Drive your car on this road . (Lego 7280 City: Straight & Crossroad Plates)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Lego 7280 City: Straight & Crossroad Plates
Date:	20/02/08 (102 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good adition to lego road set

Disadvantages: none

There are masses of Lego sets available that I could tell you about because I have work with children many years and Lego is always a popular construction set to have in child care /school situations. Lego is also a popular toy at home for children to play with too.
Children love to build play scenes with Lego constructing buildings or building vehicles. To help make the scene there are base plates available some with just studs on to build the houses onto others like these are road ways to drive Lego cars on these base plates also have studs around the flat road so that your child can use Lego bricks to make road side scenery or houses.

Lego Straight & Crossroad plates item number 7280.
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The road base plate I am talking about today is the Lego Straight & Crossroad plates item number 7280.
This set compromises of two base plates measuring 10 inches/25 cm by 10 inches/25 cm. / 32 studs by 32 studs.
The base plates are a road grey colour.
One of these base plates has a straight piece of road. The road runs across the base plate centre. There is a strip running along either side of the road of 6x32 studs. The roadway itself is flat to enable wheels to run on it. There are white dotted lines painted on the roadway, also 2 grey drain covers. There are white lines painted along the centre of the road it's just like a real road.
The other base plate is the cross roads this is basically a crossroad represented by two flat stretches of road crossing each other. There are road markings on the 4edges of this cross road. In each corner of the base plate there is a 6 stud square. It's possible to put a Lego road sign fitting into this studded area.

This straight and crossroad base plates are good for adding to other Lego road plates to make more complete road system.
These road plates although fairly thin Lego are quite strong and durable.
Your child can use them to make many road and play scenes adding whatever pieces of Lego takes their fancy. Your child will enjoy running the Lego cars they have built on these roads also suitable for running small non Lego cars on too.
Lego have quite a bit of road furniture available too road signs and traffic lights.
Your child can get lost in their make believe Lego road system using this straight road piece and the crossroad to take them on their imaginary journey.

Price
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This crossroad and straight road baseplate7280 set costs £5.99 at http://www.millionsoftoys.co.uk/ToyShop/Lego/City/ 1783LegoCity7280:
£9.245 at http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xDN-toys--buildingsetsan dblocks-buildingsets- tolegothemeslegotown
$19.99 at http://www.nextag.com/lego-town/search-html

Info about Lego for those of you who didn't know.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lego is a toy building system. It links together with little studs in each brick.
Lego is a Danish toy company founded in 1932 making step ladders, ironing boards. And children's toys. In 1937 the designers 17 yr old son started designing and making the early Lego toys, Lego is an adaptation of the Danish words that mean play well also in Latin it means I put together.
These pieces are recommended for children aged 5 and over but I think that it's suitable for slightly younger children.

So would I recommend this straight road and crossroad base plate set ? Yes

Summary: A straight road and a cross road base plate for lego cars