Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set)

 Brand Toobeez | Model: TBZ-57C

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Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set)

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Toobeez Giant Construction Set. Toobeez is a life sized construction toy comprised of interlocking tubes and spheres that can be linked together to create anything imaginable. Playing with Toobeez brings people together and brings out the creative side in us. Even educational experts and team building professionals have developed innovative training activities using Toobeez! Its not just for kids.Toobeez are currently used for education, team building and training, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation and wherever children gather, such as camps, organizations and after school programs.Toobeez can help develop perceptual motor skills in younger children, to more advanced logic problem solving skills in older children and adults. The bright colours and life sized pieces make it a valuable, open ended, educational tool. Whether at home, at the park or at Grandmas - Toobeez lets children explore their tactile, spatial and organizational skil...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Team building for one, 12 Aug 2012

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M. Harrison "Hamish" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set) (Toy)

There can't be many products that are sold as both a child's toy and a corporate team building resource - although anyone who has ever been on a corporate away day may not find it altogether surprising.

What is remarkable about the Toobeez is that you need not consider its dual attributes as mutually exclusive: the very experience of opening the box will be to encounter both simultaneously. For as your small children cling to your ankles, making their impossible-to-deliver offers of help, you will need all your leadership skills if you are to progress in the task of taking this product from box to build without attracting the attention of Social Services.

As we all know the instructions that precede each exercise on a team building awayday generate sensations of almost catatonic weariness. So full marks to Toobeez for verisimilitude in that regard. Your management skills in flexible thinking and optimization of resources will be challenged when you realize the colours of the components before you do not match those in the picture of the simple child's house your offspring are willing you to construct. Those skills will similarly be required when, perhaps fifteen minutes into the exercise, you realise the measurements given are not for each of the segments - as one would logically expect - but rather for the segments plus their joining device. At least, being alone, you are saved being given that information by the smug completer-finisher from Accounts.

However it is at about this stage you wouldn't mind being able to ask a colleague from your Technology Division if this really is the only way to build a cube with a roof on: you may not know much about cantilevers, but you never would have thought so many suspended joists would be required. But then you remember what it would be like if your Tech colleague told you. So you make the executive decision slavishly to follow the picture, all the while doubting the parts before you will be adequate for the sum required - much like you do each day at work.

But with the clock ticking down, and the promise of a coffee break spurring you on, you will eventually demonstrate your managerial reach by completing construction of a moderately sized but reasonably sturdy outline of a small house with one hand while pinning an increasingly impatient small child to the floor with the other.

The object is largely useless of course until you have demonstrated initiative and resilience by raiding the laundry cupboard for sheets to provide walls and a roof, searched your desk for bulldog clips to hold these on with, and served the juice and biscuits with which to entice your little blighters to go inside and stay still for something over thirty seconds.

So congratulations. You both have a diploma in `Leading Small Teams Through Transformational Change' and children who have been moderately occupied through another wet Sunday afternoon.

But as we all know, team building comes in modules - and the modules don't come cheap. You'll already have been bemused by how little can be made with £100 worth of this stuff. You'll need to get at least one, and possibly two, more sets for the Toobeez promise to be delivered.

And that's when the penny drops: become a consultant.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Toobeez, 26 July 2012

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Jen J - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set) (Toy)

We did a lot of research into this product and read many reviews, most of which said that this was a durable toy.
Firstly on opening the package we found that the 42 page ideas book was not included and on first use 2 of the medium sized poles are too big diamiter wise so the yellow connectors do not stay inside them, therefore making it very frustrating for the children to use as it keeps falling apart. My three children have lost interest in this toy very quickly. I have tried to contact the Toobeez company direct to get the ideas book to no avail!!! Not very impressed with this very expense toy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars fun building, 14 April 2012

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lockheart - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set) (Toy)

expensive yes but i'm glad i went with this one over the ezfort... i agonised for a long time between quality vs. cost. in the end i bought the tobeez for my daughters 6th birthday and we've built some great structures already. she does need a little help constructing (insert twist and click into place), but i don't mind - she won't need my help forever. i consider this an investment piece as we have 2 younger children (3yrs girl & 4 months boy) who will benefit from playing with this(hoping teamwork wil come in to play!), nieces and nephews and friends kids also. looking ahead this is a 'keeper in the attic' for any potential grandkids. daddy likes to join in too... not a princess in sight! look forward to better weather and taking on an all day picnic to keep everyone amused. i suggest finding some cheap/old big flat sheets to use to cover. i'm looking for fair priced kingsize flat sheets at the moment, my massive fleece blanket makes their hair static. expensive but recommended.

4.0 out of 5 stars Toobeez, 27 Jun 2011

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This review is from: Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set) (Toy)

Last year we purchased the sister product Easy Fort, which we felt was a brilliant idea but kept falling apart with only the slightest knock from our 2 and 3 year old, and after many fustrated attempts to have a fort of some sort up for the kids, only to have it down within minutes of them playing inside it. So thought we would try the toobeez as it appeared much more sturdy, which it is but still not enough for play of small people. And our kids are certainly not in any way rough with their toys. So really disappointed. Its a shame as the idea is great but the quality is not.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Should have gone for EZ Fort, 14 Feb 2011

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claire - See all my reviews

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I got this for my son's 7th birthday. I hesitated between EZ Fort and Toobeez. And I went for toobeez because the toobeez site says it's more sturdy and you can use them for the teambuiding exercices. It's true: they are more sturdy and the team building exercices look fun. But my 7 year old is interested in building forts, not teambuilding ;-) The fort creation possibilities with only one set are rather limited (the various tube length only allow you to build one cube of a given size).

Bottom line is: if you want a blanket fort making toy, save money and go for EZ fort...

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressed, 28 Dec 2010

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This review is from: Toobeez Giant Construction (57 Piece Set) (Toy)

We bought this toy for our son's (aged 10) Christmas. Even with the bad weather, it arrived in plenty of time. There is plenty of different things to build and I like the bag you get to store all the pieces. I would recommend this toy as it can be used again and again and also you can use your imagination and create your own things to build.

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