I received a Fisher-Price City Skyway for free as a product trial thanks to Fisher-Price and BzzAgent. My daughter turned 2 right around the time we received it, so we decided to give it to her as a birthday gift. She loves it. One of her favorite things to do is fill the cars up with gas. She seems to understand that they need a fill-up before going down the ramp - very cute.
At first, my daughter was frustrated that she couldn’t predict or choose which path the car would take on the way down (she’d say “I want THIS one!”), but now she likes that it’s different every time. She is learning her colors, and I love that each ramp is a different color, so we can say “it came out the orange one!” etc. Another thing my daughter enjoys is the gate at the bottom. She loves to sit on one side, and push the cars through to me on the other side.
The City Skyway comes with two cars and I believe you can purchase more. My daughter enjoys putting anything she can fit down the ramps, and I know she is learning by doing that - things with wheels go, things without them don’t. I do wish that some of her other car and truck toys fit down the ramps.
The “realistic crane” doesn’t do much, but we use it to store one of the cars when she isn’t playing with it. There is another shelf/parking space to store the other car. But if you’re planning to purchase more than the two cars the City Skyway comes with, there won’t be anywhere on the toy to store them.
One thing I found strange is that the pretend sidewalk at the base of the Skyway has litter on it! There’s an apple core, pieces of mail, a spilled ice cream cone, and even a broken camera. I suppose that is realistic, but I found it odd. There are other cute things, like a sidewalk chalk drawing and dog footprints. All of this is just on the plastic sidewalk base - so the attention to detail is something, even if some of the detail is garbage.
Putting it together: My husband and father-in-law put the Skyway together. It took about 30 minutes. It wasn’t as easy as we thought it would be, but they enjoyed it. There are 44 steps on the instructions, with pictures. My advice: DO NOT put the pieces together without reading the directions. My husband decided to just start snapping together pieces that had the same numbers on them, not realizing they had to sort of wrap around the base structure before being snapped. So don’t do that (or don’t let your husband do it!).
Also, once the Skyway goes together, it doesn’t come apart easily. This means that it does take up quite a bit of room. Yes, the actual floor foot print is only 13” x 18” but the roads stick out about 6” on either side of that, and, as I’m sure you know, this thing is more than 3 feet tall. Just something to keep in mind if you’re tight on space.
That said, my daughter is just the right height for this right now, and we look forward to playing with it for quite awhile. Here is a picture of her enjoying her birthday present!
I also posted this review on Amazon. You can buy the Fisher-Price City Skyway here.
