Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Oh, Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Toys, Why Are You So Loud?
Posted by Missy W. @ 12:53 PM
Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Learning House
By Fisher-Price
MSRP $65.00
Ages 6 mos – 3.5 yrs
Hoo boy, anyone who is anyone in our toddler set luuuurves this toy. It makes me insane. Why does everything in Fisher-Prices’s Laugh & Learn series make me want to run screaming from the living room? Regardless of my constant search for quiet toys, the toddlers in my life adore this hunk of plastic. It’s actually not all that bad, but for love of all things auditory, why on earth does the thing have to be so loud?? Luckily it gives you a choice of
1) SUPER LOUD or
2) You decided to take the toy to a Motley Crew concert and it got used to having TO SHOUT REALLY, REALLY LOUDLY to keep up with Vince Neil’s vocal stylings.
My friend Micky has had this toy since the kids were wee and every week she pulls it out for our play group and every week the kids flock to it. The toddlers we roll with (my own included) don’t seem to enjoy going through the door of the Learning House anymore. I think the hard plastic threshold must not be a very pleasant place to linger. That and they are so over crawling. When they were smaller (12 to 18 months) they went through the door constantly. Now they mostly play with the window that opens and shuts, play peekaboo with each other, or argue whether or not the window should be open or shut. This is a good toy for multiple kids to play with since there are gadgets a-plenty on each side. It has a light switch that turns on the porch light, a door bell, wheels that make it go from night to day, a radio, a place to put balls down a track, a mailbox, etc. Putting letters in the mailbox is also a big hit. Micky’s daughter made the connection that her toy had a mailbox and so did the front of her house, so now she involves Micky in a very exciting game of shoving letters through the mail slot. It’s so cool to watch them make connections as their worlds get bigger, even if those connections are constructed via very annoyingly loud toys.
Snapshot:
• I saw it on Amazon for $115.00, but it looked like a different version. The version we play with is listed at $65.00 at the Fisher-Price site. Go figure.
• I’d give it 0 stars based on my disdain for the noise annoyance level alone, but there’d be a riot if the toy were removed, so I’ll meet ‘em in the middle and go solid three plus stars.
• I get so overwhelmed by this toy I have to walk away. I seem to be the only one in the room cowering in its very presence. Micky said she is so used to it, she considers it a quiet toy.
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November 28, 2007 @ 05:12 AM
Lovie said:
My kids (1 and 3) love this toy. I hated it when I received it as a gift (due to it’s largeness), but have grown fond of it. Reason: it’s the only toy they don’t fight over since it’s so big they can both play with it. And frankly, I like the music (a far cry from my grunge days;)