Category: GEARS – Gears!Gears!Gears! (USA), Quercetti (Italy), Unika (Ukraine), Fantasy (USSR)

This category focuses on construction and building kits that prioritize interlocking gears and cogs as the main components. In addition to the gears, these sets also include building blocks for assembling the cogs.

These toys are designed to help children learn about the movement of interlocking gears while promoting creative play, critical thinking, spatial thinking, problem-solving, fine motor skills, and cause-and-effect understanding.

Several companies produce such toys, such as building kits made by Unika (Ukraine), Gears! Gears! Gears! from Learning Resources (USA) and Kaleido Gears by Quercetti (Italy).

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Gears!Gears!Gears! Robots In Motion

Robots In Motion set by Gears!Gears!Gears! brand has 116 pieces – interlocking baseplates, poles, and, of course, gears. With this set, you can build a fantastic vehicle, add the axis pieces, and decorate your craft with the gears. Then you can turn a crank on any of these gears, and watch all the connected gears rotate. Robots in Motion set focuses on building small robots, so it has special pieces like robot arms and pincers, or eyes. However, there are many different crafts you can make from this set.

The pieces of this set are big and sturdy, so they can survive many years of use. This set is not very complicated in its concept, so you can give it to the children you are 3 years old or older. You can also mix the this set with any other Gear!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces.

Learning Resources is a popular and well-known toy brand from the USA that specializes in STEM toys. Gears!Gears!Gears! is a series of building sets with moving and rotating gears in them. These gears may have different functions in different sets, but you can mix them and use them together. Gears! Gears! Gears! sets show exactly how the gear transmission works, and you can use them as a colorful and simple explanation of the gear physics.

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Gears!Gears!Gears! Rover Gears

Rover Gears is the smallest Gears!Gears!Gears! set. It has only 43 pieces – interlocking baseplates, poles, and, of course, gears. With this set, you can build a fantastic vehicle, add the axis pieces, and decorate your craft with the gears. Then you can turn a crank on any of these gears, and watch all the connected gears rotate. Rover Gears set focuses on building small cars, but there are many different crafts you can make from this set.

The pieces of this set are big and sturdy, so they can survive many years of use. This set is not very complicated in its concept, so you can give it to the children you are 3 years old or older. You can also mix the this set with any other Gear!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces.

Learning Resources is a popular and well-known toy brand from the USA that specializes in STEM toys. Gears!Gears!Gears! is a series of building sets with moving and rotating gears in them. These gears may have different functions in different sets, but you can mix them and use them together. Gears! Gears! Gears! sets show exactly how the gear transmission works, and you can use them as a colorful and simple explanation of the gear physics.

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Gears!Gears!Gears! Robot Factory

Robot Factory is a small and fun set by Gears!Gears!Gears! brand. It has 80 pieces – interlocking baseplates, poles, and, of course, gears. There are also robot parts you can connect to each other or to the other parts. There are also springs and rods to put the robot pieces on. With this set, you can build an upright construction, add the axis pieces, and decorate your craft with the gears. Then you can turn a crank on any of these gears, and watch all the connected gears and robot pieces rotate and move.

The pieces of this set are big and sturdy, so they can survive many years of use. This set is not very complicated in its concept, so you can give it to the children you are 3 years old or older. You can also mix the Deluxe set with any other Gear!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces.

Learning Resources is a popular and well-known toy brand from the USA that specializes in STEM toys. Gears! Gears! Gears! is a series of building sets with moving and rotating gears in them. These gears may have different functions in different sets, but you can mix them and use them together. Gears!Gears!Gears! sets show exactly how the gear transmission works, and you can use them as a colorful and simple explanation of the gear physics.

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Bauer Building Set With Gears

A carousel building set with gears by Bauer. It’s very similar to Quercetti sets with gears. In this set, however, the baseplates are not similar to puzzle pieces, they look and work like Lego bricks.

Overall, this set looks similar to Lego Duplo and other building sets of this type. There are big, colorful bricks you can stack at each other. The set also has figurines, toy vehicles, trees and other extra pieces. You can build big and cute crafts even without using the gears.

The gears in this set are also big and colorful, they come in different sizes and allow you to make brick platform move and rotate. This set offers to build a carousel that you will be able to rotate using the gears. The set has 177 pieces, but not so many bricks or gears. Many building pieces are parts of the vehicles or decorations, so possibilities of building complex gear strutures are limited with just one set.

This set is a rare one – there are not so many sets that have gears and Lego-like bricks at the same time. Most building sets with gears have big puzzle-like pieces for building purposes, or the gears themselves are the building blocks.

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Gears!Gears!Gears! Space Explorers

Space Explorers set by Gears!Gears!Gears! brand has 77 pieces. It is a relatively small set, but it has interesting extra pieces. The set has astronaut figurines and the planets that will interact and move together with the gears. There also are interlocking baseplates, poles, and, of course, gears. With this set, you can build an upright construction, add the axis pieces, and decorate your craft with the gears. Then you can turn a crank on any of these gears, and watch all the connected gears rotate.

The pieces of this set are big and sturdy, so they can survive many years of use. This set is not very complicated in its concept, so you can give it to the children you are 3 years old or older. You can also mix this set with any other Gear!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces.

Learning Resources is a popular and well-known toy brand from the USA that specializes in STEM toys. Gears!Gears!Gears! is a series of building sets with moving and rotating gears in them. These gears may have different functions in different sets, but you can mix them and use them together. Gears! Gears! Gears! sets show exactly how the gear transmission works, and you can use them as a colorful and simple explanation of the gear physics.

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Unika Gear Rocket

We really liked the gear construction set from Unika called Unlimited Fantasy. The gears are large, bright, made of elastic plastic, and fasten well to each other. The quality is very good. Our first crafts were snakes that wiggled when they moved and many multi-colored towers. Crafts like this rocket also were very easy to make. You will need two sets or more even for one child; one would not be enough. Children make simple crafts and enjoy manipulating bright details. This set, in my opinion, will be interesting for children aged 3-7 years.

These gears 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.

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.

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Unika Gear Beads

Alesya made these beads from the Unika gear set, and they hold up very well. She changed the yellow parts to orange and red ones from time to time.

These gears 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.

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.

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Unika Gear Fortress

A fortress made from Ukrainian Unika gear set. A tree that looks more like a cactus grows in the courtyard of the fortress. And Alesya installed a traffic light on the big blue fortress.

These gears 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.

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.

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Gears!Gears!Gears! Build & Bloom

Build & Bloom is probably the most pretty of Gears!Gears!Gears! sets. It has 116 pieces – interlocking baseplates, poles, and, of course, gears. There are also flowers and stems that will connect to your craft and interact with the gears. With this set, you can build an upright construction, add the axis pieces, and decorate your craft with the gears. Then you can turn a crank on any of these gears, and watch all the connected gears rotate.

The pieces of this set are big and sturdy, so they can survive many years of use. This set is not very complicated in its concept, so you can give it to the children you are 3 years old or older. You can also mix the parts of Build & Bloom with any onther Gears! set.

Learning Resources is a popular and well-known toy brand from the USA that specializes in STEM toys. Gears!Gears!Gears! is a series of building sets with moving and rotating gears in them. These gears may have different functions in different sets, but you can mix them and use them together. Gears! Gears! Gears! sets show exactly how the gear transmission works, and you can use them as a colorful and simple explanation of the gear physics.

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Chinese Disneyland Fantasy

This is a Chinese Quircetti gears clone set. The name of the set is “Amusement Park”. This includes a carousel with horses, a Ferris wheel, and a slide where a car slides down. The mechanism that rotates the entire structure is hidden in the house. It seems like in other sets have music, but this one doesn’t, it just spins. It’s a very funny toy when assembled. The horses on the carousel go up and down as they rotate, the car slides down the hill (you have to catch it in time), there are two palm trees – one of them spins. The second was supposed to be hit by the car, but we lost the trunk, so the car flies away completely into nowhere. The people figurines are cute and rubbery. You can buy other sets of this series in this series and combine them.

This set is very similar to Quercetti Gears sets. The set includes several base plates that fit together like puzzle pieces. Nearly half the time these are in use at our house, they’ve been transformed into intriguing boxes. So, they’re not just basic pieces but are captivating structures in their own right. The second set of pieces has support structures, which are tubes and joints that interlock to create sturdy poles.

In addition to the gears, this set also comes with attachments like chains and rubber bands. You can use them to connect groups of gears that would otherwise be separate. Also, you can use them with other toys and building sets.

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