Mega Bloks 80-piece maxi bag Review

My daughter received Mega Bloks as a gift when she was still far too young to play with them. I had reservations about them because I expected my family to be Lego all the way, but am not one to turn down free items. As soon as she was old enough for building toys, my parents purchased a set of Duplos meant for her age group to keep at their house and offered them to the baby. After she played with both brands, I immediately saw the advantages of the Mega Bloks. At ten months old, my daughter could not push the Duplos together without help because they fit much more tightly. She couldn't really take them apart, either, beyond knocking over whole stacks. In contrast, the Mega Blocks connect rather loosely, so she was able to put them together and take them apart easily.

She loved pouring the blocks out of the large, zippered bag, and we used them to teach her the names of colors. Sometimes she put them back so she could dump them out again. Although she enjoyed her Mega Bloks very much, we eventually became a Lego family, as I thought we would. The Mega Bloks don't hold together well enough to build anything complicated, and even the things you can build will fall apart if you try to move them around. But a young toddler doesn't have the attention span to build intricate structures, so they were fine until my daughter was about 16 months. For a child occupied with stacking and sorting, these blocks are adequate.