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Pros
Geek & co. Rubber band racers kit has thin square wooden sticks, plastic connectors, and specialized parts that are assembled into a variety of propeller driven racers. Set goes beyond the obvious planes or cars to help kids build imaginative movi... Read More
Great for creativity, helps kids understand stored energy and physics in a simple way. Science is accurate, and reasonably easy for kids to understand. Hooke's law is scientifically accurate and fairly understandable.
Cons
Spends much time with lego mindstorms, piecing together and painting plastic models; and he was completely uninterested by the time the project was over. It appears to be much too heavy. At least not indoors during our covid19 house arrest. A brick ha... Read More
Highlights
Quality
With the caveat that you have to deal with fragile pieces of wood the finished products are really cool and they work
I do not think he could have stuck with it on his own but he would have managed with the help of an older sibling
I left this kit out for my 5th and 2nd grader and they came back in 12 an hour with the completed airplane
Competitiveness
In the end the project kindof worked
This is to be expected i guess but it is worth noting as there are other activities that survive for weeks in our house perler ... Read More
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rubber, plastic, fly and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 64.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 203 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 13 2023.
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Great idea execution is soso
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Several of the parts look the same or have confusing placement in the diagrams
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Assembly is tough as the parts all fit together tightly and luckily we didnt break any of the wooden sticks
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The plane had issues with torque and stability but flew ok
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The helicopter we never got to work right and the boats were fun but we got pretty wet
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Overall i think the set was frustrating for my oldest and my rising kinder gave up very quickly on the assembly side hes 5 so under the recommended age i did a lot of the assembly just because it was tricky and physically hard to get enough force but not too much
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Id give it three stars except the kids really got into the stuff once it was built trying to make it work and thats worthy a lot to keep them engaged and trying to solve problems and thats worthy a star
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I do not think he could have stuck with it on his own but he would have managed with the help of an older sibling
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