Customer Reviews

Action Products Jay Jay the Jet Plane Tarrytown Mat

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I was so excited to see this mat I thought that it would be great to use with the wooden airplanes and buildings. I cannot understand why this mat was not made to accomodate the buildings/planes that are made for the wooden set (,planes, hangers, firehouse etc.) The mat should be a runway without airplanes and buildings pictured so that it could actually be played with. If anything they should have drawn dotted lines for where to place buildings that you have. What are you supposed to do with the wooden buildings that you have they do not fit on the mat. The planes can actually go inside the wooden hangers(more fun than a flat mat). Though the hangers are too small to accomodate all the planes(example the kids hanger....only two fit not three) It does make a nice, expensive rug or door mat for decoration though.

I felt "jipped" to receive what is basically a printed doormat for the $... I paid.

My 2-1/2 year-old son received this for Christmas along with three of the plane characters and one of the hangars. The play mat is very cute, but it basically just acts as a storage area in our living room for the toys. He never uses it to actually play with the planes in terms of running them down the roadways, etc. It is durable enough, but I would say it's a waste of money.
UPDATED: My son is now 4-1/2, and actually uses the play mat more now than he did before. He must have been too young to grasp the idea of it, but now he's using it like it's intended. I guess it was a good buy after all!

I thought maybe this item would have been a bit larger other than that it was okay.

I've been trying to encourage the Jay Jay characters for my 17 mos old son. One, it is a PBS show, and second because I really don't want to have train tracks all over my house. My son is 17 mos and he really likes Jay Jay but he doesn't fully grasp how to play with the characters yet. He is drawn to the characters, but generally he just carries it around and sings to it. But, anytime he does pull out the Jay Jay character, he points to the mat. Right now he just sits on the mat and sings but I suspect that in a few months he will begin to understand that it is also for pretending. The mat is the perfect size for travelling. However, I do wish there was a bigger one available for at home. Since it easily rolls up for storage purposes, a bigger one would be great for pretend play. The current size is pretty small for airplane play.

Purchase experience was very basic and fluid; we ordered, it arrived. Perfect!

It's great to be able to purchase something that's not made in China!!!

The Tarrytown Playmat added another dimension to the airport set and it allows my two-year old grandson to move the planes and vehicles around just like they would on the real thing.