Imaginarium 50-piece wooden city block set Review

These wooden blocks by Imaginarium caught my eye because of the bright colors, attractive pictures, and the metropolitan hipness of the concept. This set includes a mat with a road and some landscaping printed on it to build your city on top of, four cars with rolling wheels, a few blocks in solid colors, and a couple of bridges. The rest are squares and rectangles with architectural features painted on them. If put together by style, your city can include a modern high rise, a hotel, a few storefronts, old-world style condos, and a brick apartment building. The pictures on the blocks are so attractive that I like to set up the city as a decorative feature in my daughter's bedroom.

The age range of this toy is raised considerably by the design of the blocks, which I think is a flaw. They are not cube shaped, but are twice as tall as they are wide when the pictures are facing out. To build the three and four story buildings pictured on the box, the blocks must be stacked on their narrower side. I wish they were cube shaped and had pictures on all sides of the block, not just one.

Despite the drawbacks, I have not been disappointed by this purchase. I can't deny that I bought the blocks for myself, and I enjoy them every day.