Eezy Peezy Mega Pyramid Monkey Bars Climbing Tower Active Outdoor Fun for Kids Ages 3 to 8 Years Old, Blue/Green

This is a really great toy. I'm using is in my living room for my 3 yr old grandson. He loves it to climb and make forts. It was frustrating to try and find any tips and tricks on assembly. I read about a lot of people mentioning that it hurt their thumbs....RULE #1 for assembling this: DO NOT USE YOUR THUMBS TO PRESS DOWN THE PINS !!!!!! That being said, you can use your hands to pop in the bottom rim. For some reason the metal spring in these are much "softer" which was surprising. However, the springs in the rest of them are VERY tight hence the reason for the difficult getting these in the tubes. My solution was to use a tool I had called iSesamo genuine Spudger Opening Pry Tool which is used for assisting in computer repair. It's a very slim piece of metal. Was it perfect, no; the tool could have been a little narrower for the job but ultimately, it worked well and helped so much for a quick assembly. What I did was slide the tube into the joiner almost up to the point of the pin and then slide the point of the spudger in between the tube and the pin then flatten the spudger against the pin to depress the pin as you slide the tube onto the joiner. Be careful not to catch your finger as you slide the tube in unless you like blood blisters :( Once you have this trick down, the assembly will go smoothly. I did make a few mistakes by installing a tube on the wrong part of the joiner. I used the disassembly tool which definitely does the job by pushing the pins back down so you can pull the tube back off. It is a little tricky to like it up right. There is a slot/groove which lines up one pin but you have to peek under the cover to make sure it is lined up correctly...that's the whole trick. Once it's lined up, the pins will easily depress and the tube will release from the joiner. I had to look at the picture of it listed on Amazon a few times to make sure i was using the right colored tubes (as I got the 2-tone set) when you first put together the 5 tubes on the joiner, put 2 dark green tubes on the bottom. You will know which is the bottom based upon the faint writing on the joiner which has an arrow showing which side is up. I'm half blind so I needed a flashlight and my readers. Not a big deal really. Lastly, at the very end of finishing the dome, it does get very tight and almost impossible to get the tubes on the joiner. I had to actually put my foot against the structure to push it away enough to get the tube on it. I'm not a strong muscley person, so maybe a man would be able to do this part without such strain. A little nuance is required through the whole assembly but once you have your strategy down pat, it will go smoothly. Make sure to really be sure about what tube goes where because taking them back out does waste some time. Also pay attention to the letters on the joiner 'stubs' which are helpful for making sure you get the right tubes on them. Again I needed a flashlight and my glasses to see them. It did take me some time; but I was watching a show as I was doing which is probably why I made the few mistakes mentioned. But it was totally worth it. It's light enough to be able to move it when needed and strong enough for a child to climb all over it.

Third edit, we've had this about 2.5 years. My kids are 5 and 3 now and there's rarely a day that they're not climbing on it. It's still in our living room. It's never broke or tipped over. I have not been able to get apart. We are moving and can't take it with us but the top square does unscrew and pops off. So now it fits out our regular sized front door and we are going to give it our friends kids. If I can give the product more stars I would. Second Edit. I'm upgrading from 3 to 5 stars I've had this for 3 months and the boys still play with it all day long. It helps keep my rowdy toddlers from climbing on everything else in the house. I highly recommend one of these. Especially for indoor use. (Edit: I'm upgrading 1 star to 3 stars. I have a 3yr who has been playing on this thing nonstop the past week. The top part is a little wobbly but after letting him go crazy on it. I'm pretty sure it's not going come apart. I'd like to have given it a 5 star rating, but I can't take it apart, my thumbs still hurt from putting it together a week ago. If I move I'll probably have to cut it to pieces, but I would buy it again and suffer through putting it together.) I got this so I can easily put it up tare it down. I am pretty sure that I got defective parts. The button thing that click on to the poles are so hard to push. If you want to take this apart. Don't buy this. If you do buy my advice is to check every joint before you start. If they don't push down. Return this item. Because once you have a few pieces together that are extremely difficult to push down they are not coming off and you'll never get it to fit back in the box. Anyway I got it all together in about 2-3 hours. Now I have finished I'm very upset that the top part doesn't feel very sturdy. 4 screws go into the top part and it is still wobbly. If I could return it. I would. But I'm going to try to salvage it by removing the top square. The rest seems sturdy.

My daughter had one of these at her daycare and she loved playing on it so we decided to get it for our home. Installation: The process was a bit more difficult that you would expect but the directions were clear and materials were provided to help install. HOWEVER, there's a mechanism inside the tubes that can come loose and it is such a pain to get them back in their proper spot. My fingers were extremely sore after finishing the install and it took about 2+ hours altogether to get it up and running. After it was put together, our daughter has enjoyed playing on this thing since she was 1.5 yo. It seems to be pretty durable but will fade a bit in the sun. It's easy to clean, sturdy, and I feel safe with my daughter hanging on it and standing on it. Overall, it's a fun toy to have for our daughter. It's a bit on the pricey side and the install is quite a pain, but for us, it's been worth having and our daughter hasn't gotten bored of it.

This item comes fully disassembled so make sure you're handy enough to put this thing together. If you are comfortable putting together Ikea (flat pack) furniture, you will be just fine. No tools required but you might want to use a piece of wood or something to push down the black retention buttons. After a while, your finger will start to hurt and you will likely pinch your finger a few times as you slide the ends into the connectors. I just used the thicker end of a wooden door shim -- I could have used anything but I just happened to have a bag of shims laying around. The tool that comes with it to take it apart is fairly unusable. After fiddling with it for 2 minutes, I was able to disconnect one just to test it out. If you don't follow the instructions carefully, you'll have to take it apart and you might not have a pleasant time with that. If/when I need to take more pieces apart to move it, I plan to improvise and use something else like a wood clamp with a small dowel pressed into it (the dowel would stick out the same amount as the thickness of the tube). It would be wise to take some extra time and double check all the pieces. They are all labeled very well so there's no reason why you would mess up if you can follow basic instructions (e.g. pipe A goes into the connector that is labeled A). This is like a geodesic dome in that the rigidity and structural integrity comes from the dome shape. Consequently, towards the end of construction, you will need make sure you don't push in all the connectors fully because you will need the extra slack to get the ends of the final pieces in the connectors. Or, maybe you can just muscle it in. If this makes sense, you'll have no issues putting this thing together, especially as the ends get progressively harder as you finish the structure. If this doesn't make sense, you will probably spend an extra 30min towards the end but you'll eventually figure it out. The finished product is very sturdy. I'm a 170lbs grown man. As long as I distribute my weight evenly over multiple bars, I can put my full weight on it while hanging from the inside. I'm not sure about standing on it because one pipe probably won't support my weight. Again, this has to do with the inherent structural integrity of domes.

The assembly was not 30 mins for sure. Took me 90 mins and this was after I figured out a hack not to kill my thumbs pushing into those buttons on the connectors. I used thimbles on my work gloves. They work.

Winter is here and we received three feet of snow in 24 hours. The kids are stuck inside and need to get their bugs out. I purchased this for my 4 year old and assembled it for Christmas. I chose this item because it was billed as easy to assemble and light enough to move around. It was reasonably easy to assemble. The system clicks together with no special tools. The plastic poles clicks into plastic star shaped connectors with pressure release pins. I’m a strong handed man and by the end of construction my fingertips were bruised from pushing in the pins. A few of the pins dislodged from the star connectors which forced me to disassemble that section and manipulate the pin back into the assembly. This was quite frustrating. While the plastic tubes are strong enough to support the weight of my 4 year old a larger child would bend them. The structure does wiggle a bit since the system is help together with pressure pins but overall it feels solid and safe. The structure is light enough that it can be moved easily between rooms by one person. With the top removed it will fit through a 3’ door. The top is easily removed as it is held together with four small screws. My son loves it. He climbs it all day. We put blankets over the top and he has an instant fort. It’s not too tall as we are not overly concerned with him falling off. Just in case there is a fall we put a few thick blankets beneath it. Overall I am very satisfied and would recommend this item for a small child. The instructions were easy enough. The assembly was uncomplicated. The pressure pins could be designed better and for me are the only weak point in this item.

I don't like writing reviews, good or bad, but I felt strongly enough that I had to say something on this one. There are a few big problems with this product: (1) The small metal pins on the spokes that keep the tubes in place need to be depressed with your fingers during assembly, but they are extremely hard to depress because the metal is so unrelenting. So, it's literally painful on your hands and fingertips when you're trying to get the tubes onto the spoke pieces, and you're expected to do it over and over and over, destroying your fingers in the process. (2) The spokes and tubes look quite similar at a glance, and because there are a *lot* of them and they don't come pre-separated, unless you're paying *very* close attention with every connection you do, you're bound to make at least one mistake and you'll need to remove a tube from a spoke. Well, there's a tool included specifically for disassembly (because it's actually impossible to disassemble without it, otherwise you'll break a tube or spoke), but it's poorly designed and made from a really cheap grade of plastic. In fact, it's so cheap that even the manual says it can only be used for disassembly twice and that it should be thrown away after that because of the risk damaging things. But even that must be a best-case scenario, because I was only able to remove a few tubes before the tool couldn't get anything else off. Which left me with a product that could no longer be completely assembled. After reading more reviews, I saw that this has happened to a lot of other people as well. (3) Even if the assembly went well, the disassembly tool can only be used twice; the stated feature of being able to build this up and break it down to store isn't really true. So, in a way I'm thankful that I never got it fully assembled, because I'd be frustrated to no end if it came time to break it down and found out that it would be impossible midway through the process. I had to start a return for this since I couldn't even finish the assembly, and had to basically break a few pieces just to get everything back in the box since the disassembly tool stopped working. I can imagine that this would be a great product if you were able to assemble it without any mistakes and had no intention to ever disassemble it. Otherwise, this is a waste of your time and money. And my experience isn't unique. If you're still thinking about getting this, take the time to read more reviews where people are saying this exact scenario happened to them too.

The packaging is great, and the instructions are so-so but you can figure them out eventually. However, unless you are into self-torture, do NOT attempt to put this together by yourself, especially if three toddlers who just want to play on it are circling you like sharks. The assembly consists of snapping plastic tubes onto central spokes in an orderly fashion using snap buttons installed into the plastic spokes that you depress as you slide the tube over them, ideally "snapping" them through holes that keep the poles firm on the spokes. While I appreciate that these are incredibly strong snap buttons, I didn't appreciate that I had to depress every one with a spoon in one hand while balancing the assembly against my body and pressing the tube down with the other hand. Never mind that the angles of some of the spokes are ever-so-slightly off, requiring that you not only perform extreme physical contortions just to get the poles snapped onto the spokes, but you must use additional appendages to push and twist the spokes into position as well. Now, someone with stronger hands than me who doesn't mind having their fingers pinched would probably get by without the aid of the spoon, but alas...I did what I had to do. Long story short: Once the thing is put together, it seems quite strong. Toddlers are not going to disassemble this. And it does come with a handy tool for disassembling the snap buttons if you ever want to take it apart again; unfortunately, a similar tool isn't available for assembly. So build with a buddy and things will probably go a LOT more smoothly than they did for me. Once it was assembled, I watched three excited toddlers climb and swing for a good hour, so in the end it was worth the sweat and swear words. Note, though, that this contraption is entirely made of plastic. It's strong plastic, but especially the little "box" on the top has some bend and give when kids are sitting on the very top of it. I don't think it's going to come apart, but don't expect the solidity of a steel frame. I suppose the trade off is that it's light enough to drag around the yard when you need to mow the lawn. Would I buy this again? Yes I would. I would just build it with a partner who has stronger fingers than I do, and I'd do it in the early hours of the morning when the air is still cool and the toddlers aren't asking every three minutes if it's done yet. :D