It’s been a slow and quite subtle thing, but our family has managed to build up a pretty decent collection of lego.
We have a storage box stashed under a table in our lounge that is pretty much full of it. Rhys absolutely loves getting new sets to put together, and then once he’s done building them properly once or twice he likes to take them apart and get creative, building his own designs.
A few weeks ago I had an email asking if we would like to review something a bit different from Strictly Briks, a set of their Brik Towers, in two different sizes.
The larger set has 6 baseplates that are 10″ x 10″ and 50 stackers, while the smaller set has 4 baseplates that are 6″ x 6″ and 30 stackers.
You don’t get any additional bricks with the sets (any other bricks or figures you see in the photos are ones we already had), so you do need to have a collection at home already to really get much fun out of these sets. But if you do already have quite a few bricks then these tower sets are a great way to change up the way you play.
The Brik Towers are compatible with all the major brands of bricks which is brilliant.
We’ve tried them with both Lego bricks and Wilko blox and they do fit perfectly. I was worried that the fit might be slightly off, and it would be fiddly to fit the bricks we have onto the towers but they go on nice and smoothly.
The 2 tower sets also fit together nicely so we’ve been able to have quite a bit of fun mixing them up and creating pretty big towers for the little figures to explore.
The sets are really quite simple but at the same time you can get creative with them by changing up how many stackers you use between each baseplate. The whole thing does get a bit unstable when it gets too high, but I think that’s probably the case with any toy like this.
One word of advice though is to start building it somewhere that you won’t have to try and move it from later.
I had to move ours out of the way earlier and, well, it didn’t survive the move. I suppose if I’d thought about it more and picked it up more carefully by the bottom baseplate then it might have been ok. I also think this would be an issue with any sort of toy like this, they’re bound to be a little unstable when you build them up really high!
Considering it’s such a simple toy, we’ve already had a huge amount of play value from the Brik Towers.
I think they’ll be something we come back to again and again to make new creations with. I love how, once you’ve built with the towers, they also then encourage a different kind of creative play. We’ve already built a little house and played with different characters in it, and the towers have been made into a Minecraft set as well which both children really enjoyed.
For anyone who already has a good collection of bricks, these Brik Towers would make a great addition and add a whole new dimension to building play.
Disclaimer: we were sent the Strictly briks sets for the purpose of this review, however all photos, words and opinions are my own.