Customer Reviews

Pooh Candyland

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

We wanted to buy Candyland for our almost 3 year old boy. He really liked Pooh and Tigger so we thought this game would be great for him.

However, the colors on this game make it nearly impossible to play for a 3 year old. He understand colors like red, green, and blue. This game has colors like mauve, turqouise, and tan. And to make it even more difficult, the shade of colors on the cards doesn't match the shade of colors on the board.

Plus all the pieces make it time-consuming to put up and take down.

We took this game back. Do yourself a favor and buy the plain-old traditional Candyland.

I started playing this game with my son when he was three and he got the hang of it pretty quickly. He's 4 now and is still a huge Pooh fan - and still loves this game too. However, I have to agree with the other reviewers here about a few negative aspects of this game. The colors are quite horrible and unusual. I always try to say the name of the color out loud as my son and I draw the cards. Sometimes I can't figure out whether to say orange, gold, yellow, etc. simply because the color isn't really clear to me! I also don't think the little cardboard stand-up pieces are useful at all. They seem to be just for decoration around the board, so we leave them off whenever we play. It would just take too much time and effort to set them up each time... Luckily, the playing pieces are plastic (Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore), which makes them a bit more durable than the cards and stand-up pieces. The Eeyore piece is huge compared to the other playing pieces and is a little hard to fit on the squares as you move around the game board. That's just a minor issue, but when we play nobody ever chooses Eeyore for this reason. I don't have the standard Candyland game (I had one as a kid) so I cannot compare this Pooh version to it. I do think that if your child is over 3 years old and likes the POOH characters, this game will probably be enjoyed a lot.

I bought this game for a friend's new baby. Since baby wasn't old enough to play, we played it. We found it a delightful spin on the classic candyland game. The Winnie-the-Pooh characters are great fun and more "personal" than the original characters. However, we found that the oversized standup figures that are placed about the board awkward to play around.

The game works on the principle of moving by colored spaces rather than by numbers, so it makes it easy for young children who cannot count to move. The game might be educational for color recognition, but I seriously doubt any inherent educational value. After all, the object of the game is to finish first after chasing over the board looking for sweets and sugar!

I am a big fan of the Candyland game and was excited to find a 100 Acre Wood version. My 4 year old likes it, but it is a bother to set up and take down. We often find ourselves playing it without the standing characters, though it's not as much fun. The colors are not especially helpful, as they are odd shades of turquoise, pink, etc. We sometimes have to take the card over to the light to figure out if it's pink or orange. The good news is, my daughter gets very excited about drawing the cookie or cupcake cards, even though they mean she has to go back near the beginning.

I wasn't sure about the game before I bought it, and now that I own it. I really dislike it!

This is why:

The game looks more like a Winnie the Pooh Birthday Party than a Picnic.

The gameboard feels very cluttered with all of the winnie the pooh cardboard standing parts.

The gameboard is even worse because because the colored squares seem extra small, and the playing pieces are extra big.

Eeyore, if placed on the board with his head facing forward, will take up 3 spaces.

The colors are not simple colors making the teaching value of this game very poor.

I suggest buying the original game, because this one is truly not that good.

I read the reviews on this game but decided to purchase it anyway. By coincidence my son also received the traditional Candy Land game along with Chutes and Ladders (some sort of Collector's set) for Christmas. We play with both games, but I much prefer the traditional version. I agree that the colors in the Pooh version are a little exotic, but most are easily decipherable by my 2 1/2 year old. There is one, however, that I don't even know what to call. It's not quite orange, not quite yellow and we actually end up calling it "the strange color." The playing pieces are also HUGE. Eeyore, whom my son loves to be, barely fits on the square and depending on where on the board the piece is, blocks some of the other squares. My son also insists that we set up the full game - there are cardboard stand up figures. The plastic pegs that hold them up go underneath the board and fit through slots. The figures do not easily fit in the pegs and I find it to be a real pain. I don't know if the full size traditional game has these figures, but I am glad that collector's version that my son received does not. I like like the game, but would recommend that you purchase a version of CandyLand that has traditional colors and no stand up cardboard pieces. You'll be glad you did.

My 4 & 2 1/2 year olds love Pooh but this game is not what I expected. There are MANY pieces that pop into the board to decorate it and they get in the way of the game. But my biggest complaint of this game is the colors. They are NOT your traditional Red, Oragne, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Green they are in between colors like yellow-orange, grenish-blue, orange-red etc. YIKES!! I am trying to teach my kids the colors as we play the game and I have trouble naming the colors. I donated my Pooh game and bought the regular Candy Land!! The colors are more vibrant and not mistakable for another color!!

I just finished a game with my 3 year old nephew. I had to put it together and take it apart. When he wanted to play again, all the stand-up cardboard peices never made it back in. This is not a game that a child could set up. You move about the board by drawing cards. The cards have colors on them to indicate where you need to move your character. All of the colors are off-color. The "Yellow" is more of an off yellow, the orange is not a true orange. It is quite confusing if you're trying to teach colors to a child.

The confusing colors are an annoyance. Every time we play, we get into a debate about whether one color is orange or red. There is another yellowish-orangeish color which we have named "creamy."

The playing pieces are too big for the squares. The pop-up figures add another 5 minutes of set-up to a game that is already tedious. I confess that I "stack the deck" of Candyland cards so that none of us will get sent back near the beginning just as we were (oh please!) about to end the game.

However, my kids at 3 and 4 years old did like to play Candyland. It is a nice, simple game for children who are just ready to start playing board games. I love playing games with them, but usually encouraged them to choose other games than this one.....

As other reviews indicate, this board has pieces that must be inserted and removed every time the board is brought out. There are several problems with this. The first is that the cardboard inserts quickly become frayed and crushed at the bottom where they are supposed to fit into plastic clips. The clips themselves are like vices and hard to open sufficiently. There is no way small children can set this up by themselves and frankly, it can take an adult so long to get all the pieces together that the children lose interest and go off to do something else. I really can't believe that the designers of this ever tested it with real children and parents before tossing it out on an unsuspecting public.