To think Grimms Rainbow is the wankiest toy?

[NapQueen]

60 quid?!?!?!

For ten ish curves of wood painted in each of the rainbow colours. For a small child. To no doubt try to shove up their nose or wedge down the loo.

www.babipur.co.uk/grimms-rainbow-twelve.html

I do not understand how this item is worth anywhere near 60 quid, and it has got to bw something the parents buy to try and win cred or something?

I might take a punt and buy one, if it doesn't get played with then it looks easy to sell on!

I agree Laurie. I think it's a beautiful piece that has been handcrafted with care and love. Hence the high price. I would have no problem spending that kind of money IF my dcs had lots of creative fun playing with it. We bought dd2 a revolting ninja turtles lair once which cost about the same and despite wanting it for months she hardly played with it. When it came to selling it, no one wanted it so we sent it to a charity shop. I expect it's now in landfill.

I would bet my bottom dollar that the Grimm Rainbows will be selling second hand on eBay for at least half their original selling price.

They sell for just under retail second hand, they hold their value.

Tempted to get my son one for his first birthday now I've read this

I can recommend the Legler one linked earlier for £15. Unfortunately ours has barely had any interest and is just a nice ornament. They are thicker than the Grimms and properly painted so I think more durable. Five Little Diamonds have a lovely pastel version very similar too.

mulberry the reason Grimms are far superior is because they are stained not painted, the paint makes them slippy so you can't stack them the same, and that's mostly the point of it.

I also think you probably can't do much with the small ones though so if just for ornamental purposes there isn't point in overpaying.

I think if I'd given wooden toys to my boys they'd have hit each other with them. They were much more interested in plastic crap like Transformers and the like.

We have one and my children love it BUT I don't feel the quality justifies the £60 price tag. Ours is mank and bashed and it's really hard to clean. Also bought the semi-circles, now THOSE are shit.

Forgot to add, the holztigers are amazing. They are the most played with toys in our house and we've got loads of them, and I love them. I imagine my great-grandchildren playing with them one day.

Shemozzle with the size of the Legler one there are only so many stacking combos and the paint doesn't prevent me (or child ) making any of them. It could be an issue if they made a 12pc size.

Pumperthepumper if you think Holztiger are amazing you should look at Ostheimer. they are very simular, but Ostheimer is slightly more expensive.

I know about Ostheimer and their toys are lovey but we'd already started the holztiger collection by the time I found them and I wanted them all to match. They're a lot sleeker than the holztiger, I love them too.

The more I look at these the more I want them can't afford to be spending £60 on toys right now, though. I'm still in love with a chimeabout from the children's centre so if I had £60 to spend on a toy, it would be that.

I'm waiting for these to come back in stock so I can buy one i love it if the baby won't play with it I will

You can do quite a bit with the small ones too. Great for when you are dining out or on holiday.

Just received mine ready for my sons first birthday and I'm so excited!! They are just beautiful. Sorry op but you're wrong!

DD got the smaller one for her first birthday from some people who I think only buy toys from Myriad. They gave a wooden teether from there when she was born, and the red stain went all over the bloody place. I do like the rainbow - I've enjoyed balancing it in different ways, and DD likes it, but it's not any more inspiring than any other toy - she'll happily spend just as long wandering around with a muslin on her head, or bashing a spoon on stuff.

I don't get a lot of it - why would you have wooden stacking bowls that cost a fortune when plastic stacking cups are light and compact enough to take anywhere, and are great fun in the bath, at the beach, in the garden...

I think this tool set is particularly crap.

www.babipur.co.uk/grimm-s-little-coloured-toolbox.html

DD has one like this that you can actually use

www.mothercare.com/accessories/melissa-and-doug-take-along-tool-kit/142091.html

Except it was my mothercare one from 30 years ago and it still looks brand new. I can see it lasting for her kids at this rate. The Grimms one will stain everything if a teething toddler chews it, or bangs it on a wall, and is only really good as a prop, not for actual motor skills. I call wooden tat.

I think some of the block sets are lovely, but you don't get many pieces, which limits what you can build. DD has also had hours of fun with my old plastic tea set and various noisy toys I know some friends think are ghastly, but have been well worth it so far and should be for a while yet.

God, that toolbox (the first one) is seriously crap . Forty five quid!!

Isn't it!

I don't really understand Grimms - if they just made a few really good things I'd think fair enough, even if they were all quite pricy. But some of the stuff is definitely wooden tat.

basket I think the same about wooden vs plastic animals. We have a huge collection of plastic ones as I used to tell my eldest she could choose one plastic animal from the zoo shop when we visited, this habit grew to other gift shops and also charity shops and car boots. It was a way of saving money but meant we ended up with a massive plastic animal collection that has been played with by all the kids and visiting kids. They are played with in the sand pit and bath. I bought some wooden holztiger ones at one point and they were ignored. I do think plastic is an advantage sometimes for those reasons. They don't go mouldy in water. I do wish I'd made it a Schleich collection though.

But it doesn't have to be one or the other though, you don't have to have ALL wood or ALL plastic. The rainbow was a unique thing, there's alternatives now but we bought ours a while ago when there weren't. My kids also have plastic bath stuff and outdoor toys because that makes sense. They love Lego and duplo, they also love the holztiger in a way that they don't love the paw patrol junk. It's a balance, I think.

Shemozzle I had loads of ELC animals that DD has now. Schleich ones are lovely, though! The wooden ones aren't really suited to little ones, and I had much younger siblings and we played with them outside, in the bath - I think we topped a couple of cakes with them at one point.

I like the rainbow, too Pumper. And the building blocks - I'd buy 1001 nights ones if I didn't have 1001 other things I need more.

But I find a lot of their other stuff a bit crap, and don't think it's been designed with kids in mind, as they're not really that suitable for the age group you'd actually buy them for. The rainbow and the blocks are also a one off purchase, and I'd hope to be able to save them for the next generation as well. But some of their products really only work if you have a lot of them, and others are just not that great - the toolboxes, and the 'natural' blocks, and the clothes pegs that would definitely stain everything they touch.

Mainly I just find the wood is good, plastic is tat attitude a bit annoying, and I know a lot of people in RL who seem to resent the fact that their kids don't like the toys they want them to!

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