Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch 150 Piece Set!

by Lincoln Logs

Product Features

• Build a wild west ranch play set, complete with all wood log structures and colorful figures, horses and accessories!
• This huge tub contains over 150 pieces!
• Includes 120 logs, 8 windows, 2 doors with frames, 2 chimneys, 1 lookout roof, 1 corral gate with 2 doors, 2 gable roofs, 1 flag, 1 trough, 4 barrels, 4 horses, 2 cowboys (dusty trail and buck n. bronco), label sheet and instructions.
• Lincoln Logs contains real wooden logs: a classic since 1916!
• Recommended Age: 3 - 7 years.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• ASIN: B0000520HN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,070 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Wild West adventurer Buck N. Bronco and his pal Dusty Trail are roundin' up some wild horses and building the finest ranch this side of the Mississippi. Children can spend hours--on their own or with friends--helping them construct their western compound. There are enough real-wood Lincoln Logs (114 to be exact) and brightly colored plastic awnings, doors, and windows to make at least three structures on the ranch. There are barrels, four horses, and even a water trough. Instructions for a corral, a blacksmith's shop, and a small fort (complete with lookout roof and flag) are included, and, of course, there are many other building possibilities, some of which are pictured on the giant tub the set is packed in. --M. Sullivan

Product Description

Wild West adventurer Buck N. Bronco and his pal Dusty Trail are roundin' up some wild horses and building the finest ranch this side of the Mississippi. Children can spend hours--on their own or with friends--helping them construct their western compound. There are enough real-wood Lincoln Logs (114 to be exact) and brightly colored plastic awnings, doors, and windows to make at least three structures on the ranch. There are barrels, four horses, and even a water trough. Instructions for a corral, a blacksmith's shop, and a small fort (complete with lookout roof and flag) are included, and, of course, there are many other building possibilities, some of which are pictured on the giant tub the set is packed in.

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Customer Reviews

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Safe but not challengin, April 6, 2003

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch 150 Piece Set! (Toy)

Lincoln logs are one of the best building toys available. unfortunatly these logs are almost fully prebuilt. This removes quite a bit of the learning experience for the child. Children do not need the toys prebuilt. they should still need to do more than place the pre-built roof on a pre-built home. Lincoln logs needs to go back to allowing us to assemble the home the way we want it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Ranch! It's a Fort! It's Lincoln Logs!, May 8, 2005

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Lonnie E. Holder "The Review's the Thing" (Columbus, Indiana, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch 150 Piece Set! (Toy)

As a child, Lincoln Logs were one of my favorite toys. You could build houses, forts, roads, fences, and just about anything else you could imagine for a piece of wood. Lincoln Logs have changed over the years, but they remain a wonderful toy to stimulate imagination.

This particular set is one of the larger sets available with 150 pieces, and 114 of those are wood logs. I think that if you are going to get Lincoln Logs, the more you have the better. I always wanted ever more Lincoln Logs to build even bigger forts, which was one of my favorite themes. The western and frontier themes seem to be somewhat old-fashioned for many children who would rather be punching video game buttons for hours than imagining what it would be like to create houses by hand, and then living in them.

This particular set includes pieces that are improvements over the original. Plastic windows, people, animals, a ladder and other miscellaneous pieces increase the imagination factor rather than detract from it. I initially was disappointed that the wood-slat roof pieces were missing from this set, but quickly realized that the plastic roofs remained in place as opposed to the wood slats that seemed to fall off the roof with little encouragement. On the other hand, you could use the roof slats in other arrangements, such as bridges and roads. The plastic roofs are better for younger children, though older children would benefit from the hand-eye coordination and the problem solving skills the wood roof pieces provided.

While I think it is interesting to build the models included in the original instructions, which includes a corral, blacksmith's shop and small fort, Lincoln Logs are sufficiently versatile and easy to use that even very young children begin stacking them with ease in their own configurations. This capability is a real imagination builder. I prefer Lincoln Logs for their greater reliance on imagination than most other building blocks and toys, which tend to emphasize a specific configuration.

John Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, first created Lincoln Logs in 1916. Strangely, he claimed that the construction of the foundation of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel was his inspiration for the toy rather than log cabins. The toys were an instant success because they developed good hand-eye coordination and for the other reasons noted above. The toys became an even bigger success after World War II and the baby boom era.

Lincoln Logs are one of the few toys that seemed to have survived for decades. There have been many challengers to Lincoln Logs, and they are probably much less popular with children today because of the many more sophisticated choices. However, Lincoln Logs remain a great toy, especially for younger children. Even older children, like those in there 40s and 50s, can find a lot of enjoyment in a toy that was much more popular in a previous era, and retains most of the characteristics that were the reason for that popularity.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reliving childhood, March 16, 2002

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Karen Kent (Cheyenne,WY) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch 150 Piece Set! (Toy)

I am 45 years old and I played with Lincoln Logs with my brothers. My sons are 5 and 2 and they have only recently discovered the joys of imagining the 'old west' with their Lincoln Logs. We have just one problem. We have three different sets that all ended up together in the same toy box. ... We are very happy that Lincoln Logs have remained real wood -- it adds so much more realism to our already creative young minds. Thank you for remaining real!!