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> LEGO and construction toys 1 - 50 of 324 items Get your building cap on and let your imagination run wild with our great range of LEGO and construction toys. We have playsets from popular films such as LEGO Star Wars and Disney so you can build up a collection of all your beloved films and reenact scenes with your favourite characters. For those wanting to create new stories and adventures, our LEGO Friends sets will let you explore a variety of places and new characters. Our LEGO Technic sets are hands on model construction sets for those tech lovers to build vehicles such as cranes, planes and many more. As well as construction toys we also have a huge range of musical toys and arts and crafts equipment, for other great ways to get creative with your kids.A three-year-old boy died after choking on his big brother's Lego toy while playing at his family home. Little Eshaan Bilal was playing with his home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, when the 'arrow shaped' piece of Lego became lodged in his throat.
His mum Sumreen Kaussar attempted CPR but he was pronounced dead less than an hour after being rushed to hospital by paramedics. An inquest into his death head the toddler was playing at around 11am on September 24 when the three centimetre-long arrow became lodged in his throat. The piece - designed to be fired out of a Lego gun - was designed for children aged five and over. Ms Kaussar, an administrative assistant, told police she heard a 'choking noise' coming from the downstairs family living room. She ran downstairs to find Eshaan unable to speak, turning pale and his lips were going blue. Eshaan's brother said he had swallowed the object and couldn't breathe. Paramedics arrived at 11:19am but were unable to retrieve the toy. They carried on performing CPR until they got him to the Royal Oldham Hospital where the piece of Lego was found near his vocal cords and removed using forceps. Following further attempts to resuscitate Eshaan, he was pronounced dead at 12:01pm in the accident and emergency department of the hospital.
Detective Inspector Roger Edwards said: "Eshaan was not in the habit of putting objects in his mouth. Their older son told Sumreen that Eshaan had put a piece of Lego in his mouth. He was going pale and his lips were turning purple. "Sumreen was slapping him on his back both hard and softly. Water was coming out of his mouth and he went floppy in her arms. When the ambulance arrived they looked into his mouth but couldn't see anything. "I visited the family home and in the middle of the living room floor was a Lego car and a small Lego missile, similar to the one that was found lodged in Eshaan's mouth." Dr Rob Downes, a paediatrician, said: "A small Lego car they were playing with was still on the floor in the living room. The toy did have a number of small pieces. "It would be suitable for a child more than five years old which would be older than Eshaan but would be compatible with his older brother's age group." Recording an accidental death conclusion at the Heywood inquest, coroner, Peter Sigee, said: "The toy was totally obstructing Eshaan's airway. "
A doctor was able to see it and removed it but sadly even once it was removed the attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful. "This was a loving and caring address where Eshaan was well looked after, well fed, well clothed and he lived in a clean and tidy house where appropriate steps were put in place to look after the toys and make sure they were well maintained and played with appropriately. "There is nothing in the evidence to suggest there was any lack of care or anything other than a loving and supportive environment in which Eshaan was living and growing up in. "I'm satisfied on the balance of probability that Eshaan died from asphyxiation due to a foreign body."The mother of a 5-year-old Massachusetts boy who was threatened with suspension from his school's after-care program after he made a gun out of Lego pieces and pointed it at other students says she believes the school mishandled the situation, but the district said the boy was disruptive and disrespectful, and it's standing by its action.
Sheila Cruz, 33, of Hyannis, Mass., said this week that she was "dumbfounded" when she got a letter from Hyannis West Elementary School last. Dated Jan. 25, 2013, the letter, sent by the school's day care program, said Cruz's son, Joseph, had gotten his first written warning the day before for "using daycare toys inappropriately." "Please be reminded that a second written warning will result in two weeks out of day care," the letter added.While in the school's after-care program, he used Lego pieces to make a toy handgun. Joseph used the object to "taunt other students with it while simulating the sound of gunfire," according to a statement from the Barnstable Public School district. Cruz couldn't quite believe it. At first, she said, she was scared that her son could face suspension from the day care. Joseph is also a student in the school's kindergarten class. "And then I took a little time to think about it and I was just like, this is really ridiculous. He's 5years old, and this is what 5-year-olds do.
They play with Legos. They do finger guns," Cruz, 33, said. RELATED: Kindergartner Suspended Over Bubble Gun Threat Joseph had apparently made a gun-type gesture with his fingers toward another student a few weeks ago during regular kindergarten class. Cruz said a teacher mentioned that incident to her and she had talked with her son about it. William Butler, the school district's attorney, said teachers had spoken to the boy several times before for what Butler described as "consistently disrespectful" behavior. George MacKoul, Cruz's attorney, questioned that claim, saying those instances were never documented by the school. He also said the school did not identify any students who might have been threatened by Joseph's actions with the Lego figure. He questioned why, if Joseph's behavior had been such a concern, his parents had not been formally notified earlier. In its statement, the district said that in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., to "dismiss or overlook an incident that results in any member of our school community feeling unsafe or threatened would be irresponsible and negligent."
Cruz and her attorney said they understood security concerns, given the December shooting massacre in Newtown, but said they believe Hyannis West Elementary School mishandled this situation. "They way they handled it was just not right it," MacKoul said. "It just wasn't right. I think it created a lot more problems than it solved." VIDEO: Gun Gesture Gets 6-Year-Old Suspended Mary A. Czajkowski, the district's superintendent, said this issue was about more than just a toy gun. "I don't think this was about a Lego gun or the building of a Lego gun. It was to me the action and the behavior after the child was asked to stop pointing that," she said. Joseph's alleged failure to stop making the shooting sounds was disrespectful and disruptive, Czajkowski said. Cruz doesn't believe her son would have disobeyed a teacher's orders. "I really don't buy that," she said. "My son is, like, I know him inside and out. He's a great kid. He's got a big heart. He loves to help.