No 02
The Classic Large Creative Brick Box is LEGO without a kit: 790 pieces in 33 colors, windows, doors, wheels, eyes, and a green baseplate, in a tub with a lid. There is no set to finish, so a four-year-old stacks towers and a ten-year-old builds a spaceship from the same box, and the pieces mix with every other LEGO in the house.
It is the Christmas gift for a kid who already loves LEGO and has nothing but finished sets on the shelf, the birthday present when you do not know which franchise they are into this month, and the box grandparents keep for visits.
Ages 4 and up on the box, and it stays useful well past that. The tub stores the bricks after the first week, which is more than any LEGO set box manages. Under thirty-five dollars for the longest-lived toy in the room.
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