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User Submitted Fisher-Price My First Dollhouse Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-12-28 My 2 year old loves it! My two year old daughter LOVES this dollhouse. It is perfect for her. The people are easy for her to maneuver and she will play for 30 minutes or more at time with this toy! The pieces are big and chunky and great for toddlers. I bought several of the rooms to go along with it. Do not pay over retail price for the extra rooms. People were listing them for $40+ and I easily found them the week of Christmas at my TRUs. I bought the baby room, the TV room, the Mom and Dad's room, and the Grandma piece. More furniture than that would not fit in the house. My only complaints are that the doorbell doesn't work. Also, I wish the windows had functionality. Lastly, when the house arrived it has a back piece that extends the main floor. This piece is plastic and has stress marks (white) in it. It came that way. I wasn't about to send it back for that. Date: 2008-12-28 Dollhouse I bought this for my niece because my daughter got one last year, 2007. The new version, however, does not have a functional doorbell or telephone. Those to features are why my daughter loves hers so much. I do not recommend this new version. My niece still wants my daughters over hers. Date: 2008-12-11 Wait and buy the Grand Dollhouse I actually bought this from Fisher-Price's web site (since it's about half the price there) after reading the reviews on Amazon. I think this dollhouse is a compromise that doesn't quite work. It's supposed to provide some step between the Little People dollhouse (hardly any real-life details, but very safe and durable) and the Grand Dollhouse (lots of real-life details, but too many little pieces). I wish I'd waited and just bought the Grand Dollhouse. This one doesn't have enough detail or realism to keep my two-year-old interested. My biggest disappointment has been that none of the furniture in this or the add-on sets really fits the contours of the dolls, so it is very difficult to balance the dolls at the dinner table or on the rocking chair in the nursery set. Even the parents' bed (in the add-on set) is too small to hold both parents, and requires some balancing for even one parent. And the baby doll is so large in relation to its parents that it is pretty much impossible to get the baby to sit on the parents' laps. So all the scenarios my daughter wants to act out are physically pretty hard to set up. I would have thought Fisher-Price would take care of those details. Rather than being a toy my daughter can play with unaided, I found this to be a toy that requires a lot of parental help to keep her interested. Also, it just would have been cool to have a few neat features that could be played with. The phone is just stuck to the kitchen wall, the nursery toys are glued down or together. I wouldn't think I'd care about a non-working doorbell, but the thing actually LOOKS like it is pushable, so my daughter just thinks it's broken. I understand the need to keep all the pieces big enough to avoid choking... and that's where this just turns into a compromise. Too safe, not enough fun. Date: 2008-11-29 Great first dollhouse...only a few minor issues... We bought this for our daughter's second birthday, thinking it would be the hit of the party. And it was! She loved it and still plays with it at least once a day. The house is sturdy and durable (it's been knocked off the table with no ill effects) and the dolls are perfectly sized. She often plays with them alone, without the need of the dollhouse. My only complaints? 1. The extra furniture. Since each set has to be purchased separately it can get expensive, especially considering the cost of the individual sets. The family room costs nearly half of what I paid for the entire house. I fail to see why these need to be so expensive. And then there is the issue of space. The extra furniture will not even fit, if you were to buy it all. It needs to be switched out, which, I admit, might add some added entertainment value. 2. The doorbell and phone do not work, although it seems like they should. You can push them, but there is no place for batteries. After doing a little research, I've come to the conclusion that there are two versions of this house. The one that makes sounds seems to have painted rugs on the plastic? But all in all, I am happy with this purchase and so is my daughter! I'm sure we will get a couple more good years out of it. Even my 5 year old son (secretly) likes to play with it... Date: 2008-10-20 Perfect for 2-3 year old Purchased this for my granddaughter's 3rd birthday. She loves it! Wish I would have gotten it for her sooner. Very sturdy. The pieces are easy for her to handle.
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