LOGICO MAXIMO

Let me introduce to you the Logico Maximo by Grolier. It’s a wonderful game from education in-sights. It’s a game manipulative for kids’ ages 8 and above helping them to improve their focus, concentration and visual abilities. 

Logico Maximo comes with 16 book series, a Logico Maximo board and a parent’s guide book. 

Logico Maximo covers 3 main areas such as Brain Development, English and Mathematics. Each subject have different levels and categories. 

Every book series consist of 16 activity cards.

How to used Logico Maximo

Each card has an activity side and an answer side. Insert the card into the board. 

Match and move the colored buttons to the right answer on the right.

Once your child has answered all the questions, turn the card around and check if the color of the buttons match the answer side.

It is very easy and fun to operate. The Board is made of plastic which seems fine. The activity cards are colorful and attractive to kids. It is made of good quality paper and is waterproof. The only issue is sometimes the buttons in the board are too tight and got stuck but eventually it will work out. Overall, It's a very good cooperative game between parents and their children.

Transformers Age of Extinction Generations Leader Class Optimus Prime Figure Review

This is the Transformers Age of Extinction Generations Leader Class Optimus Prime Figure by Hasbro. This is the Leader Class Optimus Prime Figure from the movie: Transformer Age of Extinction by Michael Bay. Optimus Prime has 3 modes: robot, vehicle mode and semi-truck mode. In his robot mode, this Optimus Prime Figure has lots of articulation that allows to be post some cool looking action stances, he also have classic red and blue skim with metallic accents. The figure comes with the sword of judgement and vector shield. Optimus Prime vehicle mode is one of the best vehicle mode we have seen yet from their Optimus Prime action figure. The Truck has red flame along the hoods and sides and does have rubbery tires.

The vector shield is on the hitch and the sword can be place underneath the truck. This Transformers Figure allow kids and collectors to recreate seen from the movie. There are 20 steps to transform this figure going from robot to truck that maybe took 3 minutes and track to robot took 2 minutes. The final step in transforming this Optimus Prime Figure into a robot involve his head automatically  popping up by pressing his chest which is really cool.

The Figure comes in robot mode but the direction in the manual indicates that you have to transform it from vehicle to robot mode. It's a little confusing but most transformers fans should be able to transform this Optimus Prime Figure into vehicle mode by following the directions in reverse.

At the back, aside of  sticking the sword straight down, the whole piece have an angle hinge which you can position the sword a little-bit inclined which i thought is really cool.

The Chrome is not over power which is really nice.There's alot really neat ideas going on transforming in vehicle to robot down the legs. I wish they didn't focus only in the lower foot and they made all that mechanisms even in the upper body. 

One of the big issue on this figure is the clicking joints, when you change the position of arms and legs they're always clicking which is kind of annoying. Overall, I do think that it's alot of fun than I expected. This figure is a nice representation of the updated Optimus Prime truck and robot mode and probably the best as of now.

How to PLAY LEGO City Alarm Board Game

The basic aim of the game for this is to take one player as the robber and one player as the cop. The robber will try to get into the buildings in attempt to rob the buildings and collect 10 stocks of 100 dollar bills. Now this kinda seems like an easy to robber but it's actually quite difficult.

There are 11 buildings that you can rob from but there also eleven buildings that can be watch by the cops helicopter.

Everytime you roll the dice, if you ever show this symbol, the cop helicopter can moved to any building and if the cop helicopter is on that building, you cannot rob any money from that building. You probably wondering why movement pieces are not on the dice. You should actually put the movement pieces over, shuffle it and pick the movement piece randomly so you can see how far to move. Now the cop's job is to pick up a movement piece that is exactly the amount of moves he need to land and grab the robber. When the cop landed the robber, the game will immediately over and the cop win.

The alternate mode to play the game is by placing the jail beside the red architecture building and if the robber lands in the front of the jail, the prisoner inside it will get free and should place in the nearest white tile which considered to be a train station.

 If you ever pick up the train station movement piece, you can move in any white tile weather you are a cop or a robber. This is more strategical way to play the game rather than the first one.

The gameplay is simple, just move exactly adjacent to a building and you have a chance to roll the dice and get money.

Now, if you roll dice the see the helicopter, the cop can place the helicopter on that building so you cannot steal from that building again until the helicopter is gone but then you still get one stock (one 100 dollar bill) the problem is there are so many helicopters on the dice so when ever the robber will try to steal, the cop most likely have a chance of putting the helicopter in the building.

 There is only 1/3 chance to get 2 piece of the dollar stock. It's really difficult to collect the 10 dollar stocks, because the cop is chasing you as well as the helicopter blocking you. Now for the cop you total goal is to get rid of all the robbers and blocking them from a certain building.

That pretty much is the basic on how to play this game. It's actually really fun and very challenging, the only problem is the movement pieces is hard to shuffle around, sometimes it flip up. I can recommend to use a pick bag which you cant see the movement pieces like the bag used in scrabble game.

See: LEGO City Alarm Game Set 3865 Review

LEGO City Alarm Game Set 3865 Review

It's the City Alarm By Lego. It is for 2 to 4 players, takes about 10 to 20 minutes to play. This is one of their buildable games recommended for ages 6 plus. It's awesome in my opinion. I think they are brilliant, lego and board games together is just a genius ideas. At the backside of the box, it shows you the dice and  how you can put your whole built of set in to the box pretty simple so you can just carry around without breaking it up apart which is really nice that they make the box big enough to do that. So you don't have to keep rebuilding the board over and over.

We have the instructions which will help you to build it up and the game instruction booklet which tells you how to play the board game and a few ways to change it which makes it more exciting.

Here is the game all built up which is obviously mini city. Not overly huge set up. Each one of this mini built represents identified buildings ( ex. pizza parlor, jewelry store) that are kind of futuristic.

It comes with 2 cops mini figures, and 4 robbers mini figures, one of them is in the jail.

We also get movement pieces, as well as a dice and 13 tiles each represents stocks of 100 dollar bill including the money in the bank building.

Right here with is a Lighthouse.

The Bakery Shop

The Coffee House that looks like attached in an apartment building,

The Jewelry Shop

The Bank

 An architecture red building, if want to play in different way, jail should placed right here.

Here is the jail with the Helicopter that comes on it, the captured prisoner should be placed on the inside. The jail have the ability to move around.

 The Post Office

 The Pizza Parlor

 2 common buildings

How to PLAY LEGO City Alarm Board Game

Kinder Surprise GENERAL Review

Today we have a surprising review for you! Yes it is in fact Kinder Surprise. If you dont know, Kinder is a sort of German word for children. Kinder Surprise is from the maker of the Ferrero Rocher which is an Italian chocolatier. They have been making the Kinder Surprise in white milk chocolate and milk chocolate egg shell and it's filled with a little plastic capsule that has a toy inside. They making this since 1974 and they gone quite a big following now. It has controversy and this product is banned in the United States. Although you will see them imported illegally (kinda). The concern is just the choking hazard of the toy inside and the FDA said that it's not good.

Let's look at the packaging which is nice little egg shape and white with orange in color. It's pretty classic look design, it said 32 percent milk ingredients, milk chocolate with milky line and a surprise toy.

Let get into this and have a look. It's milk chocolate in the outer shell and the white milk chocolate inner shell. The Chocolate taste really good, could say it's a high 7 or even 8, not surprising because  its a product made by Ferrero.

There is the capsule with a toy. Usually in color yellow sort of like yolk.

This is one example in thousand of toys you can get inside the Kinder Surprise.