This book covers a number of really cool projects you can do with Lego blocks. This is a full-colored book with a lay-flat binding. This makes it easy to set the book on a table to view while putting a Lego model together. With its step-by-step diagrams, it couldn't be easier to follow how to create these models.

In fact, there are five major projects in this book including a candy catapult, a ping-pong cannon, an All-Terrain Lego (ATL), and a paper plane launcher. Projects include a bit of information on the inspiration, information on the design, and information on Lego rules broken. Rules are things that the Lego company would likely frown upon. There is also information on non-Lego parts that are used - such as rubber bands and paper for paper planes to use with the paper plane launcher.

A diagram shows all the parts used prior to the step-by-step instructions for creating the project.

Unfortunately, this book has a serious flaw. There are hundreds of different Lego blocks. When you add TECHNIC pieces to the choices, the overall number goes even higher. Chances are, each of the projects in the book uses several pieces you don't have. I went to the Lego site to try to find some of the individual pieces so that I could create these models. Unfortunately many of the unusual pieces, I simply couldn't find. As such, the value of this book was lost. I couldn't get the pieces to do the models.

That alone kills a large part of the value of this book. Granted, the ideas presented in the book can be used as starting points to think about other projects that can be done. Even so, this book would have gained tremendous value had it included part numbers on each item and a link somewhere in the book to order the Lego pieces.

My only other complaint about the book is the choice of font that was used for the text. I'm getting older, so my eyes are not as good as they use to be. Even so, the small font used on the text was simply too small. This was not done to save space, as there is lots of white space in the book. As such, the publishers should bump up the font size a bit!

My last comment is on Appendix A. This was a great appendix containing tips and tricks. Unfortunately, there were only two items shown. This hand-powered generator was a great idea. It would have bee neat to seen it broken into a couple more steps. It would have been even neater to see a lot more tips and tricks like these!