Super Mario Toys and Games Super Solid for 30 years Going

Super Mario Monopoly is not just a lovable take on the all time classic game for learning lots of valuable lessons, but you can almost say that Super Mario games, with all his changing adventures from maps to outer space, lovable Mario, just may have a monopoly on being the most famous, most loved, most long lasting character ever! No joke, the statistics do tell the results.

Super Love for Super Mario

For 30 years running now, (or jumping or karting or flying as super Mario does so well), even older super Mario collector’s editions of toys and games are grabbed up along with brand new super Mario games and toys for the wii, and the gamut of super Mario backpacks, lunch bags, Mario bedroom linens, plush dolls, and you name it. That may very well be because Mario is not for one age group, –dads, moms, grandpas, older brothers and sisters, and younger toddlers, everyone knows and loves the cool mustachioed plumber Mario–his cohorts and his conflicts.

Mario is a good guy, and parents appreciate him as a decent role model with a valuable place today alongside all those super outlandishly beautiful of face and figures heroes. Step aside handsome Avengers, actors and actresses, pop stars, all of them, because Super Mario and Mario kart powers, and his challenges and discoveries, show off his good heart.

He’s just a guy, a plumber who knows his pipes and will do anything to save his dear friend Princess Daisy. Mario is not about saving the world, or revenge, he’s sweet, even comical  in his ways of trying to manage his challenges. And he is super. And kids love him like a good friend. No wonder they want the super Mario backpack. For little brothers and sisters who copy everything, the backpacks come is toddler size too. And then they must have the Super Mario lunch bag. It’s a well insulated lunch bag to keep lettuce from wilting and bananas from “smooshing”. Put in a funny or sweet daily note or picture for the day.

Some Healthy Mario Relationships

What’s in that super Mario bag anyway, tuna, turkey, pp&j –all with a side of mushrooms?  Well, that’s not such a joke because Mario, you know, lives in the mushroom kingdom, and there is a lot to do with cool mushrooms playing his games. There’s so much fun with mushrooms (and they really and truly are a super food packed with the best nutrients) that have gained their popularity and acceptance with all. So that’s another great and healthy benefit to Super Mario anything at all!

Endless Varieties of Mario Toys and Games

Super Mario is everywhere, not just on the wii’s and the screens. In fact, get the kids away from the electronics for family night with super Mario chess. Nothing could be better than learning strategy with this game–for any level, even you.  Plus, the 32 pieces can be used with the younger kids in the tub because these special super Mario toy pieces are waterproof and can go take a bath. It’s also a great way to collect a lot of these great Mario characters all at once.

Or vary chess with super Mario checkers and tic tac toe, or super Mario memory challenge board game. Give the kids and your own brain cells a boost, and you’ll even find the kids are better at this than you! It’s great for some younger kids who can feel proud to really win at a game.

Then there are the family must have super Mario puzzles. There’s the Nintendo Mario party puzzle, or for car lovers the Mario kart puzzle. For families who are in the Mario know, or not, here’s a chance to join the adventures of the brothers Mario and Luigi, as they save the princess from Bowser and koopalugs as you are traveling through the puzzle pieces.

Of course for the electronic games, right now it’s a tough choice which is more super on the wii, the super Mario galaxy 2 or the new super Mario.  There is a super Mario game for every age level and style–older ones are still fabulous and beloved as well as each new version and sequel. Kids boast about having the best, the most super of the super Mario games.

The Best Ratings of All Times

As the acclaimed best of all platform games, super Mario galaxy 2 is rated great on parenting sites and by kids of all ages. You don’t have to worry about violence because Mario, the good guy he is, is out to save his princess from the evil monster Bowser, and the stuff he fights are not “humaish” but “cartoonish”, and his ways are really cute and funny even. Mario spins, pounds the ground, turns into rock Mario, uses Yoshi the dinosaur’s tongue to fetch and swallow enemies. Boo Mario flies through walls, Mario  uses a giant drill to go into planets, he surrounds a wooden galaxy with– what else– blocks of course.

Mario is always tops in platforming and kart racing, the graphics are the best, the levels are brilliant, surprising.

Mario is claimed to be the most famous character in the whole history of video games–the best selling of all video games. He has a wax figure in the Hollywood wax museum, he has 7 world records in the Guinness book, people and places are named after Mario. One survey rated Mario more recognizable than Mickey Mouse!

Playtime with Super Good Ideas

Super Mario is not about revenge, grandiose ideas to save the world, he takes on his challenges with a good heart.  Anyone can be like Mario the plumber. Of course, kids love a little magic in their fantasy play, and so Mario can wear different things like the vanish cap, or the penguin suit. He has his raccoon tail for flying powers. He gets an ice flower so he can walk over ice or lava, or a tanooki suit to be a powerful statue. Super Mario toys give the kids just the kinds of images that are fun, harmless, and cool. Super Mario’s world includes enough cohorts and characters to give good fantasy game parts to a whole classroom of kids to choose their favorite.

What kids don’t like cars and karts and driving, and so there is Mario kart toys and games–with Mario the driver to fulfill their wishes.

For art lovers these characters are ones the kids want to draw–you know ever since Diary of a Wimpy Kid made cartoons an awesome thing to do. Sheila has great pictures of her Bombette  and Baby Bowser from wii Mario kart throwing a koopa from his kart. Randy makes a great mean Bowser. But Lillian is best drawing a lovely Princess Daisy.  Bob loves motorcycles so he has practiced drawing Luigi riding a motor bike. Andy, who loves his own tongue and what it can do, draws a pretty good Yoshi. And, what child doesn’t work wonders with a tongue, like Yoshi!

Muppet Puzzles Bring Mahna Mahna Skills to Piecing Puzzles Together

The latest version of whistle while you work has got to be mahna mahna, the phenomenal ditty brought to everyone–young and old alike–by the Muppets and the Muppets games and shenanigans. And with the title above, piecing puzzles together–togetherness is truly happening with the Muppets when it comes to families being able to do things together. So naturally, in the bevy of children’s puzzles available in any online puzzles store, there are Muppets jigsaw puzzles that are winners in linking family with fun games. The Muppets antics and games they play in comedy, plays on words, slapstick sketches, good feelings and messages in supporting and loving one another can’t be beat for any age!

Muppets jigsaw puzzle goes with the flow to the rescue

Puzzles may sound like ancient history for kids, but for both boys and girls, from infants to seniors, nothing else provides such cheap and easy learning tools, helpful face to face socializing, and easy fun than puzzles and jigsaw puzzles. And right now on the internet are parents all over complaining about the dire need to get kids away from the technology and back to real world basics, and here comes puzzles to the rescue.

We still all use the term puzzling about things we don’t know, and how many popular mystery stories, legal stories, spy stories, doctor stories, sci fi stories grab us because we have to put the pieces together. Puzzles are life! And life is the Muppets–”radiant wonderfulness” as Kermit the frog  muppet said in the Wizard of Oz. Unlike video stores, a Muppet store will always be with us, will never run out of usefulness or relevance in the ever changing world.

 Muppet Life Lessons and Puzzling Puns

It may even be thanks to Muppets puzzles that there is a newly discovered love and need for doing puzzles. How about talking to one another face to face while laughing with all those many and masterful Muppet characters. From a Kermit the frog puzzle, everyone will remember his funny but wise quips like this dialogue from the awesome Muppets 2011 movie: Walter: You guys give the world the greatest gift of all. Kermit: Babies? Walter: No. The other one. Kermit: Ice cream? Walter: No. The other one. Kermit: Laughter. Walter: Yes! The third greatest gift!

Hard to top that one! And there are so many valuable life message from all the Muppets shows as Kermit the frog says from a previous show:” I may not be one of your fancy Hollywood frogs, but I deserve a chance. When we pull together, we can do anything.” This is the can-do attitude you want to instill in kids with puzzles.

Research too Supports Puzzles

And there is so much research and documentation about the value of puzzles. First of all as Maria Montessori’s exploration of how children learn, sensory play, picking up pieces and placing them into making a whole as they do in jigsaw puzzles opens the mind to grasp the ideas and concepts kids need to learn.

The Puzzle Store Plusses

Now another awesome thing about puzzles is that a good online puzzle store has every character there can possibly be, every fad, collection, popular TV or movie star pictured on puzzles. And they come in perfect types and numbers of pieces for each age. For the youngest tots there are wood peg board puzzles of 7 or 9 pieces in the likes of favorites Toopy and Binoo, Caillou, dinosaur lovers Land Before Time, Scooby Doo.

There are lenticular puzzles with that holographic movement and depth that still mesmerizes parents as well as the younger sets. Among these are Disney Princesses, Strawberry Shortcake, Pixar Cars, Toy Story– the movement in these puzzles is just like them–go go go.

Life size poster puzzles are great for when the kids get a little bigger and they think bigger has to be better. Then the kids are ready for the under 100 pieces sets, 24 or 36 for a little more challenge. Pleasers include going sweet with Hello Kitty, or Tigger and Pooh, Barney, Smurfs, Barbie, and Hot Wheels.

Making a jump upwards nearing the Tween level of must haves, of course there are puzzles in the likes of Justin Bieber, Pirates, Sponge Bob, Nintendo, Marvel Heroes, and Pokemon.

But the biggest group of course, is the middle group (not average or ordinary for sure), and no wonder one of the most sought after puzzles is the Muppets jigsaw puzzle of 63 pieces. Not too small not too large–and it is one treasured by families. That’s because of course everyone’s favorites are there. Kermit the frog, glorious green still loved by Grandma and Grandpa. And you can’t have Kermit without the romance of Miss Piggy. Girls don’t tire of proclaiming their staunch love for their pink and adorable Miss Piggy Plush doll. Shannon says, “Pigs are so cool my email address is shannonpig@yahoo. And  haven’t you seen little piggies in their races, so adorable and smart. And my piggy bank saves me money to buy more games, too!”

Of course Shannon’s brother Brandon  imitates the meep, you know, mee mee mee Beaker. Beaker, Muppets funniest character who can take every madcap mishap that Dr.Honeydo puts him through and keeps smiling!   But Brandon claims “I can sing Feelings better than Beaker muppet or Animal!”

Friends Lori and Albert chime in on Fozzie  Bear and his perfect jokes, and Gonzo whichever one is funniest at the moment.

Just like yearbooks that young and old never tire of looking over again and again, families always come back to Muppets, games, movies, puzzles, the muppets works.

Making jigsaw puzzles work

If childrens’ puzzles are frustrating to the beginners, big sis Sierra has her hints on helpful methods.  She says there are 4 basic things to know about doing puzzles. Find all the edge pieces first to make the frame. The frame always has less pieces than the inside, and you can find the straight edge. Look at the box. For example, there are at least 20 characters in the 65 piece Muppet  puzzle, but if you look at the box you know where he or she goes. Put colors that are alike together in piles. Then you can build your character with those colors, and then look at the box to see where they fit in.

Maybe that why Muppet puzzles, and all puzzles remain so popular from generation to generation – because they always allow you to look at the Big Picture – and see just where you fit in!