Tag: Castle Building Kit

After struggling for a couple of days with the weak rods from the Chinese magnetic castle set, we replaced them with stronger and more colorful rods from the Magnastix (Xmag) construction set. Since the magnets in the Xmag rods are stronger, the panels held together better, and the interest of the children increased accordingly. To prevent the structures from falling apart, we built them on a metallic surface. We didn’t experiment to see if the Chinese magnetic castle set is compatible with Geomag; we decided to keep them separate. This set won’t become our main magnetic construction set, but it’s still fun to play with.

In this version of the castle, openwork and colored panels are used. Sticks are from the same set. The color panels are common ones, a decent copy of the Geomag panels. Buildings look very impressive very impressive when well-lit, especially in sunlight.

On the left, we have rods from the Chinese magnetic castle set, and on the right, we have rods from another Chinese set called Moli (also known as Magnastix). The Magnetic Castle has attic window panels that can only be held with a half ring of sticks of this particular brand. If you use the semi-circle made of Moli sticks, the panel simply slips away without stopping.

In general, we liked playing with the Chinese magnetic constructor Castle (details below in the photo). As I expected, the children liked the openwork panels with windows, the original domes, and the corner towers. The color of the details, of course, is very specific, in a Chinese style – the towers are blue, the magnetic sticks are purple and green, the panels are pink… At first, castles and fortresses were built only from the details from this set. All five sets fit nicely in a small container. Magnets don’t come off. Now about the cons: the magnets in the sticks are weak, because of this, the panels are constantly shifting, the corner towers crumble into pieces and balls escape from there, the color of the sticks is a little depressing.

The box of the magnetic Castle set.

The half of the plastic panels from the magnetic Castle set.

The other half of the plastic panels from the magnetic Castle set.

A page from the manual.

The pictures in the instructions are beautiful, the castles are very impressive, but building such castles requires not just 1 or 2 sets…

A page from the “Castle” building kit assembly manual.