Not Vintage but Star Wars and a new trend?

[monkey_roo]

Agree about Legoland, it is a park for the fan and the younger kids. Although as parks go it is very clean, the bathrooms well kept and while not super cheep the food is better quality than most park foods. I'm lucky to live around the corner so do the season pass or Merlin pass thing so go there a lot, even for an hour for something to do sometimes, might head there next month as there is a SW weekend on again.

The driving school is good but most rides as tame, even my 5 year old isn't impressed by the rollercoasters anymore. Can always spend time in the shop though

 

[mumbo]

If I lived close to any of the parks then I'd definitely be in there on a regular basis with my annual pass I do love an adrenaline rush.

The place has come on a bit since I was a kid, think it was Windsor wildlife park back in the day.

 

[theslider]

Loved Lego as a kid, probably my favourite toy after Star Wars. What I don't like about all the new sets is that it's all this licensed crap. Well not crap, but I feel that it takes a lot of the imagination out of it for kids. I mean I remember building an A-Team van (it looked crap, but I thought it was the bees knees!) and 'playing A-Team' with it (amongst other stuff!)

 

[Grant_C]

Star Wars and especially Episode 1 licence saved Lego in 1998.

Now its sooo massive again.

 

[monkey_roo]

I do agree, Lego is very much a licence and fixed set product these days. They do sell builder sets and so on but given their investment in licences that is there push, that said I don't think it dents imagination play too much. My daughter mixes up all the sets and has Batman having tea with her Friends characters and the Avengers Quint jet has been known to be used for shopping trips and the like. May not be the free build we knew as kids but a different sort of play.

 

[theslider]

I do agree, Lego is very much a licence and fixed set product these days. They do sell builder sets and so on but given their investment in licences that is there push, that said I don't think it dents imagination play too much. My daughter mixes up all the sets and has Batman having tea with her Friends characters and the Avengers Quint jet has been known to be used for shopping trips and the like. May not be the free build we knew as kids but a different sort of play.

I'm just looking at it from a jaded, cynical adults point of view!

 

[mumbo]

I do agree, Lego is very much a licence and fixed set product these days. They do sell builder sets and so on but given their investment in licences that is there push, that said I don't think it dents imagination play too much. My daughter mixes up all the sets and has Batman having tea with her Friends characters and the Avengers Quint jet has been known to be used for shopping trips and the like. May not be the free build we knew as kids but a different sort of play.

:lol: its great watching them play (whilst they can't see you). All of our characters end up with body transplants, they love mixing them up and just because the sets are fixed doesn't mean they can't be creative still

I often find pictures like this on my tablet Dora's sleepover and what a diverse bunch of friends she has :lol:

 

[JuniorChubb]

That Stormtrooper looks a bit lost, probably still looking for those droids