(AD - Gifted) Back in January when I saw the
new PLAYMOBIL camping range at the Toy Fair in London I knew my children would enjoy playing with it. They love to go camping with the freedom it gives them to stay up late, explore and have different routines to at home. We tend to only ever camp for a night or two so it means we don’t worry about all the normal rules or standards and can let the children go a bit feral (by which I mean get muddy and not wash). Back in January I was thinking about the camping trips we might go on this year and wondering how we would fit our family of 5 in our tent, I never thought that our best chance to go camping might be in our back garden. My children however are keeping the fun of camping alive with the latest PLAYMOBIL sets we were sent to review.
For a review of the
Summer 2022 Family Fun Beach Holiday range check out my review.
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The PLAYMOBIL Family Fun sets work together really well to form a larger collection |
Like all the PLAYMOBIL sets you get a great range of accessories in the box which help children become really creative in their play. Admittedly some of the pieces are very small making it a challenge with a baby around, but my daughters love to find somewhere out of their brother's way and play for hours. The sets are suitable for 4 years and upwards with my 8 year old easily being able to assemble everything on her own and my 4 year old having enough dexterity to play with the pieces without pulling them apart most of the time.
Some of the smaller parts like the flowers, flip flops and suncream will inevitably go missing in our house over time (they are small enough to be vacuumed up) but I know from the other PLAYMOBIL sets we own (like the
PLAYMOBIL summer villa we reviewed last year) that this wont ruin playability.
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Review of the PLAYMOBIL Family Fun sets 70093 and 70089 |
Review of PLAYMOBIL Camping Sets
PLAYMOBIL Family Bicycle Review (70093)
The family bicycle comes with a family of 4: 2 adults, 2 children and a doll. The bicycle is assembled from 23 parts (including 2 stickers). The adults can sit on the back seat and (pretend) to cycle, while the children can sit in the front after they have argued over which one of them gets to sit next to the (non-working) horn. The four wheels on the bike rotate so it can be pushed along.
PLAYMOBIL Family Camping Trip Family Fun Tent with Camping Accessories Review (70089)
The contents of the box pretty much reads like a list of all the essentials to take camping: sleeping bags, a tent, a table, camping chairs, a camp stove, frying pan, saucepan, cool box, lantern, map, tinned food, water, orange juice, sun cream, mugs, plates even a frisbee plus a few extras to set the scene: like squirrels, a cat and flowers. The family of 3 (an adult and 2 children) are lucky enough to have a camping pitch with electricity so they can plug in their cool box.
We found it difficult to balance the characters on the camping seats and they are probably my least favourite part, but there is so much to love in this set from the suitcase to the 'cable' you can plug in to connect the cool box and the electric point.
One of the things I like about this set is that although I suspect the adult is intended to be a male (the adult female PLAYMOBIL character’s generally have boobs) he is androgynous enough that it could be a female. One of the children (the girl) has darker skin colour than the adult and “boy” making them as a family unit more reflective of reality where whole families aren’t often identical to each other.
The family bicycle (70093) is a nice set if you already have PLAYMOBIL toys in the Family Fun range, especially as it provides 4 more characters to play with, but the family camping set (70089) makes a great value stand alone gift because it has so much included.
There is plenty more in the
PLAYMOBIL Family Fun range to help build up the fun including a camper van and a camp site set with reception area and working showers, water park sets, cafe etc. At the time of publishing the sets are 25% off on the PLAYMOBIL website.
***Disclosure: We were sent the PLAYMOBIL sets for the purpose of review***
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