LEGO City Airport
Aerophiles rejoice! Lego’s colossal 700-piece airport kit is a very cool kit with tons of realistic details, including a jet (747, naturally) with seats and cockpit with instrumentation, air traffic control tower, baggage truck, baggage claim area with spinning conveyor belt, jetway, revolving door into airport, security checkpoint, viewing area, and a variety of airport personnel. Kids (and some adults, too; you know who you are…) will spend hours playing airport: sending travelers through grueling security checks (these are 21st century children, after all), boarding passengers and loading luggage, monitoring air traffic from the control tower, checking the engines of the airplane before take-off, spinning suitcases around the baggage carousel. Each major component (jet, main airport, air traffic control tower and jetway, baggage truck, baggage claim) has its own set of wordless instructions, which are fairly easy to follow, especially for veteran Lego craftspeople. And especially if you manage to keep the component parts separate…but that’s an issue that goes with the Lego territory. Truly, this is one fantastic addition to the Lego City collection.--Emilie Coulter