Panini strikes again!

The World Cup is over, and our Panini World Cup Sticker Album still lacks seven stickers…out of nearly 650 stickers, we are missing only seven…This was our first introduction to the world of Panini, which is a much larger world than I figured…and it keeps growing, and is turning into a monster!

The latest craze in Argentina is Gogo’s. They come three in a pack with two stickers for the album. Of course, the album is sold separately. All, as you can guess, made by Panini.

What are Gogos? Little bits of colorful plastic in many shapes, all the same size – just small enough to really hurt your foot when you step on them, just strong enough not to break! – with personalities and characteristics. The album tells you their abilities at speed, stability, and bouncing. And it also gives you ideas for seven different games. Besides all the colors under the sun, they also come in glow-in-the-dark, and florescent colors.

My boy is addicted to Gogos. We worked out a deal; when he reads in Spanish for 10 minutes each day, he gets one Gogo. He currently has 21, and every day he asks to read Spanish when he gets up in the morning. As I sit here typing, he is playing a bowling-type game with a friend of his. They are laughing and enjoying themselves tremendously.

To me it’s worth $3 a week to see his enjoyment, the interaction (in Spanish!) with his friends, his excitement when he opens a new pack and chooses which one he wants to add to his collection for that day.