2xD is for Not Included!

Isn't it the bane of large-box toys that they require missing, absent, elsewhere power sources! At least on this one the fact is clear, and while one has to ask how a big ticket item can't go the extra nine-yards and include batteries, the Devil's advocate from 'elf & safety' says it's all about possible long-term storage and the resultant fire risk!

Another cheap board-game chuck-out, courtesy of a local Charity shop, nothing exciting, but it's a box ticked, reminding me of some of the TCR or Tomy stuff one saw TV-advertised back in the 1980's, around Christmas time.

It's a box full of stuff which builds into an interactive 'activity' game . . . . a box full of stuff to rapidly get lost and/or broken - the triumph of marketing and consumption over any respect for the planet!

From the front they look OK, and having looked at various boarders here over the last few months, neat additions to the growing sample, however from the back . . . very disappointing and the sort of thing you get in very cheap rack toys - we saw a similar prince/princess pair here a while ago, and a large green alien!

I kept two of the tree obstructions for a tub of such-like stumps, boughs and branches, I have ferreted-away somewhere! Everything else has gone to recycling and, err . . . that's it; Mattel's board game Extreme Snowboard.