This is a really great toy. I'm using is in my living room for my 3 yr old grandson. He loves it to climb and make forts. It was frustrating to try and find any tips and tricks on assembly. I read about a lot of people mentioning that it hurt their thumbs....RULE #1 for assembling this: DO NOT USE YOUR THUMBS TO PRESS DOWN THE PINS !!!!!! That being said, you can use your hands to pop in the bottom rim. For some reason the metal spring in these are much "softer" which was surprising. However, the springs in the rest of them are VERY tight hence the reason for the difficult getting these in the tubes. My solution was to use a tool I had called iSesamo genuine Spudger Opening Pry Tool which is used for assisting in computer repair. It's a very slim piece of metal. Was it perfect, no; the tool could have been a little narrower for the job but ultimately, it worked well and helped so much for a quick assembly. What I did was slide the tube into the joiner almost up to the point of the pin and then slide the point of the spudger in between the tube and the pin then flatten the spudger against the pin to depress the pin as you slide the tube onto the joiner. Be careful not to catch your finger as you slide the tube in unless you like blood blisters :( Once you have this trick down, the assembly will go smoothly. I did make a few mistakes by installing a tube on the wrong part of the joiner. I used the disassembly tool which definitely does the job by pushing the pins back down so you can pull the tube back off. It is a little tricky to like it up right. There is a slot/groove which lines up one pin but you have to peek under the cover to make sure it is lined up correctly...that's the whole trick. Once it's lined up, the pins will easily depress and the tube will release from the joiner. I had to look at the picture of it listed on Amazon a few times to make sure i was using the right colored tubes (as I got the 2-tone set) when you first put together the 5 tubes on the joiner, put 2 dark green tubes on the bottom. You will know which is the bottom based upon the faint writing on the joiner which has an arrow showing which side is up. I'm half blind so I needed a flashlight and my readers. Not a big deal really. Lastly, at the very end of finishing the dome, it does get very tight and almost impossible to get the tubes on the joiner. I had to actually put my foot against the structure to push it away enough to get the tube on it. I'm not a strong muscley person, so maybe a man would be able to do this part without such strain. A little nuance is required through the whole assembly but once you have your strategy down pat, it will go smoothly. Make sure to really be sure about what tube goes where because taking them back out does waste some time. Also pay attention to the letters on the joiner 'stubs' which are helpful for making sure you get the right tubes on them. Again I needed a flashlight and my glasses to see them. It did take me some time; but I was watching a show as I was doing which is probably why I made the few mistakes mentioned. But it was totally worth it. It's light enough to be able to move it when needed and strong enough for a child to climb all over it.

I bought this 4.5 years ago now for a toddler that liked to climb. That toddler is now 6, and still loves to play on this. This thing has survived 4.5 of being left outside in rain, snow, everything. It has survived uncles, older cousins, multiple kids playing on it. Every year it gets so much use and every year I’m surprised that it’s lasted another one. The color has faded, but that happens when you leave something out in the sun for years. The quality is great. It’s lightweight but sturdy. I think the only way we will get rid of it is if we upgrade to a bigger one.

I took the advice from other reviews and used a spoon to assemble, with that tip it was a very easy. Instructions were clear, it’s sturdy, lightweight/easy to move, fun colors, perfect size, and kids of all ages have fun on it. I think it’s definitely worth the price point. My only complaint is the tool to disassemble the tubes was impossible for me to get, but my husband got it fairly easy so it could have been user error, or just need very strong hand strength.

I bought this as a birthday gift for my autistic 4 year old son and so far it's a hit! This is a very sturdy and well made jungle gym that can hold up to 150 pounds. I climb on it with my son because he wants me to (I'm 5'7" 130lb) and it seems to support me just fine. We have it set up in a basement playroom but it's labeled as being an outdoor jungle gym so I think it would do well in the backyard also. We just live in a very cold and snowy climate so I wanted to put it inside so my energetic kiddo could get some energy out during the long winters indoors. Besides being sturdy and well made, it offers a lot of variety for play. Besides just climbing on it and dropping down through the middle, he loves to throw a couple big blankets over the top and turn the whole thing in to a fort. We call it his igloo. It's big and sturdy enough that multiple kids could play on it at a time. All that being said, setting up is a bit of a pain (literally just as much as figuratively). I do not swear and I cursed multiple times while setting this up by myself. Here's what you need to know: - DO NOT JUST USE YOUR FINGERS!! Setting this up will kill your hands even if you use tools to help like I did so do yourself a favor and START with them. I found a flat head screwdriver to be the most helpful in pushing the little knobs in. Some of the connectors are harder than others so some of them you can just use your fingers but some of them are just too stiff. Just count on getting pinched a few times, even if you're using tools to help. I was very careful and it still got me a handful of times and it HURTS! Prepare yourself mentally, haha. - FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY!! The set up instructions for this are great. There are pictures diagrams and detailed written instructions and all the parts are labeled very well so you can keep track of what is what. My best suggestion is to BE SURE you're reading ALL the instructions before you snap stuff into place because it's really annoying to have to undo your work and start over. After the first 45 minutes or so I thought I was smart and knew what to do and ended up having to go back multiple times and undo a lot of work and finger pinching because I didn't read the instructions. This is especially true when it comes to laying out the bottom octagon correctly and then attaching the sides with THIS ANGLE UP point up. I missed that direction and had to re-do a lot. Don't be like me. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!! - The metal pieces inside the connects that you snap into place pop out all the time during set up. This is very annoying. The first time it happens you'll think, "Oh crap, how the heck am I supposed to get that back in?!" but don't worry, it isn't hard. After a few times you'll be a pro at it and will be able to get it back into place quickly and easily with a flat head screwdriver. That being said, it's REALLY ANNOYING that they pop out at all. Design flaw. - This thing is pretty big so if you're going to set it up inside, definitely measure first! I also recommend putting this in a room with at least 8 foot ceilings. - I set this up alone, but I highly recommend doing it with at least 1 other person. It would go a LOT faster and some of the attachments would be much easier to make with two people. All said and done it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to set up by myself. Had I not messed up twice and had to undo and redo my work, it probably would've only taken me an hour. If I'd had help it probably would've only taken 30-45 minutes. Now that it's set up I'm really pleased with it! The only reason I took off a star is because I think they could've made this a little less painful to put together by designing and including a special tool to help with assembly and also because those little metal pieces pop out all the time during set up and have to be put back into place. Other than that, once it's set up it's great! I highly recommend this for autistic kids! Between this, a mini trampoline and a slide and ceiling mounted swing in our playroom downstairs, our son really has fun and can get a lot of his energy out and meet his intense sensory needs. For the record I did NOT get this for free or at a discount. Hope this helps!

This is literally the best child purchase I ever made. We gave it as a christmas gift back in 2018- when my kids were newborn, 7 and 4. My 4 kids- even my 15yo still- use it daily. The first piece just broke after 8 years of daily use. It’s a fort, a hammock (if they tie on blankets), a tent, a climbing tower, an stuffed animal cage, etc. great value and cheaper now than 2018. Can be used indoor or out. You will not regret this purchase.

Third edit, we've had this about 2.5 years. My kids are 5 and 3 now and there's rarely a day that they're not climbing on it. It's still in our living room. It's never broke or tipped over. I have not been able to get apart. We are moving and can't take it with us but the top square does unscrew and pops off. So now it fits out our regular sized front door and we are going to give it our friends kids. If I can give the product more stars I would. Second Edit. I'm upgrading from 3 to 5 stars I've had this for 3 months and the boys still play with it all day long. It helps keep my rowdy toddlers from climbing on everything else in the house. I highly recommend one of these. Especially for indoor use. (Edit: I'm upgrading 1 star to 3 stars. I have a 3yr who has been playing on this thing nonstop the past week. The top part is a little wobbly but after letting him go crazy on it. I'm pretty sure it's not going come apart. I'd like to have given it a 5 star rating, but I can't take it apart, my thumbs still hurt from putting it together a week ago. If I move I'll probably have to cut it to pieces, but I would buy it again and suffer through putting it together.) I got this so I can easily put it up tare it down. I am pretty sure that I got defective parts. The button thing that click on to the poles are so hard to push. If you want to take this apart. Don't buy this. If you do buy my advice is to check every joint before you start. If they don't push down. Return this item. Because once you have a few pieces together that are extremely difficult to push down they are not coming off and you'll never get it to fit back in the box. Anyway I got it all together in about 2-3 hours. Now I have finished I'm very upset that the top part doesn't feel very sturdy. 4 screws go into the top part and it is still wobbly. If I could return it. I would. But I'm going to try to salvage it by removing the top square. The rest seems sturdy.

Winter is here and we received three feet of snow in 24 hours. The kids are stuck inside and need to get their bugs out. I purchased this for my 4 year old and assembled it for Christmas. I chose this item because it was billed as easy to assemble and light enough to move around. It was reasonably easy to assemble. The system clicks together with no special tools. The plastic poles clicks into plastic star shaped connectors with pressure release pins. I’m a strong handed man and by the end of construction my fingertips were bruised from pushing in the pins. A few of the pins dislodged from the star connectors which forced me to disassemble that section and manipulate the pin back into the assembly. This was quite frustrating. While the plastic tubes are strong enough to support the weight of my 4 year old a larger child would bend them. The structure does wiggle a bit since the system is help together with pressure pins but overall it feels solid and safe. The structure is light enough that it can be moved easily between rooms by one person. With the top removed it will fit through a 3’ door. The top is easily removed as it is held together with four small screws. My son loves it. He climbs it all day. We put blankets over the top and he has an instant fort. It’s not too tall as we are not overly concerned with him falling off. Just in case there is a fall we put a few thick blankets beneath it. Overall I am very satisfied and would recommend this item for a small child. The instructions were easy enough. The assembly was uncomplicated. The pressure pins could be designed better and for me are the only weak point in this item.

I don't like writing reviews, good or bad, but I felt strongly enough that I had to say something on this one. There are a few big problems with this product: (1) The small metal pins on the spokes that keep the tubes in place need to be depressed with your fingers during assembly, but they are extremely hard to depress because the metal is so unrelenting. So, it's literally painful on your hands and fingertips when you're trying to get the tubes onto the spoke pieces, and you're expected to do it over and over and over, destroying your fingers in the process. (2) The spokes and tubes look quite similar at a glance, and because there are a *lot* of them and they don't come pre-separated, unless you're paying *very* close attention with every connection you do, you're bound to make at least one mistake and you'll need to remove a tube from a spoke. Well, there's a tool included specifically for disassembly (because it's actually impossible to disassemble without it, otherwise you'll break a tube or spoke), but it's poorly designed and made from a really cheap grade of plastic. In fact, it's so cheap that even the manual says it can only be used for disassembly twice and that it should be thrown away after that because of the risk damaging things. But even that must be a best-case scenario, because I was only able to remove a few tubes before the tool couldn't get anything else off. Which left me with a product that could no longer be completely assembled. After reading more reviews, I saw that this has happened to a lot of other people as well. (3) Even if the assembly went well, the disassembly tool can only be used twice; the stated feature of being able to build this up and break it down to store isn't really true. So, in a way I'm thankful that I never got it fully assembled, because I'd be frustrated to no end if it came time to break it down and found out that it would be impossible midway through the process. I had to start a return for this since I couldn't even finish the assembly, and had to basically break a few pieces just to get everything back in the box since the disassembly tool stopped working. I can imagine that this would be a great product if you were able to assemble it without any mistakes and had no intention to ever disassemble it. Otherwise, this is a waste of your time and money. And my experience isn't unique. If you're still thinking about getting this, take the time to read more reviews where people are saying this exact scenario happened to them too.

説明書が英語だが、わかりやすいので説明通りにやれば女性一人でもサクサク組み立てられる。 ただ間違えた時に取り外すのが固くて大変。 子供が遊ぶ遊具だから固くて当たり前なのだが、繋げるパーツひとつひとつがとても硬い。 なので間違えないために説明書通りにやるのが大切。

El juego lo armamos entre 5 personas en 2 horas aproximadamente. Lo compré para ponerlo en el patio de juegos de un jardín de niños. Ha sido la sensación para los alumnos. Se suben niños desde 3 a 6 años de edad. Es MUY resistente y tiene muchos beneficios para los peques, por ejemplo, fortalece su cuerpo, mejora su coordinación, estimula su atención e imaginación, mejora su equilibrio e incrementa su confianza.

パイプや接続部品に記号が書いてあり、英語の説明書でしたが、難なく組み立てられました。 組み立てる上で、手がとても痛くなりましたが、完成後に接続時に使うプラスチックの器具みたいなものを見つけて、それを使えば手が痛くならずに済んだのかと後で気づきました。皆さまは忘れずに使って下さい。 ４歳17kgの子どもが上部に乗ると、かなりパイプがたわんでいます。少し心配になるほどですが、到着から2週間、今のところ13kgの２歳と共に楽しく使えています。上部以外はパイプが斜めになっているので、２歳には登るのが少し難しいみたいです。 風雨にさらされ3年経ちました。パイプ部分はプラスチックの劣化で触ると白い粉が付くようになりました。20kg以上になった子どもが乗っているので、かなりたわみます。折れたら撤去しようと思っていますが、意外と頑張ってくれています。2023年５月追記

Mi hija de 2 años y lo ama, se trepa, se cuelga y el juego es muy resistente. Se puede anclar, pero mi hija apenas pesa 12 kg y no lo mueve nada, así q aún no lo he anclado porque me gusta moverlo de lugar en el jardín.

Fácil de armar y muy resistente para niños pequeños