Another character you can build from the same Tegu Sticky Monsters Set.
Another Pip Version
EDTOY Korean Car Building Kits
The very first, most famous and most popular product of the Korean company EDTOY is multi-part magnetic cars. The magnets rotate freely, attaching the parts the way the young builder wants, and not the way the magnetic pole dictates.
During all these years, EDTOY produced dozens of vehicles – from a bulldozer and a concrete mixer to a tank and a helicopter.
The crane is the largest machine on the manufacturer’s website.
Lizard
This is how 2-year-old Arisha imagined a lizard.
Supercolor GEOMAG Panels
Along with the classic sets with the panels, Geomag also has a line of very similar sets, but in different colors. These Supercolor sets have pieces of different colors, while Classic sets come with 2-3 colors in each box. The general concepts and available sizes, however, are all the same.
GEOMAG MagiCube Shapes World
MagiCube is a brand of magnetic building blocks by Geomag. There are different MagiCube sets, with blocks of different shapes, sizes and colors. Shapes World sets have cubes, prisms, rounded pieces and half-spheres.
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Booko Building Set Storage
This is another Zoob clone – with the same pieces that form the same moving joints. This Booko building kit 170 pieces, including the wheels, in a storage box. This set is a higher quality than the most Zoob clones – but it’s still no original Zoob.
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.
Samples For Manetico Building
Manufacturer offers sample cards, although you can play without them. Fantasy is in full swing, it is very easy to build, magnets themselves attract details. No wonder this constructor is recommended from 1 year of age.
Lucky Doug Solar Robot – Pieces
With this building set by Lucky Doug, you can make 12 different robot types. These toys operate solely on solar power, without the need for batteries. When placed under direct sunlight, the robots can crawl, roll, and even “sail” in a paddle boat. These are all pieces the Solar Robat set includes.
At first, assembly may seem a bit challenging, but the manual instructions make it easy to follow. The manufacturer suggests that parents and children work together to build the first solar robot. It makes sense, because the pieces are sometimes hard to connect, and the set may be confusing for the younger children. The recommended ages are 8-14 years.
The set has 190 pieces, offering many possibilities beyond what the manual suggests. It includes many different pieces to build a fully functional robot from scratch, including pistons, shafts, gears, tires, and more. The main piece with a motor is somewhat bulky, and you often have to build your robot around it. The solar panels are relatively small, so you can place them around your robot in many different ways. This set is a good educational option, but it will be too small for many children to build at once.
Of course, there are not enough pieces to make many different working robots at once, so you will have to dismantle one robot to build another.
Tiko Water Ball
The Tiko ball kids made to play with… in water. The older kids had so much fun – they threw the ball away, and they had to catch it very quickly, otherwise it would drown.
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.
RAINBOW TOYFROG Waffle Blocks
Waffle blocks like this Rainbow Toyfrog waffle blocks set are popular building toys. They are flat and have matching pegs on their sides. You can assemble these pieces in 2D and 3D shapes, and in different positions.
Pieces of this set have an unusually big number of pegs on them – far more than pieces of Gakken and Plus Plus. The pieces have wall patterns, windows, round openings, and other similar decorations. Some panels have the same shape, but no decoration at all. The basic models the set offers are houses and castles. However, you can build anything else from these interlocking squares and triangles. These triangular pieces are in fact less common in waffle block sets. Gakken sets, for example, severely lack them. On the other hand, this set doesn’t have arches and other similar pieces, which somewhat limits the building possibilities. The houses are the things these waffle blocks make best, and, sadly, there are no options for, say, cars with moving wheels.
This particular set has pieces that are 2 inches wide, so they are safe for small children to play with. These pieces are easy to hold and too big to swallow, so the manufacturer recommends them for kids who are 3 years or older.
