Please read before you buy...
August 31, 2015
I rarely write reviews, except when something is really good or really bad. This is the latter. As an engineer, a poor design that was clearly never tested in the real world bothers me. This is perhaps the worst case I have ever seen. It is clear to me that no employee of Fisher Price has ever used this chair themselves or they would see the obvious flaws with it. We have twins, so we have two of these chairs and have used them now for a year and a half - so consider this my expert testimony. 1) The straps (on ours) are white. Within the first use, blended peas and carrots were packed into the white webbing, permanently staining them. This leads me to number 2)... 2) The waist straps (this blows my mind...) cannot be removed from the chair! So they are impossible to clean. Fortunately, with some tools and an hour or two, we were able to disassemble the chairs, and by making one small simple adjustment, made two of the three straps removable. Why they would not do this at the factory is insane. 2) The padding stops half way up the sides of the chair, making a perfect gap between the padding and the arm rest for food to fall into. Every few uses, you have to remove the padding to scoop out all the dropped food. A small extension of the padding and a couple of plastic clips would have eliminated this issue entirely. 3) The tray is too big to fit in any sink and (despite the "dishwasher friendly" logo), too big to fit in any standard dishwasher sideways, or lengthwise. The result is that you have to clean the entire assembly by hand several times a day, and that includes all of the handles, springs, cavities and enclosures that trap water on the bottom of the tray. (See photo.) Over time these cavities develop mold as they cannot be dried out without disassembling the entire thing. A removable tray liner (as most other high chairs have) would eliminate (or at least significantly reduce) this issue. Even a couple of holes drilled on the bottom to let water out would have been a start. Also, consider this - you are not going to uninstall and reinstall this chair three or four times a day, so it is going to stay attached to one of your dining room chairs permanently. This not only uses up an otherwise useful chair, it takes up more space in your kitchen than if it had it's own legs. In addition, with a regular high chair dropped food (of which there is a lot) lands on the floor. With this design, it all lands on your chair cushion. We are going to have to reupholster or replace our entire set of chairs when we are done with them. Do yourself a favor, and pick a normal high chair that folds up to store, and has a removable tray liner that you can stick in the dishwasher. It's too late for us, but you still have time!
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