Building kits in this category feature plastic tiles with magnets along their edges. They are highly popular magnet toys known for their versatility, as they can be assembled into various shapes. Many of these kits also include extra accessories like animal parts, providing additional options for creative play. These toys contribute to the development of creativity, fine motor skills, and cognitive abilities.
Assembled the vehicle. Naturally, mommy actually did it, 2-year-old Afonya just used it. Of course, you can play with a bulldozer, but the active movements of a young motorist quickly turn it into a pile of magnetic parts. In the end, the son realized that it was necessary either to roll the vehicle around carefully, or to repair it.
This Magna-Tiles set has only very big rectangular plates. It is meant to become an addition to some other set you already own. It’s hard to build something using only this set, but it can do wonders with any set of usual-sized pieces. These big plates are rare in other Magna-Tiles set, and they allow creation of bigger buildings and sculptures. The only minus of the set is lack of magnets in the center of bigger plate – you can only add things to the edges.
Oh, it’s a pity we didn’t see them earlier… We don’t have enough wheels for Magna-Tiles. And we didn’t really like the silvery wheels that are mounted independently on the rods.
Some Magna-Tiles DX crafts, showcasing unusual pieces this set includes.
After we received our Magnetic Stick N Stack set with wheels, we found another version of Magna-Tiles on the Internet – the Playmags magnetic kit. Visually, we liked it. First of all, because of 4 potential vehicles and the original “fence” elements, from which you can build a frame for a truck, and a fence on a farm, and lay rails for a train. Now we are thinking…
This is an interesting version of a classic magnetic tiles set by PicassoTiles. Instead of solid tiles, this set mostly has pieces with all kinds of hollow windows in them. This set looks and feels like a stained glass window with beautiful colored shapes you can assemble in any way you want. As with any PicassoTiles toy, this set has strong magnets and high overall quality.
This is a small, but interesting set by Magna-Tiles. All squares in this set have either glittery plastic or mirror surface. All crafts made from this set has unique appearence. The cons are small size of the set (only 15 pieces) and small choice of shapes – there are only triangles and squares. However, you can use Stardust with any other Magna-Tiles set, adding mirrors and glitter to your crafts.
Metro Mags and Magnetic Stick N Stack are most likely clones and cousins of the original Magna-Tiles. I don’t know what the quality of Metro Mags is. But something tells me that it’s no worse than the Magnetic Stick N Stack. And we checked this one and were quite satisfied, it doesn’t differ from the original in magnetic properties.
The manufacturer calls these small blue pieces with holes “Imagination Pieces”. They have no crear role or purpose – it’s up to you to invent where to use them.
Magnetic Stick N Stack is the same as Magna-Tiles, tested empirically. But Magna-Tiles doesn’t has this wonder. So we will definitely get a couple of these plates at the first opportunity. Building from magnetic panels on a magnetic board, of course, is also convenient, but this plate is what you need for making ceilings, large roofs of large garages (a very actual topic for us). Its size is 30×30 cm!
