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Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch 150 Piece Set!

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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.

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.

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!!

My 6 yr old daughter Samantha had just 1 other set (Frontier Fort) until she got this set for Christmas from my mom. She wanted this set because it had horses in it ao my mom went and got it for her. This is one of her main toys she plays with. She enjoys making the pasture for her horses. It also comes with plenty of logs to build with. We are making another trip to Toys R Us this weekend to get her one more set (with more longer logs in it) so she will have plenty to go around when friends are over and to be able to build larger buildings.

I bought this for my 4 year old son Marshall at Christmas. He loves it. He plays with it almost every day! His twin sister Jamey likes it too but not as much as my son. I found this toy to be worth the money.

A great value for a great toy... no batterys, no determined set up or sounds, Just imagination and fun!!! A classic!!!

This is my first set of Lincoln Logs. It's fun to build the houses! Also, they've started coming with figurines and premade roofs! I've built the ones in the instructions AND the ones on the back of the box! Plus, it comes in a barrel box and is very easy to store!

This is a great consturtive toy! The ranch really allows my six year old daughter to know what it is like on a farm and to know how I grew up. She took them to school for show and tell and her whole class liked it. The Lincoln Logs Wild West Ranch Building Set is also priced right and is worth every penny! I bought it for my daughter two years agoand not one piece has broken! I am very satisfied with this prouduct and I hope you will be too! This is a wonderfull buy!

My son got this set from his Nana for Christmas when he was little. He liked to build different things with the logs. But once he found Legos that was the end of Lincoln Logs for him. I gave it five stars straight through because no kid should grow up without having the chance to have a Lincoln Log set of some kind!

When the toy arrived I was overwhelmed with the contents..I feel like I scored big ... the kids will love this christmas morning.