Speaking of fun with 5 year olds, Ben and I checked out the MEGA Brands Kids Zone today. These are the folks that make megablocks plastic building blocks, and lots of other cool building toys.
The Mega Kids Zone has a bunch of online games ranging from little click and drag games for the younger kids, to complex multi-player games for the older set. We played MagNext Virtual which was a cool virtual world on a similar vein to Webkinz, but rather more oriented towards gamer boys. You could challenge other players in the arena and have battles with them as well as comminicate with the messaging and emoticons built in. Like most kids sites, they have made the communication safe for kids. As you play you collect points and then can "purchase" vitual goodies in the store, similar to a webkins or build a bear-ville experience.
All in all, since a lot of the cool virtual world sites are very cutesy, this one is nice for boys who might not be into stuffed animals. (Although my boys love their stuffies and don't have any problem with girly stuff either)
The Kids Zone site also has nice extras such as wallpapers you can download and lots of information on all the cool Mega brand toys, like Pyrates, Dragons, and Legends of King Arthur.
