One of the fun things about being a Dad is playing with your kids' toys.
When I was a kid I played with LEGOS quite a bit. There were a few different kits you could get - a small tub, a medium tub or a large tub!
Now that my son is five he has become a real LEGO fan himself, and they certainly have come a long way.. Two "sets" that have caught his attention are Bionicles and LEGO Inventor sets.
Bionicles are robot kits that come in a tube or sometimes a box. There's some complex story about each one and their Bionicle universe (and an associated DVD of course). There are some simple gears in there so they can swing their arms, etc. and generally are just cool looking.
The Inventor sets are fantastic. He is into the Record and Play one, which has a base motor which can remember and play back specific movemnents. You build some very complex robots and then program the base motor to follow certain movements. The instructions go page by page, block by block, so he can follow along and put these things together.
For older kids there are Mindstorms which provide a far more complex programming system.
A far cry from the 4x2 blocks of my youth.
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