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The Car Showroom
Author: TatianaZh
Excellerations Natural Tones Building Wheels
Excellerations Building Wheels are a version of a popular type of building set. The gears in this one are not rotating on top of some structure – they are the basic building blocks of the set. The gears connect if you interlock the pins, or if you stack them. With these simple connections, you can build different shapes and mosaics. There are few types of these building wheels by Excellerations brand, and this is a natural tones version. These pieces have calm and neutral tones uncommon for the kids building sets. Other types of building wheels are essentially the same, but have different colors.
All the gears have the same shape and size, the only difference is the color. However, there are still many possibilities to build, especially if you have many pieces. The gears can also interlock if you connect them at an angle. Sadly, the possibilities to build a moving toy are very limited, because the gears can’t really move once they connect. There are also no extra pieces or decorations, so the gears are the only things you have to work with.
The gears themselves are rather big, they are safe for the small children to play with. They also can hold together even in a very big craft without falling apart.
HABA Fantasia Magnetic Mosaic
95 bright wooden pieces. Tablet 24.5×24.5 to create pictures, 3 samples (6 pictures) to follow. Everything is packed in a large box, big enough both for the pieces and a tablet.
A closer look at the car showroom
New cars stand on the podiums, on the left side there is a cafe and a recreation area, and at the entrance there is a fountain.
Fantasia Gears Set Manual
The other side of the Fantasia gears set has a manual of sorts depicting the possible crafts.
This vintage building set is similar to the Quercetti Gears sets. It also includes baseplates, poles, and, of course, the gears. The baseplates connect like the pieces of a puzzle, they are heavy and sturdy enough to hold the whole construction in place. There are also many small colorful pins to decorate the pieces.
While there are no poles like in Quercetti sets, you can connect and interlock the baseplates in 3D, making some of them stand upright. They can also hold together at the angle, so you can build all kinds of shapes from them. Overall, these plates themselves form a good building set.
After making something from the baseplates, you can attach the gears to the finished crafts and make the gears spin. All gears are the same size, they are almost as big as the baseplates, and you can also use them just to decorate the crafts. All pieces come in many different colors. Sadly, there are few pieces overall.
This set has an educational purpose – some schools used it to teach children about the gear transmissions. The description says that the set is for children aged 4-8 years.
Nelson Crab
You can’t play with a crab, it falls apart when moving, despite strong magnets. So you can only admire it. The upper part of the black-capped cube head is not fixed – the orange trapezoid has no magnets at the base.
By The Fountain
A boy with a teddy bear, a journalist with a camera and a woman… with a bone. It is amazing who you can meet at a car showroom.
Excellerations Building Wheels
Excellerations Building Wheels are a version of a popular type of building set. The gears in this one are not rotating on top of some structure – they are the basic building blocks of the set. The gears connect if you interlock the pins, or if you stack them. With these simple connections, you can build different shapes and mosaics. There are few types of these building wheels by Excellerations brand, and this is a rainbow version. Other types are essentially the same, but have different colors.
All the gears have the same shape and size, the only difference is the color. However, there are still many possibilities to build, especially if you have many pieces. The gears can also interlock if you connect them at an angle. Sadly, the possibilities to build a moving toy are very limited, because the gears can’t really move once they connect. There are also no extra pieces or decorations, so the gears are the only things you have to work with.
The gears themselves are rather big, they are safe for the small children to play with. They also can hold together even in a very big craft without falling apart.
Strawz – Cocktail Building Set
A modern feature for those who are bored at all kinds of celebrations and holidays – Strawz: 20 rubber connectors, 12 long and 12 short tubes.
Building straws, also known as building tubes, are a popular type of construction set with unique possibilities. They allow you to create silhouettes and contours of different objects and animals. All crafts from these sets can bend and move, so kids can actually play with their creations.
Instead of blocks, these sets have flexible plastic tubes, that look and act like soft cocktail straws. They can bend in any way and hold any position you want. The tubes usually attach to each other with special plastic connectors. The connectors can look and work differently in the different sets, but there are always many ways the straws can connect. The most common version is hard pins that go inside the straw’s hollow end, fixing it in place. Some connectors of this type have only one or two pins, some may have eight or ten. They also can have different forms, like sharp corners or straight rods. However, this connection type usually means that you can connect the straws only with their ends, and never with their middles.
These straws have great building potential, but, sadly, they can’t hold their shape under pressure (unlike, say, block towers that can hold something on their top). The straws’ building possibilities also depend on how long they are.
Magneto Block Magnetic Building Kit
The Japanese magnetic set Magnet Block is known as Magneto Block in Europe. With the exception of the additional letter O, there are no differences from the Japanese version. Or maybe they have one homeland – China 🙂
