Product Review: Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center

I have to admit, I should have known better when I saw the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center on sale this summer at Target. Regularly priced at $50, I found the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center for $25, which looked like a steal for a learning toy like this.

It was just too good to be true.

Fisher Price has a great reputation for building great toys (before all of this recent recall business), so I figured that I might as well pick up a few of these toys to give out as gifts. After all, what kid isn't looking for a toy that offers what the Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center has - learning games combined with a fun keyboard.

Once I got home, I looked the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center up online and started rethinking my decision. I read review after review that said that the Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center didn't work properly. Something about the clock and learning tools not functioning. I thought to myself: "These people just don't know how to make it work. It's by Fisher Price - I can make this thing work."

WRONG!

I put the Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center together, following 8 long steps of directions. Finally, when it was time to try it out, the clock and learning center just didn't work, but the loud piano did. Of course, the kids loved to hear the keyboard system repeat "it's time to kick the beat" over and over again. I just wanted them to actually be able to use the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center to actually learn something.

So, I called Fisher Price and they admitted that there was a design flaw in earlier models, which mine happened to be (of course, because it was on sale). They sent me some updated parts, and after taking things apart and putting them back together again, the learning parts of the Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center still didn't work. Another call to Fisher Price and now I have to send parts back to them in order to receive a new Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center.

At this point, I'm waiting for my new parts to see if the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center really works. I have to say, the Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center design seems a little off as the clock part has to fit just right into the desk portion in order to make the learning pieces of this toy work (I'm an engineering nerd, what can I say). Even if the kids don't learn from the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn Preschool Center, the parents can definitely learn something: think twice before buying clearance toys ... there's probably a reason that it's on sale.