If your kid loves Skylanders Giants, World of Warcraft, or Hello Kitty, you will be buying Mega Bloks for them to play with, they have the license.
Yes, it doesn’t really matter about the model because 5 minutes after you’ve finished building it, something snaps off and it all ends up in one big smorgasbord potpourri mosh pit for your kids to pick through and rebuild something from their imagination. Yes, both Mega Bloks and Kreo are compatible with Lego. That is a very good likeness of both John Cho as Sulu. While the Lego faces are pretty generic, the Kre-o ones actually look like the real life actors they’re portraying. Their legs move out sideways, although the hair doesn’t seem to stay on too well. Kre-o minifigs are also more moveable than traditional Lego minifigs. And they include branded blocks to use as staging tools while you’re building the model. The top isn’t all nubbles, one of them always has a hole in it. Kreo, for example, has a hole in every block. It’s interesting to see the differences the Lego copycats have made in creating their blocks, while still making them compatible. There are nearly 20 different Lego clones on the market. This means interlocking building bricks can be made by Lego copycats, they just have to look a little bit different.
Over the past few months, Zacharie and Charlie have received Mega Bloks and Kreo sets and I’m realizing – they’re not quite Lego.Īfter many challenges in court, Lego has been found to have a trademark on their product, but the patents have expired. I’m now discovering the same thing about Lego and competing brands of building blocks. There’s nothing wrong with them, they just don’t go together as well as the very expensive original. The curves don’t quite match, the connectors don’t quite fit, and the ride isn’t quite as smooth. Imaginarium, Ikea, even the toy store at the kids’ market all sell versions of the track that “work together with popular brands.” Anyway, I'm just babbling now so I better stop.If you’ve got a train crazy kid, you can buck up for the real Thomas the Train branded tracks, or you can go for the generic kind. The kids should be glad for what they get, I know. It was easy to pass off oversights when Santa was the scapegoat. I think it's their ages and the fact that this is the first year my 10 yo knows the truth about Santa. I got the decorating down and recipes for my Christmas meal planned but the presents for the kids is a thorn in my side. (Where was he 2 months ago when I started shopping and asked for input?). He told me to stash anything I already bought that's not one of those 4 gifts, for birthdays or gifts for others. DH thinks I should just give them each about 4 gifts and be done. I usually have to surpress the urge to freak out when they bring up that one thing "I really really wanted but didn't get" as they stand among $100's worth of great gifts. I'm a secret Lego addict.Ībby, you speak the truth! DH and I were just talking about the fact that every year I go overboard for Christmas and the kids end up with so many things that they don't appreciate anything. Thanks for the input everyone! I am almost tempted to get a set just to compare them for myself. It really cut down on the "gimme's".Īlthough.when she was about four or so, she could quote the Rolling Stones (You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you neeeeeeeeed). She gets gifts on Christmas and her birthday, but other than that, she pays for it. In fact, everything she has earned and paid for, she loves. That kid earned it and she LOVES that thing.
I think she was 5, and wanted a pillow pet. I said you just got a ton of gifts, let's be grateful, and you can earn it with your salary. She did not even remember on Christmas morning, but later that day. Why should you go over budget when you had a plan and stuck to it? It's not like they aren't getting anything, you got them probably most of what they asked for, they will have stuff under the tree.ĭD did this a few years ago, she asked for something a couple of day before Christmas.
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