PLAYVIBE130 PCS Kids Fort Kit - Crazy Blanket Fort Builder for Indoor/Outdoor Play - Kid Toy Building Kit

This is a great kit for your kids. My little girl loves her tents and this has kept her entertained for hours. She can assemble in many different configurations. It is great for a childs imagination. With one kit, she was able to build a couple of small tents and connect them with a small tunnel or you can build one large tent. I will say that the larger you go, the flimsier it gets. Performs better in smaller configurations. All in all, good value for the money.

Most holes are too large for the ends of the sticks. Ive tried different balls but learned that it was essentially a quality control issue. It took me about an hour to build the barn because it kept falling apart. I had to use toilet paper plies to wedge the sticks in but it still fell apart.As soon as i finished building it, i gently casted a light blanket over it and it started falling apart. It then became a hazard. It nearly poked his eye out because the sticks don't hold in place and randomly come out.I love building forts with my 3 year old son and I tried really hard to like this toy, but couldn't. I'm really sad i had to return it. I give it one star because it's unusable as described, took up a lot of my time without working, and worst of all, dangerous for a toddler

My kids love to design and build they own forts , However it does take some getting used to in order to assemble correctly and it is not very sturdy if you try to put a blanket on top. I would recommend using a sheet instead.

These have so much fun potential, but we found that our young kids were a bit too rough to use them. They easily knocked the stakes out of the balls and our fort kept collapsing. Might be better for 6 year olds or older? But not great for little littles.

I think for creativity and the price this is pretty amazing for kids to be able to use their creative minds to help build their very own fort. My daughter absolutely loved it. My only cons are, it's not super sturdy (our cat kept easily knocking it all apart.) And the balls have to be positioned precisely, other wise the sticks don't fit correctly. Other than that it's something fun and keeps my daughter busy. She even wanted to sleep in it.

Pros: You can make an awesome fort without having to move any furniture.The provided bag is big enough so that you can put it all away without struggle.The number of different configurations is substantial.Minor Con: The connecting spheres require that one particular connecting hole be pointing up. The directions show that they are the "circled" holes. Sometimes the "circles" are obvious and sometimes they are not. HOWEVER - you can get around this by using a Sharpie on each of the "circled" holes. Out of 44 balls there were maybe 10 that required close scrutiny to determine the "circled" hole. Once you have marked them there will be no ambiguity.Tip - Sometimes you have to rotate the balls to get the proper angled holes for what you are trying to do, but it's not all that difficult. It's just something you need to be aware of as you assemble.My grandson was so thrilled with our first fort that he didn't want to go to school!

I really wanted this to work. I was excited for it to work, and to a degree it does but overall it was a major disappointment.This kit is probably fine for kids under the age of 5, or under a certain size. The kit comes with instructions as well that were not too difficult for my son to follow. He is 10. after he built the igloo, we put blankets on the structure and it collapsed. I bought two of these kits thinking we would build some grand forts. But the construction and the materials would not allow it.As the structure buckled under the light weight of the blankets you get around the holidays, (the light weight blankets you get when no one knows what to get you), I thought we could reinforce the structure with a little bit of know how. After some reengineering, the fort held but leaned to one side and did not feel sturdy. Also all of the designs are designed for smaller children and my son did not fit inside any of the predesigned forts.The way the balls are designed it can be difficult to build certain structures as the balls have a patter for building but that is not clear at all and can be frustrating for younger kids. It took me a bit to figure it out. For structures like the pyramid, it took a long time to build, was confusing to line up everything correctly, and even when you did the structure pulled apart from the center of the walls and was not sturdy.I pulled out all the stops, and tried to build something that was over engineered with all the pieces I had but at the end of the day after building several structures the connecting points (holes in the balls) were all already worn and stretched and as these pieces all press fit together, nothing would stand with any kind of weight placed on top of it.The concept is great, and I wanted this for STEM learning and a cool fort kit, but in the end, this product is not worth the money and hassle for older children that still want a fort and cool secluded place for their reading, drawing, or other fun activities. The hollow tubing and ball construction would be better if it were dowels. Like the old Tinker Toys but scaled up for fort building.

Bought this for my 6 yr old grandson. I love the concept of this but some the poles don't fit into the balls very well and then some of them slip out too easily which makes it very difficult to put together and it's not very sturdy. This is not something my grandson can do himself due to how the poles fit into the balls. There are definitely better products out there so I would not recommend this one.