Mega Pyramid Monkey Bars Climbing Tower Active Outdoor Fun for Kids Ages 3 to 8 Years Old, Blue/Green

Third edit, we've had this about 2.5 years. My kids are 5 and 3 now and there's rarely a day that they're not climbing on it. It's still in our living room. It's never broke or tipped over. I have not been able to get apart. We are moving and can't take it with us but the top square does unscrew and pops off. So now it fits out our regular sized front door and we are going to give it our friends kids. If I can give the product more stars I would. Second Edit. I'm upgrading from 3 to 5 stars I've had this for 3 months and the boys still play with it all day long. It helps keep my rowdy toddlers from climbing on everything else in the house. I highly recommend one of these. Especially for indoor use. (Edit: I'm upgrading 1 star to 3 stars. I have a 3yr who has been playing on this thing nonstop the past week. The top part is a little wobbly but after letting him go crazy on it. I'm pretty sure it's not going come apart. I'd like to have given it a 5 star rating, but I can't take it apart, my thumbs still hurt from putting it together a week ago. If I move I'll probably have to cut it to pieces, but I would buy it again and suffer through putting it together.) I got this so I can easily put it up tare it down. I am pretty sure that I got defective parts. The button thing that click on to the poles are so hard to push. If you want to take this apart. Don't buy this. If you do buy my advice is to check every joint before you start. If they don't push down. Return this item. Because once you have a few pieces together that are extremely difficult to push down they are not coming off and you'll never get it to fit back in the box. Anyway I got it all together in about 2-3 hours. Now I have finished I'm very upset that the top part doesn't feel very sturdy. 4 screws go into the top part and it is still wobbly. If I could return it. I would. But I'm going to try to salvage it by removing the top square. The rest seems sturdy.

This is a really great toy. I'm using is in my living room for my 3 yr old grandson. He loves it to climb and make forts. It was frustrating to try and find any tips and tricks on assembly. I read about a lot of people mentioning that it hurt their thumbs....RULE #1 for assembling this: DO NOT USE YOUR THUMBS TO PRESS DOWN THE PINS !!!!!! That being said, you can use your hands to pop in the bottom rim. For some reason the metal spring in these are much "softer" which was surprising. However, the springs in the rest of them are VERY tight hence the reason for the difficult getting these in the tubes. My solution was to use a tool I had called iSesamo genuine Spudger Opening Pry Tool which is used for assisting in computer repair. It's a very slim piece of metal. Was it perfect, no; the tool could have been a little narrower for the job but ultimately, it worked well and helped so much for a quick assembly. What I did was slide the tube into the joiner almost up to the point of the pin and then slide the point of the spudger in between the tube and the pin then flatten the spudger against the pin to depress the pin as you slide the tube onto the joiner. Be careful not to catch your finger as you slide the tube in unless you like blood blisters :( Once you have this trick down, the assembly will go smoothly. I did make a few mistakes by installing a tube on the wrong part of the joiner. I used the disassembly tool which definitely does the job by pushing the pins back down so you can pull the tube back off. It is a little tricky to like it up right. There is a slot/groove which lines up one pin but you have to peek under the cover to make sure it is lined up correctly...that's the whole trick. Once it's lined up, the pins will easily depress and the tube will release from the joiner. I had to look at the picture of it listed on Amazon a few times to make sure i was using the right colored tubes (as I got the 2-tone set) when you first put together the 5 tubes on the joiner, put 2 dark green tubes on the bottom. You will know which is the bottom based upon the faint writing on the joiner which has an arrow showing which side is up. I'm half blind so I needed a flashlight and my readers. Not a big deal really. Lastly, at the very end of finishing the dome, it does get very tight and almost impossible to get the tubes on the joiner. I had to actually put my foot against the structure to push it away enough to get the tube on it. I'm not a strong muscley person, so maybe a man would be able to do this part without such strain. A little nuance is required through the whole assembly but once you have your strategy down pat, it will go smoothly. Make sure to really be sure about what tube goes where because taking them back out does waste some time. Also pay attention to the letters on the joiner 'stubs' which are helpful for making sure you get the right tubes on them. Again I needed a flashlight and my glasses to see them. It did take me some time; but I was watching a show as I was doing which is probably why I made the few mistakes mentioned. But it was totally worth it. It's light enough to be able to move it when needed and strong enough for a child to climb all over it.

My daughter had one of these at her daycare and she loved playing on it so we decided to get it for our home. Installation: The process was a bit more difficult that you would expect but the directions were clear and materials were provided to help install. HOWEVER, there's a mechanism inside the tubes that can come loose and it is such a pain to get them back in their proper spot. My fingers were extremely sore after finishing the install and it took about 2+ hours altogether to get it up and running. After it was put together, our daughter has enjoyed playing on this thing since she was 1.5 yo. It seems to be pretty durable but will fade a bit in the sun. It's easy to clean, sturdy, and I feel safe with my daughter hanging on it and standing on it. Overall, it's a fun toy to have for our daughter. It's a bit on the pricey side and the install is quite a pain, but for us, it's been worth having and our daughter hasn't gotten bored of it.

This item comes fully disassembled so make sure you're handy enough to put this thing together. If you are comfortable putting together Ikea (flat pack) furniture, you will be just fine. No tools required but you might want to use a piece of wood or something to push down the black retention buttons. After a while, your finger will start to hurt and you will likely pinch your finger a few times as you slide the ends into the connectors. I just used the thicker end of a wooden door shim -- I could have used anything but I just happened to have a bag of shims laying around. The tool that comes with it to take it apart is fairly unusable. After fiddling with it for 2 minutes, I was able to disconnect one just to test it out. If you don't follow the instructions carefully, you'll have to take it apart and you might not have a pleasant time with that. If/when I need to take more pieces apart to move it, I plan to improvise and use something else like a wood clamp with a small dowel pressed into it (the dowel would stick out the same amount as the thickness of the tube). It would be wise to take some extra time and double check all the pieces. They are all labeled very well so there's no reason why you would mess up if you can follow basic instructions (e.g. pipe A goes into the connector that is labeled A). This is like a geodesic dome in that the rigidity and structural integrity comes from the dome shape. Consequently, towards the end of construction, you will need make sure you don't push in all the connectors fully because you will need the extra slack to get the ends of the final pieces in the connectors. Or, maybe you can just muscle it in. If this makes sense, you'll have no issues putting this thing together, especially as the ends get progressively harder as you finish the structure. If this doesn't make sense, you will probably spend an extra 30min towards the end but you'll eventually figure it out. The finished product is very sturdy. I'm a 170lbs grown man. As long as I distribute my weight evenly over multiple bars, I can put my full weight on it while hanging from the inside. I'm not sure about standing on it because one pipe probably won't support my weight. Again, this has to do with the inherent structural integrity of domes.

We have had this climber for 5 YEARS outside and it's still held up great!! The first winter we put it in the shed. Every other year it's been fully exposed to the elements. My kids are now 8, 6, and 4 and they all still climb all over it. It's a castle, a ship, a cage, whatever they are imagining it to be. I'm so impressed with how well it has held up!! I also have a one year old that I fully expect to be climbing on this next spring time. It was a pain to put together but after reading some tips from other commenters instead of trying blindly I had more success. I bought this is 2020 when COVID shut down the playgrounds. I am delighted my kids still love it! We moved twice and brought it with us each time. The color has obviously faded a bit but the fun and value we've gotten have been incredible. Welll worth the price!

I took the advice from other reviews and used a spoon to assemble, with that tip it was a very easy. Instructions were clear, it’s sturdy, lightweight/easy to move, fun colors, perfect size, and kids of all ages have fun on it. I think it’s definitely worth the price point. My only complaint is the tool to disassemble the tubes was impossible for me to get, but my husband got it fairly easy so it could have been user error, or just need very strong hand strength.

The assembly was not 30 mins for sure. Took me 90 mins and this was after I figured out a hack not to kill my thumbs pushing into those buttons on the connectors. I used thimbles on my work gloves. They work.

I don't like writing reviews, good or bad, but I felt strongly enough that I had to say something on this one. There are a few big problems with this product: (1) The small metal pins on the spokes that keep the tubes in place need to be depressed with your fingers during assembly, but they are extremely hard to depress because the metal is so unrelenting. So, it's literally painful on your hands and fingertips when you're trying to get the tubes onto the spoke pieces, and you're expected to do it over and over and over, destroying your fingers in the process. (2) The spokes and tubes look quite similar at a glance, and because there are a *lot* of them and they don't come pre-separated, unless you're paying *very* close attention with every connection you do, you're bound to make at least one mistake and you'll need to remove a tube from a spoke. Well, there's a tool included specifically for disassembly (because it's actually impossible to disassemble without it, otherwise you'll break a tube or spoke), but it's poorly designed and made from a really cheap grade of plastic. In fact, it's so cheap that even the manual says it can only be used for disassembly twice and that it should be thrown away after that because of the risk damaging things. But even that must be a best-case scenario, because I was only able to remove a few tubes before the tool couldn't get anything else off. Which left me with a product that could no longer be completely assembled. After reading more reviews, I saw that this has happened to a lot of other people as well. (3) Even if the assembly went well, the disassembly tool can only be used twice; the stated feature of being able to build this up and break it down to store isn't really true. So, in a way I'm thankful that I never got it fully assembled, because I'd be frustrated to no end if it came time to break it down and found out that it would be impossible midway through the process. I had to start a return for this since I couldn't even finish the assembly, and had to basically break a few pieces just to get everything back in the box since the disassembly tool stopped working. I can imagine that this would be a great product if you were able to assemble it without any mistakes and had no intention to ever disassemble it. Otherwise, this is a waste of your time and money. And my experience isn't unique. If you're still thinking about getting this, take the time to read more reviews where people are saying this exact scenario happened to them too.

Fácil de armar y muy resistente para niños pequeños

The climbing frame is really good for the little kids to build their confidence and skills. It was a little bit tricky to set up, and don't make a mistake because the tool to help you undo the poles from the joiners is not very good. It would have been great if they made bigger sizes and other shapes.

説明書が英語だが、わかりやすいので説明通りにやれば女性一人でもサクサク組み立てられる。 ただ間違えた時に取り外すのが固くて大変。 子供が遊ぶ遊具だから固くて当たり前なのだが、繋げるパーツひとつひとつがとても硬い。 なので間違えないために説明書通りにやるのが大切。

I sent this to my Grandkids for Christmas in Alberta and I live in Toronto. The kids absolutely love it! They didn't want to wait so they put it together in the basement until it gets warmer outside to play on. It's strong and durable but takes a little time to put together, after all would you want to put your kids on something that assembles in minutes? The ages are 4,3 and 1-1/2. Of course the 1 1/2 just hangs with help but has a ball! The only injury was my Grandson accidently raising is foot up and hitting my Granddaughter in the head. Mom and Dad make rules now. Their Mom says "Without a doubt one of the best gifts the kids ever received" They get hours of fun on it and they never get bored of it.

Nos encantó el juego. Mis nietos están felices y queremos saber si existe una extensión para ampliarlo.