Jack’s 4th birthday was just a few days away, and we hadn’t gotten him a present yet. We knew there were going to be plenty of trains and cars and books and games, but I wanted to get him an honest to goodness toy.
Enter a metafilter post titled Birthday present for a 4 year old boy?, and a no-nonsense post from Otis:
Well, I like rockets as much as the next guy. And I know Jack has some stomp power. Plus he could play with this outside with his buddy Fischer. To be fair, I did look at the other ideas on the page, but most were along the same lines as Chrischris – things Jack already has too many of – or kendrak, who is obviously buying toys for her nephew to get back at her older sister for being mom’s favorite.
So, off to Hollipops I go. I was in and out in 15 minutes and even had some bonus little circes for the girls. This is a self contained launcher with handle and storage. Kids have no problem operating this all by themselves – the rockets are soft and it doesn’t take much force to get the rockets flying!
And as you can see from the pictures, a good time was had by all!
Mom takes a turn!
Daddy performs load test (passed BTW):
Gotta have it right now?