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By my count, the number of available LEGO kits on the market has reached about 1 gazillion by now, and my 7-year-old son owns roughly half-a-gazillion of them. They’re all pretty awesome in their own way, but they tend to follow the same pattern: buy it, build it, watch it collect dust on a shelf (or be destroyed by a younger sibling).
That changed when we purchased the LEGO Pop-Up Book, a first-of-its-kind item that looks like a hardcover book from the outside and then opens to reveal one of two interchangeable story settings: “Jack and the Beanstalk” or “Little Red Riding Hood.” Somehow it’s designed so that when you open the book, the scene actually does pop-up, and then folds up again neatly when you close it. The whole concept is creative, adaptable (you can also create your own story and mix-and-match) and has kept my son engaged, since it’s never truly “finished.”
Almost worth stabbing myself in the foot on a rogue brick late at night.
