No 03
LEGO Chain Reactions is a Klutz book, which means the parts come attached: 33 special LEGO elements plus a set of cardboard ramps, string, a tipping bucket and a lever, and a spiral-bound book that shows how to build ten chain reaction machines and then link them. The kid supplies the regular bricks from the bin, which every house has.
It is the Christmas gift for an eight to twelve-year-old who has built every set they own and is bored, the birthday present from the aunt who does not want to buy another franchise box, and the project that pulls a parent onto the floor.
Ages 8 and up on the cover. It needs a pile of ordinary bricks to work; the Classic brick box pairs with it. Under thirty dollars for the LEGO gift that teaches physics by accident.
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