Little Playzone with Sounds and Lights

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Product Features

• Indoor/outdoor plastic Playzone
• Activity board has a picture house, spinning balls, play phone and light-up musical keyboard
• Swinging hinged door with safety lock
• Extra connectors and walls sold separately
• Imported; 23Hx46Lx46W"
• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 6-12 Months
• Number of Players: 1 Player
• Number of Pieces: 1

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 20.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B00021NX9C
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #148 in Baby (See Bestsellers in Baby)

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• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (121 customer reviews)

Product Description

Product Description
Little kids will love playing in the Little Playzone! There are lots of things to see and do: the activity board has colorful spinning balls, a play phone and light-up musical keyboard. A swinging hinged door with safety lock gives parents easy access to children. Additional connectors and walls can be added to expand the size. These extra connectors and walls are sold separately. Quick and easy assembly and disassembly for compact storage. Great for indoor/outdoor use. Instruction sheet included. Imported. 23Hx46Lx46W".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

143 of 144 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good play pen, February 22, 2005

By	AJ (USA) - See all my reviews

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

Perks:

1) Looks kid-friendly. Neat and colorful. It is oodles better than my first playpen purchase, a bizarre contraption we later discovered is also marketed separately as a dog enclosure!
2) Has a locking gate.
3) Is pretty stable on hard floors when placed on 2'x2' interlocking foam playmats (purchase separately).
4) Has suction cups for hard floors (I haven't used them).
5) Each wall piece is light weight and easily assembles and disassembles.
6) The play wall comes with batteries already installed. Thank you.
7) The bear stickers other reviewers have complained about were not included in my kit (spring 2005). I won't miss them.

Drawbacks:

1) The Playzone is small. I found it less expensive to buy two and combine them, rather than pay for shipping on several extension kits.
2) The battery-operated music is loud and there is no volume control. I taped cardboard over the speaker (located on the exterior wall) to muffle the sound.
3) The mirror is the same flexible mirror found on all toddler toys. I dislike these mirrors because they provide distorted images and are not durable for future generations of kids who will use this Playzone.
4) I wish the gate lock was easier to manipulate. You push a button and slide a latch to retract or release two prongs. Locking the gate can take a second because I have to slightly lift the gate so the prongs extend properly into the holes in the lock. I'll get used to it. If not, wall segments are easy to pull apart and reattach (though that's kind of loud).
6) The gate is not full length top-to-bottom. There is a trippable lip you step over when going into or out of the Playzone.

All-in-all this is the best play yard I've found on the market as of spring 2005. With a few tweaks it could be great.

Update four months later: The Playzone is still great. Our kid can push two segments of gate outward a little at the yellow joints, (this is noticeable because we configure the Playzone in a square shape), but it's not a big deal. We don't bother using the gate door, preferring to just walk/climb over the wall. Our kid enjoys the music buttons on the entertainment panel, but I wish this panel was included in a separately-purchased expansion kit so that the core product was sold at a lower price. Two Playzones combined leave ample room for Mom and Dad and baby to play together. Our cat can jump in and out via a couch placed next to the Playzone (a good thing for us).

I have not experienced a problem with the door hinge that another reviewer mentioned. My door locks when you close the door and move an outside lever that pushes two blue plastic "bolts" from the wall base out and into holes in the door. A locked door shouldn't open when a toddler pushes or pulls on the door. If that happens in your case, yeah, contact the manufacturer.

I envision never needing to lock and unlock the door. While our kid is small, it's easier for us to climb into the Playzone. When our kid grows bigger, we'll just leave the door unlocked.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars small, November 1, 2004

By	M.P. "Mommy of one" (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews

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

The play area is small and the extension pieces are hard to come by. The only merchant that carries the extension pieces is One Step Ahead and they charge an arm and leg for shipping. It's cheaper to buy two sets (instead of purchasing individual extension pieces) if you have the room.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great toy -- buy 2 and forget the extensions, April 23, 2005

By	Dave S. (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

Our son loves this -- he doesn't think of it as being a "cage", but rather as a fun play area. He hardly ever cries when we put him here, unlike his play pen.

Suggestion -- buy 2 sets, which is equivalent area wise to buying 4 extensions, but costs less (especially with shipping), and provides 2 gates and 2 activity walls, unlike the extensions, which are just plain blue walls. A single set is no bigger than a playpen.

Another suggestion -- remove the bear stickers (which are on the blue walls) or turn these walls inside-out so that the sticker is on the outside of the play area. Otherwise, your child may tear off (and eat?) the sticker.