Barbie® & The Diamond Castle Playset (Doll & Pet)

This is an awesome toy. The colors are bright and pretty. It is 3 stories! And it is huge. VERY EASY TO PUT TOGETHER... Just snap, snap, snap. My daughter, who is 6, loves this thing and so does her older sister who I thought was too old for Barbies. If you can find one of these, it is a great toy. (The stairs stick out a little from the side of the house so you have to allow extra room for them) Overall it is great!

Educational value? Creativity. Durability? Not so much. However, the colors are pretty and my daughter absolutely loves this house! It didn't take too long to assemble (I think she'd argue that), but overall, I'd recommend this toy if your child is into play houses and/or barbie.

I actually really don't care about the fun and educational values of this toy at this point any more - our four-year old wanted it and, at $69.99 or $99.99, for a short time we considered allowing it to occupy half of the play room. That was about a month ago. Needless to say, it disappeared from Target and ToysRus, and the Amazom price started to climb.
At the current $399.99 one would have to take out some kind of Barbie mortgage to buy this playset...
Now that real housing market has gone to dogs, are we moving into fantasy world to bankrupt that too?!

Once again, like the horse and carriage, Amazon's price is either a mistake or really high. You can purchase this at Target for $[...]. My three girlies love Barbie and the Diamond Castle and for my oldest (6) this is all she requested from Santa. She does like to play with the house, but she prefers the Pegasus and all the Barbies over the Castle.

Purchased for my neice. Easy to stetup. Not her favorite toy yet, but looks like fun for little girls.