Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

I was so excited about this tent and it was great and easy to set up, except for the fly set up which is not intuitive at all, until the 4th trip and all of a sudden one of the orange poles is bent. One section is at 90 degrees and we don't know why. I like the tent and trust NF to produce quality products that last a long time, but still need poles that don't randomly bend.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

Overall tent is very good. You have to stake it well in windy conditions like near a lake or ocean. The best case is weather is clear and you do not need the fly. The front porch is great, and salvaged dinner in a rainy night. We have not had issues with rain. Because tent is tall, the wind can be noisy. Generally best to have 2 people set up, but 1 can do it alone taking a few minutes longer.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

I've worked in several small high-end gear shops for almost 16 years and in that time, have owned probably two dozen tents, ranging from 1P-6P in size. This is the 5th or 6th large car-camping style tent I've used and without a doubt the best one! I have had other similar tents from Kelty, Sierra Designs, Marmot and Mountain Hardwear.
The vestibule is AWESOME! Great place to get in out of the elements and clean our dogs off before jumping into the actual tent. It's like a bedroom with a front porch! There's also enough room in the vestibule to sit on a couple of chairs if it's raining out. The storage pockets in the front in between the two doors is a great spot to put gear, additional perimeter pockets are useful when lying on our cots at night.
Setup is easy for two and certainly manageable for one, the pole sleeves are color-coded to aid in this.
We've spent a couple of nights out in the rain and thus far, everything seems water tight!
The pole-bending issue I've read about isn't an issue at all. With large diameter poles that are that long, they're bound to get a little mis-shaped, but once they bend like this initially, they will be done bending. Because both of the those sleeves are the same arc, the bend will always end up where it needs to be.

Ventilation is good, especially considering all the mesh on the front doors looking out into the vestibule. Yes, a breeze can come in under and fly if it's windy out, but more often than not, this is a welcome breeze and keeps any condensation to a minimum. After seeing ours, my brother has purchased this tent, and now another friend is getting one.
Choose this tent if you want a ton of livable space with quality fabrics and a good warranty. We look forward to many more nights in it!

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

We used this tent one time and the poles bent. We weren't under any harsh weather conditions either. We will be contacting the company, and if they provide us with replacement poles I will post a review with higher stars.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

This is a follow up to my earlier review where I had set up the tent but hadn't been actually camping in it. Last summer our family of four spent fifteen nights in this tent at various campgrounds and discovered something alarming. Something is wrong with the design of this tent. Two of our poles bent and one snapped. I have owned many tents from cheap Canadian Tire tents to various MEC tents and I have never felt like I had to push so hard on poles to get them into place. North Face Canada was nice enough to send two replacement poles at no charge and those bent after one night of normal use. The rep tried to suggest that poles bending to conform to the tent was normal. Uhh not in my books.

The bottom line is there's a something wrong with the design of this tent and unless another TNF tent had a lot of favourable reviews and no mention of any problems I will be looking elsewhere in the future. A good alternative would be the Big Agnes Tensleep 6.

Also the "door mat" is a dumb add on. Campsites are generally dirt and people going in and out of the tent causes the mat to get really dirty. Will probably just tuck it under the tent.

Hopefully this tent lasts a few more seasons but I'm not optimistic.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

Set up was easy for one person. I had to return this tent because of too much wind coming into tent from under vestibule area INTO the tent as the door on the front, facing vestibule has NO coverage, only mesh. It is open to vestibule and if you want privacy, you will have to leave your tent, get out, zip down the vestibule area to the outside. Any and all cold/wind coming right into this tent.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

Got Kaiju 6 in May 2016 (less than 3 months ago) as an upgrade to a smaller Marmot tent, used it 5 times.
Roomy (the vestibule is very practical), comfortable, ergonomic, good construction. Erecting of the tent with two 22 ft long poles is a two man job.
P.S. My first review from 8/12 didn't get through by whatever reason. This is the second attempt.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

Situation
Got it in May 2016 (less than 3 months ago) as an upgrade to a smaller Marmot tent, used it 5 times.
Roomy, comfortable, ergonomic, good construction.

One segment of an orange aluminum pole bent about 20 degrees without wind or any other evident reason. Later another segment of the same pole snapped and deformed at the zone when one pole enters another. The tent was used in very easy and gentle conditions – no crazy kids or adults with bad balance.

Expectation with repair/replacement
1 One of the reviewers on the TNF website said: "We pulled down the misshapen tent and sent the poles into TNF and got them back in less than 10 days no charge."
2 Warranty section of TNF site says about the poles "The average repair cost is around $15, and the average replacement cost is around $42.00 per pole."

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

Tent is intuitive to set up. It works very well and we are very happy with it. We have a family of four and fit spaciously on 6" thick air mattresses; one double mattress and two twins is a bit tight, but two doubles will fit perfectly.

If there could be one design improvement it would be with the attached "welcome mat". The tent would work better if there were two little separate ones rather than one larger (centered) one. If you are like me, you want to open the zippers as little as possible to minimize mosquitos entering. Because the zippers open in a "C" path bottom-to outside-to top (not vertically up the center), the welcome mat is not as useful as it otherwise could be. You have to open the zippers a lot to properly use the centered welcome mat. But to check myself--you know this tent works well when placement of a welcome mat is the suggested improvement.

Comments about TheNorthFace KAIJU 6:

The instruction was not clear enough to set up the tent --- very minimal instructional words and the illustration which trying to be IKEA instruction was not clear enough what each instruction showing. We luckily found a Youtube video for someone setting up the Kaiju 6 and we were able to set up the tent by following the video.