Montreallike Mega Bloks, small, colorful interlocking bricks that can be stacked in a million different shapes and provide interesting new things to step on when you're walking around the house in your bare feet. Mega Blok toys are great for kids who like to tinker with things and assemble complex models. Most of my engineer friends were really into mega bloks as kids and they ain't going hungry.
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Mega Brands do more than just tiny blocks that clog up your vacuum. They also have a wide variety of licensed properties for young kids, creating toys for everything from Spiderman to Iron Man to Halo Wars to Dora the Explorer so your little podlings can spend many happy hours playing with their favorite characters.
Perhaps you're raising a young Basquiat, minus the unfortunate addictions. Mega Brands Rose Art line has a wide variety of art supplies, including sculpting putty, crayons, easels, and coloring books to surprise and delight your children and provide them with better mental exercise than their twenty-third round of Grand Theft Auto 4. Maybe your kid likes the competition and excitement of challenging friends and family to fast paced board games. Mega Brands has the Battle Strikers tournament game. It's like spinning battle tops but much more extreme. Finally, if you are raising one of those kids who is going to be a millionaire some day and gonna own every other kid who picks on them at school, why not introduce them to the cerebral joy of the Mega Puzzles? They have puzzles at all skill levels and a wide variety of subjects, from Disney characters to fine photography pieces.