of the entire report from each of the independent evaluators. We have taken select portions from their reports which we feel provide the most beneficial information for our readers to read and help them in their buying decisions.

Educational Development Specialist

"My first thought with this product was how it probably is just another knock-off game design which gains its popularity by its association with the "Pink Panther" branding, rather than from actual well structured educational content. Just as with many products of this nature I have evaluated in the past, I already had a disposition of this one being yet another educational DVD product with strong visual appeal.

After careful study and evaluation of the DVD, my disposition was quickly changed. The structure and flow of the games/activities on this DVD provided excellent educational lessons, with no lacking of design structure. Consumers and educational professionals need to realize that you cannot just create a DVD that has pretty colors to capture a child's attention, while containing an inferior lesson design which has no productivity in a child's learning experience. Pink Panther Animal Rescue! is far from being just another throw together product, in that it does deliver an outstanding experience in both fun and learning for children.

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! has a well blended combination of color, sound, design structure, and flow of activities which a child will find most delightful. In my evaluation of the product with children ages 8-11 years of age, I found that the response level for all age groups of these children had virtually no variance. In a total of 31 children in this test group who played with this product, there was a consistent level of positive response and body language."

Behavioral Psychology Analyst

"For evaluation of this product, it was quite a refreshing experience. Whether the children were participants in the hands-on and general random study, or part of the test group which was video taped, the Pink Panther Animal Rescue! DVD created a very strong response level with every child.

What was especially interesting was the level of attention span with each child as they were playing the various games of the DVD. The children were literally glued to the screen, eliciting a variety of humorous comments and sounds as they made their way through each of the diverse variety of activities provided.

Each game was carefully designed with an excellent balance of challenge and learning with a no-fail concept. The children could choose from multiple levels and quit at any time if they desired. The basic themes of game play were built upon a combination of animal clues and riddles which were especially stimulating to the furtherance of critical skill development on multiple fronts.

The age group for which this DVD has been designed is one in which critical and motor skill development is a vital concern. The Pink Panther Animal Rescue! DVD has the necessary elements to stimulate critical and motor skill development in a child quite nicely. Using the idea of clue|riddle tasking with each activity develops a strong influence in positive psychological impression.

As a child progresses through the lessons, greater self-esteem and so much more is established and re-enforced. My test group was especially excited with the idea that upon completion of the lessons, they then were enabled to gain access to the group of The Pink Panther cartoons as a reward which was earned. The overall summation of Pink Panther Animal Rescue! is that it is an educational DVD which I can highly recommend; a perfect fit for the target age group intended. "

No matter how tough our standards may be in the evaluation of a product, consumers are the ones who really say it like it is. This section will cover our combined results from a local elementary school and a Shopping Mall in Ventura County, CA, which were the locations for our hands-on consumer evaluation process.

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! was a hands-down winner with the children, teachers, and parents at both locations. We never imagined such a popularity of a DVD like we saw with this one. The children who had an opportunity to experience playing with Pink Panther Animal Rescue! were absolutely fascinated with the various activities, taking interest especially in the one activity that is similar to a game once seen on TV called "Concentration". This was a game where there were a variety of window boxes from which a contestant would select one which revealed an object behind it. The objective was to choose another window which had the same image as the first hidden behind it. With Pink Panther Animal Rescue!, the children are provided with verbal and visual clues to associate the verbal clue with the proper animal from one of two images provided. As each correct answer is given, a new image is revealed in a box full below, which is has multiple equal sized boxes with an image hidden behind it. Once all of the riddles are solved, all of the hidden images are revealed in the boxes below. Now the child has a second challenge, to move the images around by clicking on each one the images, and then clicking on the box where they think it should really be, to discover what all of the image fragments joined together properly create. These types of exercises which are but one of the activities in the DVD, really tasks a child's mind to multitask, use their memory, create a strategy, and analyze how best to complete the activity. There was a constant demand by children to play Pink Panther Animal Rescue! rather than many of the other products we provided for evaluation. One of the biggest things with the children was "...the cute pink panther!" The children fell in love with the character which just further enhanced their interest in continued play.

Elementary School - Ventura County, CA

The teachers at the elementary school were overjoyed with the response level with all of the students in the computer lab with Pink Panther Animal Rescue!. Prior to the students seeing the DVD, the teachers went through Pink Panther Animal Rescue! and developed a list of questions with which to query the students following their play with Pink Panther Animal Rescue!

The teachers were absolutely amazed at the level of increase for all of the students playing Pink Panther Animal Rescue! when it comes to what they learned, retention level, and multiple other factors they were making note of. It was a unanimous opinion that there was undoubtedly a strong improvement for these students who played with Pink Panther Animal Rescue!. The school psychologist even stepped in and made mention of "...what a dramatic improvement in the skills of many of these students which was documented following their experience with it."

Pink Panther Animal Rescue! was a winning success with both the teachers, students, and consumers in our consumer hands-on evaluation segment. Pink Panther Animal Rescue! proved its worth across the board.

While other organizations will define their ratings in a "blanket" method which simply define each rating in an overall usage, we choose to take a different approach. Some of the many individual ratings assigned to this product in our evaluation are featured and are briefly explained as to some primary points of how that specific rating score was reached. The ratings for this product are listed below.

EVALUATION RESULTS - From evaluation for induction into "The Toy Man® Product Guide"
Overall Rating: 5	Seal of Approval: Approved	eco-Recognition Seal: Not Eligible	Award of Excellence: Approved	eChoice Award: Selected

THE TOY MAN® SEAL OF APPROVAL "The first and original Seal of Approval... designed for product recognition and validation."

Since 1971 "The Toy Man® Seal of Approval" has served as an emblem and standard for professional recognition of a product or online service having met the globally recognized evaluation standards of The Toy Man® Product Guide. This emblem was first established in 1971 by the International Parenting Institute™. It is modeled after the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval®", an emblem of recognition for products which meet the globally recognized high standards set forth by the Good Housekeeping Institute®.

THE TOY MAN® AWARDS "The globally recognized awards that are received by a limited few... and give a product the well earned recognition it deserves!"

The Toy Man® Award of Excellence - The products and online services which become recipients of The Toy Man® "Award of Excellence” passed our intensive evaluation process.  Their evaluation was completed with an overall category rating average of [5] Stars, the highest level of rating available on a 1-5 scale evaluation basis.

"The Toy Man® Award - This is more than just an award, this is the "brass ring" so to speak; the award that serves as an emblem of recognition for products & online services such that contribute substantially to positive skill growth and productivity. This productivity is measured in the value of potential cognitive, motor, and critical skill growth and/or overall level of improvement in an individual or group from use of a product or online service. * This distinguished award is exclusive as well as unique, with the editor's signature which represents a product being selected as an . PLEASE NOTE: The eChoice™ Award images which were used from 1971-1984, 1984-2007, 2007-April 2010 have been retired. Although the former versions of the eChoice™ Award have been retired, they still remain valid.