Labo is neither niche nor bait nor a simple cashgrab

[SvennoJ]

My 8 year old already wants it for his birthday, it has tons of appeal. Yet will it last more than a few afternoons like a paper airplane book. Anything build of cardboard doesn't last in my house, those Minecraft paper sets were a bad idea.

If it has some programming element, then I'll bite. My 8 year old is very interested in programming already. Still a bit young for Lego Mindstorms (and terribly expensive). I still have an old set of that that requires windows 95 and a parallel printer port...