Fisher Price TRIO King’s Castle

Fisher Price TRIO King\'s CastleFisher Price TRIO King's Castle Easy-click bricks, sticks and panels make it easy to build and rebuild the King's Castle so many ways, with double-sided snap-in picture panels that let kids choose and change their adventures and a break-away building panel for exciting battle action. Fire the cannon to defend the castle. ...

Fisher-Price TRIO King's Castle

Fisher-Price TRIO King\'s Castle
List Price: USD 74.99
Lowest New Price: USD 39.99
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.




Binding: Toy
Manufacturer: Fisher Price
Average Rating:
Product Description:
Easy-click bricks, sticks and panels make it easy to build and rebuild the King's Castle so many ways, with double-sided snap-in picture panels that let kids choose and change their adventures and a break-away building panel for exciting battle action. Fire the cannon to defend the castle. Raise and lower the working drawbridge. 213 piece set includes 2 play figures that snap on to the bricks-and can ride the horse. All pieces in the TRIO Building System work together.
Amazon.com Review:
The Fisher-Price TRIO King's Castle allows your child to be the architect of his or her very own castle. Designed for children ages five to nine, the set contains over 200 easy-click bricks that can be used to build custom castles. With six figures, a working cannon, and other accessories included, the King's Castle will immerse your child in a world of medieval fantasy, and encourage imaginative play.

King's Castle
    Ages: 5 to 9 years

What We Think

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The Good: Building system is easy for kids to use; includes dozens of figures and accessories.

The Challenging: Panels don't always snap into place correctly.

In a Nutshell: A kid-friendly, medieval-themed building toy that's ideal for role-playing.


Designed for children ages five to nine, the TRIO King's Castle brings out your child's inner architect. View larger.
A Customizable Medieval Adventure
King's Castle features the all-new TRIO building system. Using easy-click bricks, pegs, and panels, TRIO makes it possible to build a wide variety of different structures -- ranging from castle parapets to catapults. Best of all, the system is easy for kids to work with, and requires very little force or finesse. They'll be able to hear and feel the "snap" when they've made a connection.

The set comes with easy-to-follow instructions on how to build several different castles. Children can choose to follow these examples, or build a castle of their own design. The set also comes with several unique building components, including a working drawbridge, a breakaway wall, and several graphical panels that can be switched depending on the situation. However, the panels are a bit tricky to snap into place, so adult assistance might be necessary.

Encourages Creativity and Imagination
Once the castle is built, King's Castle has plenty of accessories to offer for creative play. The set has a spirit of medieval adventure, and comes complete with six knight figurines and a horse. All knights come with shield and sword accessories, and can easily be snapped onto the surface of the castle. Kids will enjoy acting out sieges against the castle using the included catapult and battering ram. Or, they can play the side of the castle defenders by operating the working cannon to fight off invaders. So, whether they are building or playing, King's Castle provides children with the tools needed for an immersive and imaginative experience.

What's in the Box
Easy-click bricks, pegs, panels, drawbridge, cannon, six figures, six shields, six swords, horse figure and instructions.



Unique building components include a working drawbridge. View larger.

Storm the castle with the included catapult... View larger.

...or defend the castle with the working cannon! View larger.


Features:
  • Build up to 4 castle adventures!
  • Double-sided snap-in picture panels let kids choose and change their adventures.
  • Break-away building panel for exciting battle action!
  • Fire the cannon to defend the castle, raise and lower the working drawbridge.
  • 213 piece set includes two play figures that snap on to the bricks and ride the horse.
Brand: Fisher-Price
Model: P6841
Release Date: 2009-06-01
Customer Reviews


Kids still favor Legos
The only problem I have with the Trios are the fact they are hard to take apart. Even my husband and I had a hard time assembling and breaking the pieces apart.


strong toys
These toys are pretty fun and very durable as far as toys go, for sure. They are a little hard to put together and pull apart. Fun and colorful.


My 5 year old LOVES this toy set
My 4 to 5 year old wanted a castle for Christmas and I was thinking these blocks would be too hard for him to put together. I was told by a friend that their 4 year old loves his TRIO sets so I went ahead and bought it . My 5 year old loves this castle set, I also got him a few of the add on sets, and plays with it every day. He can snap the blocks together easily, a few of the pieces ,like the flags, take some effort but he is able to add them to the blocks himself. The initial building of the castle a adult will have to do for this age group as the instructions are detailed but after that just let the kids "go for it". Great for the imagination - Spiderman and Batman help battle the "bad knights" for example.


Great toy but better for older children
My four year old got this for Christmas instead of the Legos he wanted. These did cost more but the Legos were all sold out. I thought this would be a great replacement but they weren't. The only problem I have with the Trios are the fact they are hard to take apart. Even my husband and I had a hard time breaking the pieces apart. I do not know how they expect small children to he able to. If your child is nine and older (or really strong) then these are great but don't expect a five for six year old to be able to put these together.


Great toy
Santa got this for my 4.5 year old twin boys. I put it together. It's not hard to put together, but I think maybe a little hard for their age. They have not played with it very much. But, I think in time it will be a favorite. Once they learn how to put the pieces together themselves.


Fisher Price Smart Cycle Extreme

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Fisher Price Smart Cycle Extreme

Fisher Price Smart Cycle Extreme
List Price: USD 119.99
Lowest New Price: USD 78.49
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.




Binding: Toy
Manufacturer: Fisher Price
Average Rating:
Product Description:
Smart Cycle Extreme has a rumble feature in the handle bar. It's a stationary bike, a learning center, and an arcade game system-all rolled into one. Smart Cycle plugs right into your TV, ready to take kids on learning adventures like no other. As they pedal, favorite character friends guide them through learning discoveries, games, and even exciting races. Bring the arcade experience home, with multiple levels of play for different ages and stages. Just like a real bicycle, Smart Cycle pedals are not interchangeable (there is a left threaded pedal and a right threaded pedal). It's important to assemble the right pedal on the right side of your Smart Cycle, and the left pedal on the left side. To help you, we've stamped and labeled each pedal and pedal axle with an "R" for the right side and an "L" for the left side. To tighten the pedals, you'll need to turn the left pedal counter-clockwise (which is different from how you would normally tighten) and the right pedal clockwise. Be sure to tighten both pedals firmly with the enclosed assembly tool and you're ready to roll!
Features:
  • It's a stationary bike, a learning center, and an arcade game system-all rolled into one
  • Cool rumble feature in the handle bar
  • Drive Pedal, steer and learn at your own pace
  • Reinforces important preschool concepts like letters, numbers, shapes and colors
  • Adjustable seat for growing kids
Brand: Fisher-Price
Model: N9628
Release Date: 2009-06-10
Customer Reviews


Save your money.
Living in a rainy climate, we thought the Smart Cycle Extreme would be a great way for our son to get indoor exercise and he did like it, but it really is an elaborate seat for joystick games. Of all of the games on the cartridge, and the buggy and practically identical Thomas the Tank Engine cartridge (all the same lame games, but with trains), only two require the child actually pedal the bike. And even then, pedaling is not necessary. Most of the time our boy just sat on the thing and used the joystick and pressed the buttons. If that was all we wanted him to do, then we could have paid the same money for a better game system for him. He gets better than this from games on [....] and those are free! If a company is going to make a stationary bike for kids, then why not make it so the kids actually have to pedal? And then make it fun for them to pedal! What they've done here makes no sense.


Awesome!
My granddaughter couldn't get enough of this entertaining and educaional toy.

It was a favorite of her Christmas presents.


Fisher Price Smart Cycle Extreme
I purchased this or my grandson for Christmas. He and his sister both loved it. It only last about a week and he broke it. In my opinion, the toy is not durable enough for active children.


My kid loves the Smart Cycle.
My son has had this for about 6 weeks, and loves playing with it. It's important to get a few different game cartridges, for variety. It's held up well in that time.


This game served its purpose.
We bought the Smart Cycle Extreme for our 3 year old as a Christmas present. I didn't buy this toy for the educational value but to get my son acclimated to pedaling a bike. I can say that it took about six weeks before my son began to pedal like a champ. So we are ready for him to ride his bike outside this spring.

As for the overall construction, it is a cheap and hollow plastic toy. There is not much sturdiness to it. It should hold up as long as your child isn't abusive with it. You can buy cartridges for the system. The games have extremely low graphics. It looks really bad on our 27 inch TV and looked much worse on our 42 inch LCD. It's reminiscent of the first generation of atari games: very blocky and low quality.

Overall, this is an ok purchase. Just lower your expectations for what this is going to look like on TV.