Archive for 'Pretend Play & Dress-Up'

Great kitchen!
Wonderful, bright and colorful kitchen. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. Assembly took a few hours but none of it was difficult with 2 people. My 2 year old loves this kitchen. There is a lot of storage for all the play food and pots and pans. I am very happy with my purchase!!

Colorful and Entertaining
I bought this for my 20 month old and she absolutely loves it. She wakes up every morning and goes straight for it. It is press board material, yet still seems to be durable. The only minor details about it that I don't care for so far is that you can see (with a glare of light) where the glue is for the pictures. The good thing is that they are not stickers, so they can't peel off. The spicket is metal but the sink is plastic. The silver paint on the sink is coming off already but it is an easy fix to paint it again. Other than these few minor details the kitchen is a winner!

Excellent item!
This is an excellent item! Very well made, parts fir together nicely, and are all coded to avoid confusion. Our daughter loves her set!

Hours of entertainment!!
We originally played with a kitchen like this at a friends house. My three year old daughter absolutly would not play with anything else. I knew I just had to buy one! I got a really great deal, it came on the first day it was supposed to, and compared to all the people complaining about the time it takes, we got it together in about 1 hour and 45 minutes!!!
It was supposed to be a Christmas present, It still kinda is, but we are playing with it.
I only gave it four stars for durability because the clips that hold the sink in place break easily... as we already found. (only happened because my hulk husband didnt know you have to push the sides in)
All I can say is that looking at the plastic alternative kitchens at toy stores...It was the better bang for your buck, it was super cuter, it will by far outlast them. Its also more functional, no batteries all imagination!! BUY BUY BUY!!

Great Kitchen but...
I just received this kitchen and LOVE IT! My daughter is going to be so excited on Christmas morning. My hubby put it together and it is awesome. I am just wondering why such a great fluctuation in pricing? One day it is listed at 133 the next over 200 dollars ?!!?!?

Very cute
It looked just like I expected after reading reviews and looking at the 360 pics on-line. Took my husband only a little over 1 hour to build, but he uses tools everyday for work so we didn't expect it to take as long as some had reported in reviews. My 3 year old daughter likes it a lot and makes food for us quite often. It is a good size for her and seems to be made quite durable. Plan for her to use this for at least a few years. My 6-year old son likes to pretend cook and he has used it occasionally too.

Good value
I bought this for 0 with free shipping. there is nothing out there that compares to it at that price. here is my take on some of the popular comments from other reviews:

Assembly time: Directions are clear, pieces are coded to correspond with the directions. all you need is a screwdriver, allen wrench & another wrench come with it. Someone with an average ability to assemble things similar to this should plan on 2 hours +/- and just follow the instructions but I would not be intimidated by the assembly time comments. I would think that any of these toy wood kitchens require a good bit of assembly and the instructions are well done. If you consider yourself assembly required impaired, you may want to get some help.

the sink is plastic but mine has clips that require you to reach underneath it from both sides to get it out. i.e. if your sink comes out easily, the clips must be broken.

cream vs. white. I would say somewhere inbetween. personally, the shade of white was not something I gave too much thought too.

Real wood. I don't think it's particle board, it seems like some sort of high grade plywood. Did you expect solid oak? it seems to be of good quality in my opinion considering the price.

If you are looking for gender neutral you can paint the pink trim handles with black spray paint as I did.

Perfect little kitchen
I purchased this kitchen for my granddaughters, ages 3 and 1 for Christmas. I did not put it together but my daughter-in-law did. She said it was pretty time consuming but when she was done she said it was well worth it. She thought the quality was excellent. The girls play with it every day. The size it just right for them.

Absolutely adorable!
I bought the pastel version of this kitchen (item 53167) and it's absolutely adorable. My DD is 3 and this is pretty perfect for her right now. I can see it lasting maybe another couple of years or so. It doesn't come with a refrigerator, microwave or much storage that many kitchens have these days, but it's so cute that I don't care :). My daughter loves it and has been playing with it constantly. It took my Dh close to 2 hours to put together but he said it was easy. A couple of screws broke off in the plastic oven handle so we had to order another one of those, but other than that everything was packaged wonderfully and there wasn't any damage. We bought it for ninety-five dollars shipped, so the price was also right!

WARNING: It is NOT white in color.
The kitchen is adorable and after days of research was the one that I picked for my 15 mo old. Yes there are a lot of pieces but the support and customer service provided by KidKraft is excellent. I must warn you however that this kitchen, although it looks white in the picture, is not really white... it's more of an off white/yellow color like it's shown in the video.

When I first received it, I was very disappointed with the color, but a quick call to BabyAge proved to be one of the easiest returns I've ever made. They immediately without question, sent me a shipping label so that I could return the product without paying for shipping AND they refunded me the full amount (price of kitchen PLUS original shipping cost). The transaction was done quickly and smoothly and I got email confirmations at every step of the process.

Basically this was a risk free purchase. I did end up buying this same kitchen but in pink because I still felt that this was the right kitchen and at the right price for my daughter. Plus I'm a huge fan of KidKraft. Excellent quality without charging an arm and leg. I would definitely buy from BabyAge again as well due to their outstanding customer service.

WOULD NOT RECOMMEND
My 8 year old daughter is crazy about Polly Pockets. When the Courtyard and Mall shops went on sale I jumped on the purchase. Thanks goodness it was on sale because if I had purchased this at full price I would have returned it. When the box arrived in the mail I thought that they must have shipped the wrong toy or only a part of it because the box was so small. How could six shops and the Courtyard fit in this tiny box? I unpacked the box and got my answer. The shops are very small and flimsy and the courtyard is much smaller than it looks in the pictures. There are hundreds of tiny pieces that we just ended up throwing away. The mall will not stay together so you can't move it. The best part of this toy is that it came with 6 dolls.

Looks better in pictures
Once opened, the backdrop for each individual shop is a bare plastic wall. There are no stickers to place in each shop. The pictured item looked colorful and fun, but the picture was displaying the Polly items included and odd cardboard cutouts of cell phones, purses, etc. I am not sure what my kid is supposed to do with tiny cardboard pieces. They just get vacuumed up when they fall on the floor because they are so tiny they blend into the carpet! I would have preferred stickers to place on the wall and forget the tiny cardboard pieces.

The stack-able stores do not stay together well. They tip easily and then come apart from each other.

The high price of this toy is not worth it. The Polly resort is a much better value.

Fun BUT too many pieces
My five your old and her friends can play all day with this mall. The bad part is there are so many little pieces. I find them all over. The mall stores are very small and it is hard to actually have the dolls go in them. If the stores were bigger I would recommend to a friend, but not worth the money.

Get ready to lose some pieces.
I purchase this item for my two little girls because they are big Polly Pocket fans. The set up is pretty nice and they do like it. The one real problem I have with this set is that there are almost too many pieces to fit in the very tiny stores. Be prepared to lose a lot of the little shoes and accessories. I think it would have been a better idea to make the stores in the mall bigger and just include less of them. The stores are so small it is hard to really do anything with it. The lighting system is cute and worked fine. I would most likely not recommend this to anyone but the biggest Polly Pocket fans.

Not as nice as I thought
My daughter wanted this for Christmas. First of all, this comes in "new" packaging, so its just in plastic bags, not in the regular packaging like you'd find in the store. 2nd the stores don't have enough room for all of the things and they don't stand up so that she can use them (she's 7 and can easily make things stand on their own). In my opinion, she likes the cruise ship MUCH better.