Customer Reviews

LEGO SpongeBob Adventures at Bikini Bottom

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

After reading the reviews by other parents stating that this Lego set is "too much for a 7 year old" - well, I had to write something. This is an excellent and very interactive set. The age range is 7-12, so that does not mean you can drop it in the lap of your 7 year old and miracles will happen! This set needs adult help for younger kids, while my older kid put it together in minutes!

It has great features which make it more than just building, you play catapult-like games with the highly creative toys you just built - a bed that throws SpongeBob out of it, 2 catapults for firing play jellyfish, and of course, a car and interactive basketball hoop inside SpongeBob's house.

Note to parents for kids 7-8, you may ACTUALLY need to get down on the ground and play with your kids! Surprise! Older kids can build this fairly easily and seem to invent a lot of games to play with their brothers/sisters.

I give this set 5 stars because it combines the challenge of buliding with legos, but has more small creative gizmos to play with once the set is built. And as a last comment to people who complain that legos fall apart and need to be reassembled... duh!

If you like to play with your 7-9 year old and don't want to use legos as a babysitter, this is the top lego set available for the price! For older kids, they will get a tremendous amount of enjoyment (provided they like SpongeBob).

This set was remarkably easy to put together (for an adult), and took about an hour and a half to assemble. This is a very cute set and has many very clever things. The set includes the homes of Squidward, SB, and Patrick. There is a lucite pull wagon with a working latch in which to store jelly fish when you aren't trying to catapulte them into Squidward's Tiki house eyes (which will fall backward into Squidwards house if you hit them). There is a pull back and forward drive Bikini Bottom boat which will hold either Sponge Bob, Patrick, or Squidward (you'll also get a Gary). Sponge Bob's bed can catapulte him as well. SB's house has a basketball net inside. Two b-balls are including for shooting hoops. Actually playing this toy takes some fine motor skill. Several parts repeatedly come apart during play, but are easily fixed by older kids and adults. Hey Lego Co., is it really that hard to make these things stay together?! Honestly, this is a fantastic display toy. The price is very steep in my opinion. Younger kids (less than 8) are probably going to have some frustration due to lacking in fine motor finese to play with it as intended. I think the toy is great eye candy to look at. Playing with it will work for older kids and adults as merely a novelty that will likely be short lived.

I found this LEGO set to be incredibly easy to put together if following the directions closely. My son is only 5 (just turned), so helped where he could--but there are some insanely small pieces in this set! I recommend dumping the bags of pieces in a large mixing bowl, then rummaging for what you need as you assemble... We had a close call with the heating vent, so switched to the mixing bowl method of LEGO management.

Now that we are done with assembly, which was great fun and high quality togetherness, my son is on cloud 9 with his Bikini Bottom set! He's played with it for hours at the kitchen table, with no waning interest in sight. We made a pretend newspaper for Gary to sleep on, and now my little guy acts out all sorts of SB scenarios. SB's bed is so cool, the jellyfish aquarium, the basketball hoop, Patrick's rock... There are so many neat little features. Patrick has a swivel TV!

The only two things that slightly annoy me are 1) the eyebrow on Squidward's tiki house falls off easily (no big deal), and 2)SB's bedpost falls apart easily (also no big). The finished houses are smaller than I expected, but that doesn't detract from the enjoyment at all.

PLEASE check the Lego website for the suggested retail price and decide what you want to pay. The price quoted by Amazon's third party vendor is astronomical--I got mine at Toys R Us and paid MSRP--MUCH less than Amazon's current price. I find it worth every penny and am having a blast listening to my son changing his voice for all the characters and monotoning "70 hours later..." in the voice-over guy's deadpan.

This has been, so far, our favorite Christmas gift. In a few days we'll put together Buildabob, and I'm definitely going to buy the Krusty Krab set.

My daughter has had hours of fun putting this set together and mixing pieces with the Krusty Krab set I bought for he. She saved her own money to buy this and it's been one of those toys that she really likes to play with over and over. This set is great for a child's imagination. She is eight and I think it was worth the money.

My boys love it! (ages 6 and 8) Haven't been able to find it at Toys R Us or anywhere else for that matter. They can't wait to get more Sponge Bob legos!

This was a great hit with my son. He enjoyed both assembling the kit and using it as a play set. The pieces are on the small side so it would definitely need parental help for a kid on the younger side of the suggested age range.

The big Spongebob fan in our house is 6-years old and he loves this set. Of course, it was too difficult for him to assemble, however, his 10-year old brother enjoyed working on it, though the subject matter was of no interest to him. While the Legos themselves are practically indestructable the finished products are typically fragile. A Spongebob fan who can take care of his or her playthings will enjoy this set. A child who is hard on his or her toys would be better off with a general set of Legos that can be broken down and reassembled with minimal fuss.

My daughter got this set for her birthday (which is in a few days) from her Uncle. I let her open it early so we can stretch out her birthday into a week full of celebrations!

She loves this set. She was able to do most of this on her own BUT there were several parts that she needed help with. The instruction book that came with it is excellent and really helped her "see" what she needed to do next. We completed all the little houses and are halfway through Spongbob's house. Had to stop for bedtime, I am such a mean Mom I know!

She can't wait to get the Krusty Krab set as well. This was our first venture into the "little" Legos and it went much smoother than I anticipated when I opened the box and saw all the tiny parts! We are storing the extra pieces in zip lock bags until we need them, so keep them from getting lost.

Since it has so many small pieces, it requires an eye for detail. Once built, the pieces are fun to play with. The best is Patrick and the boat which has a motor which really makes the boat go fast on a hardwood floor!

It is rated as 7+ but me and my daughter(4) built all the pieces together with her finding & connecting 80% of the pieces. I was teaching her in the beginning - how to follow the pictures in the manual and locate the right piece. After a few steps she was doing the most on her own with me reviewing so that she didnt miss a step.

If you get a good deal on this set and your kid likes Spongebob characters AND you are prepared to get down on your knees for a few hours with your kid :-) , this is a good buy!

I wish it had a few spares for some of the critical parts. (which it doesnt). We used a play-doh mat as our work surface to guard against losing the little pieces. But I am sure over time we will lose a few. It toys like these, I always wish they would include a spare set of wheels, since they are usually the first to break or get lost and then the toy starts to lose its attraction!


To summarize, a good holiday activity tool for at least a few hours. If your kid is younger, you will have to spend some time in at least supervising! Tell them to watch for the really small pieces!

I love how Patrick's house has a TV. Also there is 2 basketball and a basketball hoop in Spongebob's house. I like Spongebob's launching bed. The most thing I like is that a jellyfish can fit on Squidward's head.