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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program The Play-Doh Sweet Shoppe Bakery Playset promises to allow kids to make delicious looking play-doh treats with frosting on them, but does it really live up to the expectations that it sets?
PROS:
-The kit is easy to assemble. It does come in pieces but even my 8 year old daughter was able to put it together fairly easily.
-The accessories are fun. They have many different accessories, including a plate, knife, fork, and a serving knife.
-Excellent use of space. One thing that Play-Doh does well is to make the most of the space each toy has. With this kit they've put all sorts of different little molds all around the kit, including underneath storage areas. Nicely done Play-Doh!
-Play-Doh Plus with this kit Play-Doh is focusing on their newest concoction: Play-Doh Plus! Play-Doh Plus is exactly like regular Play-Doh only it is much softer. When I first handled it I immediately thought of a soft sugar cookie dough, and my daughter agreed. It is, however, a bit stickier than regular Play-Doh.
CONS:
-CLEAN UP! The clean up stinks! I know the clean up for almost any Play-Doh toy is annoying, but this one was particularly bad. The extruder was the most annoying to clean out not only did you have to clean out the large plastic piece and the replaceable tip, you also had to clean out the plunger and because it's twisted inside we had to use a toothpick :(.
-It definitely doesn't work as advertised. The instructions tell you to place the treat you've made under the extruder and to press down. We did and yes, we got some Play-Doh out but in no way were we able to turn the little table to get the "frosting" on the outside of the cake. The only way we could do that was to take the extruder out and to manually do it.
-The extruder would be very hard for a young child to push down. My 8 year old had to struggle with it for a few minutes before being able to do it, so I have no idea how a 3 or 4 year old could do it!
THE VERDICT:
While I loved the idea of this set, and my daughter was looking forward to playing with it, both of us walked away from our play time disappointed. Play-Doh needs to figure out how to make things that younger children can easily use and that can be cleaned up a LOT easier than this one was!!
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Play-doh has sure been around forever; and even way back in my childhood, we had the "extruder" sets with the sliding bar to make different shapes. Loved them then...but, boy, have they jazzed up their extruder playsets over the years. I bought this one on sale at a local big-box discount store for a friend's child. She loved it and spent lots of time making and decorating various cakes and cookies and then slicing us all samples to pretend "eat." It's a great combination of good, squishy Play-doh fun along with making your own delectable-looking "desserts." You can cut out your cake or cookie shape with regular Play-doh; but I recommend sticking with the Play-Doh Plus for decorating your pretend treats. It's softer and makes it much easier to form the swirls, flowers, etc. on top of your masterpieces.Best Deals for Play-Doh Sweet Shoppe Frosting Fun Bakery Playset
My daughter is 3 years old and has always enjoyed Play Doh... she also loves cup cakes, so what could be more perfect than the Play Doh Frosting and Fun Bakery Playset. While it is fun we have found a few things that could be improved. First of all there are lots of accessories, but there are not lots of places to store them. Also, clean-up has always been one of the complaints about Play-Doh, but it worse with the Frosting Fun Bakery Set. There are lots of nooks and crannies where the Play Doh gets stuck in so in reality the clean-up of this Play Doh set may be worse than actually making cupcakes!
Features
Comes 4 small cans of play doh standard brown and purple and special frosting style can of pink and yellow.
Has a cake decorating tool that can be used in as a press or as a stand-alone tool
A variety of shapes can be made into cookies star, hearts, flower, and others
4 special cake decorating tips are included
As mentioned, clean-up is a bit of a pain
Lots of accessories, but they the set does not have built in storage for them all.
Lots of indentions built in that can be used for a variety of goodies and special toppings.
The toy is rated for children 3 and up and that may be a bit conservative.... I think most 3 year olds can use it, but it is probably better suited for kids 4 and up.
FInal Verdict The Play Doh Frosting Fun Bakery Set is a fun toy that will allow your child to make a variety of good looking treats (minus all of the calories for all of us parents!) There are some negatives, and the clean-up is certainly one of them, but if you can get past that this is a toy that is likely to bring smiles.
4 Stars
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program So I get the feeling that if this had ever gone home with one of the Play-Doh design engineers for a week it would have gotten a major rework prior to release. The idea is great and it works so-so for the kids but most everything the parents care about could use some work!Kids love the idea of this set!
The play-doh is hard to use with the set though... it's hard to get even close the results on the box. The extruder is difficult for me to use effectively and my kids just get frustrated really easily with it not working for them.
This play-doh seems to mix more easily than most sets, which works great for the first pressing and the second when the kids think rainbow colors are cool, but after that it's just a mess.
Speaking of mess it's almost impossible to clean until after the play-doh has dried in the cracks and can be shaken out.
and finally... IT WON'T GO BACK IN THE BOX?!?!? I have this large play-doh toy that doesn't go back in the box and doesn't compact or fold up any or hold all of it's own parts to sit in the closet? Huh?!?! Who thought about that one?
All in all this is great the first time you set it up and then it goes down hill in a hurry. I don't recommend it.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I gave this set to my 3 1/2 year old to play with while stuck in a hotel room waiting for renovations on our house to get done. My son loved it! BUT, I wouldn't go so far as to presume it was this amazing set that he loved. Rather, he got to play with Play-Doh!The set was easy to put together, no real issues here. My son loved all of the little presses and shapes. He especially loved the extractor where you could push the dough through. My son played with this set for a long time and didn't get bored.
The problems are this:
Difficult to clean up; the doh gets stuck everywhere. The shape presses are so tiny it's difficult to get the doh out even when playing with it. Best to let it dry, or put the pieces in the sink with warm water.
The extractor doesn't work well. The tips kept coming off every time we pushed the doh through. It worked best with Play-doh Plus that's much softer.
Not a big fan of Play-doh Plus. It's a softer doh but it's difficult to get out of the little shape cutters and such; get it in your carpet and good luck!
Would have preferred the set to break back down and fit into the box for storage reasons. As it is, once put together it won't go back into the box.
Overall . . . I could really pass on this set. I prefer giving the kids bigger shape cutters and using Colorations® Wheat & Gluten-Free Dough (so much better and longer lasting than Play-Doh). I find Play-Doh dries out so quick. However, my son did love this set.
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