Jumbo Castle Cardboard Blocks

by Melissa & Doug

Product Features

• 30 Cardboard blocks
• Build your own castles!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 19.5 pounds
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0006IRTTQ
• Item model number: 2781
• Our recommended age: 24 months and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 24 months - 5 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,784 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

With Jumbo Castle Blocks from Melissa & Doug, kids can build kid-size castles for the ultimate in medieval pretend play! This set of castle-styled cardboard blocks makes building castles easy - the blocks are lightweight, but sturdy to handle hard play, and they form big structures with all the details like towers and turrets. This Melissa & Doug block set include 35 blocks in assorted sizes and shapes - enough to make a new castle everyday! Jumbo Castle Blocks from Melissa & Doug are the ultimate building toy for kid knights! Assembly required.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great toy, but...., July 28, 2005

By 

C. Petri (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jumbo Castle Cardboard Blocks (Toy)

First of all, I bought these blocks from a toy store which was going out of business at 50% off (2/5 of amazon's price). I would NEVER,NEVER pay fifty dollars for one set of these blocks (which, by the way, includes 30 blocks, not 35) The box clearly states that there are 30 blocks, amazon must have a typo. I bought two sets of these blocks because I wanted my 3 1/2 year old son to have enough to play with and 30 just didn't seem like enough.
The blocks (technically "boxes")are a lighter-weight corrugated cardboard which you must fold together yourself. It didn't take me too long. The blocks have enough internal support to make them sturdy, however, I've instructed my son not to sit or step on the blocks. The one issue with sturdiness comes in when my son knocks down his castles. As the blocks fall, corners of some of the blocks have scratched and sometimes punctured other blocks.
There are several different shapes of blocks. Each set contains 2 large rectangular blocks, 10 small rectangular blocks, 6 pentagonal blocks, 2 large triangular blocks, and 10 small triangular blocks. I think the manufacturer was trying to save money in putting in 10 small triangular blocks (the smallest block shape). My preference would be for 6 small triangular blocks and 4 more small rectangular blocks as my son and I can almost never find enough places to put all of the little triangle blocks.
Even at the sale price, I probably wouldn't have purchased these except for the fact that I played with blocks similar to these as a child and I loved them. My son loves them as much as I do and just begs me to build a castle with them. They are much more exciting to him then small blocks (he can build bigger structures). I just hope they hold up.

3.0 out of 5 stars Large Cardboard Blocks, January 7, 2010

By 

W. Stevenson "grammar doctor" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Jumbo Castle Cardboard Blocks (Toy)

These blocks (40) come in a flat package and take a while to assemble, but once you do a couple, you have the hang of it. Kids in the 3 - 8 age range enjoy them, and they do have some education value by virtue of the different possibilities for constructing a castle. Don't, however, expect them to last long. With repeated play by children of this age, they don't have extensive durability.