Evenflo Versatile Play Space Adjustable Play Area, Plastic, 8-Panel (Cool Gray)

We've had this for a few weeks and LOVE it. Wish we had bought it sooner! It's a little pricey, but not compared to other collapsible play pens considering the quality of this one. The 8 panel one is huge, and we love that you can use it as sort of a baby gate if needed. We never use it as a playpen because we didn't buy it until our little one was 12 months old and she'd throw a fit the whole time being confined to a playpen. However, it works amazingly to block her from areas we don't want her. We split it into 3 sections and used it to protect our Christmas tree, stereo, and dog bowls from the baby all at once. It's saved us so much trouble! There's no gate on it but it doesn't need one because every panel can turn into a gate. The joints are very easy for an adult to open the playpen up at any panel. You can position it pretty much however you want, but the panels do have "positions" they snap into so it'll try to stick to only certain positions. There are a lot of positions though, so it's not like it's only every 45 degrees or something. It's super easy to use and seems to be designed and made very well. The joints are large and robust, and I'm not at all concerned about anything breaking. It does get wobbly the more you stretch it out, but we always had it positioned in a way where it'd be difficult for the baby to knock it over. It folds down reasonably small for what it is. Obviously plastic panels can only fold so small, but it will be able to tuck into a closet corner when we no longer use it often. We're very happy with this purchase and would highly recommend this product.

First off let me say that Evenflo hit a huge home run with this play space (or as my 10 year old son calls it, "baby jail). The single biggest feature that my wife and I love is that each part of the webbing is a rounded edge and not a sharp plastic edge. We have no worry about our daughter hurting her hands or feet on this fencing due to the awesome rounded edges of the plastic. In the classic octagon shape it is 5ft across by 4ft 10" across from the two opposite corners and the two opposite straight edges of the octagon. This gives a large enough space for your baby to crawl and maneuver around and explore the area safely. Each panel of the play space is held together with a simple and effective push button hinge design. The fencing can be easily taken apart by an adult and reconfigured in a matter of seconds yet is completely secure enough where a baby or toddler would be unable to separate the fencing. The webbing on each panel is small enough where a baby/toddler in the standing stage would be unable to effectively place their foot into the opening and climb. My daughter is nearly 9 months and is able to pull herself up and is starting to explore things with her feet while she is holding herself up. Her hands are completely unharmed due to the awesome rounded edges on the webbing. The angled design of the webbing also prevents little feet from being able to climb up the panel. The play space easily folds up for storage. Think of an accordion style where each fence panel folds over onto the other. You simply detach one corner from the adjoining panel by pushing the white button on top of the joint and the fence folds up easily. You can really tell Evenflo put a lot of thought into the design of this play space. It is well worth every penny spent. Please click YES down below if you found this review helpful. If you have any questions or would like additional pictures please feel free to ask. Thank you!

The last one of these I bought, was to keep puppies away from the Christmas tree. So I figured it would work to keep them from getting to close to the brooder with the baby chicks in it. It works perfectly. The dogs can still see the chicks but can’t get right up to them and scare them. A few weeks later when the chicks went outside in the front yard in a chicken tractor during the day, I took it out and put it around that too. Again, works perfectly. It’s easy to adjust the size by removing a panel if needed. And it’s sturdy enough to not worry about it being tipped over yet light enough to easily carry it to wherever you need to put it. And it folds flat without any difficulty. The fact that it folds flat makes storage much easier. My dogs are rat terriers so they are on the smaller side. 1 weighs about 20 lbs and is not terribly tall, maybe 10”. Her brother is quite a bit bigger, about 30 lbs and early 3-5” taller. They have stood on their hind legs, front feet on the top of this play yard and with the back side secured against the wall or in our case, the wood stove there was no worries it would move. And though they could look over the top of it and into the brooder, they couldn’t jump over. If you had a dog that was a jumper by nature it might not be tall enough to keep them from going over the top but in our case, one is a bit chubby and not much into jumping. His sister is more so but she was too short to get over it. So if you want to keep something inside the yard safe from whatever, I recommend this. This is the second one we’ve had in the last 12 yrs ( would still have the first one of it hadn’t been loaned out and their dogs hadn’t chewed it all up. All in all, sturdy, easy to use and move and good quality for many many years of use for a large variety of things.

Makes for a great extension to your play area. They fold up easy so you can put them away

Great design…. Mostly. The way the panels connect is ingenious. The only issue - the gate is too light. My 1 year old was able to push on it and walk all over the house. He even managed to tip it over. Too bad, because the design is like 99% awesome. If you buy this and your kid can walk, it will constantly look like it does in the photo.

We use it with an open concept (not completely closing the gate, and it really does the trick to blocking the areas needed where we dont want our son to go! :)

Good sturdy product. We have just used it to block our child from accessing power inverter. Worked good. Also this made in Canada and not like colorful set from same firm which is made in China.

Wish it was a little more sturdy but otherwise it is definitely a good purchase