The boy’s one true love is not a girl, not a favourite cuddly toy, nor me or his father. It’s Lego. Given that his entire Christmas list consisted of Lego kits from the various ranges, we were keen to avoid adding to the multiple crates that already sit in our living room. Lego’s new range of games allowed us to do just that, whilst still buying the boy something that we knew he would love. We chose the Lego Lava Dragon game.
The games range are mainly marked as 7+ (although a few are 6+ and 8+) but we decided that as the boy will happily build a Lego kit designed for any age, and as we would be the ones playing with him, the issue of a year and a half wouldn’t be a problem. The game comes with two sets of instructions, one for constructing the playing board and another containing the rules of the game. The boy set to work with the board which didn’t pose a problem for him and pretty quickly we were ready to play.
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that until he decided to play by his own rules you mean…
The boy is such a cheat!!!!!
LOL!!!!
.-= urbanvox said The first of the year =-.
My dad started getting Legos for me when I was 12, the first year they were available here in the States. Then as my 3 kids were growing up we bought them all the kits. Now that my sons are in their late 30′s, and i am wanting to clean out my attic, I have a huge collection of Legos to parse out. The problem is that the older son made the younger one “buy” his sets like 3 or 4 times during the years, then would somehow retake possession of them. Fast forward to now, the younger wants them all. Now it needs to be said that neither son is married, and marriage and kids are not in this universes possibilities. Why I dont know, I guess you would call it the Uncle Larry syndrome. (My namesake uncle who married at 55, and promptly died 3 months later)
So regarding said Legos, I have three options.
First, give them all to the younger son, for I know the payment story to be true.
Two, separate them and give most to the younger and some to the older
Three, since I believe that toys should be played with and not collected, I could say i shipped them off, blame the missing Legos on the shipper and instead give them to a bunch of real kids or a group like shelter etc.
What say you Solomon?
They do have a great future set for your son, Lego robotic kit. Pricey at $250 American dollars, but for the budding computer programmer geek, its a great look.
.-= LarryLilly said Goodby Bandit, see you in the next life. =-.
Glowstars Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 10:40
I’d either give the lego away to somewhere needy or hang on to it at your place for future grandchildren/nephews/nieces to play with when they come over.
Lego is wonderful. The best toys and the imitators are just, well, rubbish.
As for Larry Lilly – if you really want them to be played with, I know a Bosnian nursery that would bite you hand off for some lego. It is sooo expensive here (expensive and then some more on top of that in a country were the average wage is something in the region of $600 per month and 40% are unemployed)!
Glowstars Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 10:42
You’re right about those imitators – the boy bought some mega blocks bricks and they just don’t stick together as well as the real thing. They’re not any cheaper either.
Lego can be quite pricey (especially if you go for the film-branded versions like star wars etc) but it’s nothing compared to the cost overseas. When the Brasilian lot came over and wanted to bring the boy Lego presents, we had to tell them to wait till they got here or they’d be spending even more than they would here.