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4.5
Pros:•Very comfy•Good for watching movies, playing games, napping•Large enough to stretch out in (I'm 5'3/160cm)Cons:•Foam comes compressed (understandably for shipping purposes) and is difficult to break apart•Needs a few days to fluff before use•Needs an extra bag of foam to help with fluffiness (other reviewers have mentioned this and, fortunately, I took their advice)Honestly, the cons are pretty minor as they're more about convenience than anything (except for breaking apart the foam, that part was not fun). Overall, if you want a giant bag chair without paying $1000+, I'd recommend this one. I've had mine for several months now and it's holding up really well.When we initially got this “bean” bag chair (foam-filled monstrosity), we were pretty disappointed. We even went ahead and requested a return, which Amazon customer service was helping to accommodate (you can’t really stuff this particular genie/sack of foam back into its bottle/compression bag). The sack seemed underfilled and generally underwhelming, and it did not appear to be filled with memory foam (just your standard, everyday foam). The cover also had some matted glue spots along one side, marring the pleasantly soft fur feel. However, after some back and forth with the seller, they sent along more foam and a new, glue-free cover.AND THEN, the battle of wills between me and the foam demon I affectionately dubbed FluffBeast 2020 began. So, the additional foam arrived in a compression bag, which I opened to reveal a giant plastic bag of (now rapidly expanding) shredded memory foam, complete with MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF TINY, STATICKY LINT FOAM. This thing. Exploded. All over my son’s room. I don’t entirely know what possessed me to try to wrangle the beast at 38wks pregnant, solo, on an 80-degree day, but there I was, with a giant plastic trash bag filled with foam bits, covered in foam lint, trying to figure out the best way to get said linty foam INTO the chill sack. I thought maybe I could stuff the whole bag into the sack and then cut it and remove the plastic while cleverly dumping the foam into the sack. ...I do not recommend this method. At least not solo (and definitely not when impaired by a beach-ball-sized baby bump). My husband suggested I use our canister vacuum and vacuum up the foam then dump it by canisterfuls into the sack. This immediately clogged the vacuum, but works when you’ve handled all the bigger chunks and are just left with the linty foam dust layer at the end. So, for the bigger chunks, I used the compression bag, zipped it up so it was only open at the top, scooped the foam into it, and then unzipped the sides and pulled out the bag. It took about 1.5hrs to get all the foam in there, including the time to vacuum up the lint and pick all the foam bits out of my son’s stuffed orangutan (I did find some foam clinging to his crocheted baby blanket the other day, though, ngl... it’s like the sand of the upholstery world... it just gets EVERYWHERE). Ultimately, though, despite the fact that my darling husband now thinks it’s overfilled (I told him he’s welcome to fix it himself but I’m not unzipping that thing ever again), I’m pretty pleased with it. Maybe it’s the fact that I put so much effort into bonding with my chill sack, or maybe it’s that I do find it really soft and squishy and pleasant to sit on, but I am quite pleased. And our toddler loves to be thrown directly into the center of our overstuffed, pill-bottle-shaped seating option in his room, so wins all around, IMO.Husband still thinks it’s lumpy and not really memory foam, so he gives it 3.5 stars. I think he just missed out on the quality time and hasn’t built up enough of a relationship with FluffBeast.On the merits of the chair itself: 3 stars for the actual chair, 4 stars for value, 5 stars for customer service, and OMG negative 25 stars for whatever the eff the restuffing process was because holy sh*t I’m actually concerned I inhaled some of that lint and it’s just taking up permanent residence in my lungs. Pans out to 3.5 stars IMO (only counting the first three and I hope you don’t have to add more stuffing to your own chairs) and I rounded up because the ultrafur cover is really soft and nice.I loved this bean bag it was amazing and spent all my day on it it take 1 or 2 days for it to expand you can pull some of it apart byt the pices that are still stuck together you can just pull them apart will be biying again!We love this. It is so comfy but, man it stinks. It smells like foam and, makes the whole room smells like foam.When I bought this on Feb 1, 2021, most of the reviews were great, or showed great customer service. Now I see several reviews who must have bought theirs around the same time, all with the same issue I'm experiencing.It arrived a couple of days early. We followed the directions, even other review recommendations, to try to make sure it would fluff to its best potential. But what should be a long tube shape looks more like a flat round pancake. It is about 6" off the ground, and if you lay on it, you definitely hit the floor. The cover appears to be the right shape, just not nearly enough filling. Maybe half of what it should have. Obviously, it's expanded to a point it won't fit back into a box to ship it back.Otherwise, this looked very promising as we removed it from the box. The Chocolate Micro-suede removeable cover is definitely a chocolate brown, matching the images Amazon offers. The micro suede texture is soft, and seems well made. There is a very ample zipper opening for taking it off and putting it on. The inner lining is pre-stuffed with vacuum packed foam, wrapped in a large plastic bag, and then has an outer shipping bag that holds it into the shape of the box.If you have a sensitive nose or respiratory system, this does have an odor. It's not overpowering, and I can't smell it in the same room, but if I am rolling the bag and attempting to help it fluff, the chemical smell is quite noticeable next to it.We removed the outer shipping bag, set the plastic bag with the inner liner into the cover, then pulled the plastic bag off, and started to pull the inner fluff apart to help it expand. We 'rolled' the lounger every 20 minutes after zipping it up, and It seemed to be expanding at a great rate, until it just... stopped.UPDATE:We talked by phone with someone at Chill Sack. They say to give the sack a full 5 days to expand, for anyone else who worries about theirs. For us, 5 days still did not get it up to the size it should be, but instead of a 6" tall pancake, we did fluff to a 16" tall donut. We made another call to them, and after sending photos and order details, they agreed we are missing some stuffing and will be sending some out. Will update once it arrives (and expands).***Fingers are crossed!***Don't make the same mistake I did. The 6' is 71 lbs! It says the weight in the product description but I missed it. I contacted Chill Sack on their website and they worked with me and sent me a 5' bag, but not until I spent $70 to ship the 6' bag back.I've had to take 4 huge garbage bags of foam out to fit it into the 5' bag. What a mess! I'll save it as replacement foam when I need it. It's a huge pain to remove the foam and get it into the new bag.Good product, just be aware of what you are ordering.I had to add 40lbs of additional memory foam shredding to get it to look like their image.The most comfiest beanbag I have ever sat on. Thing is when you melt into it you never wanna get up. Does pong a but when it arrives but a bit frebreze solves that. Would be perfect for someone to sleep on. It is massive so small spaces it takes over. I will never by a bean filled bean bag again.
