K'NEX Angry Birds Space Inter-ham-lactic Building Set

My son wanted this for Christmas and we bought it, when he opened it was a lot better quality than I expected!! Most sets like these are cheaply made and fall over before you can stack them, however this set was great and very durable

I thought my children, fans of legos and Angry Birds, would enjoy this, but they lost interest quickly. It does not allow the free imagination of legos or k'nex, nor does it captures the fast fun of the Angry Bird app. They quickly became bored with the long setup and quick knock down. Skip it.

I remember when legos were fun and spending hours alone with them at my grandma's house in imaginary play.But this Hanukka present was a bad idea, at least for a kid with mild OCD. First of all, he had to build it perfectly. He did a fairly good job of following the directions but because it is made to be knocked down, getting it to stand up takes some mad fine motor skills that require way too much parental intervention. It fell apart numerous times, taking two days to build. The sling shot is pretty crappy. When he finally got it to shoot a bird, he was smiled a little but it was definitely anti-climactic.

To start, we handed this to the 7 year old (the recommended age is 7+). He also happens to be a huge fan of Angry Birds. He worked on this for about 30 minutes with no help. Eventually, our 8 year old joined in (can't let the youngest have all the fun!). Between the two of them, it took about 1 1/2 hours to set up with no help from adults. They wound up playing the actual game for about half an hour. The only complaint is that the slingshot just doesn't work that well. They abandoned the slingshot and just threw the birds at the structure.Since its initial play out of the box, the 7 year old keeps it in his bedroom and plays with it daily. Before he goes to bed, he likes to put it back together so that he can wake up in the morning and start his day with a little Angry Birds stress relief.

Gave it as a gift to my nephew. He loved building the obstacles and knocking them down with the birds.

It's an alright game.

Actually trying to launch the bird using the Knex doesn't work well at all, and the blocks you knock over don't have enough weight to make the physics anything like the game. A small child who loves Angry Birds might like it a little, but as a game it's not well designed and not very playable. Not recommended.

My 9-year-old grandson saw this and wanted it. I questioned how much he would use it because he spends all his free time playing computer games, but I got it thinking that assembling this would help him improve his small muscle coordination, which is a problem for him.The problem is that once the game was assembled and played with for a short time, he was back to his computer games, which are a lot more exciting. I doubt it will be played with again, and many of the small pieces will be lost.There is nothing wrong with the game, but it does not compete with the computer games that he plays.I don't think he is unusual in this respect, and for that reason I don't recommend it for children that are avid computer game players.When I was a child, a game like this would have been a big deal. But that was long before we had computers.