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Little Playzone Lights Sounds Play
Only $116.00 @ Amazon
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Little Playzone Lights Sounds Play
Perks:
1) Looks kid-friendly. Neat and colorful. It is oodles better than my introductory playpen purchase, a bizarre contraption we later ran into is as well marketed separately as a dog enclosure!
2) Has a locking gate.
3) Is gorgeous stable on hard floors when placed on 2′x2′ interlocking foam playmats (purchase separately).
4) Has suction cups for hard floors (I haven’t employed utilized 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 in regards to were not included in my kit (spring 2005). I won’t miss them.
Drawbacks:
1) The Playzone is small. I found it fewer costly to purchase two and combine them, instead than recompense for shipping on several extension kits.
2) The battery-operated music is deafening 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 posing no difficulty to manipulate. You push a button and slide a latch to retract or release two prongs. Locking the gate might take a second because I have to more or less lift the gate so the prongs extend decently into the holes in the lock. I’ll get employed to it is whether or not not, wall segments are easy to pull aside 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 might push two segments of gate outward a small at the yellow joints, (this is noticeable because we configure the Playzone in a square shape), but it’s not a large 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 elaboration kit so that the core product was sold at a lower expensive Two Playzones combined leave abundant room for Mom and Dad and baby to play together. Our cat may 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. whether or not that happens in your case, yeah, contact the producers
I envision never necessitating to lock and unlock the door. While our kid is small, it’s requiring small effort for us to climb into the Playzone. When our kid grows bigger, we’ll just leave the door unlocked.
Our son loves this — he doesn’t think of it as being a “cage”, but rather as a fun play area. He barely ever cries when we put him here, unlike his play pen.
Suggestion — purchase 2 sets, which is equivalent area wise to buying 4 extensions, but costs less less with shipping), and provides 2 gates and 2 activity walls, unlike the extensions, which are just plain blue walls. A single set is no larger 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.
Our 10 month old son is all over the place. He is into everything so we thought we would give this a try. We bought two (from EBAY as a pair – saved virtually 50.00 including shipping). Over all this is a fantastic product, and outstanding for keeping little ones out of chance when you can’t hold them or watch their each move.
The Good:
1. The Playzone is thick plastic which is sturdy and so easy to clean.
2. The colors are nice (red, blue, and yellow)
3. Has built in play wall which my son loves.
4. If you buy two you have tons of room. There is sufficient room for my son, his cousin, my husband and I all to fit in and have room to play and move around.
5. Has a gate that is childproof. We have not had any difficultnesses unlocking and locking its Anyone with children knows that anything childproof is more of a hassle to use.
6. The walls are when it comes to two feet tall. They have enough height to keep him inside yet short enough for him to look over and feel less confined.
7. Easy Easy to put together and take apart.
The Bad:
1. If you determine to take down the pieces are very huge and will not be easy to store. With two Playzone’s do not even bother with storing anywhere but in an attic unless you have a whole closet or bedroom out of employed
I purchased the playzone for my son when he was 8 or 9 months old and he loved it is I bought 2 extension pieces and although it costs more, it’s well worth it is I was capable to get things down around the house and not have to be worried when it comes to him getting hurt. I put numerous other toys of his in there as well. he thought of it as a playhouse because i had other toys in there is so when the door was shut, he didn’t mind it at all. it as well came in handy outside while doing yardwork and not having to worry in regards to him running all over the place. My husband at original didn’t like how much it all cost(with the extra pieces) but then he said that it was worth it is
This was purchased for my grandson and the squeals of delight when he got in it for the primary time were unquestionably worth the cash spent. It is so huge that his daddy who is 6’3″ tall was capable to sit down in it with him. It is easy to clean and very sturdy. The activenesses specially the buttons for the various songs were no disturb for this little guy. I look forward to bringing it in the house for him for the duration of the winter months so he’ll be able to get enjoyment from it year round, but I specially like having it outside for the duration of the warm summer weather. One word of caution, if you have it outside and have the playmats underneath, make certain you don’t have it in direct sun. The playmats will melt due to the mirror, as I found out the hard way.
my 6 month old daughter loves to wiggle around and a regular pack-n-play just wasn’t big enough, she would frequently cry because she would not have any room. with this little playzone she may roll around and move with no restrictions. a happy baby makes a happy mommy. we purchased 2 extension kids to make it a bit bigger. my 2 year old son loves this toy too, he thinks it’s fun to turn it into a fort.
I purchased this product for a 9 month old. Very many times the door would open with him just keeping on to stand up. A little blue object dislodged from the door hinge and found it in the toddlers mouth!! I returned the product and notified the makers Please return this item if you have one…….or remove the small chocking hazard peices.
I love it! I bough the Lil’ Playzone when my daughter was 7 months old, it was a safe and fun place for her to play while I had to cook or do the dishes. Now that she is 15 months old and walking, I leave the door open and she uses it as a playhouse. She loves the keyboard and the phone. The only thing that I would commend is to add a thick mat to the bottom, you can cut it to fit inside, to keep the walls stable.
My wife and I were looking hard for an item like this for a month visiting various baby stores such as Babies R’ US, etc…
However, we realized that all they carry in stock are something called “gates” which refrain babies from entering through galore type of passageway.
This product is very good that it can serve as a small, confined play-zone, or you could spread the grids to make it a good 8-foot long fence that can be applied as a more prominent version of the “gates”.
It as well comes with one department comprised of small play-center with sound modules, little clickers, and other small widgets that baby spends so many time to play with. One thing I like about this item is that it has a small door to enter the playzone with small locking device.
When your baby starts to crawling around, it in all probability is one of the most unmanageable times. You have to be on watch every single moment. My wife couldn’t handle it for the duration of the daytime, so she’s tried something like high chair, walkers, carriers, etc. But by far, this is the best strategy to give both the mom and the baby a good break. I highly commend this item.
However, I think it is a little over-priced at $100, also it was only available online, so shipping charge was quite a bit.
But for us, it was worth the money. You can also buy extension kits if your baby requires more space.
At 13 months old our twins were climbing over the gate. Our one twin went over it and landed on his head. My wife thought he broke his neck. I never let them out of my internetsite now when they’re around the gate. I’m going to post a pic so you can see what I’m talking about. At the hinges there is basically a perfect ladder for their little feet and a lot of times, at that age they can get over, but lack the coordination to genuinely flip their feet over and land. It’s a horrid horrible design… Not certain what they were thinking. I would not buy this for any child that can walk and I would be very weary of buying it for a younger child b/c one day they may figure out the built in ladder when you really let loose and trust that it will integrate your child. I most likely will not even trade this on Craig’s List b/c I don’t want another child to get severely injured on its 2 thumbs down IMO.