Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsSuper low quality and smells like dead fish.
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2018
First off, I will say that the table is pretty well packaged. The box had some noticeable battle scars on it from shipping, but this is sent double boxed, so none of the table pieces suffered any real damage. That's about where the positive part of this review ends.
The table itself is made of particle board with a super thin layer of laminate. It will tear, scratch and peel very easily. I did have some scratched areas on the legs out of the box. The legs themselves are tedious to put together and really a poor design. They are hollow, but appear to be solid by the way you have to put them together. I've seen a few inexpensive foosball tables in my day, but this is BY FAR the cheapest made one I've ever seen. The legs are actually only attached by two pieces of particle board on the outside each side of the legs, with nothing supporting the inner part of the legs. There also are no leg levelers on the legs. They include 4 little rubber pads and call these the "leg levelers"......hardly.
The play surface is just a piece of particle board with the play-field painted on. No coating or plastic over it, so I'm sure the paint will wear off over time and get beat up. I had a cheap table several years ago and the play-field had a clear type coating over it so that the paint wouldn't wear off. not the case here. The description also lists this table as having rod bushings, which is one of the factors that made me buy it. Not the case. There are cheap plastic sleeves in each hole for the rods to sit in, with no bushings. The holes are also much too large for the rods, so there is a lot of play in them when the action gets heated. I'm sure the hollow, cheap rods will soon get bent with play. Even the balls are cheap. They aren't even perfectly round, so when they are rolling slowly, they tend to not roll straight at all.
Finally, the table smells awful. I put this together in the garage (which took an incredibly long time) and while I was assembling it, my daughter came out and asked what smelled like dead fish? I left it in the garage for a few days and it stunk up the entire garage. I then put it in the house and it stunk up the basement. After 4-5 days the stink has lessened, or maybe we are just getting used to it. Regardless, it still stinks.
Overall, this is a super low quality table and I wouldn't expect it to last if you had some wild teens playing on it. I still can't believe how incredibly cheap the design is on the legs and that would probably be the first thing to break, which would be a real problem. I would not recommend this table to anybody. BTW, why do some foosball tables such as this one have three goalies? That's just dumb.
