Machiavellian said:
Or I could spend 10 bucks one year, another 10 bucks another year and ..... While parents who like nice expensive gimmicks have blown hundreds in the same amount of time for the same experience. I could not tell you how many times I have seen parents purchase a expensive toy only to see their kids get more fun out of playing with the box it came in then the toy itself. |
it's NOT the same experience though? That is why I ponted out the software. You're not paying 70$ for cardboard. You're paying 60$ for a software that transforms the cardboard into something you can't possibly buy with 10$ this year and 10$ the next.
The combination of physical feedback, the basic coding experience for kids, the audiovisual feedback and the magic of transforming something you build out of cardboard into a truly functional item is not easily replicated. Sure, kids can use their imagiation, nothing wrong with that, but pretending that that is the same experience as working and figuring out the tools you have at hand to make someting truly work, is just factually wrong.
You might be of the opinion that it's unneccissary and that's fine, but it's not the same.
