Skywalker Trampolines 14' Trampoline, with Wind Stakes, Purple

This is a wonderful addition to our backyard. HOWEVER, as many have said, the instructions have an error. The note after Step 4 says "make sure the enclosure door is centered over a T-Joint." Wrong! It should be centered over a Socket. Skywalker Company should really fix this. After I realized this, I had to take off all the springs and re-do.

I bought this for my 6yr old daughter. She is able to have multiple friends on this with her and there is still room. I have kids as old as 17 on this thing and they are having a blast. I love the zipper closure and how safe it really is. Just be watchful of the directions on putting the surround and the trampoline pad on. make sure they line up and the center of the t on the frame. also remember to skip every 10 or so springs on the first round of attaching them and your good to go. Took my neighbor and I a few hours to put up but it was well worth it. plan to have it for years to come.

We previously had the 8"skywalker which was a lot of fun for our kids. As they've gotten older, they wanted more room to jump about. When assembling - play close attention to how the frame segments are aligned to support the safety netting later. The 'sockets' should be every other section. Instructions not clear on this and I learned the hard way.

This is our second trampoline, the first one was very cheap and poorly made. This one is much better quality, love that the net attaches on the inner ring so there's no way your child can come fall through the springs or get pinched. We did our homework and this brand has very good reviews. It has more springs than other 14 foot trampolines and is very solid. Wind stakes were a nice bonus. Netting is nice and tight, it was pretty loose on our last one. Took us 2.5 hours to set up which is pretty standard. Really my only complaint is that one section of the frame had no holes drilled for the springs, we ended up drilling our own because it was literally the last section we needed to attach the springs to and the rest of the trampoline was already done. I'm sure the manufacturer would have sent us a piece with holes, but the kids were excited and we didn't want to wait or go through the hassle.

Was very easy to set up, took abt 2hrs. My kids love it, it's like a giant playpen. The netting is secure, the kids cannot get their feet in the springs because of where the netting is placed! I love that not only does it zip closed but also has hooks, my. 9yo cannot unhook them which is great for any little neighbor kids that may wander into my yard. It's nice to know they can't get in when I'm not home! You will get a lot of bang for your buck with this trampoline! I even enjoy it!

I did a lot of research on trampolines. Looked up consumer reveiws and this trampoline for the price came up as top over and over again. The most important part to me was netting. The netting is a very strong and hooks into the pad instead of some older style trampolines where u just use rope to tie the netting to the pad. The base actually is screwed together to give the whole thing extra support. Overall I have had other trampolines but am so pleased with this product. The only down side is putting it together. You're going to need some help and follow the directions! My kids and the whole neighborhood jumps every day. We get four small kids on at one time with no problems. Good luck!!

This is a wonderful trampoline - debated long the choice of 14 or 15', and ended up with 14' due to yard size limits, and it SURE is big enough for my girls (age 6 & 7). They have been on it non-stop since we put it together. Really. I had no idea it'd be a magnet for their attention from getting up to going to bed. PLENTY of room for them plus 2-3 others, though no high bouncing when that many are aboard. I am VERY comfortable with the security netting - that's a really ingenious design, and I would not have bought without it. ASSEMBLY - read all the other posts, they are NOT kidding when they say read directions twice or more before setting out. Two tips: listen when they say "align the jump net properly with a T-junction, and NOT one that has the enclosure mount on it. ALign with one of the other, plain T joints. if you do not, you will have to unstring and re-do the entire thing. I'm glad I read carefully and read all reviews - I did it right first time. BUT - one thing I did not find in reviews was this tip: you must ensure that the t-joints are properly in order as you build the frame up. You start by building it in sections - but you MUST ensure that the t-joints look as they do in directions. That is, one at end of the section has the safety net enclosure post slot. The one behind it does not - it's plain. This must be same on ALL sections before you flip them over and slide them together to build the round frame. Otherwise, you will have to undo half the strings, all of the bolts, and move the t-joints around till they are proper. That is, as you go around in a circle, you have plain t-joint, then safety-post-joint, then plain t-joint, then safety-post-joint. There are 6 safety post joints, and 6 plain t-joints on that frame - and they ALTERNATE. Make sure you alternate, or you'll be up late completing the assembly..... Once I got it done, I was veyr impressed with the quality, and the girls absolutely love it - great exercise (wears them out for bedtime!), and dad loves jumping too! Highly recommended, easy to ship at Walmart to store, and the price was RIGHT.

I had a Skywalker from about 5 years ago I think??? After 5 years of being outside used year round it finally had to go, it was durable and I thought was worth the price. New Skywalker has improvements from my old one. The net being inside the springs is good because the kids had all gotten pinched by the springs somewhere along the way. The door way has been improved with a zipper our original one was just Velcro and wasn't sealable in year two. The pipes that hold up the netting are attached much better, old ones were attached with U-bolts that rusted over and probably weren't the safest. They seemed to have changed all the metal that is use, pipe are now galvanized as opposed to painted. Springs are different as well. My old one had some rusted springs in the end, the new one my hold up longer rust free. Over all it looks like the Skywalker is an improvement from my 5 year old one which I was perfectly happy with. Price wise it is hard to beat.

Im not much of a Walmart fan, but the product we bought from them was much better than I had anticpated it would be. We bought the Skywalker 14' trampoline for our kids for Christmas. I was thinking it would have missing parts, poor quality and so forth. However, once the kids and I began assembling it, I noticed the "small" things that really made a difference in its quality. We've only had it a week now, but the kids love it. It was easy to put together. It took 5 hrs with the kids help, but I bet if I did it alone it would have taken 1/2 that time... :) . The engineers must have listened to feedback about other similar products because some of the small things that they did made a difference in the durability and overall quality. The guidelines state a max of 200lbs on it, but I think that is more for "guidance" or accountability. I was on it with one of my kids with no problems and that was about 250lbs. So far we are very happy with the trampoline.

Place net on pole before springing the mat, then set spring in 4 corner of the mat than put netting thru rings as you set the rest of springs. The instruction doesn't say to do this, but it keep you from unspringing then respringing. Then after all spring set, dislodge poles lay on mat then install spring pad, replace poles install black pole pads on bottom, done! This will shave hours off installation. Less than Hour to build this way!