Just like the booklet for X-ball – 96 pages of detailed information with black and white pictures.
Y-Ball – Manual Page
Is It A House?
The chipmunk tried to settle in this house, but, apparently, didn’t consider it a reliable home.
The Pensive Scarecrow
You may as well count this one as a DIY building kit.
Magformers Landmark Set (174-pieces)
This is essentially a typical Magformers set with a very large number of pieces. Most pieces, like squares, triangles and hexagons are common for all Magformers sets. Some, like arches or double squares, are more rare. The set has booklet with building instructions, which helps you to build Magformers copies of famous buildings from around the world. However, this is just an options – just as with any Magformers set, you are only limited by your fantasy.
Wonderful Building Toy!
To be honest, I bought this toy for myself. It’s nice to hold it in your hands, twist it, make chains and different figures.
The Owl
Manetico Owl, made for International Bird Day.
Working With Gears
Daughter also worked with her dad’s crafts 🙂 Here is the proccess of working with her Quercetti Gears set.
These gears by Quercetti has all the essential thing you’d desire in a gear system. Firstly, their construction quality is top-notch, and the pieces have robust and solid design. The set also has a seamless gear interface, so they interlock securely. With this reliable connections and sturdy pieces, the set allows you to build machines that can perform real work.
The set includes several base plates that fit together like puzzle pieces. Nearly half the time these are in use at our house, kids made colorful boxes from them. So, they’re not just basic pieces but are interesting decorations in their own. The second set of pieces has support structures, which are tubes and joints that interlock to create sturdy poles. These pieces come in a consistent size, without the frustration of dealing with components at slightly different heights, a problem we’ve encountered with other sets in the past. The support connects are sturdy, so that the structures stay intact once they’re built.
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.
Tiko Balls
Balls we made from two different Tiko sets. Tiko manuals don’t have these models, and they are good optionsfor the builders who don’t have some pieces.
Pythagoras, Tiko, and Tako are vintage building sets. They have big panels of different colors and shapes, that connect by the edges. Each piece has sockets and balls that can snap together, connecting the pieces. You can also connect the pieces of different shapes, as long as their sides match. This connection is strong enough to hold even the biggest structures together.
Because of the sockets’ form, Pythagoras and Tiko panels can form both flat surfaces and 3D shapes. The flexible joint connection means that you can connect the pieces at different angles. The bigger panels are huge – they are a few inches long, so kids can create toy hats or items to hold, and not just toys. They are sturdy enough to wear and to play with. There also are smaller pieces that can help connect the bigger pannels together or make smaller crafts. The pieces of this set have all kinds of shapes – there are different triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons, and so on, all in different colors.
Sadly, Amazon seemingly has no sets exactly like Tiko and Pythagoras, but some very similar concepts also are interesting enough.
Qubits Pieces
Pieces of this building sets come in many different colors. Qubits manufacturer often offers sets with random colors in them.
Qubits is a small toy brand making very interesting and unusual building sets. Their sets have only two types of pieces – rectangular planks and multi-triangular pieces.
The multi-triangular pieces look like they are made from many connected triangles. They can connect to each other with the matching holes and pegs in the triangles’ centers. Each of these pieces has the same shape, but, connecting and overlapping, they create strong, flexible openwork structures. They can create any shapes and forms, flat or 3D. However, triangular shapes are the most sturdy and resilient ones.
There are also rectangular pieces, that can connect with multi-triangular ones both with the edges and with the openings on their surfaces. These pieces can also connect to each other. Both shapes come in multiple colors, often random, colors. Together, these two shapes can create many surprising and fascinating crafts. Sadly, Qubits have no extra pieces like wheels, so the number of moving crafts and toys is somewhat limited.
Qubits are big enough to be safe even for toddlers. However, these sets can be confusing for the smaller children, so the recommended age is 6+.
Magna-Tiles Magnetic Cars
The set arrived in a flat cardboard box, which was not very convenient to store the toys. So I put the parts in a plastic box with latches. But I cut out the models offered on the box and use them as small cards with samples (I think that the ability to assemble something according to the model is necessary for children). A total of 20 models are offered for assembly.
