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The ClueFinders: The Incredible Toy Store Adventure! is a computer game released in August 24, 2001. Although it isn't strictly a grade-based game, it is intended for third and fourth grade.

Characters[]

Voices[]

  • Nikki Rapp - Joni Savage
  • Juliet Tibbetts - Santiago Rivera
  • Shaun Smith - Owen Lam
  • Sara Real - Leslie Clark
  • Les Hedger - LapTrap, AliTrap
  • Charles Martinet - Pericles Lear
  • Peter Barto - Mr. Swiffle
  • Wally Fields - Eldon
  • Roger L. Jackson - Chewy
  • Lee Kitts - Lucky Lucy, Marlena
  • Dave Nowlin - Taxini
  • Irene Trapp - Flo

Plot[]

The ClueFinders take a cable car to a brand-new toy store called Ultimate Toys. When they arrive, Owen realizes his wallet is missing. Joni and LapTrap accompany him to the cable car to look for the wallet while Leslie, Santiago, and AliTrap continue to the store, planning to meet up with them at the store entrance. Just as Owen finds the wallet, the entire cable car is shrunken down with Owen, Joni, and LapTrap still near it. A hand suddenly reaches down and picks up the miniaturized cable car and puts it inside of a sack. The sack is then carried into the store. Joni, Owen, and LapTrap manage to break out through a tear in the sack, but when they drop out, they realize that they're on the sixth floor of the store with no way to get out on their own.

Owen contacts Leslie, Santiago, and AliTrap with his video phone and explains the situation to them. LapTrap says that he got a good look at the device that shrunk them while they were in the sack. He creates a list of items they'll need to create a device to unshrink them, which he uploads to AliTrap for Leslie and Santiago to see. Joni, Owen, and LapTrap start looking for parts to build the unshrinker with, while Leslie, Santiago, and AliTrap enter the store and start looking for clues while making their way up to sixth floor.

After Leslie, Santiago, and AliTrap make it all the way up to the sixth floor, they are confronted by the store manager Pericles Lear, who has stolen the shrinking device from the owner, Mr. Swiffle. He uses it to shrink Leslie and Santiago and then traps them inside of a gumball machine; AliTrap picks up Leslie's backpack unnoticed. Joni, Owen, and LapTrap manage to free them from the gumball machine, and then they proceed to build the unshrinker. The only problem is that now, all of them are too small to use it. At that moment, Mr. Swiffle enters the room and confronts Pericles, having suspected him of stealing the shrinking device. Pericles whips out the shrinking device and tries to zap Mr. Swiffle with it, but Mr. Swiffle dodges the ray and it shrinks the unshrinker instead. With the unshrinker now small enough that the ClueFinders can use it, Santiago picks it up and uses it to enlarge the shrinking device, which grows so large that Pericles becomes trapped underneath it, unable to move. The ClueFinders then use the unshrinker on themselves to return to their normal size, and Mr. Swiffle congratulates them on their heroic efforts.

Activities[]

  • Eldon the Talking Elevator
    • Gameplay: Solve the maths problems by choosing the right answers on the grid. If you get five correct answers vertically, horizontally or diagonally, the elevator will go up.
    • Skills: Arithmetic
  • Pneumatic Pipe Blast
    • Gameplay: Complete the pattern by choosing the right pipes.
    • Skills: Patterns
    • Items earned: Paper clips
  • Escape from Alcatraz
    • Gameplay: Press the top of the rotunda to find the right words to place in the empty spaces to complete the sentences. Then, arrange the sentences in the right sequence.
    • Skills: Grammar, Ecology
    • Items earned: Batteries
  • Taxi Bug Express
    • Gameplay: Choose the words with the correct spellings.
    • Skills: Spelling
    • Items earned: Strings
  • Global Trek
    • Gameplay: Follow the directions and create a sequence on the map.
    • Skills: Geography, Following directions
    • Items earned: Spark plugs
  • Catapult Fling
    • Gameplay: Adjust the pivot point by moving the launcher arm. Place a wheel at the end of the launcher and a ball will be dropped at the other end.
    • Skills: Physics experimentation, Logic
    • Items earned: Screws
  • Gumball Jackpot
    • Gameplay: Place the right amount of money in the machine to release a gumball and Leslie and Santiago.
    • Skills: Calculating money
    • Items earned: Gumball candies
  • Decoding the Divide
    • Gameplay: Choose the right letters as per their respective code numbers.
    • Skills: Spelling, Logic
  • Ultimate Toys’ Creation Lab
    • Gameplay: Place the parts of the unshrinker in the right places.
    • Skills: Logic, Spatial visualization

Trivia[]

In early 2003, The Incredible Toy Store Adventure! was offered as a free addition when purchasing another ClueFinders product from Broderbund's website.

This is the first game to feature completely different voice actors for the ClueFinders themselves. It is also the last game in the series proper (as Mystery Mansion Arcade is a bonus disk).

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