Le Van Toy “wooden” MDF toys

[carriebrett999]

Anyone else totally feeling missold having bought a “wooden” toy only to find its 90% MDF? £65 for a Le Van Toy farmyard and one month post Christmas, bits are already coming off. I’ve wooden Plan Toys items that have lasted years of “spirited” play........so was expecting better from Le Van Toy. AIBU?

Quality of their products has gone down massively. I stopped buying their stuff. Older stuff indestructible. Newer stuff doesn't stand up to any bashing

What? They are MDF? No way!!!!

So: the retailer clarified.......there’s apparently a difference between a “wood” toy and a “wooden” toy.....the latter being perfectly acceptable to be made of something that once may have been wood but was then reconstituted and anything you like added. There was me naively assuming wooden was, well, made of wood!

John Crane wood / wooden toys are far superior to Le toy van. We had a Le Toy Van double decker bus, lasted 6 months after repeated repairs. The Jon Crane fire engine lasted years (3 boys), even after being rode on repeatedly. Ended up taking that one to a charity shop.

I'd expect anything wood/wooden to be soild wood.