Comments on: Heavily Promoted: Fisher-Price’s Trio Building Set

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:28:56 +0000

In the interests of balance, from someone who actually owns these — our two-and-a-half year old has no problem with Trio once he actually played with them; you have to twist the blocks to get them undone, not pull, but that works fine.

Getting the rods into the blocks takes some breaking in, but after the first couple of hours when he needed help from a parent, that works fine as well.

Suggestion: only buy the basic sets — those ones have much more open-ended play potential than the fire station / airport / etc, which suffer like new Lego from being way too specialised. Set P6837 has a lot of different parts which none of the other ones have, and none of the “this is a fire station door” sort of things.

By: toyportfolio

toyportfolio — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:37:33 +0000

We were disappointed…there are lots of great alternatives though. We have given the Magneatos from Guidecraft a Platinum Award…they are just the opposite of TRIO–very easy to manipulate- making them a pleasing open-ended building experience.

By: My Boaz's Ruth

My Boaz's Ruth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:28:01 +0000

I’ve seen the same review of Trio blocks elsewhere too and so I have steered one couple away that were trying to decide between these and the Magnablocks (or something like that). Just that I’d seen bad reviews of these.

It is SO hard to find people saying bad things about a toy, that when I see them, I listen.