Legos are loved worldwide by both children and adults. Lego sets are available in almost any theme you can imagine from medieval castles, complete cities, police stations and many other buildings to movie themes such as Indiana Jones and Star Wars. You can always find something to light the imagination of your child. These basic building blocks, first produced during the 1930’s, have evolved into the well known, imagination filled toy that is available today. Legos are not only fun but improve children’s creativity and skills at manipulation. More intricate and harder to construct Lego Technic kits have motors included to make models of tractors, excavators and many other vehicles.

Lego’s Duplo Sets

The Duplo range is an ideal introduction to Legos for younger children with bigger bricks and easy designs, perfect for very small hands! As they get older and progress to regular Lego they can still use the Duplo blocks with the regular lego bricks.

The Different Lego Types

Legos can be divided into three distinct categories that includes the Make And Create sets, Stories and Action sets, and Lego Technics. Make And Create sets are one of the most popular with an enormous variety of sets available including themed sets for example castles or cities. Construction is intricate with lots of pieces in each set. Many people find these types of sets fun to make up with the emphasis on construction more than play.

Legos Stories and Action Sets

These sets are based on themes including police, pirates, dinosaurs etc. or themes from movies such as the extremely popular Indiana Jones, Harry Potter or Star Wars. These sets are usually much easier to put together than the Make And Create sets as there is more emphasis on the play rather than the construction. Many of these sets include accessories and you can populate them with mini figures once they are built. For instance you can populate Star Wars sets with figures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Hans Solo, Darth Vader etc all in various costumes depending on the particular movie scene you are creating. Darth Vader in a transformation scene from Anakin Skywalker or Princess Leia as a slave are available.

Lego Technic Sets

Lego Technic sets are made for adults and older children being the hardest to build with many of them having a considerable number of pieces. The Lego Technic back-hoe loader for example, costs almost $1000 and can be made into two different vehicles, includes a backhoe and shovel that move, engine cylinders that move up and down and a pneumatic system with seven valves, two pumps and three enormous cylinders. The Lego Technic range also includes tow trucks, rescue vehicles.

Ultimate Collector’s Sets

No roundup of Lego sets would be complete without mention of Legos Ultimate Collector’s set. Many of these models are massive and include the very popular Star Wars Ultimate Collector’s Millenium Falcon. This is the largest model in the Lego collection with 5196 pieces!.

In Conclusion

Lego produce an enormous range of sets but you can also buy blocks not in sets to construct your own designs or to add to your sets. Lego building blocks and sets are wonderful creative children’s toys and provide endless imaginative play times. Tired of one model? Break it up and make something new!It’s easy to take it apart and build something new!. Children of each new generation will love Legos as much as we did when we were young.

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