A photo of a Geomag Pink with its panels. As in other similar geomag sets, panels of Geomag Pink come in different colors.
Geomag PINK Panels
Category: Magnetic Building Kits
Magnetic building kits utilize magnets as connectors, enabling children to create stable and flexible designs. These kits often include magnetic rods and balls or magnetic tiles that easily snap together, providing an engaging building experience.
Bicycle
The bike is made from wooden magnetic parts (Korean building set Genii Creation). As a steering wheel, we used a magnetic curved rod from a Chinese magnetic constructor Bornimago.
Plastwood – Piccoli Mondi – Castle And Dragon
We assembled the front wall from gray and middle bronze parts, as well as a drawbridge. The balls for connection to the side walls and windows were installed by the manufacturer. There are also two red towers. You place them on top of a special cross-shaped ledge, but they fall off very easily. Since the walls are held together by only four magnets (two on each side), this entire structure falls apart into five parts under attack (3 walls and two towers). There was also a large cardboard box, which did not survive to this day.
The set also included little people and animals. I don’t know how many there were originally, because we bought few new pieces later. Read more about the structure of a figurines below.
There is also a horse and a dragon (torso, four legs, head, tail). Plus, there is a saddle (again, it is not magnetic). Moreover, in the case of a dragon, the saddle and the wings are one piece, so the dragon is either wingless or saddled. Of course, you can change bodies, heads and legs, but ypu can’t remove the helmets from the head of the knights. All this holds together well, you can move it back and forth, even lift it by the head, nothing falls off, however, sometimes the legs part.
Location Of Magnets In Tegu Explorer Parts
The Tegu Explorer Set has new parts – high and low pillars (prisms with a square at the base), large and small trapezoids, long planks. Unfortunately, the locations of magnets in them are terribly ill-conceived. To make it clearer, we attached colored magnetic balls to all the magnets available in these Tegu parts. For example, in large prisms of only 2 – at the ends, and none (!!!) on the sides. This immediately limits the use of these same prisms by 50%, they can only be used as columns and that’s it … Trapezes also have only one magnet each, on the sides. Large planks, however, have 3 magnets. The set is expensive and we expected to get new interesting parts to diversify the magnetic construction. But in the end, we got a set of beautiful wooden parts with limited magnetic functions…
Edtoy Smart Block Automobile – Box And Parts
The box is large – 11×2.75×14.5 in. The box itself is not suitable for storage. In fact, it’s not even a box, but more like a frame for blocks beautifully laid under transparent plastic. So you’ll need a storage box for this set.
I gave 2 car sets to younger sons, who are 3 years and 18 months old. With 2 sets that they won’t argue over the wheels and have the opportunity to make a locomotive with a wagon, a car with a trailer, a large truck, and any other vehicles with more than 4 wheels.
We liked the set, but it suddenly turned out to be more difficult (my personal opinion) than the similar Edtoy architectural set.
There are a lot of specific car parts in EDTOY Smart Block Automobile – beveled cubes, different types of round parts, l-shaped parts, radiators, roofs, pipes. So you can develop your own car for hours and it will always be different from your previous or brother’s car. With 2 sets, the variability increases. It’s great, but it’s too early for my boys. But in 2 years, I think Afonya will show us her models of new cars. In my opinion, the set will be a godsend for a young motorist aged 5-9 years old.
But that variety of details, of course, is not a minus of this set. On the contrary, they looked at the pieces, compared them, built, experimented and had fun. And they added Tegu cubes and planks to the crafts.
Here are some crafts boys made.
Clixo Crew 30 Piece Pack – Green And Blue
Another version of the 30-piece Clixo set. This version have blue and green colors, but identical to other 30-piece sets in all other ways.
Magz Wooden Bricks
A set of wooden pieces with magnets. Most pieces are either short or long bricks of different colours, the 5 cylinders are only pieces of different shapes. This somewhat limits the things you may assemble. However, there are 45 pieces in the set, so you can create huge and complicated buildings or sculptures. The magnets are hidden inside the wood, so they won’t fall off no matter what you do to them.
Magformers Inspire
Magformers Inspire are padstel-colored version of classic Magformers sets with square and triangle magnetic frames. They are more “girly” than original Magformers, but, of course, anyone may build from them. These sets are good starter option for those who want to try Magformers. Also, you may add them to existing collection and use Inspire together with any other Magformers sets.
A Snowman And A Pine
The Snowman looks more like Lollipop Man, but the picture is even better this way. Made from Iotobo Mandala set.
Magformers Basic Set 26 Piece
A basic Magformers sets contains classic triangular and square magnetic frames of different colors. This particular set is reatively small one, but still offers many crafting possibilities. Also a good option for those who want to try Magformers for the fuirst time.
