MEGA the makers of Mega Bloks, MagNext and other great imaginative and creative kids products has put out a virtual online game called MagNext Virtual. This game is geared for younger kids and has combines some basic game types like problem solving, with collectible items (changing your orb color, style, design)

The game has a very easy How To that pops up the first time you play the game:

I created an account for my younger son who is only five years old and he was playing around bouncing the orb to various locations. Though he can read some words, the game still needs about a 2nd or 3rd grade vocabulary level to be able to play without assistance in my opinion. I helped my son navigate around the various rooms on the planet.

The most fun part of the game is the Arena, where we had our first arena battle against another opponent. These games are setup as competitions with you competing in a speed match against your opponent. You have to enter the series of “arrows” in the correct order faster than your opponent to win. There are several rounds you must win in order to beat the match.

Once we won we collected some coins where we can go to the shop and buy custom paint jobs, or extra actions that your orb can perform. Most of these are for various communication or cosmetic effects you can perform on screen.

• Final Summary:

This game is exactly what it is designed for, a little entertainment game for younger kids that will keep them coming to the site once and a while and chat with some others who play. Compete and customize their orb, the main purpose is to just keep Magnext and the MEGA brand in the kids (and parents) minds and the game is good at that. It is clean fun and is a site you can trust your younger kids to be on that won’t make you worry.

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I have told readers on my personal blog that Mega Brand makes some great toys. I bought my kids a jumbo pack of MEGA Bloks almost 3 years ago and it gets daily use by my 5 year old and my 2 year old. Which brings me to Mega Brands toys and website in general, there is a wide range of products that encourage a child’s imagination and creativity. I am a big fan of their MagNext Sets which are parts which connect magnetically to form just about any type of structure you could create with standard blocks. Magnext Sets make things easy to build and even easier to tear down and clean up afterward.

Their catapillar play set is an amazing deal and hours of fun, they even have a 3 in one Ride On Caterpillar dump truck which is a ride on truck, a dump truck toy and a play center all in one. They sell stationary products for the artistic creativity in your children, complex building systems like Struxx, Disney Cars Play Sets, Arts and Crafts projects and so much more.

You can browse the site by category of toys, age range of the child, or my favorite which is by awards. You can see which toys have won awards in 2008, 2007, or 2006. Mega Brands sells something for every budget whether you have $5 to spend or $100 dollars to spend. I personally can vouch for many of their products, as I have purchased at least eight products over the last three years and almost all of it gets continual use by my family.

I feel when it comes to getting stuff for your children this Christmas, instead of getting all Action Figures and Fighting toys, mingle in some creativity toys and you will be surprised how often they get played with, they mix in quite well. My kids love to build Mega Blox robots and make them have battles and wars with their action figures, it is so great as when the MEGA Blox are destroyed they just build new ones to keep challenging the Heroes.

Trust me about this, if you don’t have any MEGA brand products your children are missing out, and I love getting in and building stuff with them just as much. You would be surprised at the level of detail you can get with a couple of hundred MEGA Blox, or a couple of dozen Magnext sticks.

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