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

A good foundation to build on

Advantages: great longlasting toy easy to clean
Disadvantages: none

...I play with Lego duplo building plates identical to this everyday; we have some at work, and guess what I have some at home for the grandchildren to build on. . Lego duplo is a really good construction toy and when your child is making a building base plates are good for added stability and a firm base to build on. Lego duplo is suitable for children aged 3 -5 years old, bit this really depends on their maturity, development and skills I have known under threes play happily with duplo and over 5's play with it too. Duplo helps develop your childs gross and fine motor skills , these plates being different colours are attractive and can help colour recognition. These base plates come in a set of 3, a red one a blue one a green one. Each of these base plates are 6 studs by 9 studs 54 studs in total. These plates are big enough...

mumsymary 12.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Lego Duplo Building Plates

Turning a corner with lego

Advantages: Promotes more opportunity for play and learning
Disadvantages: none

...Lego T junction and curved plate. Well you won't get far on your Lego road unless you have a curved plate to turn corners, or a T junction you turn the road to another destination, We have quite a large collection of Lego at work that includes at least 1 curved section and t junction. Road sections of Lego create more play opportunities for children and their Lego vehicles so a good circuit of road is an asset to a Lego collection. Lego sell 1 curved section and one T junction together for £5.99p at the Lego shop http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=7281. Its £9.24 at http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xDN-toys- -buildingsetsandblocks-buildingsets-tolegothemeslegotown Lego road pieces are thin squares of stiff plastic too difficult to bend. These pieces or road are a grey black with white road markings on. On the junction...

mumsymary 04.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Building Plates: T-Junction & Curved Road Plates

wow 480 pieces of lego

Advantages: good bricks
Disadvantages: painful if you sand on them

...Wow 480 little pieces of Lego. The large blue bucket(5519) containing these pieces was knocked of the shelf fortunately I had my shoes on, co's its painful when you stand on pieces of Lego children have scattered all over the room and not put away. Let's pick them all up please. This bucket contains a good assortment of pieces ,Somehow I can not just pick up the [pieces and put them all away I get involved in building, I can build a house with the standard 2,4 and eight stud bricks. I can builds with white bricks yellow bricks red bricks or blue. I build a red roof with sloping shaped bricks. There are several windows in this set, some window shutters. There are doors too. Now let's build the garden there is some fencing and a few flowers in this set. I can build a Lego tree with black and green bricks too ? Now we need...

mumsymary 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Creator: Creative Building

A red base

Advantages: excellent addition to duplo bricks
Disadvantages: none

...I have played with a red Duplo Lego building plate in our first year's class. .This building base was perfect for building our duplo house onto. Lego make a variety of coloured base building plates for all the different types of Lego. This red building plate model number 2598 is one for Duplo Lego bricks. There are 24x 24 studs measuring 38cm x 38cm t so space for a reasonable large construction. This building plate is square except that the corners are rounded; this makes it safer for your tot to carry no sharp corners. This base plate is also made in green. Building plates are an ideal addition to ant duplo set as they will give stability to that construction. They are good so that your child can extend their Duplo play scene and fix a person or a shed next to the house /tower that they have built. The colour being red is...

mumsymary 20.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Duplo: Large Red Building Plate

A brilliant brick set from Lego Duplo

Advantages: superb collection of bricks
Disadvantages: I am a bit old to play with them on my own

...for the different coloured bricks get them used to the names of colours , build blue/red towers. Talk to your child while playing with these bricks it will help their language development. You can also help number work count the bricks build towers and count the bricks , be careful though your child will undoubtedly knock the towers down , its added fun . After your child has build their lego constructions they might play with them making the man climb towers go to his house drive that rather rickety looking vehicle This set of bricks will cost you £ 29.35 from http://www.brickset.com and the lego shop. U.S. price $44.99 I looked at a couple of price comparison sites can not find it much cheaper anywhere. Have fun playing with your children and this Duplo set . These Duplo bricks are really good play value...

mumsymary 11.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lego Duplo Build & Play 5572

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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Review of Lego Police: Police Station

It looks like grass around the lego house

Advantages: good firm base
Disadvantages: none

...As any woman knows it's good to have a firm foundation from which to build from, whether it is her undergarment or her face paint. It is also inportant for a building to have a firm foundation, The same goes for your child's Lego building. Lego make several foundation plates one is the green 628. This thin, flat base plate is 10 inches square that's about 26cm square. This plate has 32 studs to fit Lego bricks onto. The plastic this base plate is made from is soft and a little bendy the edges are smooth and rounded it will not cut your fingers. . This base plate is thin because you can only fit Lego bricks to the top of it not the bottom. This base plate is green ideal for representing grass around your 3D Lego model. There are grey and other coloured base plates available but this one I think is the better colour...

mumsymary 04.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego Green Plates: Large Green Baseplate Educational Toy

Lets build a Duplo farm today

Advantages: good toy
Disadvantages: none

...Come on tot lets build a farm. I have the Lego Duplo build a farm set 5419. It usually costs £24, 99 from the Lego shop but its on sale for £17.49 at the mo see http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=5419. This Duplo set is rather good for a toddler aged about 2 years' to5 years old. This set includes many of the standard bright coloured Duplo bricks as well as 2 Duplo bricks with windows to build that farm building. There is a small green base plate to put the Duplo fence pieces on and plant the 2 flower bricks one yellow one blue. The animal water trough can be stuck there too .There are 2 bricks shaped a bit like grass tufts too There are 5 or 6 eye bricks a yellow one a brown one brown one red and 2 black bricks with eyes too. You could help your tot build a duck, a horse, a sheep, a dog and a chicken. Some of the standard bricks...

mumsymary 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lego In & Around Town: Duplo Build a Farm

Tis the Season to Play Lego

Advantages: It's Lego!!
Disadvantages: Not Cheap!!

...or Christmas pudding with a sprig of holly on. Nowadays Advent calendars have gone through a revolution, and as well as chocolate calendars you can get ones containing toys, rather like the one I am reviewing. ★ Lego ★ For anyone who hasn't come across Lego before, here is a brief background. Lego make a range of interlocking plastic building bricks. They also make windows, roof bricks, wheels, gears, pulleys and little Lego figures, otherwise known as Lego people. They make a wide range of different themed sets including Harry Potter Lego, Pirates, Castles and Star Wars Lego. My children have had Lego sets since they were very small starting with the Lego Duplo, for small people and building up to the Lego Technic, for more grown up little people. ★ The Lego Advent Calendar Range ★ Like a traditional Advent Calendar...

ciaomeister1 23.11.2006 (05.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of Lego City Advent Calendar