Customer Reviews

Young Architect

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I bought this for my 14 year old son and was very disappointed. The toy is limiting, due to the size and shape of the templates and the plastic walls. The support pieces for the walls are "chunky" and get in the way of the overall design. A pad of graph paper, plastic templates that are available at office supply stores, a good metal ruler, some paper and tape are a better investment than this.

I agree with the mom who found this item disappointing. Actually, that's putting it mildly. (...) all you get is few pieces of acrylic, tracing paper, a few peel and stick windows and four colored pencils. The "manual" is a 4-page booklet with little useful information in it. The people selling this should be ashamed of foisting it on gullible consumers (like me). Borders on being a scam.

This item looked like a neat way to make multiple designs and then take them apart and reuse the materials. However, I was very disappointed by the limited number of sheets of drawing paper and even more disappointed to see the "templates." These are thin plastic that do not even lay flat. They are not standard template weight plastic but little more than plastic film. My 12 year son is working with it, but it certainly was not worth the $50 we paid let alone the $85 that it is now selling for.

I am 16 now and remember using this when I was around 10. I loved it. I would build a lot of houses. Some people are complaining about the number of supplies that come with it, but I just went out and bought more large tracing paper. I think this was a lot of fun and would recommend it to anyone whose kids have an interest in architecture.

It's pretty pricey for what you get but my stepdaughter really likes it so I guess it was worth it. Basically the product could easily be replicated at home with a little effort.

I enjoy designing dream homes and have been frustrated by not being able to build models. With the Young Architect set I was able to put together a model of my design and see if it actually 'works'. So, even tho I'm a grown-up, I really enjoyed playing with the kit.

young architect looked very creative & fun. 11 yr old daughter opened on Christmas day to find more than half the pieces were missing. very disappointed. product returned.

Very dissapointed. I ordered this for my daughter last year and it had pieces missing from the box. We tried it again this Christmas because she really wanted it and is interested in design. The plastic base is covered in a tear off protective paper that you can not tear off. Obviously someone else had the same problem with this because you can tell a person has already tried to peel the paper off and couldn't. Can't believe it was send out again in this condition.

Very nice set for my 11-year old, who wants to be an architect. Only downside was the large plexiglas piece had lot of packing sticky stuff attached and we needed to rub the piece down with rubbing alcohol to clean it. Other than that, set is very detailed and a very nice version of what an architect might encounter. I highly recommend it. Was very hard to find around XMAS; Amazon was the only one that had it...THANK YOU AMAZON!

This kit is very good for anybody who likes to build. Although there are only 7 pieces of tracing paper to go with it, you can always buy more at an office supply store. It's the best thing ever! Jordan