Before Christmas we received a huge box from The Toy Insider because I am part of their Parent Advisory Panel. In the box was a really large LEGO set. It was the Coast Guard Head Quarters set and it came with two boats, a helicopter and five minifigs plus a couple of buildings and a shark. I wasn’t sure if we’d be ready to do this together but I was wrong. Andrew has progressed leaps and bounds in his small motor skills and he can put together LEGO sets really well now. It was also very enjoyable to build with him. We took turns with every other page and when he started to wander a bit I got to build more. He’s able to do a lot of the building, too.
Next I will have to work with Eva on her LEGO friends set.
Tonight on the built from Bricks Livestream Brian and I faced off building two different LEGO Technic vehicles. These vehicles have pull back motors and they crash into each other to send their engines flying. It seems that only my engine went flying, though. Our livestream is getting better and better. Brian has been learning how to use OBS to its fullest potential through some very useful videos. then he made some excellent backgrounds for the show and there are other things for us to work on but we will add in things slowly but surely as we continue to progress.
who won the challenge? You’ll have to watch the video to see.
Santa brought us a great family gift. We got the Crayola Family Escapes Group Coloring set. This is a nice set of 6 different scenes that are broken into 4 separate pieces of paper. The idea behind this is that each member of the family color one part of the picture and then put them all together. Eva finished hers first and then she went on to color more in another book. Andrew colored one small part of his piece and he was done. He went on to play with his kinetic rock toy instead. I finished mine as we watched The Boss Baby on Netflix. Allison finished hers later tonight as we watched Outlander.
It was a quiet day to stay at home. Andrew and I began working on is giant LEGO set of Coast Guard boats and a helicopter. We took turns together building and he time passed quickly but it was so fun just to be there building with him. He stopped on a few occasions to hug me and tell me that he enjoyed building with me. It was a nice day.
eva was having a sleepover and baking/crafting and who knows what else session with Auntie Tara last night into today. So, Andrew had us to himself today. We started the morning off together building one of his LEGO sets from his Birthday. He and I took turns doing each of the bags. He did a great job on it and his getting better and better with LEGO every time we play. I used the LEGO instructions online for one of the creator sets to make a LEGO Diplodocus. This was a 3 in 1 creator sets of dinosaurs. So as he built I took apart the dinosaur set and then rebuilt it.
After our building session we started cleaning the house for Christmas and I promised Andrew that after we cleaned the house we could build a huge track for the Tracer Racers. A few days ago we posted a video of these glow-in-the-dark tracer racers, part of the MAX TRAXXX line. The company liked our video so much that they went and sent us a ton of additional sets. The new super track is over 100 feet in length which the cars make short work of as they speed along. We did build a new track but that is later.
We got the whole house cleaned up and the kids trimmed their little Christmas trees. I helped them as Allison washed and ironed our living room curtains. Each year the kids get one special ornament for their tree. Andrew’s ornament is Spider-Man. The kids were all excited and I was taking the ornament out of the box and it fell to the floor and the arms and legs of Spider-Man snapped off. Andrew was so upset. Eva immediately went into mom mode and took him to his room to help calm him. I took spidey downstairs and started surgery. So far his legs and one arm have been reattached. He should be better in a couple of days.
We enjoyed pizza, salad and a movie tonight together on the couch. We watched The Santa Claus for the first time and we all enjoyed it. the kids thought it was really funny. I enjoyed it as well.
After the movie we got to play with the new MAX TRAXXX super track that we built before dinner. The cars were all charged and the kids were, too. It was time to have fun and they certainly did. Check out the video below.
The whole set is fantastic and we had a lot of fun playing with it and reviewing it. You can purchase it through our Amazon.com links and if you do go to the stores that are approved by Skullduggery. Skullduggery has two great approved FBA sellers on amazon.com, Think Stores and 4% Change for Children. 4% Change for Children offers a $20 off coupon on the Infinity Loop Set every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until Christmas, and the company each year donates 4% of its net profits from the prior year AND 4% of the company’s working hours to non-profit organizations that help children and families with children to learn, grow and live better lives.
We received the MAX TRAXXX Infinity Loop Set for free to play with and review. These are our honest opinions. We also have a link to buy this set and others through our Amazon.com affiliate link at the end of this review.
When I was a kid I had a race track set. It was that hard plastic that snapped together and the cars sat on the trace with a little pin that fit into the slot of the car’s track. You used these trigger remotes to make the cars go. You could also make the track into a couple of different designs but the best was always the crazy eight. My track did not have a loop but I loved playing with the cars. You had to have some skill, however or the cars would go flying off the track at high speeds. I don’t think I’ve been able to find a car racing set that doesn’t do that. But that is okay, crashes are a bit of the fun. R/C Car racing has come a long way in that time and now with the MAX TRAXXX Tracer Racers from Skullduggery, Inc. you can have incredible looking night races!
The set that we received to review is the Max Traxxx R/C Award Winning Tracer Racers High Speed Remote Control Infinity Loop Track Set, which has been Skullduggery’s #1 Amazon product! It retails for $119.97 ad is for ages 6 and up. There are many great features to this set and I want to highlight a few of them for you. I have mentioned them in our video below which I hope that you watch.
I am part of The Toy Insider Parent Panel and they were so kind to send my family a sampling of some of the amazing toys that they selected to be part of their Holiday Gift Guides. We unboxed this fantastic box of toys today and it was so much fun! While I could go on and on about what was in the box I would rather you see for yourself in the video below. They must have known that we like board games even before I wrote my latest post on the Parent Panel Blog: Board Games for Busy Families.
I received a copy of the LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES 2 game for the Nintendo Switch for free to play with and review! I have been so excited about this because all of the characters that are part of the game! Opinions are 100% my own. This post contains affiliate links.
I have been playing LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES 2 on the Nintendo Switch for a few days now. This is such a fun game! I haven’t gone through the whole thing yet but I have played a few levels. In the game the Marvel Super Heroes are in a fight against Kang the Conqueror who is a master of time. There are s many heroes who are part of this game that I can’t even count them all and I have only scratched the surface. I’ve fought as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel and Iron Man as well as Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel and White Tiger. I’m looking forward to when I can also play as The Hulk and Thor.
The gameplay is just like you would expect from LEGO games so it is easy to get right into the game and enjoy it. The cut scenes are hilarious and filled with the humor that you can come to expect from LEGO. I want to keep playing just to get to each of them. I also want to be able to unlock every character in the game. There are so many of them! Take a look at the trailer below.
Tomorrow night during our Built from Bricks Live show – 6pm EST we are doing another Small Cup Challenge. Small Cups are from the LEGO Store Pick-A-Brick wall. There you can select as many LEGO pieces as possible and put them into a cup. Brian and I are pretty good at getting the most LEGO bricks possible into those Small Cups. The challenge is to make something from the bricks based on a topic that will will choose by rolling a 10 sided-die. You can see that tomorrow at this link – Small Cup Challenge
On October 9 – 11 I attended a Disney Press Event for THOR: RAGNAROK. My hotel and airfare and meals were taken care of while I was in L.A. Opinions and observations as well as recaps and such are all my own. This post will also contain some affiliate links to Amazon.com.
Today is the release date for Thor: Ragnarok and I’ve written a ton of posts about the movie from Interviews with cast members Karl Urban and Rachel House (Coming Monday) to Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige and Thor: Ragnarok Director, Taika Waititi. I’ve also written about the incredible time I had on the red carpet for Thor: Ragnarok and also my Spoiler Free Thor: Ragnarok review. We all received some fun toys at the event including some Hulk Hands, Hulk Mask, Thor’s Hammer, a Funko Pop and a Thor Junior Novel. When I brought these home Andrew was thrilled with the Hulk hands and the two of us had a fun time play fighting with the hammer and the hulk hands.
I received three Thor: Ragnarok Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure figures from Hasbro to play with and review. The opinions are are my own. I also bought five additional figures.
The Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure series are some really well done figures. There are six figures in the series, Thor, Loki, Hela, Thor (Jane Foster), Odinson and Ares. These six figures each have a piece of Hulk. There are two other figures in a two-pack. They are Marvel Legends size but do not include parts of another figure. For the most part I liked the choices on characters but I think that they could have included Skurge, Heimdall and Korg instead. Those would have been better figures to include. Thor (Jane Foster), Odinson and Ares are from The Mighty Thor comic series and there are cool in their own right, but why not split them into another series?
Today I unboxed all the figures in a livestream today and it was fun. The Hulk figure is huge and amazing. It has full armor from the movie and also the two weapons that he uses. You can remove much of the armor, too, in order to make him look more like he does in the rest of the movie.
Each character has lots of articulation and so many ways to pose. The detail is incredible, especially on the faces of Hela and Thor. Thor looks so much like Chris Hemsworth. Hela looks like Cate Blanchett and Loki looks a lot like Tom Hiddleston, but Tom and Loki for that matter look far less greasy. Hulk looks like Hulk. The comic book based character like Thor (Jane Foster), Odinson and Ares look like their comic book counterparts. I do really like how they all look. You can see what else I think about these and so many other Thor toys in the video below.
On October 9 – 11 I attended a Disney Press Event for THOR: RAGNAROK. My hotel and airfare and meals were taken care of while I was in L.A. Opinions and observations as well as recaps and such are all my own. This post will also contain some affiliate links to Amazon.com.