Any traditional toy is surely better than kids spending too much time on "games" consoles...bravo! 8-)
totally agree Mudlap! As a kid I had a hornby trainset that I liked, though I was more into building Airfix planes and building up dioramas of ww2 airfields with all the tenders /gun emplacements etc that used to drive my mum mad as I had to store them under the bed and they were dust magnets! Sad I know! Didnt have playstations in my day
,though I do remember that tennis game you played on the telly (atarri?). THought that was brilliant at the time
. Its a bit sad how kids these days cant play outside like we used to or (Lego aside) dont do the building sets we used to, but rather spend most of their time on games consoles. Our youngest has AS and when he was little he was totally absorbed by Thomas and he had this quite large track layout but , as is common with AS, he moved on to subsequent obsessions and now spends a lot of time on his DS/Wii/PS2 and we try really hard to get him to spend more time outside on his bike or scooter or playing football but its hard. Did buy him a cowboy capgun which he likes-much against my wifes wishes
-but at least its a kind of role play game for him. Maybe Im just getting old.....
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