Playmobil Princess Fantasy Castle Construction Set

A great part of our favorite playmobil sets is the building aspect. If you are looking for a "pop it out of the box" barbie style project, no, this is not the toy for you. If you love something akin to legos, but with balance between the building process and delicious, life-like details that allow for hours of creative play.....you and your children are likely to LOVE this playmobil castle. And, its made in Germany!On Christmas Day, our 7 year old and I put together 12 year vintage Playmobil castle 3019. It was so much fun, I ordered this castle on sale for our daughter and Grandpa to build together while on vacation 2 weeks after Christmas. A couple hours into the experience, Grandpa quietly commented "its addictive". It was so special for Grandpa and Granddaughter to find parts together, read instructions, and learn to teamwork with the nearly 70 year age gap. They will always remember the time they spent with each other & the castle. And while it can be taken completely apart for storage (and rebuilt for fun and learning), we'll keep our castle together so we always have those 2 special evenings of bonding time.A few helpful notes: yes castle construction will take 3-4 hours. Set it up somewhere high from children under 3 (an island or table) where it can be left until completed. Have some plastic bowls on hand to help organize all your fun little parts and pieces. Moving the castle after construction is actually pretty easy! If you stack the box bottom and lid inside one another, you can take out the middle gate section of the castle, & remove the steps (both take only a few seconds) and then the 3 castle parts will fit nicely in the box standing up. If you need to store it for long periods, get an outdoor lawn bag, or pretty piece of fabric to place on top to prevent dust inside all the little parts. The lid inside the box allows you to take it to another room, or store without totally dismantling. The castle does NOT come with dining table etc, you need to purchase those separately. Both Amazon and the Playmobil site sometimes run special offers on various royals set. If you only want to add 1 furniture set, I recommend the dining. Our daughters other favorites are the playmobil "add on pink princess bed" and the royals nursery.Favorite castle features: The "dancing floor" with knob that allows the playmobil figures to spin around together by turning a handle was a hit with our 7 year old, and enjoyed by our 1 year old as well. Yes, I may have played with it a few times as well. The chandelier is beautiful. The greenery and flowers add a special touch of nature. The rooms are definitely not large as in the vintage playmobil 3019 castle with Moroccan styling, but sets will fit in the rooms if placed carefully. The architecture of this castle truly is like many little girls imagine a castle to be: from the turrets and flags to the scrolling, translucent pink, opening windows.Further enhancing your castle: playmobil makes a royal garden with fountain that is wonderful to set up outside this castle for additional greenery. There is also a no longer produced fairy garden with willow tree that makes a great castle garden, and a 40th anniversary edition Elizabethan style garden with fountain and gondola that is perfect (sometimes available on Amazon). Check out the "original online re-sale/ bidding site" for lots of additional vintage sets to expand the greenery around your castle. Playmobil also currently produces a pink capped fence with gilded gate that is perfect to create a yard to add your gardens, horses, knights and court & carriage (all sold separately if you can locate them).Room for improvement: The rooms could be larger. The newest Playmobil castle 6848 (I do not feel that it has as nice of detail as this castle, and it does not have the turning dance floor) has add on rooms available. This castle may have add on rooms available too, contact playmobil directly to ask. Also, the dining set is shown on the box, it would be nice to include it. And lastly, finding dark skinned Playmobil princesses with ball gowns is a lot of work. There is an Indian princess available in a beautiful red dress, and an Egyptian princess. Several of our nieces and nephews are mixed race, I was able to finally locate a beautiful black princess in a green ball gown dress on the bidding site. More playmobil pieces (look for Playmo Friends) come out in Malta (a figure production country) and other parts of Europe than in the US. Playmobil, please step it up with the princess variety available in the US. Playmobil figures can be customized, check out youtube for videos on how to accomplish figure customization - adult help required.An interesting note that an article explained that due to the cost of their initial production molds, some Playmobil items are apparently only offered in non-European markets (like the US) a year after they are released in the primary markets. Makes us all want to take a trip to Germany to collect toys? You can visit the German Playmobil website to see the Playmobil goodies that we wish we could get here now. I even tried signing up for Amazon UK to get Playmobil items only available in Europe, it did not work out with shipping. C'mon Amazon, help us out and make it easier to ship the European releases to the US as they are released:) .

I had a lot of pieces (592), that needed to be put together in order to build it. Seemed many of the parts could have easily been one piece instead of 3-4 or molded into other parts for example. The bags were not labeled and the parts were in random bags and hard to find, making it that much more harder to build. It took many hours to put it all together and we ended up super glueing many of the pieces together to make it sturdier. Even though it took a long time to build, it was worth it, because my granddaughter absolutely LOVES it!!

This was pricey and took my husband and me 10+ hours to put together. BUT, it is beautifully made, we had fun making it and our 7 year old granddaughter loved it! Well worth it!

I bought this for my daughter's sixth birthday this week. I was responsible for assembly- so it took closer to three hours than two (my husband would have been faster). I was impressed with the quality of the pieces. The stickers for the stairs have textured "rug" on them, and there are some very nice decorative details- like the chandelier. However, some of the white walls had pink marks on them, looked like scuff or rub marks. I couldn't see what had caused it in the packaging, but I suspect it was the turret tops, so that was the only disappointment during assembly. It's a little cumbersome for carrying between locations, so it would be better suited to a more permanent spot. She's been playing with it for hours at a time- even her eight and ten year old brothers have been willing to join in on some creative play, they throw in a little violence, but she's willing to allow that if they'll play with her. She loves imaginative play, so this is the perfect set for her, it's bigger than a dollhouse we used to have that she never really used. We need to buy some furniture and accessories, as it comes with very little- like four chairs, but no table. That was expected, though, and overall I think this will turn out to be something that gets lots of play time over the year.

Difficult to put together ... don't, for example, give it to your kid on Christmas morning and expect he or she will be playing with it by evening. Instead, you will be up until 2 a.m. wishing you had never bought the **** thing. But once you finally get it together, it's fantastic, and you'll block out that horrible assembly period from your memory.

This castle is terrific - incredibly durable, many pieces to play with, and beautifully designed from all angles. There are even several secret compartments, which my daughter loves. It comes with many small pieces, so we put some away due to having a younger child at home. We bought this for our 4.5 year old daughter. She plays with it daily.

Beautiful product. My granddaughter loves it. It takes time and lots of dedication and patience to complete the set up. I had to glue it together because it can easily come apart. Expensive product.

This was a Christmas present for my 8 year old grand daughter, but when they were awakened on Christmas morning, the 3 year old went straight to it and played with it all day. It was a great hit as she continues to play with it each morning. Their mother had to buy a table to put it on and their dad said it took quite a while to put it together. It is quite large, but despite the labor involved, they both say now that it was worth all the effort. The girls share play time with this toy and really seem to love it. It was placed on their Amazon wish list. Great find!

This castle is stunning and was my little girls dream, she plays with it everyday but it is pricey.I was originally in two minds as to whether to purchase this item due to its cost and the fact that it comes with no accessories and is totally unfurnished. However when it was reduced just before Christmas I decided to make it my daughters main present and members of the family offered to buy some of the furniture too.It arrived promptly and was really well packaged. The large box contained lots of small boxes and bags but the instructions were easy to follow and everything was well labelled. It took me over 4 hours to put this together and the finished castle looked stunning. Unlike other children's toys the many stickers actually stayed on but I ended up having to glue parts of the castle together because it fell apart every-time I moved it. Once glued it has stayed together despite being played with frequently. I was surprised at how big it was but there was plenty of room for play and has some lovely little features, my favourite being the little secret compartment to keep your jewellery in and the matching tiara to wear while your playing. Unfortunately the little plastic flowers on the bushes have not stood the test of time and have slowly fallen off and ended up in the Hoover. It doesn't take away from the fact that it really is a lovely piece of furniture for any princess bedroom, I just wish that some of the furniture had come as part of the package too.

This is such an amazing product - we bought it for my 6yr old daughter for her birthday and she loves it and plays with it every single day. A word of warning though you have to assemble literally every single piece of this and it took my husband over 2 hours so leave yourself plenty of time and don't give it to your child unassembled as the disappointment they would feel in having to wait for it to be put together would be awful. You also need to plan where you will keep this as it's large and quite an awkward shape to accommodate. It resides on our dining table and has to be moved if we need to use all the table! It is such good quality and the detail is amazing. The room kits were then bought for her by friends and family over a period of time as gifts and she has really enjoyed putting all the rooms together gradually. My 3yr old son also has the Knight's castle and they play together with all the bits and pieces literally every day in some way - it feeds their imagination for hours and means they can play together which is great. Playmobil is such good quality and my mum still has some of the original pieces from my childhood which are now many many years old - they still are in perfect condition and they are the first things my kids go for when playing at her house.This is an expensive item but in my opinion well worth it and they enjoyment my kids and their friends get from it is neverending. Shop around for the best deal though as the price really varies.

Zu dem Spaß- und Spielfaktor für die Kinder brauche ich hier wohl nichts mehr zu schreiben, das haben die anderen Rezensenten bereits getan und wir haben nichts mehr hinzuzufügen (ausser das es ganz ungewohnt ist, dass unsere beiden Töchter (3+6) oft mehrere Stunden "still" im Kinderzimmer verschwunden sind).Zu dem oft als problematisch geschilderten Aufbau des Schlosses möchte ich noch ein paar Worte ergänzen.Der größte Fehler, den man machen kann ist, alle Teile und Beutel erst einmal aus dem Karton rausholen (und womöglich noch die Beutel öffnen); absolut "tödlich", dann kann ich nachvollziehen, dass der Aufbau sich über mehrere Tage hinzieht.Das gesamte Schloss ist in 4 "Aufbaugruppen" geteilt und diese sind innerhalb der Umverpackung in vier Kartonfächer bzw. Schachteln einsortiert (siehe unser Foto bei der Produktbeschreibung). Diese also unbedingt gruppenweise zusammenlassen. Die Aufbauanleitung geht wiederum schrittweise Gruppe für Gruppe vor. Und wenn man sich dann noch strikt an die Reihenfolge in der Anleitung hält und GENAUESTENS vergleicht, dass das Teil, welches man in Händen hält auch das ist, was in der Anleitung abgebildet ist, kann eigentlich nichts mehr schief gehen. "Genauestens" schreibe ich deshalb, weil es schon mehrere Teile gibt, welche sich sehr ähnlich sehen und sich nur in winzigen Details unterscheiden (hier ist dann immer noch eine Sprechblase mit einer Vergrößerung eben dieses Details in der Anleitung abgebildet).Der gesamte Aufbau hat bei mir ca. 4,5 Std. gedauert (inkl. einer kurzen Pizza-Pause :-) ).Absolut empfehlenswert ist es, den Aufbau ohne die Kinder vorzunehmen (unsere wollten nach Wiehnachten noch alleine bei den Großeltern bleiben). Ich glaube, die meisten Kinder hätten einfach keine Geduld und wollen dann sehen, was in diesem und jenem Beutel ist und dann ist die ganze oben beschriebene Logik dahin....Zusammenfassend muss ich sagen, dass der Zusammenbau (mir als Architekt) sehr viel Spaß gemacht hat, dass Schloss sich absolut hochwertig und passgenau zusammensetzen lässt. So toll verarbeitet wünsche ich mir manches Gebäude im wahren Leben...Hut ab vor der Firma Playmobil und deren Produktentwicklern. DANKE

Das Schloss wird ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für unsere 6jährige. Ihr Wunsch - ich hätte mich wahrscheinlich für etwas anderes entschieden, aber es ist ja nicht mein Weihnachtswunsch.Nachdem ich hier gelesen habe das der Aufbau so endlos lange dauert - zwischen vier Stunden und mehreren Tagen - habe ich einen freien Tag genutzt um das Schloss schon einmal aufzubauen während das Kind in der Schule ist.Ich habe für den Aufbau etwa 2 1/2 Stunden gebraucht. Mit Aufbau der bei Playmobil erworbenen Zusatzetage sowie Himmelbett, Schaukelstuhl und Schloss-Kinderzimmer knapp 2 3/4 Stunden. Das wichtigste ist, denke ich, Seite 2 der Aufbauanleitung genau anzuschauen denn dort steht in welchem Bereich im Karton was eingepackt ist und auf welcher Seite dazu die Anleitung zu finden ist. Demnach musste ich nicht lange nach den Teilen suchen denn dann waren sie doch recht logisch und zusammenhängend verpackt.Nach etwa 3 Stunden hatte ich es grob wieder ausenandergebaut und, mit ein wenig Geduld, alles wieder im Karton verstaut so das der Aufbau an Heilig Abend rasch erledigt sein wird.Mit dem kompletten Aufbau an Heilig Abend wird ein 6jähriges Kind sicher überfordert sein. Mit dem Aufbau der Zimmereinrichtungen hat sie noch genug zum selber bauen, kann aber, wenn ihr gerade nicht nach aufbauen ist, auch fast umgehend anfangen zu spielen. Für uns erscheint dies als die beste Lösung.Auf ein entspanntes Weihnachtsfest! ;)

Meine Tochter hat dieses Schloss geschenkt bekommen. Sie spielt sehr oft und gerne damit und auch alle Gäste sind ganz begeistert. Den Aufbau habe ich mir für Playmobil einfacher vorgestellt (extra kein Lego genommen..). Gefühlt tausende von Teilen, dazu noch die schwer einzusetzenden Halteklammern. Diese müssen extra mit einem beiliegenden Werkzeug-Stift eingedrückt werden. Für Kinderhände gar nicht machbar. Würde sich der Aufwand nachher lohnen ok, aber die Teile fallen trotzdem auseinander und die Klammern auch aus der Halterung. Also wieder der Papa ran und die Klammern "reinwuchten". Habe ich mir für Playmobil anders vorgestellt. Ebenso wenig durchdacht: Die schöne Außentreppe ist leider ohne Halterung oder Unterbau, d.h. sie fällt bei stärkerer Berührung, Bespielung oder halt wenn sich die Kinder draufstützen sofort in sich zusammen. Da hat jemand ohne Ausprobieren entworfen...Insgesamt aber ein sehr schönes Schloss mit sehr sehr sehr vielen Einzelteilen, Aufklebern und oben genannten Halteklammern. Preis-Leistungsverhältnis, das Schloss könnte definitiv günstiger sein. Aufgrund des o.g. "Konstruktionsfehlers" und des für Kinderhände schwierigen Zusammenbaus, gebe ich 4 von 5 Sternen. Ich würde es meiner Tochter wieder kaufen