Lego - 'let's you go'.

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...I would just like to write a review on the benefits and/ or the downfalls of Lego, something that even at the age of 26 I do still enjoy playing with with my brother's four children - any comments, you will get a slap! Lego are those small little bricks that no doubt will have played a part in the life of any child, at some point during their early lives. It is something that has been around for many years, as my two older brothers (being 36 and 38) both also used to play with it themselves along with their own friends - in fact, most of mine was hand downs from them! There are many different bricks used in Lego, from rectangular bricks through to doors; windows; wheels, and even the bases on which to build your masterpieces on too have shown at the Tate Modern! In my opinion, Lego is an excellent way of encouraging a child...

dynamicnurse 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Lego Lego Lego

Advantages: Great learing and never goes out of fashion
Disadvantages: can be expensive

...Lego Lego Lego, I love it. When I was a child it was the only thing I would ever play with. I owned a big box of it and I would dissaper into my bedroom for hours making houses to play pretend, I would see how high I could build a tower up the wall, make cars and casltes. This never failed to amuse me. my son has never been the building type so I never bought him any he would much prefer to be destructive. So when I met my current partner it was great his son loved lego it made it so much easier for me and him to relate to each other too we would spend hours building things and using our imagination. Lego has come along since I was a little girl they now make real looking cars, star wars figures, Indian Jones and much more. This is one of the main presants that my step son has every year due to each year they bring out another...

hitchjo 24.08.2009 · Read review
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lovely lego

Advantages: good
Disadvantages: none

...Stuck for a pressie to buy a child? Why not buy some Lego/Duplo? Lego has been around since I was a baby starting in a carpenters shop in Denmark. In 1949 plastic bricks were produced the forerunner of Lego and in 1954, (the year I was born) the name Lego was registered LEGO name derived from Danish Leg GOdt play well. Lego has developed a lot from the simple sets when I was a child to magnificent sets enabling a child to build all his/her dreams. Kits to build house, cars, farms, zoos, playgrounds, trains, roads, and many more. LEGO produces Duplo a building brick set for small fingers suitable for children 2 upwards. These are bricks we use at work, finding them good to encourage manual dexterity fairly easy to put together. In good bright colours, and a variety of shapes and designs. The next stage of smaller...

mumsymary 23.12.2002 (01.01.2007) · Read review
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LEGO OF ME !

Advantages: GREAT GAME.
Disadvantages: NONE

...Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Xbox 360 ************************************************************ ~Introduc tion~ Unlike the previous Lego game which focused on the Star Wars trilogy, this new one is all about the magnificent Indiana Jones. ~Game~ You play of course as Dr Jones and travel thorough jungles, mountains and lava filled caves searching for the world's most valuable treasures. Ok here goes: Single player mode You must traverse each adventure, there are 3 in all. Each adventure has 6 levels, got it. Along the way you can unlock characters and play as them if you wish or even create your own character. Each level is packed with hidden 'unlockables', at least 50 characters throughout the game each with their own special ability. As with the star wars game there are no voiceovers in the cut away...

Maximus-Qualitus 27.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Xbox 360)

Create with Lego.

Advantages: Good building toy
Disadvantages: little pieces hurt when you stand on them :-{ ouch

...The Lego creator box 6161 is a great starter, or continuation box. At the Lego shop http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=6161 this toy costs £9.91. I suspect in the Amazon add they have got the wrong picture and number of the box with the price 19.99 the bigger box number 6166 costs 19.99p, The Lego comes in a sturdy deep rectangular blue box with a lid. I know from experience what an advantage it is to have a good sturdy box to keep Lego in. It keeps all the Lego together in one place. Keeps Lego away tidily. The card boxes break fairly easily. Much easier to have a big tub for your child to put all the Lego pieces in. Remember do encorage your child to pick them all up they are painful to stand on with bare feet. Lego is easy to clean just a wash in hot soapy water Now in this blue creator Lego box is an assortment of 221...

mumsymary 07.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Creator: Brick Box

Lego, legis, legit...

Advantages: Long-lasting, wide appeal, versatile, creative
Disadvantages: Somewhat expensive

...Lego, at its most basic, consists of brightly coloured building blocks which snap together to form reasonably strong walls or other constructions. When I was a child, in the 1960s, there was not much more to it, and although I had a few pieces of Lego furniture, it didn't hold my interest for long. I can remember my brothers building cars and garages and playing all kinds of ingenious games, while I read books and thought of it as a 'boy' toy. So when I had two sons of my own, I assumed they would play with Lego. Sure enough, they seemed to gravitate to it whenever they saw it, and by the time they were about three or four, were beginning to collect it themselves. * Modern Lego sets * Lego has changed enormously in the past 35 years. It's no longer merely coloured bricks with a few windows, doors and wheels; now it comes...

Kukana 28.08.2003 (31.08.2003) · Read review
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Lego City Police Station - 7744 - Great addition to lego fans!

Advantages: Assembly in stages, easy to follow for older children/adults
Disadvantages: Base a bit floppy for moving the police station around

...My son got this Lego City Police Station for his 8th birthday. We paid £48.89 from Argos for it. It took me and my husband quite a while to help my son build it. But the end result was great. It comes in one box. Within the box are smaller bags. All the bags are numbered and all have a booklet inside for the particular part of the police station/vehicle. None of the items were missing, there were a few bits over though, which come in handy for the lego box! It is really easy to follow (for an adult), but I don't think my 8 year old would have had the knowledge or patience to build it himself. Some children his age probably could, but I'd say any child would probably need a bit of help from an adult. I think it's quite nice to have adult and child building something together anyway, so this isn't a disadvantage in my eyes! My...

lwbilw16 15.05.2009 · Read review
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Jurassic Park was made using LEGO

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Disadvantages: None

...I remember the days when building blocks were made of wood. Stack them up and knock them down, and believe me, there are only so many ways different ways that you can do that. Then in 1932 along came a Danish carpenter called Ole Kirk Christiansen. His firm manufactured stepladders, ironing boards and wooden toys. Thinking no doubt that there must be a better way to entertain children, he invented the word LEGO. Born out of the two Danish words "LEg GOdt" it means, "play well" in English. In 1949, he was the first in Denmark to experiment with plastic moulded toys and from this was born the plastic LEGO brick, as we know it today. Initially it was only intended for sale in Denmark, but the idea was so revolutionary, that soon it had spread worldwide and eventually was hailed as. "Toy of the Century" by the British Association...

RobinLawrie 16.07.2001 · Read review
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Lego Crossroads

Advantages: Good adition to Lego roads.
Disadvantages: None

...There are masses of Lego sets available that I could tell you about because I have work with children many years and Lego is always a popular construction set to have in child care /school situations. Lego is also a popular toy at home for children to play with too. Children love to build play scenes with Lego constructing buildings or building vehicles. To help make the scene there are base plates available some with just studs on to build the houses onto others like these are road ways to drive Lego cars on these base plates also have studs around the flat road so that your child can use Lego bricks to make road side scenery or houses. Lego Straight & Crossroad plates item number 7280. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The road base plate I am talking about today is the Lego Straight & Crossroad plates item number...

mumsymary 13.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Building Plates: Straight & Crossroad Plates

Lego - Can I think of a better title? No!

Advantages: Fun, creative, historic, durable
Disadvantages: Some funny bricks, costly

...Lego... perhaps the best toy of the 20th Century, and certainly the most popular one. Adults (apparently) and children play with Lego, construction buildings, scenes, decorations and nearly everything else using small, durable plastic bricks. Lego's legacy began in 1932 in Billund, Denmark with a joiner named Ole Kirk Christiansen. He made ironing boards, stepladders and WOODEN TOYS. In 1934 he named his product LEGO from the Danish words: Leg godt (play well), strangely in Latin LEGO means 'I put together' In '42 the factory burnt down, however the company (small back then) rebuilt it. ~The idea~ People put Lego brick together to make constructions. The plastic brick are to represent building bricks. Constructions can be of many things, everything from err... art to buildings. A page even exists on Lego...

andersonfamily 03.03.2005 (30.03.2005) · Read review
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