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Spy Fox is back in his second zany secret agent adventure called Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required (Humongous Entertainment). This time he's up against the evil Napoleon LeRoach, who has a plan to wreck the World's Fair. It seems that LeRoach has built a giant statue of a dog that is set to come alive when the one-millionth visitor enters the fairgrounds. Of course, Spy Fox and his brainy kid-computer using accomplices can't allow that to happen, and so the chase is on. Challenges include finding the crucial off-switch by searching off-the-wall fair exhibits, buttonholing various nefarious characters to chat about next steps, and seeking various objects and spy gadgets to follow leads. The spy gadgets are outstanding. How about using a device called a Spy Key Replicator that allows agents to photograph a key and bake up a copy? Special Spy Skates let Spy Fox become a super-star on ice, win a red rose to trade for a Venus Flytrap, and end up with the elusive off-switch. (Of course that's not the end, the switch still has to be installed.) As always with Spy Fox, the circuitous route is always preferred, so working through the whole program is quite time consuming, but well worth it in terms of the mind stretching activity that occurs along the way. Younger kids may need help from parents and older siblings to find all the missing objects and to make all the connections, but this shouldn't be a burden as the program is fun for all ages (especially chuckling at the bad puns that crop up along the way).
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