Monday, February 23, 2009
Little People 50th Birthday Play n Go School
Posted by Missy W. @ 8:27 AM
I don’t know about you, but my favorite toys EVER were the old school Fisher-Price Little People toys. (Not to sound like a hater, but the new ones are weak. In the little house set we had (and have since sold), the dad is on the phone. What’s up with that? Put the phone down and hang out with your kid. Talk about pigeon-holing the imagination.) My mom saved all of them and that’s all Sy plays with when we go to her house. It’s all I play with when we go to her house. The town with the little mail truck and plastic letters that go through the mail slots is my favorite. Although I am a big fan of the airport. And the parking garage. I could go on…
Anyway, Fisher-Price busted some cool moves and made some new sets to look like the old school ones. The scale is a big larger, but it definitely has the same feel. And they are only $18.00. Way cheaper than the old ones are on Ebay. Anyone have them yet? They have the fold up school and barn. I wonder if they’ll put out more. I hope so!
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February 23, 2009 @ 12:06 PM
Kate said:
Jack got the barn for his birthday—I was super excited about it because I am a sucker for the old school sets, too. Although I do like it—I wish they had just put out the real thing (even if on a slightly larger scale). It’s basically a lunchbox with a few pieces—and so the barn is pretty useless other than as a carrying case. I would have liked it to be the real barn with doors, etc. At Toys R Us, they also have an old school Fire Station and house. They also have some little sets of Little People figurines that look like the old ones. The one nice thing about the “lunchbox” concept is that the sets are nice to use on-the-go, as a car or restaurant toy.