- We've got a winner!
My hubby and
I bought this castle and the princess 6 packs for our 2 year old birthday. She
opened it in the morning and has not stopped playing with it all day long.
Our 4 year old loves it, too. The girls took naps, woke up asking for the castle and went right back to playing with it. This castle is a HUGE hit. It has so many cute phrases and song clips from each of the princess movies.
It also really encourages the girls to be creative and use their imagination while playing. We also purchased all the additional sets so the boy princes can be included in the fun.
We ended up with a few duplicate princess dolls but it worked out perfect so our girls don't end up arguing over them. The castle came in a few easy to screw together pieces. No big issues. No defects. It took us about 10 minutes to assemble, including peeling the stickers off the sheet and placing them on the pieces.
This is a typically brawny Fisher Price quality toy; it is so colorful and fun. Our girls love the castle and dolls and seeing them happy makes us happy parents. No criticism from this family! If your little ones adore Disney Princess the way ours do, our recommendation is to buy this castle!
Our 4 year old loves it, too. The girls took naps, woke up asking for the castle and went right back to playing with it. This castle is a HUGE hit. It has so many cute phrases and song clips from each of the princess movies.
It also really encourages the girls to be creative and use their imagination while playing. We also purchased all the additional sets so the boy princes can be included in the fun.
We ended up with a few duplicate princess dolls but it worked out perfect so our girls don't end up arguing over them. The castle came in a few easy to screw together pieces. No big issues. No defects. It took us about 10 minutes to assemble, including peeling the stickers off the sheet and placing them on the pieces.
This is a typically brawny Fisher Price quality toy; it is so colorful and fun. Our girls love the castle and dolls and seeing them happy makes us happy parents. No criticism from this family! If your little ones adore Disney Princess the way ours do, our recommendation is to buy this castle!
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I was so excited to get this for our 3-year old who LOVES Little People but have a mixed experience with it.
I can totally see how as a kid, this toy would be AMAZING.
As a parent, however, I have had some frustrations:
1. The first castle we bought only recognized some of the princesses - Cinderella thought she was Rapunzel and we couldn't even get Tiana or Sleeping Beauty to work at all (from the expansion pack).
I would imagine this is a fluke, but we had to get right back in the car and return it. The good news is they accepted it fully put together as defective, but I would definitely suggest testing the base before putting the whole thing together.
2. Speaking of assembly, you absolutely must have very skinny Phillips Head -- we had a heck of time getting a screw driver tiny enough and long enough for some of the screws/pieces and you have to be very careful not to strip them in the process.
3. For a more expensive toy, some of the pieces we warped based in how it was packed (in ours the bedroom floor is slanted instead of flat).
4. Our daughter is already frustrated with the ONE SONG that plays for the dance floor - sometimes you can hit another button to make it stop, but most of time it doesn't and you have to wait for it to finish. It got old to her (and me) very quickly.
5. My nostalgia and daughter's excitement totally enticed me to buy this, but really, they could have done a MUCH better job with what they gave some the princesses to say and sing. Snow White sounds beyond antiquated and sings, "I'm waiting for my Prince..." -- I'm not overly shielding my daughter from the whole princess thing (obviously, since I bought this), but THAT is the song you gave her to sing?
Not something recognizable like Whistle While You Work or anything a bit less old-school? I will say that some of them (like Ariel and Rapunzel) are spot-on, but Snow White and Tiana in particular, are phoned-in stereotypes in terms of sayings/songs. It would have been pretty easy to put a bit more thought into a few of them to make them both true to the character and not parent eyebrow-raising.
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