Fisher-Price TRIO King's Castle

This is a great product for little hands. Toddlers can easily snap and unsnap pieces. The best thing is the pieces stay together unlike other building products you may buy. When these accidently fall over they stay linked which makes happy little builders able to stand their design right back up. This castle spurs the imagination and allows kids to play without adult interaction. Great time for Mom to clean house or cook dinner! Perfect Birthday present. On the down side I wish it had a case to keep the castle pieces together so they would not get mixed with other building pieces.

I bought this King's Castle for my 5 year old son, because he loves Trio bricks. He saw this castle and I have given it to him for Easter. It is awesome and he plays with it all the time, combining it with his other Trio bricks. I have 3 older children who love getting on the floor and playing with him and they are age 7, 11, 13. Heck I even have built with him. He loves the men and added parts that go with the castle. We have legos at home, but wanted to try something different with my last child, and have been very pleased. Also this was sooo much less expensive. Walmart was charging 75.00. I got it for 48 including shipping. That rocks.

Nice toy, but definitely requires adult help to assemble.

Our family LOVE Trio and this one did not disappoint. We love how each set comes with some unique building elements that we can then use to make our own creative constructions. This one comes with wheels attached to a 4-block, a panel that "smashes in," a cube rotating on a short rod, the drawbridge, a horse, torches and flags among others. We love our Trio sets that are much faster to build than lego sets, and they make larger constructions as well with fewer pieces. At 4.5 and 2.5 my kids still can't follow the directions very easily, but my husband and I can put them together fast enough and the kids have a great time with it. Even better, IMO, is that the kids will take the pieces and make their own creations: stilt cars, submarines, swords, sky scrapers, rocket ships, etc. Love how versatile the sets are and how you can mix and match your sets so easily. The King's Castle has a lot of fun pieces and is very different from our other sets.

My five year old would heartily recommend this game based on how many times I have watched him go back and play it over and over again. It's been almost a year, and it's still his favorite toy. It reminds me of my days with my LEGO castle that I played with for years. The toy is rugged and well made. It's easy for small hands to pull apart and snap together. Sheesh, you should see the neat things my son has created out of this one toy. You would be hard-pressed to do wrong by getting this toy for your children unless they just hate building!

Looks like I'm the odd reviewer here. We did not like this toy. The main reason being - there is no room for creativity. The instructions are not very clear but any child who has some Lego building instructions will be able to figure it out. The finished castle is somewhat sturdy but quite boring. Pro: It is somewhat big - compared to Lego castle 7946. It has figures or people and weapons. It has a catapult, a drawbridge and a portcullis. Con: The mechanisms for the drawbridge and portcullis aren't smooth. The portcullis is especially cheap! There are lots of 1x1s and not enough 1x3s and 1x4s to make your own sturdy structure. The rods and panels are not well thought out and have very limited ways that can be connected. Frustration example: One of my boys wanted to build a dungeon with a trap door, just like his playmobil castle. Unfortunately, this means he had to use the piece with breakaway wall horizontally instead of vertically. After that, he had to change orientation of all the panels because the panels only have 2 contact sides instead of 4. The trap door then got stuck at an angle when the "bad guy" fell through. So the bad guy was able to escape unharmed. He then tried to make the dungeon taller but did not have enough panels to cover the dungeon walls. Unless you think your child is going to be happy with the fixed gate-and-two-tower configuration, I would recommend skipping this toy. It is "not sturdy enough for 3-4 year olds and little playability and creative potential for over 5 years." It is not even worth the $30 that grandma paid. A waste of money!

My six-year-old son plays with his Trios for hours at a time. He has a lot of sets plus a few buckets but always likes more. This castle set has some unique pieces. He has left most of it together as a castle for quite a while, which is unusual for him. He usually builds and rebuilds his Trios frequently. This would also be a good starter set, even if you do not have any other Trios, because kids can use action figures, horses, and vehicles from other lines to play with the castle.

My 4 to 5 year old wanted a castle for Christmas and I was thinking these blocks would be too hard for him to put together. I was told by a friend that their 4 year old loves his TRIO sets so I went ahead and bought it . My 5 year old loves this castle set, I also got him a few of the add on sets, and plays with it every day. He can snap the blocks together easily, a few of the pieces ,like the flags, take some effort but he is able to add them to the blocks himself. The initial building of the castle a adult will have to do for this age group as the instructions are detailed but after that just let the kids "go for it". Great for the imagination - Spiderman and Batman help battle the "bad knights" for example.

Easy to build, with clear instructions and he needed very little help. The catapult was his favourite part.