Customer Reviews

Bloco Toys - Horses and Unicorns

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Got this gift for my 8 year old neice for Christmas to help with her fine motor skills. My husband and I (both Engineers) sat down with her to help her put it together, and I have to agree with the other reviewer who said the instructions are terrible! There are all sorts of pieces, many of which are very, very small. It is very hard to determine what to do from the pictures. I suppose with some persistance and just playing around with the pieces, eventually it might be fun, but I'm not sure I would bother to get through the frustration to get to the fun part. Also, once the animals are made they have a tendency to come apart with any amount of playing. Next time I will definitely stick with Legos or Tinker Toys.

My 7 year old daughter recieved this as a gift at Christmas and I was hesitant to sit down with her and figure it out. Finally, it is already September, we went for it, and I was pleasantly surprised, we started with the basic gray horse and I helped her identify which shapes to get out and helped her put it together. It seemed to go rather quickly and the final product was exciting for my daughter. We then made the smaller white on and having done one pattern already, my daughter was doing a lot more on her own! I would recommend this and will buy more of the other sets for my other kids who are wanting to do it now that they have seen my daughters.

My seven year daughter old got this for Christmas from Santa. Her mother tried to put one of the creatures together on Christmas day and had to give up after only having a few pieces assembled. My DD picked it up a few days later and while watching TV put together a wonderful Winged Unicorn. She was able to figure it out by looking briefly at the instructions than just putting it together. Her mother decided to give it another try using DD's approach of figuring out how to do it and then putting it together. She assembled a fancy horse that did not stay together that well. DD critiqued it and corrected a couple of issues on how the fasteners were done. She also decided she did not like the face so she redid it. This is quickly becoming one of our favorite toys. Once DD showed her mother how to do it the family has been able to have a great time assembling and enhancing different animals. Great toy for creativity. Not enough instruction which encourages you to be creative and figure it out--one of the pluses in the long run!

This toy is recommended for 6 and up. Well, I decided to get it for a 5 year old. Not a good idea. It is definately for 6 and up. There are A LOT of pieces to punch out before you can start building. The pictures on the instructions are very small and not very easy to understand. It was pretty difficult for two 36 year olds to assemble!! :)

My six-year-old girl received this as a Christmas present. The box says it's for ages 6-12. No way. The directions for these toys are terrible. It doesn't even list out the pieces necessary to build each animal!

We have four kids and we all play with Legos. My 8 and 11 year old boys (Lego-building maniacs!) got completely frustrated with this toy.

It's a good premise - pop out the foam pieces and put them together using interlocking "balls". The flying unicorn my husband made took 30 minutes. He's 40. The directions were that bad. The rocking horse my boys tried to make for her took them an hour and they couldn't finish. The directions show how to make the head, then the last frame shows the finished horse. No explanation of what pieces you need, no pictures of how to fit them together. I spend another 30 minutes figuring out what pieces should finish it, and how to put them together. No, it's not the same as the other horse(s) - so you can't even copy from directions for another creature.

If I could give it a negative star rating, I would. Don't waste your money.

We got this toy for our 4-year-old daughter for Christmas because she loves horses and loves putting things together. Although the horse and unicorn are fun and colorful, they are far too difficult for a child to put together by herself! She sat and watched as our 20-year-old international college student guest struggled to put it together! Since then it's been sitting in a box. . .

I bought this as a Christmas present for my niece who is a advanced 6 year old. After we opened it, there were tons of small pieces to punch out before you could even start assembling the Horses/Unicorns. The directions were not clear and she lost interest in the project only for me to finish the Horse we started to build. I don't see the pieces lasting long either because they are made from foam and they were already stretching out. I guess the up side was that the Horse I made here she was going to just keep together on her dresser as a show piece.