Last month I was lucky enough to go down to London and visit
the Christmas in July toy event! As you can imagine I had great fun playing
with all the toys! One particular range that caught my attention was Go Minifrom Golden Bear...
As you may know I usually prefer wooden toys to plastic
battery operated noisy things, however having young children, they are
inevitably attracted to brightly coloured plastic toys! So there has to be a
compromise and that's why I was so impressed with the toys on offer from the Go
Mini range.
They were bright and colourful enough to appeal
to Ben (and Elizabeth of course, anything her big brother's got, she wants
too!) but they are also well made and sturdy and best of all don't take
batteries!
There is a good
selection in the range and we were thrilled to be sent the Stunt launcher to
review, which comes with its own exclusive stunt racer. There are 5 more to
collect that each have an individual stunt. All of these would also work with
the stunt launcher.
As soon as Ben saw
the box he got excited! What 4 year old boy doesn't love cars?! After getting
out of the box (From a mummy point of view I was impressed with this, instead
of those annoying twisty wires that I'm used to battling with every time my
children get a new toy, there were simple plastic discs to turn which release
the toy from it's box quickly and easily and before Ben started to get
impatient!)
The set consists
of just two pieces, the launcher and the racer, so there are no small, fiddly
parts at all, because of this I feel that it may reach under it's recommended
age range of 3 - 6, Elizabeth, who is 20 months was fascinated with it and
loved carrying the launcher around by it's chunky handle!
And so to the playing...
The launcher has
a big chunky handle, a large faced dial, a pull back lever and a start button.
After securing the racer on to the ramp (this was a little fiddly and Ben
needed help with this the first few times) He proceeded to pump the lever back
and forth, both him and his younger sister were very impressed with the revving
noise it made while he did this! As he pumped, the needle on the die rose and
as it reached the top he pushed the start button to see it race off! At first
it wasn't going as fast as we expected, until I realised we had it in stunt
mode! Once I switched to race mode, boy did it go!!
After the first
few goes where I showed him what to do, Ben can easily do this independently
now and it seems to be his go to toy at the moment, being played with most
days! It also seems to make a regular appearance in the evening when Daddy gets
home from work, I wonder why?!
I like the fact
that the stunt racer can be used separately so when we've been visiting family
and I only want him to take a small toy along he's quite happy to take just the
car and 'pull back' to play.
This is a great
set and seems very well made and good quality so it will stand being bashed
around by an enthusiastic pre - schooler. At around £20 for the set and £10 for
the individual stunt racers it's quite good value for the quality and of course
the 'mini' brand! To be honest the link in with the brand is lost on Ben, at
four he loves playing with cars, but has no concept of brands and their
merchandise. It does however appeal to my (big Kid at heart) Hubby and I'm sure
it would have pull with older children.
Needless to say ,
this set has been a huge hit in our house and I think some of the other cars in
the Go Mini range will be making an appearance on Ben's (and possibly Daddy's)
Christmas list this year!
Ohh this is what my sister was talking about, I think they are going to be a hit with my DS too!
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