Fisher-Price® Roll-a-Rounds? Drop & Roar? Dinosaur
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Toys and Games Reviews of Fisher-Price® Roll-a-Rounds? Drop & Roar? Dinosaur
Customer Review: ROAR with laughter
Summary: 4 Stars
We couldn't wait to take this beast out of it's box! This dinosaur is a lot of fun. My 8 month old doesn't quite understand the point or the cause and effect, yet. Nonetheless, she still likes the lights and sounds.
This toy does come in pieces. It took my 6 and 7 year old daughters less than ten minutes to put it together. Note that it requires 3 AA batteries for sound and lights. It is still fun without the effects.
Let me clarify the pendulum, for anyone trying to figure out the photo in the ad. When a roll-a-round is put into the orange hole, the ball goes down a ramp, pushing this pendulum-shaped piece out of its way so it can exit the dinosaur's stomach. There is no cover over this part, so nothing can get clogged up by a an oddly shaped toy of your child's choosing.
This is what I don't like:
1- This is made with, what is becoming, typical Fisher-Price quality. When my older children were this age, everything seemed more solid, with a heavier-duty plastic. There is one place on the back of our dinosaur where the plastic was not even cut in a straight line, and looked a little jagged. It does appear safe, however.
2- The last 2 baby items we purchased from Fisher-Price looked, as this one does, dirty and used. There are a few small places where the toy looked like it was dragged across a rough surface.
All in all, this is a great toy. The sound effects are entertaining, but not annoying with 2 volume levels (loud and louder) and an off switch, which also turns off the lights. The "Roar" is not loud or scary. It comes with 4 roll-a-rounds with dino babies in them (one is an egg that opens and shuts). I recommend this toy to babies 9-18 months.
Customer Review: GREAT TOY!!
Summary: 5 Stars
We couldn't wait to take this beast out of it's box! This dinosaur is a lot of fun. My Nephew doesn't quite understand the point of the cause and effect, yet. Nonetheless, he still likes the lights and sounds.
This toy does come in pieces. It took Me less than ten minutes to put it together. Note that it requires 3 AA batteries for sound and lights. It is still fun without the effects.
Here Are My Favorite Reasons of this toy:
Dinosaur-shaped toy keeps Baby busy with sound effects, songs, chutes and slides
Plays 10 songs and has 5 sound effects
Features a twirling butterfly, rattle bird and spinning dinosaur
It Also Helps with teething infants/toddlers!!
He also loves the "roar" sound/mouth opening when ball is rolled out...
Let me clarify the pendulum, for anyone trying to figure out the photo in the ad. When a roll-a-round is put into the orange hole, the ball goes down a ramp, pushing this pendulum-shaped piece out of its way so it can exit the dinosaur's stomach. There is no cover over this part, so nothing can get clogged up by a an oddly shaped toy of your child's choosing.
All in all, this is a great toy. The sound effects are entertaining, but not annoying with 2 volume levels (loud and louder) and an off switch, which also turns off the lights.
The "Roar" is not loud or scary. It comes with 4 roll-a-rounds with dino babies in them (one is an egg that opens and shuts). I recommend this toy to infants/toddlers .
Customer Review: Good toy
Summary: 4 Stars
My son received this for Christmas and it 6 months later it has finally become a toy that my son plays with. He started playing with it around 10 months. At 6 months (suggested age for this toy) he would just sit and "dance" to the music and watch the lights when we put the balls in. It wasn't worth much at that age. Now he can do it himself so it's more entertaining for him. He likes to put the balls in backwards too--up the dinosaur foot, and up the neck slide. Great toy for now, but not sure for how much longer. Also, past the motor skills and the cognitive part of figuring out which hole leads down what ramp, I don't see any other educational value.
Items to note-
1. The orange hole that leads down the ramps in the middle: the ball frequently gets stuck by the pendulum, and if the ball doesn't have enough momentum it won't always come out of the foot. Not a problem since we just reach in and move the ball and my son just moves the pendulum himself to get the ball moving (NO entrapment problems for his arms or hands).
2. The butterfly over the tail does NOT spin like I thought it would--too much resistance with mine. If it's not in the right place, it will stop balls from coming down the tail all together. Also- the button for the music in the blue hole tends to stick in the up position after a ball goes thru making subsequent balls have no effect.
Just a few small issues, nothing major. All and all it's still a good toy.
Customer Review: Has held up thru our 2 and all the neighbors!
Summary: 5 Stars
My son got this as his big 1st b-day present in 2005 right after they came out, he honestly didn't show a lot of interest in it...he liked it but it wasn't his favorite. But ever other kid that came over under the age of about 8 played with this toy. As my son got older he learned that the dino worked as a great HotWheels track! He still plays with it today it in fact is the only toy that is in our TV room all the time, because no matter what if I put it in the Playroom it just gets drug back out by a kid. My 15 month old has loved this toy since about 6 months when he started sitting up and could hold things, he loves it! He can play with this toy for almost an hour without any problems. My nephew was 4 in August and still goes to this toy first, he is the only kid that I babysit that has been able to get the head off, not sure how, but it isn't a big problem it snaps right back on!
Our's still looks pretty much brand new, I wipe it down with a wet cloth to remove all the stickness, but we haven't lost any parts except the trap door, which my son took off because it slowed the ball down. The toys on top are still in tact and I think we have only had to change the batteries once, in the almost 3 years we have had it.
LOVE THIS TOY! I am in fact looking for one for a decent price for my nephew for Xmas this year....I didn't know they had been discontinued by Fisher-Price and that you couldn't get them at the stores anymore...it is a shame it is agreat toy!
Customer Review: Disappointing to me not as much to him!
Summary: 4 Stars
I was awaiting the release of this toy. He loves his blocks and block toys but none of the roll-a-rounds toys were his type. So he had about 25 balls but no toy to go with them. This looked perfect! He enjoys it but not like I thought he would (he LOVES balls). Here are my problems with it.
(1) The middle hole, it drops down to make the pendulum swing and more then half of the time, the ball gets stuck at that point.
(2) The balls get stuck coming out of that hole as well...
(3) The head comes off real easily and its never on the toy (he takes it off every time especially since its easy to get off)
(4) kind of boring... thought there would be a spiral slide of some variety as kids love that.
(5) music & lights are nothing special either.
I usually LOVE FP toys and we own sooo many. I am happy with my incredi-table and with the wagon for the blocks. This one just wasn't worth t he money.
UPDATE: 11/06/2008
Well, we're on boy #3 that is using this toy. It's held up extremely well and even my oldest plays with it still. The balls still get stuck... now there is a whole other element to getting stuck as they loves to put their cars in it (down the slide through teh mouth, down the block-slide...). Guess it was worth the money after all (and not what it's listed here as..)