Hits and Misses 2011 for 3-5 year olds

[emily]

DD (4 in April)

Hits:
Mini trampoline
Maclaren doll stroller
Leapfrog Tag reader (I'm on the fence about this one tho)
Camelot Jr
Barbie type hair styling doll from an aunt (I hate this tho- comes with a million hair accessories)

Misses:
clothes
puzzles (that she asked for)

[KrisM]

I only got my kids games, and posted my reviews here (Learning Resources games ROCK)

http://windsorpeak.com/vbulletin/sho...418850&page=14

I think you should copy and paste the reviews here. I can see going back to them, but I am lazy and don't want to click another link .

[Charlie]

DS - 3.5 years old

Hits:
-Imaginext Pirate Ship - Huge huge hit! It has seen a ton of play. I am now a fan of this line! I often see it recommended on here and now I know why!
-Bag of plastic sea animals
-Woody and Buzz figures

Likes:
-Hess truck
-puzzles (I am sure these will get a lot of play, just not a lot of WOW factor to them at first)

Unsure:
-M&D architecture blocks. He is always wanting to build tunnels for his trains and to build castles so I thought these would be a huge hit. He likes them ok it seems and I think these will have lasting play value even though they weren't a wow for him. *I* had just wanted them for a long time and was hoping he would love them.

[pomegranate]

DS (4)

Hits: Imaginext Batman Batcave, Hex Bug set, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime Transformers toys, Dr. Seuss books, Marvel superhero t-shirts, Siddeley jet plane from Cars 2

Misses: kite, color-by-numbers coloring books and box of crayons, Slinky, 3 board games (although he might warm up to these later)

[novmber]

For twin DDs, 4.5 years old

Hits: waldorf dolls from Etsy. Barbie bunkbed set. Strawberry shortcake berry bitty market and also the smoothie stand.

Too early to call: hopscotch mat from One Step Ahead. larger size lalaloopsy dolls - the proportions are so weird and they are certainly not snuggly. M&D wood corner kitchen - i think this will be a hit but i won't know for a while.

Misses: not sure that anything was a clear miss so far -

[ahrimie]

DD, 3.5.

Mostly all hits:
Princess, draw/color in castle. It's pretty big. She loved it the first day but now it sits in a corner.
Pretty Pretty Princess game, LOVE!
Zimbbos game, LOVE!! Played several times together and she even plays by herself.
Candyland, LOVE!!
Tinkerbell small music box/treasure box, LOVE!!
Books from her school's scholastic order. She loves books so I thought I'd just give her some for Christmas too. Every night, we've been rotating through her new books and the books from the library. LOVE!

DD2, 6 mo, got a Little People block set and wagon. Since she can't really play with it yet, DD1 has been ALL OVER it.

[kochh2]

DD, age 4.5 had mostly hits....
she loved her:
tag world map
her baby bilibo set of 6
her AG doll clothes
a book of Christmas disney stories
her m&d see and spell puzzles
her pinkalicious bike!!!
reptangles
a pink tutu twirly skirt
a bag of hand-me-down clothes from her cousin LOL

no misses, really.... maybe the How to train your dragon wii game.... oh yeah, there was one, how could i forget her reaction- DS and she both got super soaker water guns and refill clips, and she was so funny, she didn't want to say she didn't like it but she did.... i have it on video, "L are you excited about that??" silence.... shaking head sadly. "no"

[wellyes]

DD is 3 years 9 months:

Hits were almost entirely toys from other people!
Vtech ABC classroom
Vtech number thingy (one chicken goes into the barn, now 3 more go in. How many chickens are in the barn?)
Ballerina Barbie
Cabbage patch doll
Small tube full of m&ms (which she is still doling out to herself)

Like but not love:
M&D kitchen
Camelot jr

Didn't get:
Sock monkey game

That is all she's gotten too so far.

[KrisM]

DS2 is 3.5.

Hits:
Batman Geotrax sets (his #1 asked for gift)
Magnadoodle
wooden race car from my brother
bean bag

Not misses, but not as excited about:
Firestation Duplo
Imaginext Batcave - I'm surprised about this

Quite possibly, some of the other things will get more play when we have more space again by taking the tree down, moving toys around, etc. It's pretty chaotic in here right now.

[abh5e8]

DD, age 4.5 had mostly hits....
she loved her:
tag world map
her baby bilibo set of 6
her AG doll clothes
a book of Christmas disney stories
her m&d see and spell puzzles
her pinkalicious bike!!!
reptangles
a pink tutu twirly skirt
a bag of hand-me-down clothes from her cousin LOL

no misses, really.... maybe the How to train your dragon wii game.... oh yeah, there was one, how could i forget her reaction- DS and she both got super soaker water guns and refill clips, and she was so funny, she didn't want to say she didn't like it but she did.... i have it on video, "L are you excited about that??" silence.... shaking head sadly. "no"

dd is 4, almost 5, and loved all of the bolded above!

they both (ds is 3) LOVED the camelot jr game.

otherwise they got books, puzzles and clothes - all hits.

no real misses.