Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks

by Fisher-Price

Product Features

• Baby can sort and stack and learn to identify and match shapes
• Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting over is great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills
• Ten bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid
• Learning Blocks
• Interactive learning aid

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000LSZVKA
• Item model number: K7167
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 months - 3 years
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #9 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)

  #2 in	Toys & Games > Preschool > Toddler Toys
  #4 in	Toys & Games > Preschool > Baby Toys
  #1 in	Toys & Games > Learning & Education > Early Development Toys > Activity Centers

• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (112 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ten bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid. Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting over is great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills.

Product Description

Ten bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid. Baby will love filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, then starting over again. Great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. Then baby can move on to sorting and stacking and learning about identifying and matching shapes. Includes plastic shape-sorting box with take-anywhere handle and ten colorful blocks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

119 of 135 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Concerned about possible use of harmful chemicals, May 11, 2009

By	Sunshine (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks (Toy)

My son received this toy as a gift for his 6-month birthday. At the time, I remember hearing about how some plastic toys (often made in China) contain harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer and feeling concerned that this toy might be one of them. I didn't do anything for awhile, seeing how my son enjoyed playing with the toy and thinking (stupidly) that if this toy were truly harmful, it wouldn't be sold in the U.S.

One day, I came across this toy on Amazon and noticed the warning to CA residents under "Product Details." I couldn't believe it when I read this toy is made with harmful chemicals known to "cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm." I bet a lot of people who are giving this toy 5 stars are not aware of the warning.

UPDATE TO REVIEW ON 10-28-09: Amazon has removed the warning about the harmful chemicals, and in response to an inquiry I sent them told me "Product information from the item detail is added or deleted upon manufacturers information." Amazon suggested I contacted FP, which I did, and the FP rep said he couldn't find anything in their records indicating the toy's manufacturing had been changed. The toy's production has not been altered since 2007. He suggested that perhaps the warning wasn't accurate, and that's why it was removed. That may be, but it seems like a pretty big mistake for Amazon to make on multiple FP toys. I see now that none of the FP toys that previously had this warning have it now.

As for my son's reaction to the toy, he liked to bang the pieces together and put them in his mouth, but he never bothered to try to sort the shapes since the top doesn't stay in place, as others have mentioned. My son always removed the top and took out all of the pieces, no matter how many times I showed him how to sort the shapes with the top in place. Talk about poor design! I should have given it 1 star for the "educational" rating in hindsight, but I figured that theoretically it could be of some value if a child didn't remove the top. Also, Amazon wouldn't let me go back and change my ratings.

I just got another shape sorter for him from Amazon (the Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter), and within minutes he tried to put the shapes in the slots because he couldn't remove either the top or the bottom of the unit. Now that's an educational toy!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can see her wheels turning..., November 22, 2007

By	T. Aulbach - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks (Toy)

As my 14 month daughter works on getting the right shape in the right hole. It's true that sometimes she just gets frustrated and picks up the lid and throws the shapes in the bucket instead of sorting them, but when I play with her talk to her and ask her where each shape goes she really focuses and we get them together. She looks so proud of herself when she gets them right, too! But even when she is playing by herself and taking the lid off, it's still a very fun toy for her to put them all in, take them out, and do it all over again!

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not that great of a sorter..., July 25, 2007

By	C. Murphey - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks (Toy)

This is a basic, durable, inexpensive toy. However what I don't care for is the fact that the lid doesn't snap on. I'm sure this is that way so babies can take it off, but I prefer the sorter that the child has to put the shapes through the holes. My baby figured out that it was easier to take the lid off! I like the Smartronics cookie jar sorter much better.