...to think this toy is the biggest rip off in plastic history and leave it on the shelf?

[Keletubbie]

"DD, what would you like for Christmas?"

"The big Frozen castle Mummy. It's all I've ever wished for!"

Repeat x 100

So Mummy looks at the big Frozen castle.

www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Dolls-and-Accessories/Fashion-Dolls-and-Accessories/Disney-Frozen-Castle%280128520%29

Why in the name of all things holy does this big plastic box cost over £100???? It looks like it is worth about £20. On a good day.

Apparently it is the only toy she has ever wanted (lie). But I can't get anything else out of her that she might like. I tried introducing the smaller version - £40 and still an obscene price - but apparently it doesn't have a sofa?!?!?

Has anyone bought this piece of crap? Thoughts?

It is very over priced and I bet that it will be in the sale after Christmas. Is your dd's birthday anywhere near Christmas? I have often told my children that I will buy it for their birthday instead of Christmas if I think it will be much cheaper in January.

could you buy some dolls house furniture that looks similar to the stuff it comes with and maybe pimp up one of her existing dolls house to get a nicer more suitable version?

DS is getting this Le toy van castle for Christmas and I thought it was expensive but at least it's not made of flimsy plastic!

www.preciouslittleone.com/product-information/101/29188/le-toy-van-dragonclaw-castle/?gclid=CIHezp37n8ICFQHMtAodYFoAEg

Op YANBU! ( but to be honest, if my dc wanted it and I could afford it I probably would...and feel very miffed every time I looked at it not being played with)

You know all of you saying you'd buy it anyway are the reason they think it will sell at that ridiculous price. Just don't buy it then they'll have to lower the price.

If my DC set their heart on things I suspect will be crap to play with, we check out the reviews together, watch YouTube videos etc and that normally helps. And is why they boo at the TV whenever there's an advert for Texsta as we all know how shit it is

I spoil my kids rotten at Christmas I would be judged if I told you how much I spend but I would never pay that. Ridiculous.

Dd is getting the Monster High School, which is now going for £95.00 but was £65.00 when I bought it, which I still muttered about.

If it makes anyone feel better the $50 price was a Black Friday deal, gone now. ToysRus Canada has it for $140. I does look very crappy.

I have to admit when dd was small I would have probably made it very clear that I thought something like this was an excessively expensive piece of tat every time it was advertised. Not sure dd would have dared ask for it

The worst present we bought was one of those hot wheels tracks in the shape of a dinosaur. We got it the year we had Christmas at my ILs where the family traditions is that children get up early and rip into their presents on their own. By the time we got up it was already broken! I was very very pissed off.

It's only $89 today at Target nooka. Still sold out, though.

I'm coming back to the UK for Christmas. I feel a business idea coming on...

Oh gosh, no. Looks terribly flimsy

I got off lightly. DD only asked for Snow Glow Elsa, which I got in September for 30 quid, thanks to the christmas bargain threads.

I love Frozen and so does DD, but it's getting ridiculous. We were in town Christmas shopping today, and even the shop windows have giant Olafs/Elsas painted on them. They aren't even toy shops- shoe shops, butchers etc.

And everything which has Frozen on it is a good few pounds dearer than the alternatives, crap quality too. Tesco has these awful Frozen hat and glove sets for a tenner, made of that ultra cheap staticy fleece, but they have gorgeous soft teddy fabric sets for three pounds less!

Not sure how many you could get in your suitcase MrsTP! I'd love to be coming back to the UK for Christmas, haven't spent one with my mother for six years now :(

Oh nooka. I can't fit you in my suitcase with all the Frozen castles. Otherwise I would...

Oh I'm not after a pity fest! It was our choice to emigrate after all, I just wish that flights weren't so incredibly expensive (or that we were a lot richer!).

I'm stunned that it costs £120. Yanbu.

Could her dad or stepdad make her one?

When I was a kid I was desperate for a Sindy house & my mum was having none of it.

She did however, build me a much better one out of chipboard, complete with carpet, wallpaper, staircases and a rooftop garden .

nooka . I like a good pity party.

Thanks for the suggestions.

We already have two lovely doll houses - a handmade elaborate grown up one that was given to my daughter for her first Christmas by a wonderful now-departed family friend (DD was 6 days old at the time!) and a lovely wooden one from my mum that probably cost a bomb.

Both are played with less than the cardboard castle that she bought herself from a carboot last year

YANBU it looks horrendous, and cheap to produce.

Haven't read the entire thread but in my youth I worked in a toy shop, and all the toys that were being advertised on television were at least 3 times more expensive than their real value. And the poor parents just came in and asked for them regardless of price or quality.

My son asked for the Simpsons Lego house.

I almost told him to fuck off (I didn't, I'm not that bad a mum).

But I did tell him Santa doesn't buy big presents like that. £180 - not fucking likely!!!!

m.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Construction/Lego-The-Simpsons-House-71006/0107982

I expected the frozen castle to be around $150 here, (Australia) so In looked it up & it is $119.00 which is around 65gbp!

First time I have ever known anything to be cheaper here toywise!

Wouldn't buy it.

A wish list is exactly that!

omg it does not even look like its worth that much. if it had lots of things to do with it came with lots of bits. looked chunky not like its going to break in 10 mins then maybe. but it just looks like it would break so easy.

Anyone could do a Shit stick a frozen sticker on it and sell it for a few quid. In Tesco we saw some frozen tops that obviously looked like they had been lying around and someone stuck a frozen transfer on. They were being sold for twice as much as other tops.

It's expensive but if I was a little girl I'd LOVE it. Sorry.

Make your own together with your daughter. We did. Loads of blue paint and glitter on a shoe box. Use the lid to make opening doors and tubes for turrets. Lots more fun and inexpensive.