Lost amongst the chaos

Batman, Gotham’s protector! The dark knight! The bat! But… lost amongst the chaos of toys.

We were pretty stoked to get a superhero toy in the mail. The kids were super enthralled to open the plastic packaging, pressing the bat symbol repeatedly, asking for help to get the accessories out but only to find the accessories like the bat stars (is that what they are) wouldn’t fit on the hand they were suppose too. My just turned 4 year old could barely move the lower half of Batman’s body to throw any of the attachments. My 7 year old was able to do it but wasn’t overly impressed by how well it worked. The 20 phrases and sounds were more or less, boring. We are definitely not a family of dedicated superhero fans (at least not until the kids are much older for some good movies) so Batman sort of took a backseat after the newness left him. We find him mostly now in the play area amongst the rest of the fallen toys. Not to say he doesn’t get played with but just not as often. I’m sure if he was given to a child who is all about Batman and superhero’s he would have had a much better review. For now our kids stick to the favourites. But we loved the introduction to Batman. We watched the Lego Batman movie to give our kids some Batman history but until they’re a bit older, he will stay in the piles of toys, always moving until one of our three kids are ready to play with him. Until then, he can brood with the other toys waiting their turns.