AquaPlay Mountain Lake Water Playset

Little pricey, but good outdoor toy for the littles. Great way to let them cool off.

Item arrived complete with no missing pieces. It shipped in its own packaging, with no second shipping box, but the packaging seem suitable for this purpose. It took me about 45 minutes to put together, at a “taking my time” pace. Most of that was putting the 26 water seal strips on the connecting pieces. After that, it was just a matter of snapping it together. It did not come with much in terms of instructions so i just looked at the picture on the box to guide me. In terms of play value for my four year old, it seems ok. He like playing with the water pump. This toy would be a lot of fun for two kids playing together but so far he is having fun by himself, using a lot of self-talking and imagination. The pieces are high quality plastic. The pump needs some better security, it often comes out when pumping too hard. The bridges just sit there and come off if you look at them too hard. Things like the trees, flag, and flow controller come off wasily and will need to be glued into place. The flow paddle thing does not seem to move the water much. The pump suffers from two issues. First, it comes out of its base too easily. I will probably glue it in to prevent that. The other is that it is hard to get to because you have to reach over the outermost waterway in sort of an awkward fashion. After he is done playing, I will experiment with connecting the waterway in a different configuration to eliminate this issue. We will see how it goes. Overall, I am not sorry I got this. I think $80 is eather high for what you get. $40 would be a lot more reasonable, $50 at the outside. It is now April. If this keeps his interest all summer, inwould bump it up a star.