Karla, I would say the cottage is better, the magnetic room is quite heavy, but it's smaller. The cottage is like the scenes and settings and have a "door" and you can put the kitchen, parlor and room sets at the same time for play (you open it like on the pics from AG catalogs), with the magnetic room you have to choose which room you want and change the floor and the magnetic things on the walls.

I love Angelina and her stuff, am waiting for the bedroom to arrive, bought it more than two months ago and am beggining to worry about it...