This is another Kid K’Nex set with assorted pieces. It has both mechanical parts, like wheels and propellers, and animal parts like eyes and tails. There are 48 pieces in total – so this set is a good starter or an addition to an existing collection.
We bought 2 large sets at once – Flower Palace and another set with 2 slides (Basic Stunt) for a full-fledged game of 4 younger children 2-6-8-10 years old. They have been playing for almost a year with great pleasure and growing interest. We plan to increase the number of details and interesting elements, especially since SmartMax released some attractive new products recently.
Tegu Train is a puzzle for toddlers, but they still can build from it. Each piece has magnets, so kids may assemble them in different ways, making all kinds of shapes.
A big tiara for a small girl. Another Zoob Junior craft.
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 or Zoob Junior, 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.
This classic straw constructor set by the Play Build brand comes in a sturdy plastic box you can later use for sstorage, and has thin, flexible plastic tubes and hard connectors. The tubes bend easily, but they can’t hold any shape on their own. Once you release them, they will immediately return to their normal, straight form. They also are just smooth hollow plastic straws without any details to attach to each other.
So, you will need special connectors to connect and hold the straws together. Main connectors have small pins that go inside the straws’ hollow ends and then hold them in place. These things can connect straws in different positions, but they obviously attach only to the edges. Because of this, many modern straw building sets also have connectors that can wrap around a plastic tube and hold it in place. These connectors greatly increase the number of building options the set has.
The straw sets are very different from building blocks. Instead of the solid, sturdy constructions, they produce a bunch of lines forming a 3D shape. These crafts are lightweight, flexible, and a bit abstract. This set have some extra pieces like wheels, but you will be able to lightly bend and twist the craft you made.
This is another proposed way to build a spinning toy from E-Motion Neon set.
Another K’Nex weird creature. These pieces on its ears can as well be hands or paws.
These are all the pieces of the biggest Blockaroo set. The only type of blocks missing from this set is a wheeled platform you can find an a Roadster set.
This set is one of the Clics Fire Brigade series. It contains red and white basic pieces, stickers and extra details like propellers to build firefighter vehicles. This set, like other smaller Fire Brigade sets, comes in a common box, while the bigger sets have plastic chests.
ClicsToys, a Belgian company established in 2001, operates its very own factory located in Kempen, where they craft the popular Clics building blocks. These building sets mostly have square pieces, all sharing identical form and shape. What sets Clics apart is their ability to connect smoothly at the edges, allowing flexible joint movements.
Using these plastic squares, the creative possibilities are endless, even though Clics sets usually offer relatively few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets may include wheels and decorative panels, but few extra items. The true strength of Clics lies in the generous number of pieces in their sets, allowing you to make even biggest creations with ease. The pieces of Clics are too big to swallow and easy to hold, so they are safe, but some connections can be too tricky to younger kids. So the most sets are recommended for children who are 3 years old or older. However, these sets will be interesting even for the 10-years-olds.
The fundamental building blocks in Clics are square, which naturally leads to the cubic or brick-like structures. However, the great advantage of these blocks is the ability to connect them at various angles, making diverse shapes. Careful assembly can even give you triangular or sloping figures. Nevertheless, the most robust and tough structures in Clics are cube-shaped. Additionally, you can create flat mosaics by combining pieces of different colors.
We bought a set from the new Geomag Kor series out of pure curiosity and even with a slight sense of pessimism, and did not expect that it would be so interesting to play with. And most importantly – everything revolves in the literal sense around one ball.
ATTENTION! Guard the ball like it’s an apple of your eye – the constructor does not work without it!!! A shiny ball is a very attractive thing for younger brothers and sisters.
And one more thing – additional elements fit very tightly into the holes of the covers. So I recommend to attach them first them to the cover, and then attach the cover to the magnetic segment. Otherwise, with strong pressure, you can displace the magnetic segments and disrupt or destroy the constructed object. The lids also fit tightly to the magnetic segments, and sometimes they are also difficult to remove. By the way, the lids themselves can be decorative elements, you can insert them into the opening of other lids.
