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Georello 3D Gear Tech Set By Quercetti

We play with this set – Georello Gear Tech by Quercetti – for a long time now, making everything turn. You can also add cardboard pieces to it.

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.

Georello 3D Gear Tech Set By Quercetti
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KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Tadpole

Here is another Budding Builders demonstration. With it additional pieces, you can assemble a creature with very few pieces and no paws at all. There are infinite ways to create some emotional, recognizable or fantastic creature from a K’Nex set. The only thing limiting thing is your fantasy.

KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set - Tadpole
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Lucky Doug Solar Robot – White Version

With this solar building kit by Lucky Doug, you can build 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. This set has three different color schemes, this is a white version.
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.

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Not Just For Babies

Waffle blocks are very popular type of plastic building blocks. In these sets, each piece have pegs and square holes, and you can connect pieces in multiple ways to build both 2D and 3D crafts. The bricks connect to each other seamlessly, almost like in a jigsaw puzzle, so you can make endless combinations in any order you want. There are many brands of waffle building blocks, Gakken and Plus Plus are the most popular and well-known ones. This, however, is rarer waffle building blocks kit.

Blocks by different manufacturers may look different. In Plus Plus sets, for example, all blocks are exactly the same, the only difference is color. This old ex-USSR waffle building blocks kit, however, has pieces of differnet shapes, and some extras, like figurines or wheels. There are also a number of long, bar-like pieces that help connect waffle blocks together. You can stack many waffles on one bar, which helps to create thick and solid crafts.

The waffle blocks themselves are small, each side of a block has only one or two pegs. Some blocks has H-shape and no pegs at all on some sides. This is a downside, because you can’t connect anything on these sides. Sometimes, however, these pieces are very handy, because you can stuck them in small openings to support the craft around it. It all other regards, it is a typical waffle block building kit with small pieces.

Not Just For Babies
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Playmags 18Pcs Magnetic Building Bricks

This is an interesting version of the classic magnetic tiles made by Playmags. This set contains tiles with magnets in edges and Lego-like studs on one surface, so you can stack Legos and similiar building bricks on them. This way, you can blend Legos and magnetic tiles in one construction. Sadly, this set has very few pieces.

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Tiko Pen

A giant pen made from Tiko panels. It looks impressive, but, sadly, doesn’t write.

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.

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Booko Building Set

This is another Zoob clone – with the same pieces that form the same moving joints. This Booko building set 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.

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