Does your Father Christmas assemble complicated toys in advance...

[santaslittleunicorn]

or leave them in the boxes, to be assembled later by mummy/daddy?

FC delivers unwrapped, assembled, batteries in and ready to go!!!

Fisher Price Kitchen was assembled a couple of days beforehand ... thankfully I had the foresight as it took over 2 hours ....

Having made the mistake one year, present come ready assembled.

Assembled, saves constant whinging on xmas day and inevitable screwdriver rage

Not assembled, got to keep dh busy on Xmas morning!

Assembled, often Playmobil types start at 11 pm and finish around 3am...Im not joking

Some assembled, and often he is kind enough to have opened the boxes and remove the tags, etc from the toys too. And he remembers batteries

Don't often bother to pre-assemble although do sometimes at birthdays. Depends what it is really.

Surely half the fun of Playmobil is the 3 hours assembly time - Christmas would n't be Christmas in our house without it ! (anyone know if much required for the Grande Mansion or Rock Castle btw !)

How can the fisher price kitchen take two hours... aghast

ahhh...
will have to get our Father Christmas to assembel.....

but is it still wrapped??

When I was a kid FC didn't only not assemble, he usually left prices on and sometimes half-way through the afternoon, after we had been ent to kitchen to "tidy", other pressies would miracously appear!!!!

FC usually pissed on Christmas Eve!!!!!

depends on the age of the child IMO............spent last night building smoby kitchen for dd2's gift. bloody hell, -1,000 bits and two hours later....... really glad I did it now. (is now stashed under stairs BTW) also HATE stupid wirey stuff they put round my little ponies and barbie type things so will take that off too. shes only two ffs, she just wants to open it and go play, not wait three hours for right screwdriver etc etc.
bigger children like the building part so leave it all for them and dad to do.

No children yet but remember Christmas's of unassembled present and Father Christmas forgetting the necessary batteries!!!!

B*er !! Guess who does the stickers in this house !!!

which girls !?

Thanks for the tip dramqueen - got the Smoby kitchen for DS today!

Did wonder should I assemble before hand. As if I haven't enough to do!

The toys are all made by industrious elves aren't they? So they always come assembled. Honestly.

Yes he assembles most things here and also has plenty of batteries already in them.

oh, I see. No girls in this house yet - just a collection of pirates, macho builders and rescue men, lol !

budababe _ i wish you luck then..knew it wasnt a 5 minute job when everything was labelled 'a-z' and THEN 'AA' 'BB' etc I've never seen so many bits liad out before me, worse than any flat pack wardrobe...it is very nice built tho.

we are making up dd1's tricycle and putting together the sandpit pooly thing Christmas eve - ready for them to come down and play with.