Play Family Children's Hospital

#931

c1976-1978

The Children's Hospital was the 2nd Little People playset to be introduced entirely of plastic (meaning no wood or masonite in either the people or the base). The first was 1975's #938 Sesame Street. This may have been a revelation or not--the Little People line began to dwindle in quality as the years went on from this point. There was nothing cheap nor dwindling about the hospital, however; the accessories, many of them exclusives, were well produced and contained velcro straps and working machines. The non-descript privacy screen is the hardest piece to find and can fetch $20-$50 by itself. Sadly, this set was only made for 2 years, making all of the exclusive pieces even harder to find. The only easy-to-find pieces are the doctor and the ambulance as they were used in several other sets, including the long-running #126 Ambulance set.

The base itself is a 2-story building with an elevator to transport patients from the operating room to the patient room. The elevator has realistic closing upstairs and downstairs doors and a floor indicator dial. The base also features a rolltop garage door and a fold-down sundeck flap attached to the front of the building. This fold-down flap had a tendency to break off, causing it to be yet another hard-to-find piece for this set.