Building Set Reviews

My parents just bought my son (six, almost seven) an array of Rokenbok stuff, including this skip track loader.

Like the other vehicles, this one is extremely agile, and the radio controller works phenomenally. The track/treads let this loader go all over the ramps and decks, where some of the wheeled vehicles fear to tread (also nice that the balls don't easily get stuck underneath, requiring a "hand" to get going again).

However, actually loading any balls in the front bucket is quite difficult. It took me about half an hour f practice to be able to get even one or two balls to stay in, and my son has yet to get the hang of it. Mildly frustrating for him, but not to the point where he doesn't want to play with the set. On the bright side, the vehicles are all pretty durable, and the tank-style treads give this loader quite an advantage in any "Robot Wars"-style battles that may happen between players and their vehicles. [Yes, I know that's probably not in the spirit of cooperation and peaceful creation of a construction set, but it *is* fun!]

Even though mastering the loader is a bit hard, I still recommend it (at least if you want to be able to tip over the other trucks!).

These little robots if you will are possibly the best toy I have ever seen in my life. The toys provide hours of fun and excitement. It would be a very big mistake to miss out on these toys. They make excellent Christmas and birthday gifts. So please do your kids a favor and by them their first Rokenbok Start Set today. Even you grown-ups and parents will love these little high tech machines.

I think that this is a really great toy, but it is only for adults, because i think that it is slightly dangerous if not used properly.

I was recently browsing around looking for some new knex building set when i saw the roller coaster for physics and educational purposes. I just wanted to say that the age limit for that set is discouraging. They do sell the roller coaster by itself and that in itself is an educational experience. I was 12 when i built the roller coaster i got. I am 16 now. Im sure this set is good for learning but im sure you can get the same thing out of the plain roller coaster set. it took me one day to build and i am still learning from it. I am constantly doing different things to it that improove it each time. You catch on easily to the concept of physics and how to make the car go faster or how to make it slow and not derail. This set is a very good experience even for younger children. I also recommend the Big Ball Factory and The Trampolene set. These sets are very educational and will boost any childs curiosity.

It's great but the only reason why i didn't rate it five stars is becaus it kept on breaking.it took me about 3-4 days to build it. it stressed me becuuse the bendy wires would keep popping out of land speeder,but other than that it's auwesome!

This is quite an impressive set from lego.I love how they put so much into detail.It comes with Luke Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi with Luke's Landspeeder and a secret compartment for Luke's lightsaber.Lego has already made the landspeeder,but this is the new version with different colors and is bigger.You also get a little cantina set with a table with a secret compartment and the new minifig Greedo.I like the cantina alot cause you can recreate the seen with Greedo and Han Solo.it also comes with a movable cantina bar and moving door that you can adjust however you like.The set also comes with a dewback and the new sandtrooper minifig.He comes whith a stick to guide the dewback and a backpack.Oh I almost forgot here is a little tip use the pieces from the cantina and a bigger base and make a bigger cantina.I hope this will help some people.

i really like it . durabilty is good.

This is a cool set to have if you have some other star wars sets.The best set to buy is AT-AT.So you can recreate the Hoth battle.Lego has already made an older version of this set but its hard to find.If you are buying this to play with then get it.I would have to say the Original version is better for collectibility.I have both and the old one falls apart easiely.This new set comes with a grappling hook and different colored pieces.It is also more like the ship from the movie.I reccomend this to any lego or star wars fan.

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.

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.

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!

This is a tremendous pirate ship. Playmobil is by far the best maker of toy ships. What is so great is that it looks so good and realistic while still being a toy. Disregard other reviews that say "my kids destroyed it". I taught my son, 6 at the time, to take care of his things, and after years of use it still endures. My daughters love it also. The winch, the cabin, the hold and all the other details are awesome. Clearly a classic. I have BestLock, Disney Treasure Planet, Fisher Price and other brands of Pirate ships and this is clearly the best. We even attached the Playmobil motor and sailed it around the pool. It goes so well with the other Playmobil themed toys. I wish they would come out with an even bigger ship, but this is clearly the best available and it looks so good on the bonus room shelf when not in use! As for assembly, you wouldn't expect something this great to assemble in 5 minutes, but it is soooo cool with the rigging and sails. It's the kind of toy you can display. It works great with Playmobil or Papo figures. Clearly one of the best toys in "our" collection.

I debated buying this ship for my son's 8th birthday (thought maybe it would be too 'young') and decided to get it after my 10.5-year-old daughter insisted that her brother would love it.

Always trust a child's instinct. My son received it today for his birthday and it kept both of the kids busy for HOURS. They didn't want to go to bed because they were still playing with the ship. Also, my 10.5-year-old daughter did most of the set up. She was able to follow the instructions without a hitch; I know younger children would not have the attention span and fine motor skills to do all of the constructing.

This is my son's first Playmobil set and it is a winner. He's already perusing the catalog to see what other pirate sets he wants!

THIS TOY IS CLASSIC! I FIRST GOT THIS SHIP WHEN I WAS 9. I'M 28 NOW, AND WOULD HAVE JUST AS MUCH FUN WITH IT NOW AS I DID THEN!! I PLAN ON BUILDING AND ENTIRE PIRATE KINGDOM VERY SOON. PLAYMOBILE IS TOPS IN MY BOOK. I WOULDNT REALLY RECOMMEND IT FOR KIDS, THOUGH, THEY MIGHT GET A CANNON BALL JAMMED UP THEIR NOSE OR SUMPTHIN'!!

I have been playing with Playmobil since before I can remember. I can not remember not having playmobil around the house. Now that I am older I have small displays around the house. I feel that in the past few years Playmobil has come around. They are making sets that I wished I had when I was a child. I now own every piece of airport that they make. I even own the new RC Tour Bus that just came out. I love the air port. I feel that it is one of the best sets sence the Circus. People say that it takes a long time to assemble. I know for fact that it does not. My 5 year old can have it entirley built in 15 min. This is including the Gate Extensions. It is sturdy and well built. It provides hours of play. I even catch my self playing with it when my son is not around. The set is realistic and has plenty of room for imagination. The only regreat I have about this set is that they took the World Trade center out of the city sky line. Towere made this toy much more of a memorial to 9-11 than with out. I reconmend this toy to any way in the age limit, even to those of you who think that playing with toys is childish. It will bring out qualiteys that you did not know you had.

My 31/2 year old son loves this toy. He also got the playmobile plane and ground crew and plays with all three. My biggest complaints are 1) it took about 5 hours to put together and 2) when my son plays with the elevator and doors, etc. they tend to pop off and I am forever putting it back together. Other than that, he loves to incorporate his new cars into the "game" and pretends that people are driving to the airport. Great game for the imagination!

My parents bought this, along with the jet liner, for my 5 1/2 year old son for Christmas this year because he had saw it on TV and that was all he repeatedly asked for. He loves it. It is a well built quality toy. I read all the reviews before letting them purchase it and was prepared for a lengthly assembly process. I was surprised at how many pieces were to be assembled for the air terminal, but my husband had it together in about 1 1/2 hours. My recommendation for assembly is to lay out all the pieces so they are easy to locate and that will save some time. The detailed pieces are extraordinary. My son loves pretending people are coming and going to different places and having to send their luggage through the baggage area. He plays with it on a daily basis. He loves so much he has taken it to different grandparents' houses over the holidays, but it is not a piece that travels well. Relocating as often as he would like has proven not to be a good idea. Some of the pieces like the ramps into the terminal and the tower pieces come off easily when trying to transport to Grandma's house, so we have decided to leave this toy at home (much to his regret). I would not recommend this toy to kids under 5 or to kids that who tend to be destructive players. For kids who have an active imagination and love to pretend I think it's a winner. I plan to buy more Playmobil toys for my son.

My 7-year-old likes to play with this toy but does not like to take it apart and re-build it. (So guess who builds it? ...ME!)
But, the number of pieces allows many variations to the fire house. Good value since it is paired with the bonus medical station. You get enough figures for two or more kids to play. I would recommend it if you have enough space to keep it together all of the time!

I read some of the earlier reviews on the Imaginex products, so when the Rescue Center and the Dragon's Lair arrived, I was prepared for a good 1/2 hour+ to assemble each. The directions were clear, using colored pictures to follow versus wording. As soon as I put the sets together, my 3 and 4 year olds were excitedly playing with them. So far, my 3 year old has taken his apart 3 times (so I am unfortunately getting better at re-assembling it!), so I would agree with the age recommendations of 4+ years. Many of the small pieces, (and there are quite a few,) I placed in a zip lock bag for later. The construction is pretty good, but is somewhat thin plastic. I would definitely recommend Imaginex.

I got this toy for my 5 year old son last christmas and he absolutly loves it still. I have gotten him the police station, the lighthouse or coastal station since. All he said this year was "Mom I want the construction site for Christmas." over and over again so this year we are getting him the contruction site.
He loves playing with the little people, they, I think are the best. He can carry them with him everwhere in his backpack and they keep him entertained when we go on trips.
What I find interesting about the reviews is what people are saying about only being able to put the building together one way. My son and I have no problem finding different ways to put it together sometimes we make two buildings so we both can play and other times he will put all of them toghether, the firehouse, police station and coastal station. You dont have to use all the walls or floors to put it together, it just takes a little imagination and lots of fun to figure out a new way to build. I think fisher-price has made one of the best lines of toys yet.

First of all, this is the most gorgeous not-so-little airplane we've ever purchased. Our 2+ year old son is an airplane fanatic and this one made him gasp out loud. The people and accessories all have a place to be stashed away, everything opens and closes nicely and looks great... but... the blasted thing won't stay together! I'm not talking about it breaking apart after it's been thrown, I mean the thing falls apart in your hands. The first day, the wings came off half a dozen times. My husband finally glued them on with model glue, let it sit overnight (that makes for a cranky 2 year old!) and the next day, they still just popped right off! Then the wheels started falling off. Then the tail. We kept gluing them all back on and they kept coming right back off. Finally, our son gave up on the toy. It's now in the toy bin and all four pieces of it are equally ignored. What a shame. This SHOULD be a wonderful airplane but, I'm sorry to say, it's not.

I found this toy in too many pieces that do not stay together when my son was playing with it. He became too frustrated with trying to put the pieces back together!!! The wings and wheels should be a part of the plane but are removable so pieces are more able to get lost or misplaced. Not worth the $$pricy money.

All three of our kids (ages 5, 3, 1) really like this toy. They have fun flying it around as well as rolling it around their Playmobil airport.

The design of the plane is great. The removable top allows for easy access to the fuselage where as many as seven little Playmobil figures can sit. As other reviewers have pointed out, the wheels and wings are designed to pop off so that they don't break when subjected to extreme "toddler forces". Don't worry about them falling off all the time, though. You can pick up the plane by the rear stabilizer wing (probably the least secure part of the plane) without it falling apart. That's pretty sturdy while still having the break-away functionality required to make this toy last a long time.

One of the things I really like about this plane (and other Playmobil toys, like the Pirate Ship) are the stickers. Rather than being thin stickers that curl when you peel them and subsequently become unwieldy, the stickers are stiff so they are easy to place accurately.

The realistic look of the plane as well as its large size (approx. 20" wingspan) are also cool aspects of this toy.

I thought this was a real easy to make toy even thoughI'm 11. It's really fun to play with,well that's what Ithought

This was the first of the MegaBlocks line of products that I bought, and I have to say that I'm impressed. First off, the price was very reasonable, and not nearly as expensive compared to the Lego line.

The instructions were very easy to follow, and I enjoyed how MegaBlocks will show you the current step in a different color. The Lego manuals you have to sometimes search to see what exactly is required on the step.

Why doesn't MegaBlocks call this what it is, the Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon, instead of a "tactical fighter".

The model is pretty true to the aircraft, and we have gone ahead and added "HL" for the tail (Hill AFB), and we'll paint the missiles to represent AIM-9 Sidewinders.

It's a fine addition to the office cubicle!

Before I was going to buy this product, I thought it would be as big as normal lego prducts. IT WAS HUGE!!! It was a really good plane, it had 4 missiles and 2 massive bombs! I gave it 4 stars for fun because it was quite fragile so you couldn't have as much fun as you possibly can. It was quite educational because you had to use your brain to know where the pieces go. I gave it 3 stars for the duribility of this toy because it's quite fragile as I have allready told you. This isn't rubbish, but it isn't the best so this ok to buy. (I am 9, not 3!)