Customer Reviews

Mega Bloks 200 Piece Duffle Bag

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My nephew has the 80 count set, which my 17 month enjoyed playing with. I purchased the 200 count Mega Blocks thinking that would give us more things to build, because it would include more pieces. I expected some of the larger 6 peg legos since the 80 count package had several. In fact, I was expecting additional 6 peg legos since it was the 200 count package, so I was disappointed to see it didn't include any. Instead of including bigger legos, they just inserted more of the single peg legos. Now I wish I would have purchased 2 of the 80 count package instead.

Overall, I love the legos. I just wish they wouldn't have put so many of the single peg pieces in the 200 count.

We already had the 80 piece bag of Mega Bloks, which my 2 year old daughter has played with extensively since she was introduced to them in her day care class. She really enjoys putting every block we have into a single tower, knocking it over and starting again.

The bag is great for storage. Strong plastic, woven cloth handles. The one I received was red, not yellow, so the picture may be different from the bag you receive also.

As fas as bloks go, the 200 piece set contained several pieces that my 80 piece set did not. I got a set of wheels, two "roof"-shaped pieces (or nose-cones) and at least one 90-degree angled piece.

Highly recommend for toddlers to satisfy the building urge. Light-weight, robust, colorful, easy to assemble and disassemble, hard to swallow. Of course always use adult supervision.

These blocks are great for motor skill development and allow a child to use his or her imagination. I would not want parents not to purchase this toy because of incorrect information they receive about this product from a review (kids love this toy!) I did an internet search for "mega bloks harmful chemicals" and discovered this excerpt from one of the web pages I looked at regarding toy safety:

Many toy companies are planning to or already have eliminated phthalates from production surpassing the CPSC's voluntary ban. A recent example is Mega Bloks, a manufacturer of preschool building blocks. In an October 16, 2000 press release, a Mega Bloks spokesman said, "Parents should be reassured that their infants will not be exposed to any phthalates or PVC while playing with Mega Bloks construction toys." NYPIRG commends Mega Bloks and other manufactures for protecting children from potentially toxic chemicals.

The quality of the blocks are good, but they fit inconsistently. Some fit snugly while others are quite loose.

Also, this set doesn't have very many usable pieces. They have packed this kit with too many single pieces which don't serve any purpose other than stacking on top of each other; however, since they don't fit snugly, they fall apart and topple over.

All in all, this is a "mixed bag" and I wish they had more pieces of longer length.

I purchased these for my 18 month old son last year for Christmas, and while he did get some use out of them, there are better blocks out there. The biggest problem we have experienced is that the blocks do not fit perfectly together, so when my son is building a tower, sections will spin and fall over, or will completely fall apart when he tries to move them from one place to another. This leads to some serious frustration for a two year old! We have since purchased the Lego Duplo blocks and had a much better experience.

Great product as my child loves to play with them, but the biggest issue is that they have so many single pieces and not enough large pieces. My child likes to build walls and the single pieces fall down when they get too tall and if there were more larger pieces, that wouldn't happen. Other than that, it's a great toy.

I purchased the Megablocks for my 4 year old grandson. He loved them immediately and took them outside to play with them in his sandbox. He loves to build BIG buildings so this set fit the bill perfectly. I noticed also that there were specially shaped pieces in the set which were nice such as a house and a car with turning wheels. The pieces fit together easily, colorful and the totebag was great for storing the pieces.

We have two young boys, a 2 and 5 year old. They love our old set of about 100 pieces, however we always seemed to run out of blocks. So I decided to purchase this set so we had 2x as many. The bag is nice and there are some new pieces that we didn't have before, such as the roof tops and angles pipes, however there were FAR TOO MANY SINGLE PEG PIECES. We were expecting a set with more 4 and 8 peg pieces so we could build our towers and castles bigger and better.
Overall, a good set, but we were disappointed in the small amount of larger pieces in this set.

At Christmas I bought the 80 piece set for my 2 year old grandaughter. She was thrilled, but I wasn't, because there weren't enough bloks to make more than a tower. The Easter Bunny brought her the 200 piece set. Now we could make a little fort for her 4" doll, we could make a bridge for the Duplo Lego train that she made,and we could really make a super tower. She took the 200 piece set home and I now have the 80 piece set. She loves these bloks. They are sturdy,easy to put together, and come in a great storage bag.





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Lots of pieces to play with.
Even better for toddler because it's bigger blocks.
One drawback is that many pieces are not made to fit perfectly.(They come off too easy)