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(More customer reviews)This set is the LEGO Education 9206 Tech Machines set.
Our son loves this set, even more than the regular Duplo bricks he has. This is a very good set for pre-kindergarten boys.
First, it is Duplo, so LEGO has made sure that the dimensions of all the pieces work perfectly with your Duplo bricks and vehicles.The pieces are very high quality injection molded resin plastic with the usual colors: red, blue, yellow, orange, black, and gray. The description says it has about a hundred Duplo pieces including many unique pieces only available with the Tech Machines set: special triangle-shaped screwdrivers (four!), integrated screws that click into place, reels, crane hooks, scoops, and large and small propellers, wings, wheels, tracked-wheel sets, and windshields and cages for the cabs/cockpits of the vehicles.
I don't know how to explain the way this set is different from LEGO Duplo -- it is so many ways, and yet it is still Duplo. The bricks still push together just as LEGO Duplos do, but there are integrated plastic screws that can be used with the included screw drivers to lock the bricks together so more complex things can be assembled. This is really a key educational feature, because the assembly and disassembly activity requires planning and observation to determine which of these screws should go where, or which must be loosened to make a change. This is fun for our son, and consumes much more play time. Kids are fascinated by the options and challenges, and our son is still learning how to put things together into new kinds of devices. The four included screwdrivers allow group play (and misplaced screwdrivers) and have a great torque-limit release feature that prevents over-tightening of the plastic screws. They are much more interesting because he has to work harder to figure out how to make things -- complex structures compared to what can be done with regular Duplo -- with these much more advanced pieces. It also has a very rugged plastic tub with lid to store these.
This type of Duplo is not available in stores, possibly because it is too expensive to be profitable in retail markets. The designs for the parts were released as LEGO Duplo Toolo in the 1990s. You can look up detailed pictures of the kinds of parts in this set by google searches for LEGO Duplo Toolo, such as the detailed parts and set catalogs at brickset.com.
I highly recommend this set for boys age 3.5 and up through perhaps 6. This is probably not suitable for kids so young that they have not mastered Duplos. It is excellent for boys who are interested in vehicles like cranes, bulldozers, backhoes, helicopters, space vehicles, and anything else that can be built from imagination and this box of 100 pieces.
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Ages 3 & up.The Tech Machines Set allows children to take their first steps into science and technology! With this fun and engaging set, children enhance their problem-solving skills while improving communication skills. By using the popular play theme of travel, children learn about machines, the tools used to work on machines, and their functions. The Tech Machines Set comes with screwdrivers, integrated screws that click into place, reels, hooks, scoops, and propellers. An activity pack is also included that features story starters, problem-solving tasks, and full-color illustrations. 111 pieces.
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