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: Amazingly versatile toy!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This would make it on my top five list of toys for a toddler. There seem to be an infinite number of ways to play with these -- the cups can be stacked in different ways, with handy ridges that allow each size to fit on any of the larger sizes and stay together; they can be put together to make 5 different balls, nested, and any combination of these things (my older kids like nesting the balls inside eachother). Since each one has a hole they are easy for my 15 month old to grab, and now she has discovered that after you snap them together as balls, they make a cool sound when you talk through one end. Even my 6 and 8 year old boys enjoy finding new things to do with these cups. We like rolling and stacking the balls after they're made, putting various small toys inside each ball and peeking in to see them, and just stacking the cups in different ways. Sometimes they are cups or bowls for pretend eating or drinking. Or they're hats, or telescopes. The colors are beautiful, and we haven't even started exploring the numbers/shapes on them yet. They also feel indestructible. I love that the whole toy, when nested together, takes up little space. This is one excellently crafted, well-designed toy that encourages creativity and good fun, with an infinite number of uses for the imaginative kid.Customer Review: Overall educational toy that will absorb many hours of baby's time
Summary: 4 Stars
This set of Stack and Roll Cups is no simple toy. My twin 10 month olds can work silently for some time handling these cups. I honestly think the geometry of this toy has mesmerized them both. The cups have so many different sizes, each with it's own color and potentials to fit with the others in different ways.
Of all the toys my babies have, this is the one they'll play quitely with. They don't need or want me there while they do whatever it is that they are doing with theses stack and roll cups. Clearly they are using mental facilities, so I count this as a particularly educational toy. There are no batteries or gimmicks to get their attention.
One bonus of the set is the toy head that jingles when they shake it. They like to grab the head and shake it while they think. It's cute. I can tell there's plenty of potential left for them since stacking is something they'll have to learn. Unstacking them thus far takes most of their time, with some pre-stacking activities blooming.
This might be the one toy I'd insist on the most since it allows your baby to do things while tuning you out. They need something that this toy fulfills. Plus, I think the price is quite reasonable.
Customer Review: Loads of fun, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
We have wood and tile floors in our house. The hard plastic on these bangs REALLY loudly when my son tosses them and they break apart. They are a clever design and the "head" ball I'm convinced is the reason my sin started crawling; he loved scooting, then crawling, and now running around after it. He's 14 months now and can pull them apart when they are in a "ball" and put them back together with ease. I put it at the back of the shelf for a few weeks at a time and he rediscovers it with a new fascination each time. They snap on top of each other pretty tightly when it's put together correctly, however, so I have to help him get them all apart initially. Maybe that's another aspect of the toy he can grow into. This toy has been of interest to my son for longer than most, so I'd say it's a smart buy. The colors are great and it teaches fine and gross motor skills. I just wish is was slightly more rubbery material so the pieces would not crash so hard, also allowing for them to fit together more smoothly, some of them go together easy with a pretty loose fit, others are pretty tight. I would buy this toy again, I'd just be sure to have a carpeted area for playing on!Customer Review: Rolling Cups
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the stack and roll cups for my 6 month old but my 23 month old is having more fun with them. She loves to put them together into balls and take them apart (at first it took my help but she quickly mastered it). We discovered that not only will the coordinating colors fit together into balls, but the orange will fit on the gold/yellow, the yellow fits on the bigger green, and so on. (Which you can look at 2 ways, it is neat that it will go together different ways, yet it loses some of its educational value as more than the cups with the same design will go together.) We also love to roll them around, putting the jingle ball in and playing peekaboo. She also puts a dinosaur in and turns it into a dinosaur egg. We were amused to find out that the balls can spin like tops.
I find them a bit tricky to get stacked, they tend to lean and fall if you don't get them just right. Also the numbers are not as easy to see as the picture makes them out to be. While we do talk about colors, the jingle ball is the most popular, even for my 6 month old. Not quite what I expected. Mainly my 6 month old (who they were purchased for) likes to chew on the cups.
Customer Review: Many ways to play, many concepts to learn and practice
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought these for my son's first birthday. Over time he has found numerous ways to play with them, on his own and with adults. At first he was only interested in the jingle ball, which lasted a week or more. His father and I made them into balls and rolled them around which drew his attention, especially if the jingle ball was inside one of the larger balls. As we demonstrated opening and closing the balls he became curious about that and soon learned to place one half atop another as we held the base. Next he learned to click the two pieces together on his own. It seems like every week, and sometimes every day, he discovers a new use for these colorful cups: peekaboo, peephole viewing (each cup has a hole), fill buckets, construct towers, balance inverted pieces, make rattles (place other toys inside a ball), clap halves on floor, color match with other toys, and on and on. As he gets older we can use them to learn colors, numbers (they are numbered 1 to 10), relative size, and rainbow order. They are sturdy well built pieces, brightly colored, and stand up to the rigors of an active toddler. A great example of a simple toy with many possible uses.