This Magformers set is an interesting one. As far as I know, it is the only educational set with unique pieces. While they still have stadard shapes and sizes, all pieces in this set have anglee degree written on them. This helps children understand angles and geomentry in 3D space. These rounded pieces of plastic in corners also give the frames unusual look.
Just as the name suggests, these sets have many panels to fill the space between the rods. Just as in many cases, sets of different sizes also have different colors. This is a craft made from a bigger set, so it’s green and blue.
Mega Builds set is one of the largest in Gears!Gears!Gears! series. It has 235 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. This set also has a thick plastic chain, so you can connect the gears in more ways than one.
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 this set with any other Gear!Gears!Gears! set, enhancing it with extra pieces.
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.
This set has many decorative pieces like ears/beaks, tails and paws. It is slightly smaller than, for example, Wheels and Wings set, but you still can build many fantastic animals from it.
A typical representative of girly robots – pink, small and defenseless. The wheels was taken from Geomag Wheels sets with cars.
A “basic” model for Travel Pals Sitty set. Decorations repeat among different Travel Pals sets – for example, Hummingbird set also has pieces with this “snowflake” pattern on them. However, colors of Travel Pals sets are unique, and no other Tegu sets have these patterns on them.
It’s a successful combination of magnetic construction sets – the Russian Magneticus and the Japanese People.
We didn’t manage to make the ball completely orange, but still it turned out to be sunny and optimistic in our opinion. We used orange, yellow and red rods and plates from the Geomag Kids sets.
…which the Fox quickly caught and ate. We also are lucky to have this wonderful carpet.
According to another version, this is a laboratory assistant beetle. The purpose of the grilles with cap-shaped structures is not entirely clear. The children’s opinions divided – according to one version, these are mushrooms, and the beetle is a scientist who collects and studies mushrooms. According to another version, these are test tubes with poison, and the beetle is a laboratory assistant experimenting with different chemical compounds. Made from Gakken New Blocks.
Unlike Plus Plus waffle blocks, Gakken blocks have pieces of many different shapes. They have round and curved pieces, long beams and H-like pieces. The empty spaces inside the blocks also can have different sizes and shapes, so you can stack inside different pieces in different positions. All this allows even more building possibilities than the waffle blocks sets with similar pieces. However, some pieces have less connection opgtions, because they don’t have pegs on the sides, or have only one hole.
Gakken brand appeared in Tokyo back in 1946 when it became an important component of Japan’s post-war efforts to rebuild the nation. Back then, it became incredible important to properly raise a new generation that will be able to create a better future.
The founder and educator, Hideto Furuoka, created first Gakken New Blocks. He later told that his inspiration was traditional Japanese wooden houses. There he saw an idea of flat blocks people can took apart and rebuild again when they need to. So he decided to create a toy which repeats this principle. Children can connect these Japanese waffle building blocks, stack them, lay them, plug, or tuck blocks in different orientations, for example, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
