Advantages: Hours of fun whatever your age Disadvantages: sets can be quite pricey
Could I have bought a better present, in short the answer has to be NO!
I bought a massive tub which says that you can make 18 models out of thh contents so I tought that my two eldest children would be ale to share it. When they do get to play with it when Daddy isn't they have great fun building with it. It has encouraged my five year old to help my 3 year old more and teach him how to put the pieces together.
The box comes with extras like stickers to put on the completed models and full instructions on how to make things like helicopters, boats, police cars and motorbikes. In truth we never use the instructions I prefer to let my children use their imaginations.
This product offers great fun and incourages the use of imaginations and helps with hand eye co-ordination. ...
sewbizzie 29.08.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Meccano
Having completed opinions on LEGO and K’NEX, I took a look at other categories on ciao for similar construction sets and found to my surprise that the granddaddy of them all, the one that all other sets are based on, has not had a single opinion written about it. I am referring of course to Meccano.
Fifty years ago, the greatest thing that a boy could aspire to at Xmas, was a Meccano set. It was the ultimate possession and hours would be spent poring over magazines with pictures of these wonderful red and green playthings. I call it a plaything in the loosest of terms, as grown men were just as keen to get their hands on it. What then was Meccano? It was a set of tinplate sections with holes drilled around them; thin steel rods and brass cogs, with nuts and bolts to connect the whole thing together. This may sound ...
RobinLawrie 08.08.2001
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Meccano
Advantages: Action packed bomb movie Disadvantages: none really
Director: Jan De Bont
Producers: Mark Gordon and Ian Bryce
Writers: Graham Yost
Stars: Keanu Reaves, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Dennis Hopper and Joe Morton.
Released in 1994 this movie used a Greyhound bus full of passengers to create a truly entertaining, if predictable, story
**BRIEF PLOT**
Jack Traven, (played by Keanu Reaves) and Harry Temple, (played by Jeff Daniels) are working as SWAT explosive expert for the Los Angeles police department.
An old enemy, Howard Payne, (played by Dennis Hopper), whom the pair thought dead, re-emerges to take revenge on Jack for ruining one of his plans.
Howard explosively gets Jack attention and then tells him about his new plan, involving a Greyhound bus, some innocent passengers and a bomb which will explode if the bus drops below a certain speed?..
Jack locates ...
blissman70 25.06.2008
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