Fisher Price TRIO King’s Castle

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Manufacturer: Fisher Price
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List Price: $74.99
Sale Price: $42.49
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Product Description

The Fisher-Price TRIO King's Castle allows your child to be the architect of his or her very own castle. Designed for children ages five to nine, the set contains over 200 easy-click bricks that can be used to build custom castles. With six figures, a working cannon, and other accessories included, the King's Castle will immerse your child in a world of medieval fantasy, and encourage imaginative play.

King's Castle

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The Good: Building system is easy for kids to use; includes dozens of figures and accessories.

The Challenging: Panels don't always snap into place correctly.

In a Nutshell: A kid-friendly, medieval-themed building toy that's ideal for role-playing.

Designed for children ages five to nine, the TRIO King's Castle brings out your child's inner architect. View larger.

A Customizable Medieval Adventure
King's Castle features the all-new TRIO building system. Using easy-click bricks, pegs, and panels, TRIO makes it possible to build a wide variety of different structures -- ranging from castle parapets to catapults. Best of all, the system is easy for kids to work with, and requires very little force or finesse. They'll be able to hear and feel the "snap" when they've made a connection.

The set comes with easy-to-follow instructions on how to build several different castles. Children can choose to follow these examples, or build a castle of their own design. The set also comes with several unique building components, including a working drawbridge, a breakaway wall, and several graphical panels that can be switched depending on the situation. However, the panels are a bit tricky to snap into place, so adult assistance might be necessary.

Encourages Creativity and Imagination
Once the castle is built, King's Castle has plenty of accessories to offer for creative play. The set has a spirit of medieval adventure, and comes complete with six knight figurines and a horse. All knights come with shield and sword accessories, and can easily be snapped onto the surface of the castle. Kids will enjoy acting out sieges against the castle using the included catapult and battering ram. Or, they can play the side of the castle defenders by operating the working cannon to fight off invaders. So, whether they are building or playing, King's Castle provides children with the tools needed for an immersive and imaginative experience.

What's in the Box
Easy-click bricks, pegs, panels, drawbridge, cannon, six figures, six shields, six swords, horse figure and instructions.

Unique building components include a working drawbridge. View larger.

Storm the castle with the included catapult... View larger.

...or defend the castle with the working cannon! View larger.

Product Details

Build up to 4 castle adventures!
Double-sided snap-in picture panels let kids choose and change their adventures.
Break-away building panel for exciting battle action!
Fire the cannon to defend the castle, raise and lower the working drawbridge.
213 piece set includes two play figures that snap on to the bricks and ride the horse.

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Customer Reviews

This toy is great fun!

Review Date: November 14, 2009

Reviewer: old mom, USA

I purchased this for my grandson. He was 9 on his Birthday. He and his sister both had great fun playing with this even though they are at and over the age range.

Great toy!

Review Date: November 28, 2009

Reviewer: H. Wilson, PA

I purchased this for my 4 year old son and he LOVES it! Amazon had the best price at 49.99 with free shipping! Unfortunitly when I came back to buy another set the price was up to 59.99 now it's up to $67.99! Why do they keep raising the price? I don't get it! It also comes with 6 figures not 3 like the description says. Great for toddlers who love legos but are too small for them.

Life saver on a snow day

Review Date: December 23, 2009

Reviewer: Sabrina James, Washington, DC

I purchased this for my 5 year old son; it was on sale for miraculous $35 - it was supposed to be for Christmas but as the snow storm hit, it seemed like a good idea to open a present to relieve cabin fever. Let me start with the assembly which was a dream compared to the usual Lego nightmare - I put it together in 20 minutes. Once it was assembled, we were able to carry it from one room to another depending on where my son wanted to play - not once did it break apart. The included catapult is a nice little bonus. He spent an entire afternoon playing with it; adding his Playmobil people to the TRIO people to play out adventures. This is one of the best toys I have purchased for him - 4 days later, he still runs down the stairs in the morning to play with it. Note: I also purchased the Gatehouse and the siege tower (both at $9.99) to complement the set. I think TRIO is much easier to handle for 5-7 year olds who may find the assembly of small pieces a bit daunting (and the parents who spend hours assembling and re-assembling...). Buy it.

Christmas Present

Review Date: December 26, 2009

Reviewer: Christa Hannasch,

Santa brought this for my 7 year old son. This is a great toy! My son spent 4 hours straight building it step by step. He played with it along the way and stopped a few times to do other things but it kept his attention the whole time. I was impressed with how easy the directions were for him to follow. He put the whole thing together by himself with <1% help from me. During the four hour construction he also put together the Kings Gaurd Gate. He opened the box and all of the packages by himself as well. He loves it!!! I think it is well worth the money.

We loved it

Review Date: December 26, 2009

Reviewer: Natalya, USA

This is a great toy. It is very easy to assemble, the instructions are easy to follow even for children. My 4-year old son got it for Christmas and was playing with it most of the day. And we can use the same parts to create various castles besides the one described in the instructions.