What was one of your favorite toys as a kid?
Do you still enjoy playing with it?
How would you make it more age appropriate for playing with it now?
I loved playing with toys when I was little and even now, I enjoy playing with them sometimes. My favourite toy as a kid were the Legos. Legos are small colorful blocks which come with an instruction manual. The manual carries instructions for building various objects using the colorful Lego blocks. One can join the blocks and make different vehicle objects like cars, fire brigades and spaceships; buildings like police stations, fire stations and houses, etc. what I really like about the Lego sets was the fact that in each set, extra pieces of blocks were provided in case a piece gets lost or broken. They are also some theme-based Legos such as Star Wars, Jurassic world, Harry Potter, etc. Then there are some sets called ‘Technic’ which are working models like pull- back cars, working cranes, etc. They are my favourite sets. But if a model, whose extra pieces are not given, is broken, then the whole set goes waste. It happened to me once while making a Technic set. They take a lot of time and patience to make. I had gathered around 10-12 sets of Lego to play with just a couple of years back.
As I grew up, I wanted to find out more about the Lego. I researched and found that Lego is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a company based in Denmark. The company's most famous product, Lego, consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can be taken apart again, and the pieces reused to make new things.
The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Movies, games, competitions and eight Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand. As of July 2015, 600 billion Lego parts had been produced.
I still play with them and recently I made a fire brigade set. I also saw a Lego set that said its maximum playing age group is 99 years, WOW!.
Lego sets are appropriate for any age, as one can use their imagination to make things out of these blocks. I intend to use them for a long time. Very soon I would not be referring to the manual but make things on my own. This is one toy that may not go out of my room and life for a very long time.