Customer Reviews

Munchkin: The Cupsicle Insulated Straw Cup

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Like another reviewer we have found that these cups are great, except the straws are destroyed VERY easily and replacements are impossible to find. Ordered replacement straws from Munchkin's website almost three weeks ago, and not only haven't received them no one at Munchkin has bothered to answer my customer service inquiry into where my order is!! The easiest route would be to buy whole new cups -- seems like Munchkin has figured this out and that's why the straws can't be found!!

I bought this cup for my daughter (2). In our brief experience, it was leakproof when the straw is closed, disassembles/reassembles easily for cleaning, and is easy to spot when dropped out of a wagon! Handles are a plus since it doesn't roll far... It also keeps cool drinks cool for a little while which is great in summer. It taught my daughter how to use a straw; she couldn't figure out with just a hard straw.

Sounds great?

The bad news is that my son (4, a borrower and a chewer) bit several holes in the straw after we had the cup only a few days. He even bit off a small piece. The cup is sold "everywhere" locally, but replacement straws are not. Shipping/handling on a 2-pack of straws is exorbitant at online vendors I've checked. We are retiring this cup for now and moving on to a popular "reuse/discard" style of cup with hard straws - they lack all of the above good features, but at least their straws are still usable after a chewer has been at them.

Not recommended unless you have NO chewers in the family - or until replacement straws are available locally.

I can't make this thing work.

Once it's assembled, I myself, a grown man, can not suck anything through the straw. I can sometimes get it to let a little liquid through, with great difficulty, if I jiggle some things around a bit. But that's only if I get lucky.

Moreover, the thing is hard to assemble. The straw has to go inside a chamber in the lid, bend around a little bit, and exit a hole on the other side. But getting it to bend the right way is a matter of pure luck. You have to just close your eyes and sort of hope for the best. Half the time I end up just getting the straw bent against the inside of the chamber.

Finally, the lid has a mechanism that closes when the cup is not in use, hiding the straw and preventing leaks. The problem is, the mechanism takes considerable strength to open. It's never jammed or anything, but to open it I have to stop everything I'm doing and struggle with the thing for half a minute or so. That's not convenient.

I don't know if some of us are just getting a bad batch of cups or what, but in my experience, this cup is literally unusable.

The functional lid design of this cup appears to be identical to the non-freezer version of the cup (currently being marketed as "Dora the Explorer").

Unfortunately the design of the spill-resistant lid leaks excessively when tipped on its side even when the cap is snapped closed.

While we still use the cup for water at home, we do NOT use it with milk, juice or any other sticky liquids.

We do NOT carry it in a diaper bag as the leakage will dampen or soil the other contents of the bag.

In search of the non leaking sippy cups, this is the best I've found. Assembly and disassembly can be tricky to learn. It holds more than most cups. I also like that I can write his name on it for when he is in the nursery;for some reason the permanent marker sticks better.

I am buying 2 more of these. After being dropped/thrown dozens of times, the lid on our first one has a small crack. Decided to get an extra in order to have one in wash/freezer while the other is in use. The design of this is impressive. While my kids enjoyed playing with ordinary sippy cups, turning them upside down and shaking out the contents, our Munchkin cup doesn't leak despite their best attempts. The only caution is that if the cup is full and left out of the fridge for a while, it can leak. Like anything else, the contents expand as they warm up, and push up the straw. The straw on ours has held up just fine.

This would be a great cup if it just didn't leak! I bought this for a trip to Disney World and before we had even completed the first leg of our flight it had leaked all over my daughter's diaper bag. I wish I had tested it out before we left! I have since tried to figure out if there was anything I am "doing wrong" assembling the cup but it continues to leak, leak, leak everywhere!