MagformersSmart 144-Piece Deluxe Set - Magnetic Tiles Building Blocks, Educational Kit, STEM Toy Set - Magnetic Building Tiles for Kids to Develop Problem-Solving Abilities and Shape Recognition

This is my favorite purchase from Christmas. We have a 5 year old and 1 year old and were looking for a toy that could span the age ranges. Unfortunately with our young son being in the age range where we have to worry about choking our choices were limited. I decided and magnet building blocks and researched A LOT. I decided on Magformers and am very happy with my choice.The magnets are strong and hold together well, and they are small enough to take a ziplock full of a few and bring with us on trips to keep kids entertained in the airports. Bring along a hotwheel or 2 and they can build different buildings for the cars to drive through! Whenever I break them out they immediately grab the attention of the kids in the room. Our 5 year old enjoys building with them.This also works great for our 1 year old. Though he isn't 'building' with them he is enjoying connecting them together and watching them stick to each other, and of course he lllooooovvvvvveees breaking apart anything we build ;-) Most importantly he abuses these to no end through biting, throwing, chucking at the wall, etc. and not one piece shows any sign of wear. Considering I can't say that about any other toy we have ever bought that deserves more than 5 stars! Every piece is also large enough not be swallowed.I had the opportunity to try out Magna-Tiles at a friends house. I can say that the magna-tiles look pretty cool with their semi-clear plastic colors, especially on a light table. However, I prefer the magformers for 2 major reasons. First thought the magna-tile look is cool the fact that they are solid pieces without gaps makes it especially difficult to pick up objects that are built without them breaking. The gaps in the magformers add a level of control, especially with the younger kids, that just isn't there with the magna-tiles. Secondly the magnets in the magformers are stronger so they stick together better.I would definitely purchase this set again. I wouldn't recommend going with a smaller set - all pieces are in use when this set is being played with.Highly recommend!!

These are THE BEST building sets EVER! I received a small 26 piece set about 8-9 months ago and my 2.5 year old has played with them *almost* every day since we got them. They are SO MUCH FUN. The pieces themselves are really strong, sturdy, good sized, and has strong enough magnets to build easily, but to take apart pretty easily too. We have made all kinds of awesome things with these and this set REALLY delivers the fun! There are the perfect amount of pieces to build anything your little heart desires, but not so many that you are overwhelmed.I almost bought the huge 300 piece set until I saw all the teeny tiny little pieces that come with it and knew my toddler would either lose them or they just wouldn't get used because we didn't know how to use them. So this set solved that. It has the magnetic pieces in a few different shapes, and it has a set of wheels (which my son absolutely LOVES), so its still considered a basic set, but it has an abundant number of pieces to work with.I have also seen Magnatiles compared to these and MUCH prefer these! I just felt like the Magnatiles weren't as heavy duty as these, they didn't seem as big, and I didn't like that they were enclosed (these are open shapes) and we love to be able to put things inside the cube or pyramid or whatever he decides to build. Magnatiles are cute and look like stained glass windows, but we found these to be much more user friendly for my family.We absolutely LOVE these!

We already had a 26 piece set given to us when my oldest turned 2yrs old. We put that set in a little bag and take it with us on trips and when we go out to eat and it always keeps her entertained. I bought this set so that we could build larger/more things at home, now that she's starting to build shapes rather than just stack, unstack, and color sort them. The die are kind of cool because if you're gentle, you can roll them without them falling apart. We'll see how my 2yr old does with them. It might be fun to have her practice her counting and eventually addition using the dots on the die. The wheels and the vehicle pieces are cool. The pieces are the same size as the basic ones, but have a metallic-esque look to them. Some of the designs in the book provided assume you also have the carnival set, but most of the designs can be made with this set. I've already mixed in the 26 pieces from our original set with these, so the picture is using all 144+26 pieces. We've played with other magnet tiles brands during playdates and I like the quality of these. The edges are rounder and despite occasional nomming by my 11mo old, these have shown zero wear over the past 10 months. They're very resilient and don't show scratches like some of the solid pieces in other brands. It is also much easier to separate these from each other when they're stacked than the solid tiles. Definitely recommend them!

Purchased this because my 5 year old granddaughter and 3 year old grandson had a smaller set that they played with every single day and fought over the pieces..I asked them what they wanted for Christmas and “more magnet tiles “ was the answer.Best toy ever , they never get bored and are continually being very creative and imaginative.

My kids love it! Good buy and entertaining for both adults and kids!

This was a HUGE disappointment as no instruction booklet was available inside the set. Without specific instructions on how to assemble and join the magnets, the set is as good as useless. After trying a few times and failing to make anything of it, the set has just been lying unused in a corner of my children's room.

Even if the Magformers are more expensinve than competing products, I highly recommend them. We tried (and quickly returned) similar products. The other brands wouldn't hold up and the kids would get frustrated since they would always fall apart.With Magformers, everything that they build holds up nice. If they aren't rough, the kids can play with their creations for a long time.

Not sure what the domino style squares are for, fairly useless I my household, but for the right price this is a great educational and creative outlet for my kids.