Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Fisher PriceBrand: Fisher-Price
Audio: German (Published)
Release Date: 2007-01-15
Model: K7167
Color: red
Product features:
- Baby can sort and stack and learn to identify and match shapes
- Shape-sorting lid and 5 different shapes help build early identification skills
- 10 colorful blocks are easy to grasp, hold and store inside bucket
- Carry handle for take-along fun
- Interactive learning aid
Toys and Games Reviews of Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks
Customer Review: Quality dropping rapidly
Summary: 2 Stars
Summary:
1) blocks built with thin walls, sharper corners, might be hazardous (compared with older version of this toy)
2) blocks fit in wrong holes -- terrible for a shape-sorter!
3) inconsistency with older models means trouble if you have more than one item of this type.
Fisher-Price has made many sorting block toys over the years. With this model, they skimped considerably on the quality of the blocks. Compared to older models, these blocks are extremely thin (obviously, to save an ounce of plastic), to the point where a fluke accident could send an unnecessarily sharp point into a baby's eye (e.g. the triangle block). The older models' walls were at least twice as think, nicely rounded, etc. -- on this model, the manufacturing seams on the already-sharp edges of the blocks add to their danger.
Absolutely inexcusable, is the fact that with this re-design of the blocks, it is now possible to fit some blocks through the WRONG HOLE! The 5-pointed star fits through the circular hole with just a tiny bit of pushing (my child, < 2 yrs old, keeps doing it.) Although this may seem like a minor point, the fact that a product like this could go through a design & evaluation process, yet allow such an obvious flaw, does not speak well for Fisher-Price. Sorry, guys, you really did a "D'oh" here.
They also made the blocks shorter than previous sets (saving a tad more plastic), so that it's *almost* possible to simply drop any block sideways into the square hole. Not quite possible, but it really looks like the blocks *should* fit. My child keeps trying to push the blocks in that way. It's just a poor, poor design that has evolved, clearly by losing sight of the actual functionality of the toy.
What's more, Fisher-Price has not managed to stay consistent over the years, so that older blocks and newer blocks are simply not interchangeable! E.g. a triangle from one set, might not fit into the triangular hole of an older toy! That's just not right -- if you happen to have all sorts of toys floating around your play room, there's no way you can keep separate which came from which set.
(Trivial notes: a sorting set from about 5 years earlier, a yellow bucket with a blue top, had much thicker and less sharp pieces -- no longer available on Amazon. A wheeling walker-toy that came with a shape sorter built in, and is about 15 years old, had pieces and holes sized differently. The different-sized blocks can be distinguished from the newer blocks, because the newer blocks have a hole in the center shaped like the block itself -- the older blocks have no holes in them.)
Description of Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks
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.Learning & Education Toys
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