Are y'all familiar with the "Imaginext" line of toys?
Luke wants an Imaginext Castle. I've found one for about $40, that almost looks too young. But the only other version I've found is the "Battle Castle" which (and for the life of me I've yet to figure out why) is selling on Amazon.com for $199.
The first is doable, if that's what he wants. The second is not.
And 2J - any advice about Star Wars Legos? He's asked for the "entire collection" - not happening...
I tell ya, my boys love the Legos. But they treat them like models. They don't play with them because they tend to fall apart. They enjoy putting them together and displaying them.
They also really like Bionicles. They can play with them (although Matthew has lately grown out of them...he still enjoys putting them together). They don't fall apart so easy.
I found three castles. The battlecastle and the dragonmont castle in addition to the adventure castle. They look pretty cool, but I think Lego has some really neat castles too. Knight's Kingdom, Black Castle. Lego also has Batman's Arkham Asylum. The Royal King's castle is 99.99.
BlackBeltBoy loves the starwars legos! I have come to the point though, that he has to buy them with his allowance money. Some of the kits are only $10 and under, others are $20. The larger items are pretty expensive and so we do not have those yet.