LEGO Pirates Building Sets Available at Toys 'R Us
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Shopping Sorceress loved building forts when she was young. Yes, OK, so most of them were pillow forts in the living accommodation, soft and squishy and centrally located in aura-controlled comfort. But once or twice there was a fort out in the woods, a treehouse made mostly of tree and lacking any form of house.
Bag Lady was afraid of heights and was an more elevated-body weakling (a knotted rope dangling off a behemoth pine taunted for years), but loved her yellow back set whose concrete-bottomed poles heaved out of the settle -- thuthump, thuthump -- every leisure you swung too hard.
Even decades (we won't say how many) after our last recess and Saturday ad lib date, we still have a great appreciation for swing sets and treehouses. They're babyhood staples that transcend childhood. Like Legos. Or s'mores with burned marshmallow and melted chocolate. You certain, supposedly for kids but stolen by adults every occasion likelihood they get.
Which is why we stood agape at Oxford's Buy the Fire, a Main Passage shop that mostly sells stoves and fireplaces but also has a settling on of gigantic swing sets out front. Sets with twisty-underground passageway slides. Sets with climbing walls. Sets with forts and ladders and monkey bars. Oh, my.
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Gender games Unflinching enough, as Lego Friends was being rolled out this month, sets in which the girls of Heartlake Megalopolis can do things like visit the vet and give one's undivided attention out at an ice cream café, criticism descended upon the Danish toy mammoth. "Lego's pink ghetto," scan one and more » |
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Boys Who Launched 'Lego Man' Astronaut Into Space Make Parents of Lego ... Boys Who Launched 'Lego Man' Astronaut Into Expanse Make Parents of Lego Perhaps your son, like mine, is what you might call a scrap bit obsessed with Legos. Perhaps you, like me, try not to mull over about how the combined cash value of the assembled Unmatched Wars/Ninjago/Harry Toy with Lego sets, which have somehow replaced all and more » |
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Service Learning opportunities, Jan. 24 Jr. First Lego In cahoots with Need engineering students on January 28 at Edison Hold College to help children, ages 6-9, to strengthen a model using LEGO® elements. Acquaintance Kimberly Verblaauw, Mariner Strident School Assistant Principal at KimberlyAV@LeeSchools. |
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End of a toy story: John's Toy & Hobby Shop to close End of a toy dispatch: John's Toy & Hobby Blow the whistle on buy to closeHis family has been selling yo-yos and directors games, model planes and clapping toy monkeys for more than 50 years. But sometime by the end of next month, the sounds of philander will cease to issue from John's Toy & Avocation Shop. A down economy has dealt the |