Bionicles?

We introduced the boys to bionicles a couple of weeks ago. Wow, the least you can say is that they love them! They have been obsessed with them ever since. It's constant bionicle fights in the house!

I wonder what is so appealing about them? The fact that they look like robots? The facts that they "kind of" transform?

Anyway, Logan and Connor constantly want to have Bionicles fights. They have one and I or Tim need to have another one and we all fight, bumping into each other, diving onto another one, sending big balls of fire...

I guess this is just typical boys play and the Bionicles are just the medium here. When I think about it, their play with cars or "real" animals are not that much different...

Oh, in case you don't know what a Bionicle looks like, here is one of theirs: