Welcome to the Playroom Theme Park Resort!

What happens when you combine Fisher-Price toys with Disney Magic? You get the Happiest Playroom on Earth!

Welcome to the Playroom Theme Park Resort!

Little Brother Ryker has joined Presley & Dad in the toy collecting fun. His favorites are Disney Parks toys and he loves combining it with our Fisher-Price Collection.  Our collection of Fisher-Price toys became the foundation of our "Playroom Theme Park Resort".

It started small from here but has grown and grown. With a Lil' Playmates Disney Magic Castle Set and the more recent Fisher-Price Day at Disney playsets

Ryker started his Fisher-Price Collection with newer "Magic of Disney-Day at Disney"style sets. He has Mickey's Toontown playsets, popcorn cart, souvenir stands and a Castle-Main Street playset with fireworks.  At first they were set up on the carpet in the living room.

Our family in front of the Castle

Presley got this Disneyland Castle at Disneyland years ago and now Ryker plays with it with our Fisher-Price Little People Family. 

First go round with push train toys

When Ryker started to like wooden train toys we set up some old Thomas The Tank toys for him.

Eventually we combined the Thomas the Train Toys with the Disney & Fisher-Price toys on a train table.

For Christmas we would set up our Disney Monorail Toy & Disneyland Castle.

When you cant make it to the Parks, bring the parks home with you!

When Christmas was over the tree was put away but the Monorail stayed out...and accessories started to spring up around it.

Disney Theme Park Toys and the Imaginext Pizza Planet Playset that is actually now a part of Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studio's Toy Story Land! The monorail set was on the floor of the den after Christmas had passed.

Imaginext playset inspired ride entrance at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World

Sometimes you have to play along with what is on TV

FAO Schwarz Castle Blocks

Ryker loves any Castle toy, so he collects Castles...even Castle Blocks that go great with classic Little People Toys! The collection includes Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, and Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle (3 of them: Lil' Playmates, Monorail Accessory, and the GIANT Disney Theme Parks Toys playset!). 

We had Disneyland with the push trains on the train table and Disney World with a Monorail on the den floor. At some point we combined it all into one giant Playroom Theme Park Resort!

Disneyland on the Train Table & Walt Disney World in the Background

It all should be surrounded by a train

Our Playroom Theme Park Resort includes a monorail around a pirate lagoon with a Disney's Contemporary Resort & EPCOT Spaceship Earth accessory. Look closely and you can see the Tree of Life from Disney's Animal Kingdom! Our Main Street has Disney Store Fur-Tail Friends playsets which have just the right victorian gingerbread look to them...like real Main Street only toy style! We also have some Hasbro Disney Theme Park playsets...a carousel, the hub, and Small World.  Lately we have expanded our transportation options with a Disney Parks Tram, theme park vehicles, and Lionel Ready to Play train sets. Our resort is populated by all sorts of Disney figurines, Little People & Playskool figures...all are welcome who come to this happy place!

The Pirates of the Condominium strike again! This newer Fisher-Price set models a hipster neighborhood complete with goateed barista!  But we put it to other uses as one of the Hotels at our Theme Park Resort.

Monorails and other toys

Castle time

Trains, Castles, Monorails

Snapshot of "Fisher-Price International Airport"

Set up 3 FP airports (one 1970's play family and 2 Little People 1980's) and you have your own three terminal international airport!  The driveways even match up! Your flight to adventure is waiting at any gate!

Each Airplane here has some variation, and the 2 1980's play sets have variations as well....part of the fun of Fisher-Price Collecting!

Fisher-Price Toy Box Playgrounds

We found three Fisher-Price Mall Playgrounds in the Carolinas.  Here are pictures of the boys (Presley & Ryker) exploring the giant Toys.  They are modeled on the newest versions of these classic favorites...a Little People Farm, a Rock A Stack, a Xylophone, and a Chatter Phone. These playgrounds were found in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as they enjoyed playing on the Toys!

Retro Fisher-Price Ferris Wheel

We found this at Target. It is based on the original Music Box Ferris Wheel.  Only this version includes "Chunky" style figures!  There is no grumpy carney on this toy...but one of the riders looks like one.  Check out your local Target for one today!

Woo hoo..winter vacation....

Many of my toys will be spending winter vacation under glass. Some of my collection is on display from now through the month of December at our local public library display cases. We took so much stuff we ended up bringing a few things home that didn't fit. People of all ages told us how much they liked the toys and that "I had one of those..." to so many items from my collection. There were 2 glass cases with 4 shelves each, eight shelves of fun all together. Some of the things we put in there were the Junior Circus, Sesame Street, the School, the Main Street, the Camper, the Action Garage, the Chatter Telephone, the Zoo, the Western Town, the blue and yellow House, the brown House, the Fire Station, 2 Airports and Fun Jets, a Farm, a School Bus, the Merry Go Round, some clocks, radios, TV, Record Player, Pocket Cameras, a Giant Rock A Stack, the Swimming Pool, and a Santa's Workshop new style Little People set.

Weekend at Lake Little People...

We went to East Aurora, New York on July 27 and July 28 for the 2012 Fisher Price Collector's Club Convention. Here are some of the finds I got at this year's convention. I got a Pop-Up camper set, and a swimming pool set. At last year's convention I got the marina. My Daddy found the A-Frame on ebay, and the Happy Houseboat at a thrift store. I really wanted a Pop-up camper. It has a Jeep with a boat on the roof, a storage case for the furniture that goes on top of the camper. The camper has a kitchen and a table set- and two bed shelves. It is so much fun! We made the scenery from craft supplies, blue poster board for our lake, and green and brown construction paper for our trees. Our sky is a blue blanket and the meadow is a green blanket. On the first day of the convention we went to the Fisher-Price Headquarters and the company Toy Store, after that we went to the dinner. The next day there was a Toy Sale where I bought lots of sets, people, and pieces. I can't wait for next years show. Please join the Fisher Price Collector's Club. UPDATE: Today we found a Play Family Camper & a Castle Dragon! So we added a picture of our new finds enjoying a weekend at the lake.

Once upon a time...

...there was a Fisher-Price kingdom with happiness, sunshine, and joy! One day there was a knight from the future, and peering through the castle was a big, giant, little boy named Presley. The woodsman came back from the village market in the carriage to encounter the giant trying to take over the kingdom. The princess was trapped in the tower, while her friend Prarie Dawn was prisoner of Rex the dinosaur who was housesitting the dragon's lair. Will the knight defeat the giant and rescue the fair maiden in waiting? The retro King and Queen have permanent smiles because they hope for a happily ever after. Here is my Fisher-Price Play Family Castle, it was a gift from the Fisher-Price Collector's Club at last year's convention. I was so happy, I love my castle. At this year's convention I got the King, Queen, and Prince.

Mooooooooooooooooooo.......

Here are my four Fisher-Price farms. The first play family playset was the farm. My first farm was the one with the red loft doors where the hen lives- this farm has a Fisher-Price sticker on the roof and a green plastic base. I got this farm at a flea market in West Virginia. It had most of it's parts. We live in Virginia now- just next door. My second farm is the plder style with the masonite wood base. This farm was found at a thrift store in Maryland outside Washington DC without any parts. The third farm was a chunky little people farm with a larger green plastic base. It was missing parts & the doors when we found it at a Virginia thrift store outside Washington DC. On another trip to the same store we found one door. We think the door got lost or maybe it was put out later. Hopefully we will find the second door on our next trip there. On two other trips we found silos with parts in them for the second & third farms. I've been able to find parts and sets all across the United States of America. My newest farm has all of the pieces, even the silo and the original box! This is unusual to find close by where you live. This farm is the original style but with a green plastic base. We found it online, and it was nearby. A nice man was selling his grown-up kid's four Fisher-Price Play Family playsets- all in the original boxes withthe original pieces! They were in really good condition- A house, Farm, Fire Station & Western Town from around 1982. I will share those in another post.

Row, row, row your boat...

Here are a lot of little people friends of all shapes and sizes having a happy new years swimming party in a green sea. Maybe it is a swamp or the bayou. There is a retro Houseboat with 50th Anniversary (really big)little people and a vintage little people floating marina. I got my marina at the Fisher Price Collectors Club Convention. It had 2 extra blue boats. It needs the lighthouse and a red boat to be complete, this weekend we found the commodore but these pictures dont show him. The retro Houseboat was from Toys R Us. We printed a vintage ad from a great Fisher Price fan website Fisher Price Little People World, www.FPLPworld.com check it out sometime!

Happy New Year 2012!

Here I am in my playroom with all my Fisher-Price toys. You can see my Imaginext toys in the background, and my Little people stuff everywhere else! I hope to share more this year, thanks for visiting!

Up, Up, & Away!

I got these new superhero little people today at Target. They'll go great with the Imaginext Batcave I got for Christmas. I love Fisher-Price imaginext toys. Dad says they are a cool mix of the old play family and adventure people sets.

It's a zoo around here

This is 2 Fisher-Price zoos. One is a Little People gift set from Kohl's I got for Christmas. The other is a vintage F-P Zoo I found at a Thrift Store. It was missing all of the pieces except for one orange gorilla. The zoo was 95 cents, and the gorilla was in a bag of old happy meal toys for 1.95. They must have thought it was an old happy meal toy. We are hoping to get parts for it at next years F-P Collector Club Convention.