Customer Reviews

LEGO Fun With Building Tub

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The original premise behind Legos and other open ended construction toys was that there was no prescribed, or proscribed, way of using them. So how come when I want to buy Legos all I find anymore are sets to make specific items? This was the only one available which wasn't like that and I raised my hands and shouted, "Hallelujah!" It's great, various aged kids can play with it and not get all frustrated that they can't make what it's supposed to make. It does have an idea book but you can throw that away.

I bought this for our five year old, and he really enjoys playing with them. I like this generic collection of mult-purpose bricks better than the sets that are designed to build one unique item. For the price, you really get a lot of stuff including two mini figures and some translucent blocks. On the down side, there are a lot of the smaller bricks (1 x 2 and 1 x 1), but it is still a good value. After playing with this for a few days I found that my son wanted plates, bricks (2 x 4 and 2 X 8), and wheels to make cars. I went to lego dot com where I was able to buy these specific things. Also, if you want to find some odd parts from old sets (even going back to the 1970s) try bricklink dot com.

In summary, buy this set first from Amazon and then go to lego dot com to buy wheels, bricks and plates and go to bricklink dot com to buy specific parts.

My son will sit for hours and play with any of the legos toys. They only compare to his K'nex. He loves to build entire hotels and describes the rooms for me as he does so. He also has been known to make maps using the flat square piece that you can buy seperately to build up on. It is definitally worth while to go for both. He is very creative with them and the tubs they come in make for easy pick up and storage. :)

Great as most lego products are. The only problem I have is the limited amount of instructions to make stuff. Lego alwasy does that, they show lots of pictures but no instructions and when your child sees a particular thing he wants, you have to spend all week trying to figure out how to construct it.

The storage container also has a groove going around the bottom and so the small lego pieces get stuck there and it poses a problem when you are searching.

Still worth it though

Classic building blocks from when I was a kid. Now my daughter experiences the same enjoyment I did when I was a kid.

We found this on line since no one around are area carried lego's that weren't theme orientated... It was great to find it and even better to see how reasonably priced it was... of course it was just a few days before Christmas but we got it right on time. I will definitely come back to this site for future purchases.

This is not the anniversary set, as Amazon proclaims. It does not have any special gold colored bricks and does not come in the anniversary tub (gold and black). If you really want the anniversary set, don't buy this one! Also, this set did not have any vehicle pieces, no people, and no pieces for building houses (no doors or windows). My son was disappointed by this so I had to go to the Lego website and order extra pieces to supplement it. I would only recommend this if you want to add bricks to your existing lego collection. Not a great starter set.