National Geographic Kids Fort Building Kit - 70-Piece Indoor Fort Builder for Kids - Build a Fort for Creative Play, STEM Building Toy, Fort Building Kit for Kids 6-10, Blanket Fort Kit for Kids

My buddies 7 year old loves this thing. Holy crap he loves this thing. He has forts everywhere he goes. Little dude is gonna be an engineer or an architect easily if that is the route he takes later in life. Until then, he is gonna keep having fun, and this is a part of it.-Parts plus extras were all there, and there are a ton. The blanket clips are flimsy, don't bother and just get some decent heavy general duty kind of spring loaded clamps from your hardware store or aisle.-This thing is fun to just take off on and let him work out how to make things stay standing up, and then stay up after he applies the blanket as a static load.-Overall quality is high. Nat Geo can get a little overboard with being chintzy sometimes, but this is not one of those times.-BYOB. Blanket y'all, blanket. Wouldnt be bad as a chill brew and book nook though. Might have to get little dude let me borrow it. But bring your own blanket, or tarp, or sheet, or even a branch roof if you feel squirrelly and creative.10/10 rating from a 7 year old blur of finding out how things work.

Edit: needs more "hub" and "extender" piecesThis is a great product... the pieces are all sturdy, easy to fit together in many different ways, it says it's for 4+ but more realistically it's for older kids, like 6+ just because it can be tricky to put together and to plan out.... also, do yourself a favor and get a storage bin to go with it bc it's a lot of pieces!

I purchased a mix of the 70 piece and 135 piece kits when they were on sale to maximize the number of dark blue connectors and light blue half dome connectors. Here is a fort I built with my 5 year old kid with the # of parts we needed (photo shows more light blue half dome parts, I didn't want to take apart the fort to remove them). My kid definitely needs an adult /older person to help twist and/or insert the poles into the connectors. We put a flat bedsheet over top after this photo was taken and the fort is still sturdy. My kid moved pillows and blankets inside and has been sleeping there all weekend.

My kids love forts, but it’s easier and cheaper to build them the old fashioned way. This kit is as described, but the forts are a pain to put together and take apart. My kids are 3 and 7 and even my 7 year old can’t make the larger ones by himself. And it’s a pain to clean up all the pieces. For the price, I would not recommend for younger children.

My 8yo and I have built so many cool things with this. We've had to get creative a few times wishing we had more of a certain type of connector. But definitely tons of build options.

I got the 135-piece set as a Santa gift for our 7-year-old daughter, and I’ve regretted it ever since. My daughter has cut her finger twice while using it, and the structure is very unstable. She managed to build the only fort that fits her size, but it’s poorly designed.If you follow the ideas in the instructions, the structures are so small that they’re only suitable for a 2-year-old. I wish I could return it, but my daughter accidentally tore a piece of the box when opening it. Save your money and avoid this product!

I will give it two stars but I honestly hate this thing. It was wildly over priced for what it is. Both children and adults find it difficult to build anything of any level of structural integrity with this amount of connectors. The pieces are a pain to pull apart. The fort does not withstand the weight of a sheet. It takes an ungodly amount of time to even attempt to build something of worth and then it wont stand. Its awful, its not fun, its a massive waste of money.

This is a really cool set. Got it for my 2.5 year old. He can’t build himself a fort yet so I built one for him and it’s pretty solid. We covered it with a sheet and it’s holding up fine. We have found that there is a lack of some of the better connectors (the blue ones), but we were still able to build an epic fort.