Lego Chain Reactions

Bought for my 7 year old grandson who loves building with lego. He enjoyed helping to build the models. Even those that were described as easy, my grandson needed a lot of input from an adult. It states from 8 years, but I think adult help would still be needed, even for the easier models. It's also essential that you have a good supply of lego bricks, as additional bricks are needed. The models we have made so far, worked well. A good product, for children who love to build and create working models.

Has provided lots of fun for a Lego fan, and has added some further interest to a creative hobby.

I bought this for my son and we have spent quite a bit of time working on the various creations. I thought that the book was very well laid out and easy to follow. It comes with a selection of items but you will need to add bricks from your own Lego collection in order to complete the contraptions. We had a lot of fun doing this but my sons attention drifted by the mid point of the book and he hasn't revisited it since. I think he will, but it's one of those things that your kid will either fall in love with or only visit on a rainy day.

Brought for grandsons who like building Lego stuff they liked it a lot.

This looks good with all the things that are in the box. I bought it for our 9 year old Grandson for Christmas as he loves Lego. It keeps him occupied for days when he has a big project to make, and then get the benefit of added extras like this set. He will love it I'm sure.

Was a bit disappointed with this as the parts needed to create the more interesting designs aren’t included and aren’t easy to source.

Easy ordering, fair price, v quick delivery, good product. This takes Lego to a new level of creative interaction, not just a build but uses scientific learning.

Great addition to anyone’s Lego collection, nephew loved it for Christmas and continues to play with it now.

Totally worth it! Adds another dimension to Lego creations. Quality is good, and the pieces can be used in so many more ways if your child is so inclined.

This was sent to my Grandson as a Xmas gift. He likes building and planning his project at a young age. He enjoyed the challenge of putting this together. It’s an interesting gift for boy or girl who like an engineering type of puzzle.

Nice to add to the growing Lego collection. The balls are useful to make other contraptions too

This was not an easy concept for the authors and product planners to execute. It's radically different than just assembling Legos from an instruction booklet. A lot of thought and effort went into the chain reaction concepts and resulting projects. The book layout, the security so that the parts actually arrive at the consumer, the durability of the non Lego paper components, the directions on how to fold the paper components etc, etc, etc. are thoughtfully done. I think they struck a very good balance so this would not cost an arm and a leg. Some might call it cheap (a few Lego pieces, a beautiful well laid out instruction book with nicely printed paper components) but I call it cost effective. A lot of what you're paying for here is in my opinion is the wow factor of the book and the well thought out concepts. I supported my 7 year old grandson's effort to build the first project. My 5 year old grandson looked at what was involved and walked away I think because it looks complicated and the projects contain very few pieces. Both of them are very skilled Lego builders who pride themselves on their ability to throw lots of pieces together quickly. Does that sound familiar to you? So... I think what motivates most young Lego builders is assembling lots of pieces quickly and having a relatively static object to play with when done. The chain reaction projects aren't that at all. They don't look like much -to an adult - when complete. They are challenging in my view mostly because of the need for precision alignment between the paper parts and the Lego motion actuators the kids assemble to create the Chain the Reaction. Once assembled and aligned, making it function can require trial and error, motivation to succeed, precision hand and eye coordination and patience. I think that doing the first project successfully might be a make or break point for this product. Failure would surely be a deterrent towards doing subsequent projects in the book so initial success seems very important at least for younger children. The greatest joy my grandson experienced (and it was great joy) was the moment the first project functioned properly for the first time after several complete and partial failures (just as his patience was wearing thin) and then joy again once the chain reaction was rehearsed and easily repeatable so as to show his parents without failure. Having achieved this first success he was excited about doing more projects. It remains to be seen what his long term interest level will be. Yes.. This is radically different than just sticking prices together and success is not easy considering that the projects are minimalist in the total number of pieces. However I think the lessons and skills this product teaches are very important, worthwhile and noteworthy. Aside from the skills mentioned above this is also elementary physics of motion, weight, angle, momentum, etc. In summary, it appears that, assuming success along the way, the complicated chain reactions are fun for children to assemble, challenging to make fully, reliably functional and thrilling once they work for that first time. It's all good stuff!

Not much bricks.