5.0 out of 5 stars Most used toy we have bought

S.N. · 17 October 2011

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So much more than the picture appears to show!

d. · 6 January 2012

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Magnext toys

H.S. · 2 March 2009

I have a boy and a girl who both love to build with these toys and I find that we seem to never have enough pieces so I have been adding to our collection. We have had Magnext for a little over a year now with out incident, however 2 weeks ago my son swallowed one of the ball bearings on accident. Until that time I didn't realize how many children have swallowed these. We are not talking about little kids either most are over the age of 6. The balls are not toxic, so doctors just have you wait until it is digested naturally. It took over a week for it to exit my son's body, which is a long scary wait. I guess it would be comparable to if a child swallowed a marble. The actual magnet pieces are secure in very large plastic pieces that would be imposible to swallow. However, for some reason kids of all ages seem to like to put the balls in thier mouths and because of the smoothness and weight of the ball they are very easy to swallow on accident. The bottom line is this, although it is a very fun building toy that kids love to play with I am not sure it is worth the risk.

A good second set

D.D. · 16 October 2009

This is the third Magnext set I have purchased for my 4- and 5-year old daughters (and myself!). This set is NOT a starter set; it is essentially useless without another set of basic parts. The main problem with this set is it has no instructions. I have no idea what some of these "special parts" do. Even after significant experimentation, I couldn't figure a couple of them out. Nevertheless, it does add some nice options, and gives my daughters some extra things to experiment with. Well worth getting once you have another set or two in the house.

Pure cvreativity!!!

H.D.L. · 14 February 2013

I recommend this intresting toy in order to motivate an promote creativity and inteligence, your whole family will love it !

a little confusing

R. · 30 January 2009

I found the special parts to be a little bit confusing. I still haven't figured out how to really utilize some of them. Better instructions would have been appreciated. However, my main purpose for purchasing it was to add more of the building pieces to our collection, so it did serve that purpose