Ouch I stood on a basic lego brick from this medium sized box. (Lego 5576 Brick: Basic Bricks Medium)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Lego 5576 Brick: Basic Bricks Medium
Date:	19/07/09 (194 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good long lasting educational toy

Disadvantages: I should look where I am treading with my bare feet after the grandkids come to play

There are 375 Lego pieces in this medium card box of Lego pieces. Red ones blue ones , white ones green and black pieces too .
These bricks are standard shaped bricks 2 studs, 4 stud, 6 studs, 8 studs, 12 studs. No windows, door, wheels
A Lego brick's height is 9.58mm, the width of 2 studs16mm.

These bricks are a great buy to make simple constructions. They are ideal to use alongside other Lego kits useful as you might lose a brick from another set. . The boxes of specific designs only hold enough bricks for the model they make. This basic brick box is useful if you lose brick from a set.

Lego bricks are a great conjoining brick suitable for a child aged 4 and over. A young child will enjoy these basic bricks by building them into towers ,or walls before they get involved in the more precise Lego constructions. Children can use their imagination more with this set than the kits for making individual constructions which have the designs and pictures printed on them. These basic Lego bricks can also be used with the Duplo larger bricks, Duplo twice the length, height and width of traditional Lego bricks,


Lego bricks are fantastic they last well and are a good tough plastic washable when they get dirty. The colours take a long time to fade. This box of bricks suitable for home or school although school will probably have a larger container of Lego bricks .

These bricks are good for helping your child develop his/her fine motor and construction skills. They can be used to help colour recognition, language development . They are ideal for early math's too basic counting, addition and subtraction.

Lego bricks are made by a Danish company which evolved from a carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, who in 1916, had a woodworking shop making houses and furniture. He began producing toys in the 1930's, in 1934 that the company name Lego was used. The name Lego ideal as it's a adaptation of the words that mean play well in Danish and Latin words that could be interpreted as "I put together"
The company changed direction from wood working to making plastic toys, the first Lego brick designed in 1949 being called Automatic binding bricks. In 1953 they got the new name Lego bricks. The Lego company is still a family business owned by the grandson of Ole Kirk Kristiansen

It is possible to buy this from http://shop.lego.com for £8.29 in fact trawling through the results from my search you wont get this box much cheaper .If you see it on sale price buy ahead for a Christmas present. But do be careful these bricks can be painful if trodden on with bare feet .

So would I recommend this box of bricks ? Yes

Summary: A basic set of lego bricks containing 375 bricks