Customer Reviews

Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Stack & Roll Cups

5 star:		(85)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

STACK AND ROLL CUPS

My 14 month old grand-daughter AND her grandma LOVE this toy! We have spent many happy hours playing with these fantastic little cups! I would love to meet the genius who invented these.

This toy can do a multitude of things -- you can stack them, roll them, put fun stuff inside, put them together! When they are together, we roll them, stack them, spin them, throw them! Paige runs around the house, holding two of them! She loves to bang them together! What FUN!!!

The colors are bright, the cups have special little designs on each one, along with numbers too. They are durable and withstand little hands, feet, even rear ends!

This is one of my favorite toys to play with. I have started purchasing these as baby gifts for friends. The ways you can entertain with these stack and roll cups are numerous; Paige and I constantly find ways to have fun with these. One of our favorite ways to play with these cups is to take them apart and place them side-by-side on the floor. They look so pretty! Then, we take little rubber ducks and sit them on top of each cup. Now, this is fun!

It is also fun to SNAP!!! these cups together, they inter-mingle and can fit together with other sizes nicely. The SNAP!!!! sound seems to make a funny impression on toddlers!

Get some of these cups for the babies in your life. You will all have a great time. Not only are they FUN, but they serve as an educational tool with the different colors, designs, and numbers. Babies will not even know they are learning because they are having so much fun!!!

Thank you!
Pam

This would make it on my top five list of toys for a toddler. There seem to be an infinite number of ways to play with these -- the cups can be stacked in different ways, with handy ridges that allow each size to fit on any of the larger sizes and stay together; they can be put together to make 5 different balls, nested, and any combination of these things (my older kids like nesting the balls inside eachother). Since each one has a hole they are easy for my 15 month old to grab, and now she has discovered that after you snap them together as balls, they make a cool sound when you talk through one end. Even my 6 and 8 year old boys enjoy finding new things to do with these cups. We like rolling and stacking the balls after they're made, putting various small toys inside each ball and peeking in to see them, and just stacking the cups in different ways. Sometimes they are cups or bowls for pretend eating or drinking. Or they're hats, or telescopes. The colors are beautiful, and we haven't even started exploring the numbers/shapes on them yet. They also feel indestructible. I love that the whole toy, when nested together, takes up little space. This is one excellently crafted, well-designed toy that encourages creativity and good fun, with an infinite number of uses for the imaginative kid.

I got this before my son was born and he first used it he when was about 5 months old. He liked banging the cups together. The yellow jingly ball for the top is one of his favorite things to carry around the house. He is a year now, and is figuring out how to stack the cups. He also has enjoyed rolling the balls, spinning the balls, and shaking the balls, with other items inside to make rattles. The cups are indestructable and are fun to use everywhere, including the bath tub and kiddie pool. Definitely a great toy, that is well worth the money for many hours of creative fun and learning.

I love that these bowls stack, nest, connect as balls, and I love the colors. I got these for my daughter when she was about 8 months, and now she's 14 months old. She does not play with them on her own as much as I thought she would, which is why I gave it 4 not 5 stars. I think these would be great for kids a bit older who get the stacking concept-- you really have to push them together to get them to stack big to small. She loves the Jingle smile face ball and will grab that the most. She also loves to roll around the balls when they are put together more than anything else.

There is a hole in every piece, which are great for baby fingers to grab on to. She can easily hold even the largest piece. The downside of the holes is that they don't hold water for pouring in the bathtub, but she still likes to play with them a lot in the tub.

They are very durable; they have withstood many throws and drum hits on our hardwood floor.

Educational uses: The colors are great -- the red/orange fit together for the balls; the yellows, greens, blues, purples do the same. Additionally, each bowl has small indentions of shapes around the hole. So the pieces with the triangles go together; the pieces with the stars go together, etc. There is also a number on each piece: 1 through 10, big through little.

We've only owned this toy for a few days but so far it's been a hit. My ten month old loves the ball that comes with it and my five year old likes playing with the stackers. Seems like it will be very durable. The only downside is constantly picking up the many seperate pieces that end up all over the house!

My 11 month old son absolutely loves these stacking cups. The smiley face rattle ball is probably one of his favorites out of all of his toys. Who would have guessed that you could have hours of fun with such a simple toy. Forget about all the expensive toys that light up and do nothing but consume harmful batteries. This is all a baby really needs to keep their attention, at least for a while.

Well, I only paid about $5 for this at a local coat outlet store, and I doubt that I would have paid the $17 Amazon is asking, but after having owned this toy, I can assure prospective buyers that this is actually well worth it. It's pretty straight forward: half cups of varying sizes that snap together as towers or balls, plus one smiley face jingle ball. Yet somehow this toy is just fantastic.

No batteries, no moving parts, and the jingle noise is not unpleasant.
The balls are lightweight and easy for even young babies to handle.
The tower is stable, yet still easily deconstructed.
The colors are bright and have a good range from the spectrum.
The little jingle ball can fit on top or inside of all the cups/balls.
The plastic is durable and is very easy to clean.
The whole thing fits into the largest ball, making this the smallest, lightest, most entertaining toy for travel that I've ever seen.

Normally, this is where I'd put my list of cons, but I actually have none. Seriously, this is an absolutely amazing little toy.

Yes, there are already multiple reviews of the Stack and Roll cups, but I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus. I like how the item is compactly packed which lets the purchaser see how easily and compacly the toy can be stored.
Here's an item with multiple uses and multiple attractions for one's baby. It can be used to practice eye-hand coordination and teach colors and numbers. The cups can be stacked or attached in pairs to make rolling balls. Putting something like the smiley ball inside adds the element of sound.

We are very pleased with the Stack and Roll cups as our little grandson who loves it.

As others have said, this toy set is extremely versatile; you can do so much with the cups that it is one of the few toys I leave out all the time (I rotate my 16-month-old son's toys so neither of us gets bored). Highly recommended as a baby gift, as it's not immediately evident how useful this set is if you just see it in a store, so I probably would never have purchased it myself.

This is a wonderful toy. I loved it because it could be put all together into one or two compact balls and fit in the diaper bag. Then take it out and it's a stacking toy, a counting toy, a color toy, a rattle (the yellow smiley ball rattles/jingles), and a set of balls (it forms five different sized balls)! It's great.

At 6 months my babies liked chewing on it and banging the pieces together and rattling the yellow ball. A little later my son enjoyed stacking the bowls and rolling the balls.

A little older and it was all about the different ways to stack the bowls and put the balls together. Then he hid the balls inside one another.

Now at 4 1/2 years, he likes to line up the numbers and count down as well as hide other toys underneath "capturing" them. (I had to buy a second set for my youngest because my preschooler still plays with these all the time).

When I passed this on to my youngest, I did my standard recall check online--no recalls on this one, but I noticed that a different company had a variation on this that was recalled--the problem with the recalled toy was that the babies used the bowls to cover their nose and mouth and couldn't breath--that is NOT an issue with this toy as each bowl has a large hole in the bottom (that's what the ball is rests on when stacked in tower form like in the picture), so suffocation is NOT an issue with this toy.

When the bowls are made into balls, the balls are pretty easy for adults, preschoolers and older toddlers to get apart when not nested because you can get a better grip by sticking your fingers into the holes and pulling. They won't pull apart or fall apart when played with by a baby--even after 4 years of rough play.

My only complaint is that when you nest everything together it's very hard to take apart. My solution was to nest into two sets--alternating sizes. To elaborate: the bowls are numbered and if you nest them in sequence they nest too closely and tightly to get back apart easily. But if you nest the ball made from bowls 1&2 into the 5&6 ball and then into the 9&10 ball (to make one ball with 6 nested bowls) and then make a second ball out of the yellow smiley ball placed into the 3&4 ball which goes into the 7&8 ball, then you end up with two balls that you can get your fingers in the holes and pull the balls back apart. It's still very compact!

I highly recommend this toy.