Baby Playcenter Playpen 4 Panel w/ Barrier
- 4 panel extendable playpen
- Door barrier stoppers to use as safety gate
- Activity board with house, phone and spinning ball
- Swinging hinged door w/ safety lock
- 45 x 45 x 24 inches
Product Description
This Play Pen features an activity center with a picture house, ball spinners, play telephone and a swinging hinged door with safety lock. You can purchase additional playpen for extensions to make as big of a playpen as your wish. Each panel is easily snapped on and assembles in a few minutes. It can be adjusted to be a safety barrier for any door as well. Perfect for children and pets.
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Baby Playcenter Playpen 4 Panel w/ Barrier
- Publisher: iBuySource
- Label: iBuySource
- Studio: iBuySource
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 1 reviews
- Sales Rank in Baby: #505014
Avg. Customer Review:
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice play pen with some issues 2008-03-08
Comment: First is my original review, which I posted after receiving the product. I have added an update at the end.
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We received the eight-panel version of the "Baby Playcenter Playpen" today. It was intended to be used by our six-and-a-half-month-old son. However, the product poses several significant safety hazards:
1) Choking hazard: Each of the eight panels has plastic stickers attached to it (drawings of bears and other animals, reflective stickers, and a safety warning sticker). Almost none of the stickers were completely attached to their plastic panel, and probably even a four-and-a-half-month-old could have taken them of with no or little effort. The stickers that were completely attached can also be removed relatively easily. If your child takes a bite out of it, they present an obvious choking hazard.
2) Injury hazard: One of the panels integrates two hard-plastic balls that sit on an axle and allow a child to make the ball revolve, which produces a loud clicking noise. I noticed that there was a small gap between the two halves of one of those plastic balls. The two halves are not welded together, but instead have plastic pegs that plug into a corresponding socket on the opposite inside half. The two halves can be separated quite easily, as apparently happened with our product during transport. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw peering through that gap one of the objects that the manufacturer uses to produce that loud clicking noise when the balls are turned: small, sharp-pointed Phillips metal screws, about 5 millimeters long. I hardly had to pull on it for the screw to come out completely. Obviously no infant toy that comes apart that easily should use screws to produce the rattling noise. (Actually, even if it did not come apart that easily, using small metal screws to produce the sound effect is hard to surpass in stupidity. Who comes up with such stupid ideas?)
**UPDATE**
We had contacted the seller of your playpen, ibuysource, about the safety issues we found. They replied and said that in response to our e-mail they removed the screws from inside the spinning balls for all the playpens they had in stock. They also told me that they contacted the manufacturer and indicated that their next shipment would no longer have those screws inside those rotating balls. That of course still leaves the stickers, but those are quite easily removed (which is what made them hazardous in the first place). So thanks to our responsive seller, there will hopefully no more screws be used inside those rotating balls to create the clicking sound effect. Without that hazard, I'd give the playpen three-and-a-half or four stars, but Amazon won't let me change my rating, only update my review.
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