Customer Reviews

Polly Pocket Designables Courtyard and Mall Shops

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My five year-old recently got this set from Grandma and she absolutely loves it! The material is made from thick, durable plastic - it looks kind of flimsy in the picture but was it actually has very good build quality - meaning, I expect it to last for several years. You can either stack the sets vertically or attach it next to the main mall. Also, when you put some of the sets together, all of the rooms light up up e.g. dance studio which is pretty cool. It comes with tons of accessories including an escalator (you crank it), 6 Polly Pocket dolls, and even a gum ball machine (with tiny little gum balls that you can shake)and a basketball hoop. It is sure to provided hours and hours of entertainment for your Polly Pocket fan. I think she paid $69 which seems like a great deal since the individual rooms sell for over $20. The only other thing I might purchase is one of the cars for the dolls...otherwise, it's pretty much a COMPLETE SET !

This is a cute set and all the little items are very detailed. There are many shops with shoes, handbags, sports, etc. My granddaughter loves it. The only problem is that the items don't stay inside the little shops very well and they are balanced well enough to stand on their own. In fact, the Polly Pocket dolls won't stand behind the counters without falling. When on falls, all the little dress-up items for the shops fall too. It's quite a mess. A little extra attention to balance and use would have made a major difference in the product.

My child's first looks on this brought mile wide smiles - my first looks did not. When purchased through Amazon.com, each section had come individually wrapped in plastic bags. No box, or pictures to refer to. The large escalator piece is the only one that came with paperwork, revealing that the Polly doll was missing from that set. Other missing pieces were made evident from my online searches of pictures for the other pieces (aggravating). The cardboard backs to the individual pieces don't all sit in their tracks well (& are very flimsy). But, yes, my child thinks the world of it.

My 8 year old daughter is crazy about Polly Pockets. When the Courtyard and Mall shops went on sale I jumped on the purchase. Thanks goodness it was on sale because if I had purchased this at full price I would have returned it. When the box arrived in the mail I thought that they must have shipped the wrong toy or only a part of it because the box was so small. How could six shops and the Courtyard fit in this tiny box? I unpacked the box and got my answer. The shops are very small and flimsy and the courtyard is much smaller than it looks in the pictures. There are hundreds of tiny pieces that we just ended up throwing away. The mall will not stay together so you can't move it. The best part of this toy is that it came with 6 dolls.

Once opened, the backdrop for each individual shop is a bare plastic wall. There are no stickers to place in each shop. The pictured item looked colorful and fun, but the picture was displaying the Polly items included and odd cardboard cutouts of cell phones, purses, etc. I am not sure what my kid is supposed to do with tiny cardboard pieces. They just get vacuumed up when they fall on the floor because they are so tiny they blend into the carpet! I would have preferred stickers to place on the wall and forget the tiny cardboard pieces.

The stack-able stores do not stay together well. They tip easily and then come apart from each other.

The high price of this toy is not worth it. The Polly resort is a much better value.

My five your old and her friends can play all day with this mall. The bad part is there are so many little pieces. I find them all over. The mall stores are very small and it is hard to actually have the dolls go in them. If the stores were bigger I would recommend to a friend, but not worth the money.

I purchase this item for my two little girls because they are big Polly Pocket fans. The set up is pretty nice and they do like it. The one real problem I have with this set is that there are almost too many pieces to fit in the very tiny stores. Be prepared to lose a lot of the little shoes and accessories. I think it would have been a better idea to make the stores in the mall bigger and just include less of them. The stores are so small it is hard to really do anything with it. The lighting system is cute and worked fine. I would most likely not recommend this to anyone but the biggest Polly Pocket fans.

My daughter wanted this for Christmas. First of all, this comes in "new" packaging, so its just in plastic bags, not in the regular packaging like you'd find in the store. 2nd the stores don't have enough room for all of the things and they don't stand up so that she can use them (she's 7 and can easily make things stand on their own). In my opinion, she likes the cruise ship MUCH better.