Category: SMARTMAX

A structure for lowering cars from slides can be called a parking lot, or, anything else. For example, a garage 🙂 A 2-year-old child plays with it simply – he puts cars on and slides them down. Between the slides, the girls arranged a gazebo – I don’t know what the cars may need it for. But their brother didn’t mind, he even decorated it with a flower. The roof in the gazebo was made of curved rods. This was before the opening of another SmartMax set – Flower Palace, which has full hipped roofs.

Another option – in this case, 2 slides connect different surfaces, like the table and the shelf. So the cars, descending on them, pass over the abyss. The length of the slide allows you to create a very dangerous deep abyss or canyon where an evil dragon or other monster can live. So the storyline in the game with the SmartMax constructor is guaranteed.

Most Smartmax sets are centered around basic rods and balls standard for this brand, and this is one is no exception. It has longer and shorter rods and balls. But it also has special accessories like wheels, ladders, cables and windshields to turn there rods into toy cars.

If you remove the lower rod in the lower floor, and turn the panel into a gate by unhooking it on one side, you can get a small garage. However, you must handle the garage carefully – vertical rods can tilt without support, dragging the entire structure with them.

Decent set! Initially I was not sure about the reliability of Smartmax cars. So I could not stop at any of the many Smartmax sets with vehicles. And then we came across … a barrel. It contains several parts for creating vehicles, 4 pairs of wheels, 3 types of multi-colored rods – long, short and rounded, 6 balls. You can’t build many cars at once, but you certainly 2 different ones, and there are many combinations. We will buy our amgnets and cars enthusiast other sets in the future.

Everything included in SmartMax XL set.

I liked the barrel for how spacious it is – you can put 60 parts there, no less, and the cars can be sent to the barrel intact without dismantling. You can also put it on its side and open from 2 sides! The barrel is closed with 2 screw caps.

Smartmax has many parts for constructing various vehicles – wheels, cabs, bodies, buckets, fire ladders, etc. For a long time, I looked at these sets with doubt, believing that these parts would not hold well and will fall off. But no, the parts are not held by a magnetic connection, but are attached directly to a magnetic rod. Everything snaps into place and doesn’t move anywhere else.

However, most parts – a bucket, a fire ladder and others, are first attached to the cabin. And if you have only one cabin, it will not be possible to attach multiple pieces at the same time. For example, you can’t combine a fire truck with a bulldozer, or a truck with a bulldozer. So you will need a second or even third cabin. Additional (non-magnetic parts) have round holes with 2 or more protrusions. When you insert one piece into another, you get a slightly crackling, but strong joint. The bucket moves up and down, you can put it in a certain position, just like the ladder.

Cars are excellent – large, sturdy, they do not scatter when thrown like cars from Magformers, they ride perfectly. Just what you need for 1-3 years olds.

The long rods in Smartmax sets are twise as long as short rods. You can use all Smartmax rods and balls set together.