Customer Reviews

Hasbro Playskool Dream Town Rose Petal Cottage

5 star:		(121)
4 star:		(50)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

We bought this for my 3 year old girl's birthday. It was SO easy to set up...only took 1/2 hour for all pieces, including the oven and sink! The attention to detail in this product was amazing and the quality was far better than I expected. She absolutely loves it. The best part...when she is tired of it for a while, take it apart and store it under the bed or in the attic. I can't wait for more pieces to come out. All the parts nest inside each other for space saving too. I HIGHLY recommend this item!!!!

This product is just o.k.. I thought it would be bigger and heavier. I bought it for my 2 1/2 year old.
It's pretty flimsy and can be easily pushed over (by a 11 month old who is holding on to every thing to walk).
The stove that came with it is tiny as you can see in the picture the kids have to be on their knees to use it.
I don't mean to sound so negitive and am sorry if I have discouraged you but it's just not a favorite. It is really cute though.

We just bought this for my daughter's third birthday and wow, did we score big time with this gift! She has barely left the house, even wanting to sleep in it last night. As another reviewer said, the attention to detail is amazing, it's high quality, and was so easy to put together. I especially love how easy it is to clean up and move out of the way.

I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone with little girls!

My daughter received this for her 2nd birthday-she loves it! It is larger than we thought it would be in size. It takes up a good portion of our living room, but my daughter has too much fun with the cottage to worry about the space it takes up. The house pieces nest together nicely, but I wish that it would be a little easier to take the whole thing down if we wanted to-we just don't want to put the poles together again. Overall, the whole cottage goes up very easily and it is a blast to play with.

I purchased the Rose Petal cottage for my 6yrold... she loves it, although I thought she'd be a little old for it... able to put it together without TOO much difficulty, w/no help from Dad, so it isn't that hard! She wants to sleep in it at night and is looking foward to getting accessories for Christmas. I also got it at a great price, which was a plus... quick delivery as well... all in all a very good product!

My family bought this as an early xmas gift for my 1-1/2 yr old daughter and she loves it and the little stove! My 3yr old son has had fun with it also. It's their little "fort" and he likes to run his matchbox cars off the roof - ha ha. So far it seems fairly sturdy and it was easy to put together. I only wish more of the accessories were more widely available. Hasbro has a lot more accessories than you see in stores on their website but all are out of stock right now. :( I will update this review if I find anything wrong with it though.

My Daughter, 2 1/2, and Son, 5, love playing with this set. I like the way one piece sits inside the other when playtime is finished. I have even set it up with the open areas facing each other to make a square house.

I do question the durablity of the plastic connectors. My kids are very active and move the pieces around, sometimes not making sure that the frame is flat on the floor, i.e. a toy get between the frame and floor. The connectors bend if they or the frame is stepped upon and are difficult to straighten. They are also starting to show signs of splitting where the frame pieces meet the connectors.

Great product if your child or childern leaves it where you place it. Provides hours of imaginative play.

Edited - 4/29/08

It is now near the end of April and the play house is gone. Several seams came apart, a couple of holes from wear, 5 connectors completely split, several supports were bent beyond fixing. THIS IS NOT an item for children who want to move it around. Sadly it did not last for very long. I will not be replacing it.

This is one of the best purchases we have made for our now 4-year-old daughter. We purchased this for her as a Christmas gift as she had seen it repeatedly on TV and in magazines and had fallen in love with it. I am surprised that more people didn't have trouble with the assembly, but maybe that was due to the fact that we were swamped with putting thigs together at 2 AM on Christmas Eve! I got the frame set up without a glitch, but for some reason, I had lots of trouble getting the material onto the frame. As it turned out, I had the framed turned backwards, and I could've looked at the pictures in the directions a bit more carefully.

The final product is a masterpiece! This toy leaves lots of room for creative play, and even my 3-year-old son has really enjoyed playing in the cottage. My daughter has insisted on sleeping in it, which we allowed, but only with the 2 pieces open a bit. On Christmas morning, she ran right to it, and after a bit emerged only to grab her other presents and take them to the cottage to open! The cottage is well-constructed and is not the usual tacky mess cluttering up our living room. My daughter LOVES that she can completely enclose herself in the cottage and play. I love the warm pastels and attention to detail.

A word of caution: I bought the washer and the sink, and the cottage comes with the stove. I know that there are TONS of other accessories that you can purchase with this set, but there is only so much room inside the cottage. With these 3 pieces, one side of the cottage is pretty much taken up. I would suggest choosing pieces carefully; chances are, your daughter will be more thrilled with the cottage itself than the accessories. In fact, more than once, I have seen my daughter take out all of the accessories to give herself more play room inside. I would ALSO suggest doing some comparison shopping on the accessories as Amazon's prices have drastically risen since I purchased mine.

This is a fantastic purchase! You will not be disappointed with this set!

We got this for my 6 year old daughter for Christmas. I was worried about the cottage being too small at first because the children in the photos seem around 3-5 years old. Once we got everything put together my daughter loved it. She is playing in it everyday! She is able to move around in it fine there is plenty of room especially if you open it up, but she like the coziness of having it set up like a small house. It was a little frustrating at times when we put it together, but it was well worth all the effort in the end. Plus it seems like it is constructed to last.

This was the only Shristmas toy that had both daughters playing quietly, so I love it. There's a good assembly video on the Hasbro website below.

http://www.hasbro.com/dreamtown/default.cfm?page=Tools/assembly