K’nex Sesame Street Ice Cream Truck Building Set Review

K’nex has recently come out with a new line of Sesame Street Neighborhood Collection Building Sets. They are perfect for a younger audience of children and feature characters that they know and love. K’nex and Team Mom sent us an Elmo Ice Cream Truck Building Set to review and try out.

Pros: The blocks are cute and very sturdy. The feel like they are better quality than other construction sets that feature the same type of building block. The parts are big and easy for little hands to work with. There was also a pamphlet that came with the set that gives multiple ideas on how to build with the set. I really like this because it sparks imagination.

The set benefits children in many different areas including physical and social development as well as cognitive skills.
This set is also interchangable and works with the Police Station Building set. The suggested age is 2-5, and since I have two little boys that fall within that age range, it was interesting for me to see them take it in on different levels.

Cons: My 4 year old still struggled a little bit trying to put this together on his own. I don’t know if a year would make a difference, but I had to help him put some of it together.
We also had problems with the wheels coming off on the one side when we would build it into a car. This happened multiple times.

Price: $9.99

Where to Buy: Target, Wal-mart, Toys R Us

K’nex Video Contest
Now through December 7th, you can enter a video of your child building with K’nex for a chance to win $1,000 worth of K’nex building sets. Post the video on your own blog and submit the link to knexvideocontest@knex.com
Videos must be at least 30 seconds but no longer than 3 minutes and must include one or more of the following:

K’nex 400 PC Tub
K’nex Sesame Street Building Sets

Click here to read more about the contest.

The product reviewed in this article was a sample provided to me by K’nex and Team Mom. These views and opinions are my own and I was not compensated by this review.

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Tue | 01.12.09

susan said:

I’ve never heard of K’nex ~ however now that we have a little one I’m sure we’ll get to know all the names of the toys. Thanks for sharing your honest views it helps to make informed decisions!

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Fri | 27.11.09

fancygrlnancy said:

this is cute. we love elmo. I will have to look at this in the future… my guy might be a bit too little for these.

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Mon | 23.11.09

Lauralee Hensley said:

I like that the pieces are bigger like Duplo’s so that little hands can handle them, and little mouths can’t. Who doesn’t love the characters too. I thought Count Dracula was really cute. I bet he becomes pretty popular again with so many people into the Twilight thing now.

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Mon | 23.11.09

Jessie C. said:

I thought it was LEGO by first glance! Hum, this might be a choice when I need to find a combo of Elmo and LEGO for kids. Thanks for sharing!

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Mon | 23.11.09

Janaca Cann said:

How fun. Jordan is a big elmo fan and he loves blocks so I’m sure this would be a hit at our house.

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Mon | 23.11.09

jengd said:

It’s a cute set but I have to admit, the number of companies doing “Lego-like” blocks is starting to drive me mad. I like so many of the sets but they’re not compatible with each other and if the blocks were to get mixed up and then my son went to play with them, I imagine he’d get very frustrated.

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