Fisher-Price Little People Airport Playset - Red

by Little People

Product Features

• Includes 3 vehicles and 3 figures
• Turn luggage carousel
• "Scan" your luggage
• Help land planeform control tower
• Rotate the radar dish

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 24 x 5 x 16 inches ; 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 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: B00005BMX9
• Item model number: C4780
• Manufacturer recommended age: 24 months - 5 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,965 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #36 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Toddler Toys > Pretend Play > Toy Figure Playsets
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

The airport is a fascinating place to young children and it''s not hard to understand why: all those enormous airplanes, people coming and going, suitcases, and luggage carousels. It''s all pretty amazing. So kids are likely to love this fun airport set from Fisher-Price''s Little People collection. It sports an orange plane, helicopter, taxicab, windsock, control tower, radar dish, restaurant area, binocular stand, and more fun airport features. It''s compatible with all other Little People sets (and, frankly, it puts the ever-expanding Little People city on the map as a major metropolis). This would make a terrific present for any kid who has an actual airline trip ahead of them. --Charlie Williams

Product Description

Get ready for take off with the kid-sized airport.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This durable toy is my son's favorite, January 6, 2005

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Jeffrey Jotz "You'll know him when you find him" (Rahway, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Little People Airport Playset - Red (Toy)

My son got this airport as a gift at 20 months and 6 weeks later, it is still his favorite toy. We have several F-P little people playsets and like to use them with this airport.
Unlike some other reviewers here, we are VERY glad that it did not come with any battery-hungry and annoying lights and sounds to irritate mommy & daddy's nerves. It's getting harder and harder to find toys these days where the only noise comes from the children themselves.
The playset was easy to assemble and comes apart for storage. The only negatives I've seen are that the windsock and umbrella are easily removed (and lost), but all in all, this set gives our son quite a bit of self-play and helps him develop his imagination. Where else but here can you see a Fisher-Price sheep pilot a passenger jet?

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some Confusion??, March 17, 2004

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Michael Buckley (Buffalo,, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Little People Airport Playset - Red (Toy)

From reading the prior reviews, I think there is some confusion surrounding exactly what this toy is and isn't. First off, it IS a Toys R us exclusive. It does NOT, however, have flashing runway lights or make sounds activated by the vehicles. I think the cause of confusion is that this new TRU version looks EXACTLY like the old Discovery Airport, but is not battery operated. I was not at all disappointed when I received this, though. From what I've read about Discovery Airport, parents constantly complained that the sounds never worked properly. (Perhaps the reason it was discontinued???) And Discovery Airport was very expensive; it was priced as high as [$$$] in the Fisher Price store! This new airport is certainly a less costly alternative. My only issue with the toy is that if it includes pilots for the planes, why not a driver for the taxi?

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I have the discovery version, but......., February 20, 2005

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pidge mcgee - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Little People Airport Playset - Red (Toy)

I have the discovery version of this and found it strange that they changed it until I remembered a few things about my 2 year old's toy. First off, let me say the airport can be fun without the sounds and lights, which can be turned off on the one we have, basically turning it into this new model. (My son doesn't always turn it on to play with it). This newer one looks exactly like the older version minus one baggage car and no real landing lights on the runway.

When we got it, we thought is was so cute and amazing at how the cars, plane, and helicopter would make noise just by rolling near it. but as time went on, I sometimes found the sounds annoying and it would malfunction occasionaly. It has an on/off switch on the bottom, but if you leave it in the on position, it can be turned on with the X landing mark on top of the control tower (for kids to do it). And then over a few minutes will go into a sleep mode. Ok, that was great, but after awhile it wouldn't turn on and i'd have to flip it over and manually turn it on and off and on again to get it to work. This actually started just months after getting it. And now the vehicles don't always make the sounds when rolled over the landing strip and road. My son gets very frustrated sometimes. So I can only guess that they were having some problems and complaints about the discovery sounds version. Hope this helps anyone out there who's disappointed that they can't find the first one.