Comments on: Review: Mrs. Goodbee Talking Dollhouse

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:12:48 +0000

One more comment – I concur with previous posters in that the face is creepy. WHY does everything have to have a face these days? The little toy kitchens have faces on the refrigerator and the toy phones have a face. Why? Why? I don’t like household objects looking at me LOL…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:10:23 +0000

My biggest concern with the Mrs. Goodbee dollhouse is one of your biggest advantages – all the built-in furniture and decor and whatnot. It leaves very little for the imagination. I mean, if you are on a very strict budget, I could see how this might be a good value for what you could get for $70, but I see a dollhouse as an investment toy – one that my 3 year old will play with now and for years to come and if it is well made, one that my grandkids will play with. I can’t see Mrs. Goodbee fitting that bill. Future plans aside though, when you have furniture and decor attached to the wall like that, there is very little flexibility. Each room’s purpose is clearly defined and like I said – no room for imagination or even for much rearranging within the room itself. When I have observed my neighbor’s daughter and my sons playing with her dollhouse, at least half if not more of the time they spend in placing and rearranging furniture and rooms. Mrs. Goodbee takes all this fun away. Certainly playing with the dolls is fun and creative too, but I really value (as do my children i’ve observed) the flexibility of less structured dollhouses. For some people, as you’ve said, who don’t mind pink plastic monstrosities, maybe the Loving Family house will fit the bill. For my neighbor it was an unfinished wood dollhouse from the craft store that they painted and filled with a mish mash of Loving Family, IKEA, Dora, and other furniture and dolls that they found at thrift stores or on sale (also an economical option I might add). Our plans this Christmas are to get a dollhouse for my daughter and after lots of research, we are going with something sturdy and wooden and will probably end up with a mish mash of accessories like my neighbor.

By: Nani

Nani — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:15:26 +0000

A follow up to my earlier review:
I returned Mrs Goodbee and bought the Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouse…the super or deluxe set. Wow what a difference! It’s designed much better..perfect! First of all it’s huge!The rooms are wide and deep and hold many pieces of furniture and accesories! The dolls are a little bigger and actually stand and sit without falling! I could go on and on about its many wonderful features…it has music and lights too! The Family Van has four wide doors that open, a radio and working horn! I honestly suggest checking it out…and highly recommend buying it! Your little ones will get years of play out of it!! Parents and Grandparents too :)

By: Nani

Nani — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:32:08 +0000

As adorable as this dollhouse is, I find it annoyingly “tipsy”…..stand a figure up….it falls down! Try to sit a figure on the bunkbeds, at the table, on the swing, at the edge of the double bed…..good luck! they fall! Put the boy on his skooter…Ha! forget it. And the rooms are so narrow….put the kitchen table in there and it fills the entire area….the whole thing is just designed poorly for little kids to manage. Anybody else agree?

By: anjii

anjii — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:31:07 +0000

This has deepened my desire to add a daughter to our family of me, hubby and two boys… seriously, I WANT this dollhouse!!! Too bad hubby would never let me buy this one for the boys… I’m still looking for one that’s “cool” and gender neutral enough to pass his test. But don’t fault him too much for his macho tendencies. He didn’t put up TOO much fuss when Wyatt opened his gifts from my mother-in-law two years ago to find a boy baby doll and a navy blue, pooh bear themed stroller/playpen/highchair/carseat set (that I had handpicked while shopping with her), despite the flowers and butterflies on it ;)

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:21:25 +0000

You can buy a dark skin/black hair girl doll and a tan skin/brown hair girl doll, but not a complete family, so yes, there’s room for improvement there.

The children are 4 inches tall and the mother is 5.5 inches tall, which gives you a size reference if you’d like to use non-Goodbee dolls with the house.

By: addy

addy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:06:11 +0000

interesting review I also am a bit put off by the face…I find it kind of creepy. Reminds me of a horror movie…you know talking house helpful at first then offs you in your sleep…besides that just wondered if it comes in ethnic versions for the dolls or just caucasian. thanks

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:18:48 +0000

Wow, really? I thought it was what really sets Goodbee apart. Maybe I’m tainted from my Barbie dollhouse experience, but I love the colors and composition.

Oh, that’s one more thing I hate about the Fisher-Price house. Someone dumped a can of pink over it. When a toy maker plasters pink on a girl’s product it tells me that probably not much thought went into making it.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:03:52 +0000

I’ve walked by Goodbee many times in Target and I continue to think the face on the house is a little creepy.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:52 +0000

Christy, Mrs. Goodbee offers a whole lot more for the same price range.

1) Mrs. Goodbee has the auditory praise/advice and sound effects. Near as I can figure, Fisher-Price has none of that. Right there, it makes them entirely different products.

2) Mrs. Goodbee has 12 rooms instead of 8.

3) Fisher-Price is an empty house, except for two chairs and two cribs. Goodbee comes with features attached to the walls, a kitchen, bathroom, family room with fireplace, computer workstation, etc. And some of those inset features have moving parts (a fridge that opens, etc.). There are also some in-room 3D objects — a rockable crib, a sliding door, a bench swing, bunk beds, etc.

4) Fisher-Price default dolls include Mom, Dad and twins. Goodbee includes daughter, baby and puppy. Yeah, Goodbee could use some additional dolls.

5) Fisher-Price’s empty house pretty much looks like you need to buy a lot of expansion kits to have a usable space. If you don’t buy any Goodbee furniture, you still have inset furniture that makes the house a home.

6) Amazon sells Goodbee for $70, $80 at Toys R Us. Fisher-Price sells for $70 at Toys R Us. You may be looking at more expensive Fisher-Price sets that include furniture, and to that I’d say, yeah, well, you can buy furniture for Goodbee too, but you don’t need to.