Customer Reviews

Dora Explorer: Dora's Talking Dollhouse w/Lights, Sounds, Music & Diego, Boots, Swiper - Exclusively at Toys"R"Us!

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Out of all the Dora the Explorer toys we own the Talking Dollhouse is the best one yet!
No assembly required. The roof lifts up to expose the second floor, which has flaps to expand for even more floor space. The home décor is colorful, warm and inviting and includes some raised, 3-D type details. The hinged downstairs floor retracts so the house can be folded up for easy storage. Two posts on the front porch can serve as handles. I only wish Fisher Price had included some type of latch to secure the house once folded so that it wouldn't pop open when you move it. The house comes with Dora and her Mami and Papi. All have movable arms and legs and swiveling heads. All bend at the waist so they can sit on the cool furniture. Papi's knees also bend.

The best feature is the bilingual phrases. My daughters, ages 4 yrs 8 months and 2 yrs 10 months, have already expanded their knowledge of Spanish from single vocabulary words to actual sentences. The on/off switch and speaker are located in the hallway. Some of the talking household objects offer more than one phrase, so keep pushing them! I tried to catch all of the phrases, but I may have missed some of the Spanish translations. They are:

Push front door bell. "Hola! Welcome to my home! Bienvenida a mi casa." "Who's ringing the doorbell?"

Push family picture in foyer. "Here is my family." "I love my family." "Aqui esta mi familia."

Push radio in foyer. "Let's dance." "Vamos a bailar." "I love to listen to la radio." Also plays two short Latin songs.

Open fridge door. "I'm hungry. Tengo hambre." "Let's get something to eat from the refridgerator."

Push oven controls. "tick tock tick tock DING! Yum! That smells delicious!" "What's cooking in the oven?" "What's cooking in el horno?" Oven also lights up.

Pull down bookshelf. Turns into kitchen table. "Time to eat." "A hora de comer." "Let's get ready to eat in the kitchen." "Let's get ready to eat in la cocina."

The house comes with accessory room furnishings that I also recommend. Several pieces serve dual purposes. For example, the blue living room couch folds out into a bed. The dining room table serves 4 for dinner or pulls out to reveal a birthday party, cake included! Push in a lever on Dora's bed and it splits into bunk beds. I rated this toy a 4 for durability because the tail on the Boots figurine snapped off. My daughter claims she doesn't know how it happened!

This dollhouse inspires hours of imaginative play and is well worth the dinero!

All three of my kids love to play with this dollhouse, ages 6, 4 &2. It's very durable and they love to play with their favorite characters, Dora, Boots, and Swiper.
Best of all, it's even suitable for a little boy - my four year old son loves it. I like that it has two sides rather than just upstairs and downstairs - it allows more than one child to play easily.
My suggestion for the holidays is to look at the loving family dollhouse furniture. It is the same size and price and much easier to find. This dollhouse comes with just a couch & some built in furniture, along with the family members, mom, dad, dora, boots, swiper, and diego. Not all have the bonus characters so look for boots, swiper and diego to be included.

I bought this Colorful Dollhouse for my 2 1/2 year old daughter. She just adores Dora and put this item in her memory banks after seeing the commercial. I originally planned to purchase it for Christmas, but I couldn't wait (I'm a big kid myself!). My daughter and I played with it for over an hour together and she continued well after I was done. I love the spanish/english phrases. I forgot to pull the tag off the bottom after opening and thought we had to ring the bell everytime we wanted to hear something. Since I found it my daughter just can't get enough of opening and pushing all the activation areas. There are 2 drawbacks for me 1. I purchased it without the furniture, but I will be purchasing it soon. 2. The cabinets and oven don't open. My daughter kept trying to open the oven and finally realized (after many tries), that it just doesn't open (If you fisher price people read this...it would be a great idea if you have more opening items in the kitchen.
Overall I think it is great, I purchased it long before I planned to and I will be purchasing another this weekend as a birthday present for a family member! Enjoy!!!

We just bought this for our 2 year old for christmas. I took it out of the box this morning to see if she liked it, and she LOVED it! Of course, dora is her hero anyway, but she seemd very interested when all the lights and sounds worked when she mashed buttons. Its also very colorful and pretty! the flowers are brightly colored pink and red and everything just looks really nice. I am very impressed. fisher price has such good quality of toys. this set comes with diego, boots and swiper. also comes with papi mami and dora. this saves on money if you dont mind the fact that diego wont have baby jaguar and his suitcase, swiper wont have his cookies and cake and boots wont have tico, scooter and fire truck in the pack that you would get if you bought them seperatly from the house. i did buy an extra boots pack though because of the fact tico comes with it. I had to purchase all furniture seperatly though. in all, i spent 110.00 since i did but the "r" exclusive instaed of 122.00. every little bit counts when you are shopping for two. its very hard to find these dora items, so dont wait till last minute. good luck!

Who says a doll house is only for girls! My little boy is sure enjoying this house to bits! He likes to compare the figures it comes with to the actual television show while on air! It is certainly cute and very durable. I can atest to how durible it is because buying it for a boy I was a tad worried that GI Joe might decide to ambush dora's house and break it to pieces! Not so! It is sturdy plastic and it folds up excellently for safe keeping! I say this will be the nubmer one asked for toy this Christmas! Five stars for Fisher-Price and this excellent house!

On a side note my son is autistic..and imaginative play ususally is taboo around here in my home. For some reason though he has taken to the swiper and boot characters and is acting out I guess what he thinks are scenes bwtween the two of them inside the house!! Whatever it is I'll take it!

My daughter recieved this dollhouse for Christmas last year along with several of the furniture packs (which were near IMPOSSIBLE to find at the time...we overpayed for them on ebay so she wouldn't have an empty dollhouse to play with!)

The toy is durable...and the bilingual aspects are always great. All the furniture is cute, and everything can be cleaned easily, which is a big plus (me=germophobe)

However, the toy is quite large...if you are lacking in space, it may not be for you. Ideally, it would be perfect if you could close up the house with the pieces in it, but not possible. Plus, you have to deal in the cost factor....fifty bucks or more for just the house and a few figurines. Add in the extra characters and the furniture packs, and it's well over a hundred dollars.

Overall, it IS a fun toy, if you can get past the price and the size.

My 3 year old insisted that she wanted this for Christmas. However, she now NEVER plays with it. She prefers the Calico Critters, which are small and intricate OR she will play with Little People which are more interesting than this dollhouse. The furniture (that you have to buy seperately) is very boring and straightforward with very few pieces. The bed turns into a bunkbed, but otherwise it is just a hard piece of plastic.

Perhaps you think this dollhouse is a stage older than Little People. To me, it does not appear to be geared to a higher age group.

I also have a gripe with the design of the house ... why not a handle on top and a latch on the side to close it up? Why not a place to store the furniture? It is awkward to move the house and to store the accessories.

Overall, a waste of $90 (house plus 3 furniture sets).

My 3 year old son loves his Dora's Talking House. I knew from the box that it did not come with many accessories, so we bought some furniture the same day. I have had a
very easy time locating extra furniture, although it does end up to be expensive for something that is all plastic, I think it was worth it because my son enjoys it so much. He also likes to bring the characters into his bath. I like that it collapses down easily, and it is cuter than I expected. If your child is a big fan of the show, and you can swing the expense, I would recommend it highly!

I bought this for my 3-year-old daughter for Christmas because she has been asking for it since she first saw the commercial. The first thing I had to do was search for it because it is flying off the shelves. I do not mind searching and it is a great toy, but the furniture and accessories for in the house are impossible to find. I even went to the Nick Jr. website and could not find them. I agree with the one person who said this was definetely bad marketing and planning on someones part. A great toy, but not much good without all of the extra stuff. Sorry guys.

I bought this toy for my 4 year old little girl for Christmas. It looks adorable and i'm sureshe'll love it. My problem is there are no accessories out there to go with it......
Why put the dollhouse out on the market, only to have the parents go crazy looking for the accesories .Market strategy? Or poor planning? A Very Dissapointed Parent......