Thistle Castle Playset Ben And Holly

Both Florence and Jimmy are rather keen on Ben and Holly’s Litle Kingdom. It’s one of those programmes, like Peppa Pig who incidentally comes from the same maker, that just taps into ALL children and mine are no exception.

We’ve had a fair few Ben and Holly related toys to play with in the past including the castle Playset which they both still adore playing with and now we’ve been sent the new version, the Thistle Castle Playset, available at Argos for £24.99.

As soon as it came out of the box (well packaged and easy to remove – so many toys aren’t which I find annoying) they played with it for ages and in almost perfect harmony too!

Very pleased with the playset!

The playset castle has lots of interesting features like the hidden slide under the toy box, floating magical throne and the treasure chests which have disappearing treasure! It also has a cauldron which reveals what’s behind the fridge door and window when stirred and a secret trap door with Nanny Plum’s spell book underneath!

Both Florence and Jimmy really enjoy playing with this one!

We like Holly’s bed which has a dip perfectly sized for her to fit in it and the fact that with this castle, unlike the last, there were no fiddly stickers for me to put on badly myself! It just pops out the box and is ready to go. The old playset took quite a while to put together with all the stickering. It’s also easier for smaller ones to play with as it’s open and not so delicate and it’s great that you can buy other playsets and figures to go with it.

We weren’t so keen on the fact that you only get one figure with it, Holly, which seems a bit lonely. I’d like to see Ben Elf in the box to keep her company too and we thought it was a bit odd that Holly doesn’t actually fit through the door frame with her big hair… Still, very minor flaws to an otherwise fab toy!