Building Sets Reviews

My 4 year old recieved this as a gift from my parents and it has been a wonderful toy for the entire family. I would recommend Brio's Builder System to anyone with children. We have continued to add to his set and the fun just keeps on growing. My sons hand-eye coordination has drastically improved and the best part of it is he learns more and more everyday by playing with a toy that he loves!!

The Piston Plant is a great toy! In my opinion, anything Rokenbok is great! Seeing the Pistons (or ball holders that move up and down to move the balls throughout the plant) really helps kids understand what a piston is. Also, when they drive their truck under the wheel, they love to watch it make the pistons go up and down. This is one of the great things Rokenbok makes!

It is good but you can break it to easily. Don't get me wrong! I love this set, but it is kind of boring. But overall, worth it.

To all those Lego Castle-series afficianados out there - who aren't six years old :) - Lego has been savvy enough to bring back the old yellow minifigures-in-shining armor. The Castle Morcia is the creme-de-la-creme of all the available sets. Not only do you get a mildly ingenious, modular castle that can switch alliegences on the fly, but you get seven unique minifigures to populate it (not to mention scorpions, a frog, a day-glo spider and a skeleton!). From the ostensibly good King Mathias and his multi-colored Round Table (each of his four knights not only has a name, but a unique face and personalized sword, shield and facemask!) to the evil Morgoth - Melkor - Vladek, yes, that's it, each minifigure is armed to the teeth and looks the part, enough to intimidate any other medieval Lego minifigures you might have laying around. The set even includes a freaky-looking robotic scorpion/catapult! How can you resist the allure? You cannot, lego-maniac.
If you're a kid at heart, and there's an $80 void in your life that could be filled by little plastic knights in shiny armor and their awesome castle, the Castle Morcia will do it in spades. Or, if you actually have a kid and want to see him doing something non-video game related, the ever-useful trait of building can be fostered with this set. Whatever your age group, enjoy.

The castle rotates from the good knight castle to the bad knights castle, which I didn't realize when I purchased it. I got 2 in one !! My son and his brother (Ages 5 & 10) play with it all the time. I used it as a rainy day activity because it takes time to assemble. Although the whole thing doesn't need to be assembled to play. You can play with each section as you complete it.