The Lego Terrain Crusher Tiny Turbos car kit comes in a re-usable plastic casing shaped like a tire with a large sticker wrapped around it. The packaging itself is enticing to any child, not just a Lego lover; however, be warned that the packaging and the actual product itself looks MUCH bigger in online stores than it actually is. The complete toy, including packaging is about the size of the average adult woman’s hand. The top of the tire shaped case just pops off after breaking the seal of the wrap around sticker and the Lego pieces are inside a plastic bag for “safe keeping.” The Lego set comes with a sheet of stickers, just enough pieces to construct the car itself (so make sure you don’t lose any pieces!) and a sheet of instructions.

The sheet of instructions is readable enough to create a car but as an adult woman it took me a couple of tries to get the car completed as per the instructions. Since the instructions show groups of pieces as steps instead of piece by piece instructions it is a little more difficult than one might think to contruct the actual car featured on the packaging; however, it is possible after a little extra frustration of extra pieces and starting over a couple of times. Once the car is completed as per instructions the sticker sheet provided gives your child the opportunity to decorated their very own Terrain Crusher to look just like the one on the packaging or to their own specifications.

Lego Tiny Turbos has a few models of vehicles available including the 8130 Terrain Crusher, the 8131 Raceway Rider, the 8132 Night Driver, the 8133 Rally Runner, the 8134 Night Crusher, the 8135 Bridge Chase, the 8147 Bullet Run, and the 8681 Tuner Garage. These are the Tiny Turbo vehicles and vehicle sets available but there are also other classifications of Lego vehicle sets available including the Power Racers and the Ferrari sets.

The Lego Terrain Crusher Tiny Turbos vehicle set was mildly dissapointing but not so much so that I wouldn’t recommend it to friends. The primary disappointment of the set was the size, although I realize that Lego are small building bricks, from the size of the set featured on KB Toys website I expected a much larger set. The actual set (the size of my hand) contains just enough bricks to complete the car on the packaging and no more which was also mildly disappointing but again not largely so.

After taking the pieces of lego from the packaging and arranging them so I could see which pieces were which I realized that the actual construction of the car featured on the packaging was not going to be as easy as I assumed it should be. I mean honestly, how hard can it be to contruct a car out of Lego? I pull out the instructions provided and realize that the instructions themselves consist of groups of pieces. For example the first step includes building the base of the car, it does not show exactly which pieces to use but you are left to guess which pieces look right and your confirmation only comes when the final result of your step one looks identical to the final result of the instructions step one. Although this is a slight inconvenience it is not hard enough to make the toy one that I would not recommend.

Lego have always been a huge favorite of mine when it comes to children’s toys, I had Lego growing up as did my younger brothers and as will my own children when the day comes. Lego are the perfect toy for any child because they encourage learning and socializing as well as imaginative play which is ALWAYS a plus with any toy. I not only love the educational and imaginative factors of Lego though, I love that it is a toy that you can build on. Lego is a toy that can be collected and built upon for years as well as passed down from generation to generation and they continue to still be compatible with each other even as the years pass.

As for the Terrain Crusher Lego set, while I don’t highly recommend it as a Lego playset you could do a lot worse for yourself as far as toy choices go. I have seen other Lego sets that I would be more apt to purchase by personal choice, such as the themed playsets or the movie inspired sets (think Star Wars,) but if your child has his or her heart set on the Tiny Turbos vehicle sets, for the price I wouldn’t fight it. The cost is justifiable for a durable toy which offers hours of entertainment and can also be broken down to individual pieces that are compatible with other Lego sets and collections.