The Original Colorforms Set | 
| Brand: University Games
List Price: $32.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 266
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 8 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 14.6 x 1.5
MPN: 73414
Model: 73414
UPC: 029101734140
EAN: 0029101734140
ASIN: B000BNEODU
Release Date: February 1, 1998
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| Features:
| • | Original Colorforms will provide you with limitless possibilities | | • | Exact replica of the Colorforms Set that launched the company in 1951 | | • | Includes 350 brightly-colored Colorforms pieces | | • | Encourages creativity and imagination | | • | Winner of Parents Choice Award for Top Classic Toy |
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Product Description
The ultimate creativity toy! Original Colorforms will provide you with limitless possibilities. Designers, teachers, and toy collectors alike agree- this is the best creativity play set they've found. An exact replica of the Colorforms Set that launched the company in 1951-it was recently selected for the Toy Hall of Fame. Includes 350 brightly colored shapes in an elegant, spiral-bound book and case. The Colorforms easily attach to any glossy surface, or to one another, by applying slight pressure across the surface of each piece. A 2002 Parents' Choice Classic Award Winner.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Very fun toy May 4, 2007
C. Darcy
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
I got this toy for my daughter when she was 2.5 years old. She loved it from the start and still plays with it often six months later. At this age, she doesn't make the type of pictures that older kids would, but she likes arranging the pieces on the floor or on the included boards. When she gets older, I expect that she will like making pictures, too.
Our pieces stick well to the boards. The stick even better to each other, so when you make a pile of pieces when cleaning up, they stay together nicely.
I think any kid that enjoys stickers will have fun with Colorforms. A big advantage that Colorforms have is that you have the option of picking up and moving the shapes. Plus, you don't have to worry about Colorforms being annoyingly stuck to things like furniture and trying to scrape them off.
One good tip I got before buying this set is to NOT discard the extra vinyl between the shapes. You can extra shapes from this material - such as crescents (great for smiles on faces), stars, flowers, etc.
The only negative of this toy is that after six months of use, the corners of the boards are looking a bit frayed, but after that much use from a toddler, that is understandable.
 Love the idea February 24, 2007
Elizabeth Cary Blum (Boston, MA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I find this set to be exactly as the set I played with in the 1970s. The five pages of shapes are in a spiral bound book - there are tons of shapes which is great. My kids, younger than the suggested age at 21 months old, really seem to enjoy this toy - they love stickers, however unlike stickers, Colorforms don't ruin furniture when stuck on wood! Our Colorforms did not stick well to the two included boards at all - in fact, they fell right off. I saw another reviewer mention this as well. I called the manufacturer and they are sending me another set - hopefully these will work better. I am hoping these are isolated incidents and not an overall product problem.
All in all, a good toy with good play value!
THIS is Colorforms January 18, 2007
J. Mayo
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
What is being sold today in stores as Colorforms bears little resemblance to the original Colorforms set. The original Colorforms has 5 large pages of heavy-duty vinyl shapes in a spiral binder, each page a different color. The Colorforms stick very well to the 2 boards included in the set, and children (and adults!) can spend hours transforming the shapes into pictures. The original Colorforms set is pricey but will last a lot longer than today's Colorforms (which seem to lose their stickiness after only a few uses) and really sparks a child's imagination.
Oh! those incomparable 70's!!!!!!!!!!!! July 3, 2007
CLINT BRONSON (las vegas,NV.)
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
Colorforms......COLORFORMS!!!! What better way to escape
the rainy days,Mom's hamburger(instead of McDonald's)
the 5ft.10 9yr old named Buddy Ruppatkin who punch you in
the arm and take your bike,all the times you have to
wear clothes your family had bought you and you could
not stand,eating healthy cereal,going to the automotive
store with your Pop,chicken pox,egg salad sandwiches,lemon
candy,Lawrence Welk 5:30pm NBC SUNDAY,CHURCH(remember I am 6
now..GOD understands)homework,and last but not least
having to count to a 100 before it's your turn on the
swing!....Colorforms.....COLORFORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will always love my colorforms.
colorforms January 22, 2007
Richard Evans (Denver, CO)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Well, I don't know if it is the dry climate we have in Colorado or what, but these do not stick as described. Great Idea, just wish they worked better.
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