Lincoln Logs Reviews

This product is fun for the whole family. I hope my kids have as much fun as I did with them when I was young.

I really really like lincoln logs. Everyone does. But, we bought this and received a big bin half full of lincoln logs. Why don't they fill up the bin? Also, the little roof was plastic, limiting the types of houses you can build. The old-style wood slates were better.

Sometimes reviewers seem to lack a sense of adventure. They surely know the Internet will take them back in history & all over the map; thus, they can easily discover that LINCOLN LOGS have been honoring President Abraham Lincoln since 1916 /AND/ continue to win not only 'kid appeal' but applause from an increasingly intergenerational group of "toy connoisseurs"!

It happens I have some 'grands' that could build right out of their imaginations a more convincing "Prairie Homestead" ~ but that's what toys are all about, isn't it? The homestead comes in a bag with horse & some "real" cowboy types, and Reviewer mcHAIKU recommends that you buy it /with/ the Stagecoach Station in-a-CAN! That way, you can ALL get down on the floor & build this impressive two-story structure complete with windows . . . OR . . . YOU, the reader, can leave it to the kids and use this great block of time to pursue your own back-LOG :~) of reading: specifically, with the absorbing Doris Kearns Goodwin book "TEAM OF RIVALS: The Political genius of Abraham Lincoln" (isbn: 0684824906) ~ a truly significant way to celebrate President Lincoln's birthday.

We purchased this toy for my 3 year old for Christmas. He has always liked puzzles and Legos and we thought this would be a great alternative. Not only does he spend hours with this building set he and his 5 year old brother take turns building and rebuilding the Ranch. This is a great toy and worth the selling price.

Great Product for our son, he is building with it all the time.

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. 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 people 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.

While I think it is interesting to build the models included in the original instructions, 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 still retains most of the characteristics that were the reason for that popularity.

I think lincoln logs are incredibly essential for developing young minds. Too bad Amazon can't tell us about these products in detail or I might actually buy from them. I guess I am in the same boat as the reviewer above .... heading to the store.
FYI ... target has explanations on how many pieces are in the sets, but they don't have too many sets!

I would have purchased this item on line, however, I could not find out even in the K'Nex website how many pieces are in this bag.

I am better off going to the store to see what I am getting. In the future, I would suggest specifying the products pieces. The more information the better, when buying on line.