Fisher-Price Dora's Talking Kitchen

by Fisher-Price

Product Features

• Dora's Talking Kitchen brings Dora's adventures into kitchen role play!
• Children can go on Dora recipe adventures with the help of the 5 recipe adventure maps and 25 play pieces!
• It captures the unique Dora styling with a life-size Dora who will be cooking right along with the child.
• Also included are bilingual phrases, music and sound effects.
• Life-size Dora figure included.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 23.7 x 26.6 inches ; 16.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0007ZCJ2A
• Item model number: H1581
• Our recommended age: 24 months - 6 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 24 months and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,212 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Editorial Review

Ask anyone who’s ever set foot in a kitchen and attempted to prepare a meal: cooking can be an adventure. So it stands to reason that Dora the Explorer, everyone’s favorite bilingual adventurer, has an adventurous kitchen. This entertaining and comprehensive set features a stove, sink, range, musical radio, whirring blender and refrigerator to store items not in use. 28 different food and utensil items are also included. There are also some delightful features not found in regular kitchens including a touch screen that plays out food-based excursions and challenges young chefs to take part (find the tomatoes in the garden for instance). This is an exciting twist on the traditional play kitchen and is a great way to help kids learn and possibly encourage a love of cooking. --Charlie Williams

Product Description

Bring Dora's adventures into the kitchen for a fresh batch of pretend play. Children can go on Dora recipe adventures with the help of the seven recipe adventure maps and 28 play pieces. Dora's kitchen displays unique Dora styling with a life-size Dora who will be cooking right alongside your child. Also included are bilingual phrases, music and sound effects. Requires 3 "AA" batteries (included).

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

97 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My 3 year old loves it, but I was expecting more., August 21, 2005

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J. Hansen "mommy2mycutie" (Home of The Alamo, Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dora's Talking Kitchen (Toy)

My three year old received this for her birthday and she absolutely loves it (barely stops cooking long enough to eat real food and sleep, lol).

BUT!

Mommy is a little disappointed. I heard Dora and Map take you on a cooking adventure to find ingredients. I'm not sure I'd call it an "adventure". For instance, one recipe card is for Strawberry Pancakes. You insert the card into Map and all Dora says is, "Let's make strawberry pancakes. Let's go on an adventure to find ingredients. We need strawberries (then also says the Spanish word for strawberries), butter (then Spanish word for butter), and eggs (and Spanish word for eggs).".

That's it. No, now mix the ingredients and pour into the pan, nothing. No, first you go over strawberry mountain to get the strawberries, lol. I was just expecting more than 3 ingredients to be mentioned for each recipe card.

Another thing I don't like is the phone. You can pick the phone up and it rings. You talk to Diego, Boots, and Abuela. But NO DORA!?!?

The blender makes a few different sounds, including the normal blender sounds, then Dora also tells you it's a blender (using both English and Spanish). Same with the radio.

That's all the interaction you get with the kitchen.

Overall the kitchen is durable. The fridge and oven doors stay shut and aren't flimsy. There are two picture frames on the fridge door and you can insert your own pictures into the frames.

It was not difficult to assemble either. Everything just snaps into place and then screws are inserted to hold it in place. It took me about 45 minutes with several interuptions from my three year old to put this kitchen together.

But my daughter is happy, and that makes me happy. She has never played with a kitchen with hundreds of sounds, so she doesn't realize her Dora kitchen doesn't do everything other kitchens will do. She is very imaginative and uses her own sounds anyways. She is obsessed with Dora (she literally thinks she is Dora) so she is thrilled with this kitchen. I give the kitchen 3 stars from my perspective, but she would give the kitchen more than the 5 stars allowed.

ETA: Ok, we've had this kitchen a little longer and I want to correct something. The cooking adventure does involve more. Silly mommy didn't realize it when I wrote this review, but if you press the picture of the ingredient on the map, Dora will say "you can find strawberries at strawberry mountain", etc. Once you press all 3 ingredients Dora will say "now mix the ingredients", "we did it!".

Also, there are only FIVE recipe adventures, not seven like they advertise.

Finally, we did have to take our first kitchen back to TRU after having it for only 28 days. It stopped working. I replaced the batteries and still, it would only say one or two words then shut off. We've had this second one for about as long and so far so good (keeping my fingers crossed though!). If this one stops working, I WILL be exchanging it for a different kitchen. I'm still disappointed you can't talk to Dora on the phone, that's kind of crazy, it is HER kitchen afterall!

53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dora Beats Disney Princesses, October 14, 2005

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J. M. Opella (Haddonfield, NJ) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dora's Talking Kitchen (Toy)

For my daughter's 2nd birthday, she received the Disney Princess Talking Kitchen. It was cute but started falling apart in about 6 months. When I saw the Dora kitchen in the stores, I knew that she would love it. She's almost 3 now and I must say she plays with this almost every day.

The kitchen components are made of plastic and while they are not as thick as a Little Tykes kitchen, they are definitely better than the Princess kitchen. It took me about 45 minutes to assemble this with no assistance.

It is somewhat small width-wise and sits flush against a wall. Two toddlers (or 4 year olds) could easily stand side by side and play together. There is a refrigerator with "pictures" of Dora and Boots and you can slide in your own photos on top of Dora. This also comes with a cooktop, and oven plus 3 cards that slide into the recipe slot at the top of the kitchen.

The food and accessories are also excellent and help the child incorporate those recipe cards so they can "make" Cowboy Cookies, Empanadas and a couple of other dishes.

As far as the limited sounds and the disappointment that many are expressing, I'm quite happy. But I'm also a big believer that today's toys rely too heavily on electronics and batteries and take away from a child using their own imagination. My kids have repeatedly asked where the batteries go (in other toys) and the other day, my almost 3 year old held up a stuffed animal and asked "what does this do?". But I digress.

Dora says some phrases in English and Spanish and will prompt your child to gather ingredients for those recipes.

I'm also eager to get the other food sets that just came out for this kitchen.

44 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Its OKAY.....not many features....for the same price buy a different one, July 22, 2005

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A toddler mommy "A toddler mommy" (indianapolis) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dora's Talking Kitchen (Toy)

I got this for my 2 yo Daughter who LOVES dora. for the price of $79 it isnt worth it.

only the map, blender and radio make sounds. nothing else does.
some other sets have hundreds of noises but not this one.

if you are buying it for pretend play or just because it is DORA (which was our case b/c daughter went nuts when we saw it and cried for it) then you will be happy. But if you want one that makes noises or is interactive etc then dont buy this one.

i knew better than to buy this thing. ugg. now it is put together and just dont feel like lugging it to the store for a refund.