Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Stack & Roll Cups
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Toys and Games Reviews of Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Stack & Roll Cups
Customer Review: Wow! Fisher Price Still Makes Open-Ended Toys?
Summary: 5 Stars
Amidst the sea of registered character toys, lights!, sounds!, action! toys made by Fisher Price we happened to spy this little gem in the store one day. My youngest was still a baby then, and this toy was even cheaper than it is now. We bought it right away - simple toys are so hard to find! To this day it is much-loved by my now four year old and her younger two year old sister.
It's been stacked and nested; all the balls will sit inside one another, each successive half making a satisfying 'click' as it locks into place; the end result is a red/orange ball - with all the other pieces hidden inside. The individual balls have been used as a place to hide treasures, or to 'wrap' gifts which are then presented to mom and dad. The halves have been used as bowls in kitchen play and as hats. And, I have to be honest, I've lost track of how very many different ways this toy has been played with. The cat even bats around the little yellow ball - which rattles when shaken.
The plastic this toy is made of is very hard and very durable. It's not been treated gently in the past few years, seems I recall the halves once being used as shoes, but you'd never know it to look at it. There is no paint, save for the face on the yellow ball. What I'm getting at with that is that I think it's a pretty safe toy. It's clearly not made of PVC, and without surface paint it doesn't pose much of a risk in terms of toxins that will come off in a young child's mouth.
Bottom line: I think this is one of the best toys made by Fisher Price these days. Forget all the lights and sounds, this is a toy that - without breaking the bank - kids will find a way to entertain themselves with again and again.
Customer Review: ONE OF MY FAVORITE BABY TOYS!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
STACK AND ROLL CUPS
My 14 month old grand-daughter AND her grandma LOVE this toy! We have spent many happy hours playing with these fantastic little cups! I would love to meet the genius who invented these.
This toy can do a multitude of things -- you can stack them, roll them, put fun stuff inside, put them together! When they are together, we roll them, stack them, spin them, throw them! Paige runs around the house, holding two of them! She loves to bang them together! What FUN!!!
The colors are bright, the cups have special little designs on each one, along with numbers too. They are durable and withstand little hands, feet, even rear ends!
This is one of my favorite toys to play with. I have started purchasing these as baby gifts for friends. The ways you can entertain with these stack and roll cups are numerous; Paige and I constantly find ways to have fun with these. One of our favorite ways to play with these cups is to take them apart and place them side-by-side on the floor. They look so pretty! Then, we take little rubber ducks and sit them on top of each cup. Now, this is fun!
It is also fun to SNAP!!! these cups together, they inter-mingle and can fit together with other sizes nicely. The SNAP!!!! sound seems to make a funny impression on toddlers!
Get some of these cups for the babies in your life. You will all have a great time. Not only are they FUN, but they serve as an educational tool with the different colors, designs, and numbers. Babies will not even know they are learning because they are having so much fun!!!
Thank you!
Pam
Customer Review: Best Stacking Toy of All Time
Summary: 5 Stars
You know a toy is great when the Developmental Therapist of your one year old brings it over! Baby instantly LOVED this toy. I went out and bought one that night!! What an inventive way to do stacking and nesting!! My 4 year old is going nuts over this toy ( he will be getting his own from Santa in a couple days, lol.) This is a must have for little ones from 6 months up. Some of the features that I liked the best about this toy:
- Easy pick up - all of the pieces store easily inside of the largest ball! 4 year old learned how to count back from 10 in a matter of hours by using 1/2 of the ball and putting them all in one by one, saying, "10 is bigger than 9, 8 is bigger than 7, etc."
- Nice colors on cups and feel very sturdy. The colors are just a little off-primary. Nice to have some different colors around the house. They are a substantial feeling plastic and feel like they will last for a long time (or until parts get lost, lol!)
- like that you can turn the cups upside down and stack them, nest them like bowls, play with them as balls, and countless other activities. We like to hide the small center ball under 2 cups and baby finds it. 4 year old LOVES to put things in the balls and hold it up to his eye to see what is inside. They are great to teach color, bigger/smaller, and number recognition and counting.
- I love how easy they are for Mom to play with. It is great to find baby toys that are more interactive like these. Some baby toys are really boring, but for some reason, this simple concept is so much fun.
I hope your kids enjoy it as much as mine!!
Customer Review: So simple- yet so genius!
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this set for my daughter because the hand-me-down set (another brand) my son had used was missing a few cups. I had no idea that there could be such a difference in design quality- the stacking cups concept is fairly standard- but these really are genius! My thirteen-month old plays with these for HOURS! This is my new "go- to" baby gift for neighbors and coworkers.
Like most stacking sets, the cups can be piled like a tower, and they are designed to lock into place with gentle pressure, to ensure sturdied construction if desired; stacked loosely, they offer endlessly entertaining possibilities for demolition. The hole in the center allows my daughter to easily grasp the cups, which are also wonderful noisemakers when clapped together. The real genius, to me, is that cups of consecutive sizes can be locked together to form a ball- and we've put small noisemaking toys inside to instantly create a new toy that she can hold, shake, and roll, to experiment with the effect that each action has on the sounds produced. Our daughter has also been inspired to pretend that the cups are telephones, tea cups, telescopes, and the evidently hilarious hat or Mommy(which she delights in knocking off my head). Finally, the cups nest well for travel- easy to pop into a diaper bag or purse, and a life saver for the doctor's office, etc. I never expected such a simple toy to be so versatile, and I couldn't imagine how it could possibly be better designed.
Customer Review: we'll save it for later
Summary: 4 Stars
I love that these bowls stack, nest, connect as balls, and I love the colors. I got these for my daughter when she was about 8 months, and now she's 14 months old. She does not play with them on her own as much as I thought she would, which is why I gave it 4 not 5 stars. I think these would be great for kids a bit older who get the stacking concept-- you really have to push them together to get them to stack big to small. She loves the Jingle smile face ball and will grab that the most. She also loves to roll around the balls when they are put together more than anything else.
There is a hole in every piece, which are great for baby fingers to grab on to. She can easily hold even the largest piece. The downside of the holes is that they don't hold water for pouring in the bathtub, but she still likes to play with them a lot in the tub.
They are very durable; they have withstood many throws and drum hits on our hardwood floor.
Educational uses: The colors are great -- the red/orange fit together for the balls; the yellows, greens, blues, purples do the same. Additionally, each bowl has small indentions of shapes around the hole. So the pieces with the triangles go together; the pieces with the stars go together, etc. There is also a number on each piece: 1 through 10, big through little.