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What's up With the Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks Review on Amazon?

My baby (Bam Bam Squirrel, my stepdaughter has named him) will be busting into the world shortly after Valentine's day 2010, and I want to make sure he has some great educational toys.  Something I read at Amazon has convinced me to slough off the Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks gift idea.

What made my decision?  A review about toxicity.

Now I know that Fisher Price is Numero Uno in the Kids' Toys department, especially for children's toys (although maybe Playskool cuts a close second.  Or maybe Playskool is first.  What the heck?  It's neck and neck.)  But they screwed up on this one.

I'm not saying that Fisher Price toys are toxic.  But if you'll read the review, you'll see that there was a warning on the Amazon.com product page for the abovementioned infant toy.  (It is currently the most recent review.)

The review goes on to mention the reviewer's efforts to get to the bottom of this once he noticed the toxicity notice was taken away.  Just click to read the Baby's First Blocks Review.

Now to me, this really didn't look like a horrible toy.  I know how educational a shapes toy can be for young developing minds.  And like all good educational gifts for the little ones, it comes in multi-color mode.

But I know my kid's going to be chewing on it, and if there's even a hint of toxicity--well, I'd rather my kid just chew on some old dog gristle.

That's the problem of running a toy review blog, sometimes.  You see an award-winning toy (literally award-winning) by a trusted manufacturer and you want to review it on your blog because you know it'll make people happy, and make yourself a little money.

But I can't in good conscience promote something that might be toxic--even if the warning was somehow in error (as the review says that Amazon and FP are trying to imply).

Plus, if I sent parents off to buy a toy that might be toxic, do you really think those people are ever going to want to buy anything through my links, ever, at all?  Probably not.  And I wouldn't either.

Someone recommended I promote the Fisher Price toy.  But instead, I figured I'd go with the Tolo Toys alternative, which is actually a sphere and probably better anyway (for reasons explained right here.)

About the Author

Want the inside, unvarnished truth about what'll make your kids happy Christmas morning--and what won't? Visit Karl's Top Christmas Toy blog at http://topchrismastoys.blogspot.com/ if you want to keep your kids happy. You can read Karl's toy review for an alternative, never-thought-toxic product right here: http://topchrismastoys.blogspot.com/2009/11/tolo-toys-rolling-ball-shape-sorter.html

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