Mega Bloks - Blok Squad Fire Patrol Rescue

My kids love imaginative play. So when I heard about Mega Bloks Blok Squad sets I thought my girls might get a kick out of them. I'll admit, I was drawn to them because there was a Police set and I signed up for that. Supply changed and they sent me a Blok Squad Fire Patrol Rescue set instead. I was disappointed, we are a law enforcement family after all, but my girls still seemed excited about their new toy. Now, before I tell you more please note that this set is for children aged 5 and up...and yes, that is my 4 1/2 year old in the picture. My older daughter was not home from school yet when I started taking pictures...but I did not let my younger daughter play with the small parts. Ok...now here's a little bit about this toy and our experience.

I opened the box and this is what I found inside:

I will admit, I was a little leery when there was 1 random red block and some little silver thingy (such a technical word, eh?) just floating around the box, not in any of the bagged up parts. As I started separating the parts out into their steps (as found in the instruction book) I realized I did need those parts. Not sure why they weren't with the other parts? Oh well, at least they were there and I wasn't left angry about a missing part (as I was years ago when I purchased a toddler desk online from a MAJOR box store, made by a MAJOR brand and neither ever made it right...I digress).

This took quite a bit of time to assemble, but we're not assembly pros. This is our first set that isn't made of big blocks, so it was new territory for us. But in the end this is what we have:

Now that they're built my girls are having fun with them (with my supervision of course, small parts make me so nervous!).

This 190 piece set retails for $9.99 and can be found in the U.S. at Toys "R" Us, toysrus.com, Walmart, walmart.com and Amazon.com. And for those of you in Canada you can find them at Walmart CDN, Toys "R" Us, toysrus.com and Zellers. You can also find other sets including more fire patrol, police and construction.

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I received the Mega Bloks Blok Squad Fire Patrol Rescue set in order to facilitate this review. No monetary compensation was received. Opinions expressed are my own.