We bought this set in a real-world shop. It’s a clone of K’Nex, but a good one. My son told me that this is “she”. She, the female robot, has no weapons (to my delighgt), and sherolls aroung and spins something in her hand.
Miss K’Nex Clone
Category: Plastic Building Kits
Plastic building kits are construction sets designed for children that primarily utilize plastic components. These kits consist of various interlocking pieces, connectors, panels, and accessories that allow children to build and create a wide range of structures, vehicles, and other imaginative designs.
Plastic building kits are known for their versatility, durability, and ease of use. The pieces are often designed to fit together securely, enabling children to construct stable and sturdy creations. These kits usually come with a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, allowing for endless possibilities and encouraging children to think creatively and problem-solve while constructing their designs.
Many plastic building kits also incorporate specialized parts such as wheels, hinges, and gears, adding an extra level of functionality and enabling children to create movable and interactive models. Some kits may even include motorized components that bring the creations to life with spinning gears or moving parts.
These kits are popular among children of various age groups and provide numerous educational benefits. They promote fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and logical thinking. Additionally, plastic building kits foster creativity, imagination, and cognitive development as children design and build their own unique structures and scenarios.
Overall, plastic building kits offer a stimulating and engaging way for children to explore construction, design, and engineering concepts while having fun and unleashing their creativity.
K’Nex Intermediate Set – Hammerhead
A good thing about this set is a big number of long flexible rods (green on the picture). You can use them for construction of to outline and shape the craft.
Onward, Little Car, Let’s Go!
K’Nex is plastic and has big, colorful pieces. So its a good choice for ourdoor play.
Musical Ferris Wheel – Box
The package of this K’Nex set. The figurines and pieces look pretty much close to the real ones.
Gears!Gears!Gears! Starter Set
Starter set by Gears!Gears!Gears! brand has 60 pieces – 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 the Starter set with any other Gears!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces. This set is small, so you may consider it as a test of the Gears!Gears!Gears!
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.
Carousel Figurines
Unlike many K’Nex sets, this one has small figurines you can add to the wheel.
Pink Castle
A Clics fortress for the friends. It has towers, a lake, sandy beachs and lawns. On the other side it has some openings at the bottom where you can hide. Alesya meticulously examines the new building.
ClicsToys is a Belgian company that was established in 2001. It makes the well-known Clics building blocks in its own factory in Kempen. Clics building sets have square pieces of identical form and shape. They easily connect at their edges, creating joints you can move.
With These plastic squares, you can create surfaces and fold them into 3D shapes. There are endless possibilities, even though Clics have very few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets have wheels and decorative panels, but this is pretty much it. On the other hand, Clics sets usually have many pieces, so you can create something truly complicated from just one set.
Since the basic pieces of Clics are squares, all the basic forms you can assemble from it are cubic or brick-like. However, thanks to the movable joints, you can assemble them at different angles, creating different shapes.
There are ways to create triangular or sloping figures if you assemble the pieces just right. The cubes, however, are the most sturdy and reliable structures this set can offer. There are also a possibility of creating a flat mosaic, combining the pieces of different colors, as the bottom of this Clics fortress shows.
Carousel (Back View)
K’Nex Musical Ferris Wheel, photo from a different angle.
Fishing Line With A Catch
The fishing rod is flexible and has a reel with a swivel handle.
Zoob Jr. Snake
Snake from the Zoob Jr constructor. The craft is simple – kids make snakes like this one often. But we took our Zoob Jr out into the countryside and discovered that in the sun it becomes very soft, almost rubbery, and the parts hold on weakly. But it floats great!
Back in 1997, inventor Michael Grey introduced Zoob, a toy inspired by the science of motion and organism development. Zoob represents an acronym for Zoology, Ontology, Ontogeny, and Botany. Each set has rod-like pieces with joint balls and sockets on their ends. Each of these balls has small bumps on its surface, so the joints can both move and stay in a certain position if you need them to.
This innovative toy features a ball and socket connection system, mimicking the natural movement and design found in people, animals, and machines. With just five basic shapes, Zoob offers 20 different ways to connect them together.
Zoob building sets have won awards because they’re different from regular building blocks. They use plastic pieces that snap together, like gears and joints, to build all kinds of objects, limited only by your imagination. After you build something with Zoob, you can actually play with it – the pieces were designed to move after being assembled, so you can have fun with the toys you create.
Zoobs are great for helping children improve their fine motor skills. The pieces are small enough to easily manipulate and put them together, but they’re not too tiny like some other toys, so it’s easier for kids who find small objects tricky.
