Customer Reviews

Little Tikes Keyboard with Stool

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(21)
2 star:		(27)
1 star:		(32)

 

 

The microphone stand broke at the joint the first time a kid over the age of three touched it. I would rather visit the dentist for a root canal than have to deal with Kids Station customer service again. There is no way to order the part online or over the phone - requests have to be sent in in writing, even for non-warranty replacements. The customer service department is unhelpful and extremely hostile. Little Tykes should seriously consider refusing to license any more Kids Station products until A) they become durable enough to withstand kids playing with them, or B) Kids Station gets their act together regarding their customer service.

The microphone stand is poorly designed - it has ratcheting teeth that tighten to the point that a 5-year-old girl attempting to adjust the microphone stand managed to snap the stand in half before the teeth ratcheted.

The idea was good but the product is poorly built. My daughter had no sooner touched her microphone then the piece holding it on the stand fell off. And continues to fall off. My husband is going to have to glue it into place. This keyboard stand and seat should have been made of heavier plastic. The slightest wrong movement sends it crashing to the floor which I then have to reassemble because the keyboard and stand do not fit tightly together.

The keyboard is fun though. The different sounds and melodies entertain my daughter who loves to make up her own songs as she plays.

I feel disappointed in my purchase though because I had expected better quality from a toy with the little tikes name attached. The toy should be rebuilt with heavier plastic so that it can stand up to some rock n rollin not just petite classical interludes.

The idea of the toy is awesome. My two year old son had a great time with it during the first few hours he played with it. It is very light, so it was knocked over and the plastic peice that holds the mic in place snapped in two. The key board still plays wonderfully and he loves to play with it still, but there is now a hole where the mic holder used to be, and the mic is now found a new resting place on the floor.

he received this for Christmas and just loves it. He can turn it on, play it, and use the microphone all by himself. he loves pushing all the keys and buttons and hearing all the neat sounds as well as seeing the various lights that light up.

The item does tend to tip over somewhat easily so you do have to be careful. also the Stool doesn't seem overly sturdy by my son stands up anyway when he plays it. So far I haven't had any of the other problems that other reviewers have mentioned.

But I agree with the person that said you get what you pay for. You can't expect the highest quality toy of this kind for a mere $30 or so. good for what it is and quite fun.

My boys, just turned 3 years old and the other is 15 months, LOVE this toy!! It has tons of different sounds, beats, tones, instruments, songs, etc., to play along with or just listen to. The microphone is also a HUGE hit. My oldest son is in speech therapy for articulation problems so I'm hoping this will help him maybe listen to his voice a bit more.

The only downside so far is the durability. The day after they received this gift from grandma the microphone stand got broken. It's still usable and I plan to hot glue it back on.

My mil just bought this for my 15 mos old daughter because she loved playing with the display in the store. A lot of the posters were complaining about it not being durable, but you get what you pay for. You are not going to get a great big sturdy keyboard for $30. If you want something more durable you are going to have to pay more. I think that it's really great. Even though the age range is 3+, my daughter will sit at it and play and sing for a long time. It holds her attention well. Since she is so little, we had to put a higher chair for her to sit at though. I reccomend this toy if you are looking for something economical.

My 3 year old son received this toy for his birthday two weeks ago. He and my 11 month old son had great fun with it for about 2 days until my 11 month old grabbed the microphone and it snapped in half leaving a VERY SHARP piece of plastic sticking out from the keyboard.
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Like most others here the microphone broke off on the first day when my son and a 3 year old were playing with it. On the second day, the speaker cuts in and out and it won't play songs anymore. He had fun with it for about 4 hours. A total piece of junk. Look at other keyboards. We bought this because it seems to be the only one with its own stand.

I see we all have this in common. Ordered from Amazon and immediately the stool was missing. Put it together easily. On day two my five year old snapped microphone stand. Around day six my three year old collasped it and I can't get it back together. And then the microphone pulled out around day nine. The bill came around day fifteen.

We got this last Christmas. The microphone broke off the first day. Tried to fix it, but it didn't take. Never got around to seeing about getting it replaced. Our daughter still plays with it a lot though. I just had to replace the batteries in it a couple of weeks ago...and then the microphone stopped working alltogether sometime after that.

I was getting ready to order the drumset this company makes, too, and then saw that it was made by the same people that made this and decided against buying it.