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Weird & Wacky Contraption Lab

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Weird & Wacky Contraption Lab
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    Your child will become a modern-day Rube Goldberg mixing and matching various components to create countless convoluted contraptions! Winner of the Good Housekeeping Best Toy Award, the two-foot-tall Weird & Wacky Contraption Lab has dozens of different parts and pieces (including gears, ramps, clips, a funnel, a toilet, a chicken coop, and a cannon with a flying stunt pig) for curious kids to conjure up crazy courses, and then build and test them with this easy-to-construct hook-and-loop lab. Instructions offer tips and tricks on how to best manipulate the kit's components and predict the outcomes of their creations.

    For ages 8 and up.

    • Mix and match components to create convoluted contraptions
    • Plenty of different, kooky parts and pieces to make all kinds of courses

    Components:
    • Cannon with flying stunt pig
    • Cleaning machine
    • Toilet
    • Chicken coop
    • Boot buster
    • 2 gears and cup
    • Funnel
    • Zigzag ramp
    • 12 tracks
    • 24 track clips
    • 2 off-ramps
    • 6 stops
    • 4 steel balls and ball extractor
    • Hook-and-loop backer board with stand
    • Tri-fold instructional booklet

    Award Winner
    • Winner of Good Housekeeping Best Toy Award


    Size
    2'H

    Cautionary StatementWARNING
    CHOKING HAZARD (1)
    Not for under 3 yrs.


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    3.0

    (based on 3 reviews)

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    Reviewed by 3 customers

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    4.0

    Fun Problem solving for kids

    By Science Teaching Mom

    from Iowa

    Verified Buyer

    Pros

    • Educational
    • Entertaining

    Cons

    • Needs Larger Black Board

    Best Uses

      My kids (ages 5-9) love this. It entertained them for a LONG time.

       
      2.0

      poor construction

      By nice idea

      from lake forest, il

      agree with last review. The velcro attachments do not hold up. have to continually readjust. Many times the ball causes the attachments to fall off before getting through the run.

      (18 of 19 customers found this review helpful)

       
      3.0

      Great concept, room for improvement

      By Jimdad

      from Leawood, KS

      Pros

        Cons

        • Weak Attachability

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          Great idea, we've found that the hook and loop attachment method does not hold up so well to the weight of the balls. A cool track requires that the attachment points be wiggled after every couple of runs or the track falls apart. Could be a more solid connection.

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