kogu
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Hi all,
so there we were, a few days ago, my wife and me, talking about what to get as a Christmas present for our grandson, who's going to be 5 years old on Christmas Day.
There's an abundance of annoying, battery-operated, noise making, funny moving stuff around already, be it in our house, at the parents or the other grandparent's house.
By then, my wife had already picked up something like, yes another one, battery operated creature, that somehow transforms from a Dinosaur to a Vehicle, or the other way around, and of course makes a variety of sounds :rolleyes2:
I then suggested, that I would try to look something up on the internet, before any more stuff gets bought.
Wanted to say "any more junk" but didn't do it :wink2:
Spent a few hours that night on my research, clicked the "add to cart" button at the end and arranged for timely shipping.
As a kid I had my Toy Soldiers for many years, best Toys ever, and I had a model train set, and a good number of other more or less valued items.
What I never had, was a Carrera Slot Car Racing Set.
Well, that has changed now ^&grin
I consider a slot car racing track as one of the very classic Toys of the late 20th century.
Now I am looking forward to seeing how well it will be received by a young kid, born in the 21st century?
Although only barely 5 by age, my grandson is rather familiar with stuff like X-Box, Play Station, handheld video games, I-Pad, Smartphones, etc. etc.
Will be interesting to see, if a car race that doesn't happen on a screen, can attract his attention.
I sure hope so.
Now, did I just buy that, using my grandson as a "lame excuse" to finally make a childhood dream come true?
Or did I make a good decision by buying a valuable toy for today's world?
I am not sweating over the answer ^&grin , I gonna love it either way :redface2:, but seriously hope that he does too, so when spring time comes around, we can get a couple of 4' by 8' sheets of plywood, occupy the garage, and work on extending the racetrack ^&cool {eek3} ^&grin
When Christmas Eve is done, and the little guy is off to sleep, I will be setting up this race track on the living room floor, in front of the Christmas Tree, so when he gets up in the morning, he will walk right up on it
Will keep you updated next week, how it worked out.
Here's what I got, by now still packaged in the shipping box and awaiting the setup.
Cheers!
Konrad
so there we were, a few days ago, my wife and me, talking about what to get as a Christmas present for our grandson, who's going to be 5 years old on Christmas Day.
There's an abundance of annoying, battery-operated, noise making, funny moving stuff around already, be it in our house, at the parents or the other grandparent's house.
By then, my wife had already picked up something like, yes another one, battery operated creature, that somehow transforms from a Dinosaur to a Vehicle, or the other way around, and of course makes a variety of sounds :rolleyes2:
I then suggested, that I would try to look something up on the internet, before any more stuff gets bought.
Wanted to say "any more junk" but didn't do it :wink2:
Spent a few hours that night on my research, clicked the "add to cart" button at the end and arranged for timely shipping.
As a kid I had my Toy Soldiers for many years, best Toys ever, and I had a model train set, and a good number of other more or less valued items.
What I never had, was a Carrera Slot Car Racing Set.
Well, that has changed now ^&grin
I consider a slot car racing track as one of the very classic Toys of the late 20th century.
Now I am looking forward to seeing how well it will be received by a young kid, born in the 21st century?
Although only barely 5 by age, my grandson is rather familiar with stuff like X-Box, Play Station, handheld video games, I-Pad, Smartphones, etc. etc.
Will be interesting to see, if a car race that doesn't happen on a screen, can attract his attention.
I sure hope so.
Now, did I just buy that, using my grandson as a "lame excuse" to finally make a childhood dream come true?
Or did I make a good decision by buying a valuable toy for today's world?
I am not sweating over the answer ^&grin , I gonna love it either way :redface2:, but seriously hope that he does too, so when spring time comes around, we can get a couple of 4' by 8' sheets of plywood, occupy the garage, and work on extending the racetrack ^&cool {eek3} ^&grin
When Christmas Eve is done, and the little guy is off to sleep, I will be setting up this race track on the living room floor, in front of the Christmas Tree, so when he gets up in the morning, he will walk right up on it
Will keep you updated next week, how it worked out.
Here's what I got, by now still packaged in the shipping box and awaiting the setup.
Cheers!
Konrad
