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287 of 329 persons found the following review helpful.
Concerned regarding possible use of destructive chemicals
By Sunshine
My son received this toy as a gift for his 6-month birthday. At the time, I do not forget hearing with regards to how a good deal of plastic toys (often made in China) incorporate destructive chemicals that are known to cause cancer and sentiment concerned that this toy might be one of them. I didn’t do anything for awhile, seeing how my son enjoyed playing with the toy and thinking (stupidly) that if this toy were genuinely harmful, it wouldn’t be sold in the U.S.
One day, I came all over this toy on Amazon and noticed the warning to CA residents beneath “Product Details.” I couldn’t believe it when I read this toy is made with destructive chemicals known to “cause cancer and birth defects or other generative harm.” I bet a lot of humans who are giving this toy 5 stars are not conscious of the warning.
UPDATE TO REVIEW ON 10-28-09: Amazon has got rid of the warning when it comes to the destructive chemicals, and in response to an inquiry I sent them told me “Product selective information from the item detail is added or deleted upon makers information.” Amazon suggested I contacted FP, which I did, and the FP rep said he couldn’t find anything in their records indicating the toy’s fabricating had been changed. The toy’s production has not been modified since 2007. He suggested that perhaps the warning wasn’t accurate, and that’s why it was removed. That may be, but it seems like a pretty big fault for Amazon to make on multiple FP toys. I see now that none of the FP toys that antecedently had this warning have it now.
As for my son’s reaction to the toy, he liked to bang the pieces together and put them in his mouth, but he never troubled to undertake to sort the shapes since the top doesn’t stay in place, as others have mentioned. My son always got rid of the top and took out all of the pieces, no matter how a great deal of times I showed him how to sort the shapes with the top in place. Talk with regards to poor design! I must have given it 1 star for the “educational” rating in hindsight, but I figured that theoretically it could be of some value if a child didn’t remove the top. Also, Amazon wouldn’t let me go back and change my ratings.
I just got another shape sorter for him from Amazon (the Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter), and within minutes he tried to put the shapes in the slots because he couldn’t remove either the top or the bottom of the unit. Now that’s an instructional toy!
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
I may see her wheels turning…
By T. Aulbach
As my 14 month daughter works on getting the right shape in the right hole. It’s unfeigned that now and again she just gets frustrated and picks up the lid and throws the shapes in the bucket rather of sorting them, but when I play with her talk to her and ask her where each shape goes she in truth focuses and we get them together. She looks so proud of herself when she gets them right, too! But even when she is playing by herself and taking the lid off, it’s still a very fun toy for her to put them all in, take them out, and do it all over again!
37 of 42 humans found the following review helpful.
Not that outstanding of a sorter…
By C. Murphey
This is a basic, durable, inexpensive toy. However what I don’t care for is the fact that the lid doesn’t snap on. I’m sure this is that way so babies may take it off, but I prefer the sorter that the child has to put the shapes through the holes. My baby figured out that it was more comfortable to take the lid off! I like the Smartronics cookie jar sorter much better.
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