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HomeProducts for TeachersGEARS! GEARS! GEARS! MOVIN MONKEYS |
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| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review: ( 22 customer reviews )
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43 of 43 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome Toy Nov 19, 2006
By S. L. Trost
"sltrost"
My son got this for Christmas last year (he was 2 1/2) and to this day (almost a year later), he STILL plays with it! It is one of his favorite toys. He plays with it almost daily. We are purchasing him expansion sets this Christmas! And even after almost a year of playing with the pieces, we still have every single piece! This is the best gift, very fun and if you have a child like mine with a big imagination, your child will have literally hours of fun with it. If I could rate it 10 stars, I would!
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
good toy for developing spatial sense Nov 09, 2007
By KBN
When I was teaching elementary school science, I often pulled out sets of gears for my students to play with, because they are great for developing good science/math/engineering concepts, whether following diagrams or trying out their own designs.
We got this toy for my son for xmas, a month before his 3rd birthday. He's definitely ahead for his age with puzzles/ spatial challenges, and has loved this toy. At first, he wanted to build what the box showed, which involved following diagrams (definitely a mom/dad task) but now (a year later) he likes to play with it more open-endedly, hooking things together in his own way to make the monkeys move about. When we first got it, it looked like putting the parts together and taking them apart would be too hard for a 3 year old, but he can do it fine now as an older 3. My only complaint is that the box is not a great storage case.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Great Fun! Jan 12, 2007
By K. Johnson
This toy is wonderful to play. My 4 yr old son got this for Christmas and has had a blast playing it. He loves things you can put together and take apart. Mommy, daddy and 6 yr old sister love this too!
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Monkeying Around Jan 30, 2007
By Lisa Bowers
"Lisa"
This set is so much fun! My four year old son enjoys putting the gears together. He loves the monkeys and vines that are included. He can play for hours. I enjoy playing with the movin' monkey set with him, too.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Not as good as basic set Jan 08, 2009
By J. Parkinson
I bought this toy for my 5 year old boy. He loves the basic gears set and loves to build things with it so I thought this would be great. I thought he would enjoy making the set larger and having the gears move something. Other reviews for it were good. However, when he opened it on Christmas morning it wasn't something he could just put together and make work himself. His dad had to sit down and help him put it together because there's only one way to make it all work right so you have to follow directions. It's not great for just being creative with like the basic set. So after you spend all that time setting it up, you crank the handle a few times and watch the monkeys go around and that's it. The kids lose interest pretty fast and then you either have to find a place to leave it out, or just put it away. It's not really something they can just get out and be creative with and then put away. I wish I would have spent my money on another basic set.
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