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I ordered the butterfly birthday party table and party accessories from AGPNY and they came last night. I thought the table would be plastic but it's gorgeous, all wood! Love the cushions, too. I could not BELIEVE what Mattel is passing off as food, though. The two tier birthday cake is actually two cardboard hatboxes with no attempt to make them look like they're frosted. The cupcakes are plastic and a weird color, with no detail in the frosting part at all. Totally revolting. Think blue bathtub in cupcake size. I'm sending them back ASAP! Compared to the food for the Historicals, this stuff doesn't even meet Toys R Us standards!
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Wow Cherry! Thanks for the food review!!! That is not good what AG is doing with their food details. But I am glad you liked the table!
Go to Toys R Us and pick up some food for the girls! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Thank you so much for letting us know. I was suspicious of the cake, but I was hoping it was one of those things that looks better in person. How very sad. I have been hoping for some great new Today food and dishes. Did you get the tableware set or the new Birthday outfit?
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that's really disappointing about the cake. I like that spongy type texture that all the other food items have, like Samantha's sandwich, cookie and especially her egg, it's so lifelike.
Very surprised also on the table which is good news. I think from the color of it, I assumed that it was plastic, so good to hear that at least it's wood. How is it for size?
Laurie
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Cherry:
thanks so much for posting your review. I am disappointed with the food details. I just ordered them from AG and they have not arrived yet. I was really hoping the cake would be good as DD loves to have little parties for her doll. I guess if it is really that bad I can order the samantha bridesmaid acess for the cake for DD.
Lara
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The table is a nice size -- oval! I plan to paint mine all black and will probably order another. The cushions are also a good size. I haven't "doll tested" them yet because I was saving them to surprise Choko this weekend. (She's my Gotz oriental girl.)
I forgot to mention that the cake server is really hideous, cheap gold-colored plastic, too. Nothing like Felicity's pretty glass one. Not even the same quality plastic as the cake server that came with the pretend birthday cake I bought put out by Playdough!
I took a good look at the place settings and realized that the pitcher is the same one as the aluminum pitcher in the first AGT birthday party cookout set. I have several of those already. I think the glasses may be clear version reruns from that first set, too, and since they didn't include any flatware, I decided not to order it. Now I'm glad I didn't.
What blows me away is that the birthday cake is literally two cardboard round boxes. Not just cardboard, which would be bad enough. They are actually boxes, with lids that come off. Even little girls who thought the bathtub was cute would notice that this cake is made out of boxes with lids, wouldn't they?
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The table is a nice size -- oval! I plan to paint mine all black and will probably order another. The cushions are also a good size. I haven't "doll tested" them yet because I was saving them to surprise Choko this weekend. (She's my Gotz oriental girl.)
I forgot to mention that the cake server is really hideous, cheap gold-colored plastic, too. Nothing like Felicity's pretty glass one. Not even the same quality plastic as the cake server that came with the pretend birthday cake I bought put out by Playdough!
I took a good look at the place settings and realized that the pitcher is the same one as the aluminum pitcher in the first AGT birthday party cookout set. I have several of those already. I think the glasses may be clear version reruns from that first set, too, and since they didn't include any flatware, I decided not to order it. Now I'm glad I didn't.
What blows me away is that the birthday cake is literally two cardboard round boxes. Not just cardboard, which would be bad enough. They are actually boxes, with lids that come off. Even little girls who thought the bathtub was cute would notice that this cake is made out of boxes with lids, wouldn't they?
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Sakurako,
You confirmed my suspicions. I didn't think the birthday stuff looked like good quality. Well now I know for sure. And it's too bad that you didn't find anything wrong with the table [img]frown.gif[/img] . I was hoping that somebody would say that it was cheap and hideous so I wouldn't get the urge to buy it.
See what you have done now! Now I am going to NEED to buy it. [img]mad.gif[/img]
Poor me [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]
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I'm sorry to hear the Birthday set is not up to standard. I don't like the idea of a cardboard cake, they could break easily if girls aren't careful. You could have a pancake in a couple of second if you don't watch it and accidentally sit on the cake.
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I really don't like the idea of cake as little boxes, but little girls might actually like that. Just trying to see their logic in this.
Laurie
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Not to belabor this, because obviously SOMEONE liked this set or it wouldn't have sold out so fast on the original day it was listed. And I'm picky about the food I serve my girls. But I just talked to a PS at AGPNY and she wrote down why I didn't like the set -- particularly how disappointed I was with the cake. Maybe they won't do this again if they get enough feedback?
The comparison was even worse because Lindy sent me a very old Molly's birthday cake that I've been wanting for a long time and it came in the same mail. So there was this perfectly gorgeous cake with real looking chocolate icing and fluted decorative icing all around the edges, sitting on the table next to a pale cardboard hatbox. I know Thomas Wolfe said You Can't Go Home Again, but the difference in Then and Now made me want to cry.
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Laurie,
I was trying to see the logic too. I thought maybe it was a storage thing, but I'm not sure how many of the other peices would fit in the cake/boxes. And I really don't know how well that would go over with kids.
