The wife and I are trying to come up with ideas for our 12 y.o. son. Thanks Dan
The wife and I are trying to come up with ideas for our 12 y.o. son. Thanks Dan
Mine is half that age, but if he was 11 I would be getting him a tool set!
Step 1- price? Step 2- Interests? Step 3-??? Step 4-profit!
Gut reaction says drift RC car. Make him build it himself. Tamiya TT01. But that's me.
Open Traxxas catalog, pick something. Buy two so you can race each other. Done.
He's had various remote control cars, nothing high dollar or high speed.
He does love cars and guns( the toy kind ).
We usually spend a couple hundred on him.
He tends to grow bored with toys quickly.
Still loves Legos.
ski apparel/stuff for a trip to Stowe in Jan.
How about the Orvillecopter?
A couple of fishing books, and a GC to Bass Pro Shops, a must visit when they come across the border.
mistanfo wrote: A couple of fishing books, and a GC to Bass Pro Shops, a must visit when they come across the border.
Across the border?
dankspeed wrote: He's had various remote control cars, nothing high dollar or high speed. He does love cars and guns( the toy kind ). We usually spend a couple hundred on him. He tends to grow bored with toys quickly. Still loves Legos.
Time to get him to build one. Legos tells me he likes to build. This is not surprising. He likes cars. This is also...not surprising. Put the two together and you have a recipe for awesome, plus even the slowest hobby grade cars will kick the crap out of a big box store car.
My brother in law is 11* and I got him this for Christmas: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/meet-gameboys-deformed-younger-sibling/
My thinking is that he is already really into video games and this is a great way to introduce him to the engineering that goes into them both from an electronics and a programming point of view.
The shipping from England does take a bit of time though. The one I bought took three weeks to arrive from the time I ordered it.
*for the dirty minded among you: there is a BIG age difference between my wife and her brother 
A drum kit. Nope: I do not have kids, this is what I will be buying my nephew. I love my sister 
I have nothing to add, as my kids are now in their 20's, but I learned an important lesson when mine were roughly that age. One year my oldest son asked for a lot of practical stuff, hockey equipment, etc. Christmas day he got everything he wanted... and sat around all day with a long face, because he had nothing to play with. It was painful for me to watch, so every year since, I've given them something to play with Christmas day.
madpanda wrote: My brother in law is 11* and I got him this for Christmas: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/meet-gameboys-deformed-younger-sibling/ My thinking is that he is already really into video games and this is a great way to introduce him to the engineering that goes into them both from an electronics and a programming point of view. The shipping from England does take a bit of time though. The one I bought took three weeks to arrive from the time I ordered it. *for the dirty minded among you: there is a BIG age difference between my wife and her brother
That does look cool. The buildable rc car could work too.
My son seems to want an RC heli. Video games/systems are always on the list as well. He talked us into an RC plane for his 11th birthday and that turned out to be a good purchase. (We went with an Ares Gamma 370). RC flight has come a long way since I was 11 or 12, when it involved messy, poorly running gas engines, unreliable radios and build times in the order of several months. Today's electric "foamies" take an hour or two to build, the radios are dead nuts reliable and, because they weigh next-to-nothing, they don't tend to self destruct in the inevitable "incidents". (We've crashed my son's at least a half dozen times and it still keeps flying) As far as price goes, you can walk out the door with a decent plane for $100-150. Its fun for dads too. 
EBay bicycle motor kit, tools to work on it with, and a Craigslist bicycle.
Razor Crazy Cart & a swiss army knife.
My 13 year old is getting a backpack and a sheath knife. He asked for both. He went camping on the weekend with his scout troop and showed them how to light a fire in the rain..... He used a leaf blower.
I think tool set is ok, or bicycle or play station
Ruger 10/22
my nephew is a little younger than that, but probably a kayak
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