Customer Reviews

Little Tikes Variety Climber with Swing Set Extension

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We bought this set for our 16 month old daughter. She is a climber and loves to swing. The slides are perfect for her, she can climb up on the smaller platform by herself and slide down without any help. She loves the bridge and the pretend steering wheel. Putting it together was not too hard but you do need an electirc drill/screwdriver and it will take a few hours. A great buy!!!!!

I purchased this item for my son for his 1st birthday. My husband and a friend put it together in about 2 hours and didn't seem to have any difficulty with it. We purchased two infant swings and replaced the big kid ones that came with this item as most of our friends have infants or toddlers so it seemed to make sense to have 2 infant swings available. My son was not much of a climber at 12 months old but did love the swings. He appeared to be afraid to slide down the slides as well. He is now 16 months old and is an expert climber lol. He loves to climb on his gym set and slides down his slides over and over and over again. He plays on this set often and can climb and slide independently now of course with mommy close by. This item is very sturdy and appears to be a perfect fit for him at his age. We looked into the more expensive wooden sets but they all seemed to be a bit too big for him at such a young age. I can see him getting plenty of use out of this item until he is about 6 years old at which time we plan on upgrading to a larger wooden set. It seemed to make sense to buy this as a beginner set because anything larger would be difficult for him to get as much use out of until he was a bit older. As with most larger items I recommend that you purchase it at your local toys r us or target because shipping on this item is very expensive. Buy this item in the store, save the money on shipping and use it to buy your infant attachment swings instead :0)

We bought this for our son when he was 2 years old and now he's 5 and won't use any other swing set. I thought he would like a wooden one that was bigger, but he gets so much enjoyment from this one and it's durable, was easy to assemble (even for my husband) and he gets hours of enjoyment from it. We did anchor it into the ground because I was afraid it would tip over as he got older, but it works just fine and we're all happy, even mom!

We spent so much time debating which kind of swingset/play system to buy for our then 18 month old son. We settled on this one and LOVE it! What attracted us to it versus the bigger yard sets is that the climber is not too high. Our toddler can climb all over it and we do not have to worry about him falling off. If he does, it is only a short distance compared to if he were to fall off a bigger one and could be seriously hurt.

The manufacturer reccomends this for a 3 year old...we
bought it specifically for our 18 month old and it was perfect for him. He is now 2 and still loves it. There is definitely room for him to use it for a few more years until he is big enough for a big, wooden play system.

The features...
1. comes with anchors to keep it in the ground
2. not hard to assemble
3. attractive looking
4. sturdy
5. not high!!!
6. the bar that holds the swings is made of metal
and is +6 foot high--allows for plenty of fun
swinging as opposed to the swings made for
toddlers that have a limited range
7. we can have a baby swing and the "big kid"
swing being used at the same time with room
between the two swings--great for families
with a baby and a toddler/preschooler!

I bought this climber for my 2 children, ages 28 and 14 months, 2 weeks ago. It is a nice climber, but not for the price and my kids don't play with it as much as I thought they would. The age recommendation was 3 to 6 years, but I think 2 to 4 is more like it. My cousins came over to play on it, they are 4 and 6 years old, and they looked way to big to be playing on it. Putting it together wasn't too bad. I did need a hand with the swing extension. Overall, I am disappointed. My kids love the park and love climbing on everything, but this doesn't hold their interest.

I have been waiting for this set to go on sale at our local Toys-R-Us for a month. We bought it yesterday and to the surprise of my husband, I was able to put it together (not the swing arm though) in 1 1/2 hours with the help of the 12 year old neighbor girls.

My 17 month old daughter absolutely loves it. She was trying to play on it before it was even fully assembled. She easily climbs onto the lower platform herself and is even able to climb up the rope ladder (though she can't climb down it) It is low enough to the ground that if she would accidentally fall off she should not sustain serious injury.

We love that this is a jungle gym and swingset combined and hope that it will last her until around age 5, when we plan on building a large wooden play structure.

A tip though, you do need to drill THROUGH the plastic in many places, this is not explicitly mentioned in the instructions and I was hesitant to do so but it is necessary.

I purchased this climber/swing for my 2 year old twin daughters (a couple years ago). We have a large Cedar Works wooden play structure (highly recommended - no splinters!) purchased for their older brother but I thought they would need a smaller transitional climber. I was wrong. They wanted to play with big brother so went right for the wood play structure. They all still use this occasionally (ages 3.75, 3.75 and 7 now) but it is pretty small for them. I would suggest this for 1-3 year olds and only if they don't have an older sibling and bigger play structure to entice them. It is low to the ground, providing easy access to a new walker. It went together quickly and relatively easily and has held up very well, even with a 7 year old climbing on the roof.

I bought this swing set for my one and three year olds. My oldest LOVES to swing and I was able to put an infant swing on it instead of the one provided. Easy put together. Hardest part was the blue pole to hold the swings ( my I suggest to use WD-40 to help the pole slide through the plastic). We have had it for over a year and everyone still loves it and it is in GREAT shape. We will use it for years to come.

I got this for my 18 month old son right after Christmas. Even though it recommends 2 people to put it together I tried to put the climber part together by myself and by some miracle I succeeded, but it did take me about 3 hours to do this. I could've gotten it done quicker if I hadn't put a couple of parts on backwards and had to fix them. Here's a helpful hint for the climber, don't close the blue covers until you are sure you have it on correctly and in the correct place. I wasted 5 of them because I had to back track. Fortunately the company gave me quite a few extras. Also, as someone else mentioned you WILL need a power drill to make holes in the plastic for the screws.

As far as the swing set extension goes, there is no way one person could do that by themselves, it's impossible. Some advice on that part would be to use a bar of soap and rub it all over the two metal poles that are supposed to go into each other above the climber. There was no way ours was moving if we hadn't done that. It took my mother and me about 2.5 hours to get it complete.

Also, you will most likely need a hammer and a block of wood to bang a few parts into place on both the climber and the swing extension.

Overall, I am very pleased with my purchase and I know my son will get many years of use out of it.

We just got this for our 18 month old. She just had a liver transplant and you could say that it is a "guilt gift." The set up went VERY smooth until the last step. The poles (that the swings attach to) had a small dent where we were supposed to attach them - so it took a bit longer than anticipated. But all in all turned out great. She LOVES swinging on it, we did have to buy a toddler swing for her. And LOVES going down the slides.