Tomy Gearation
by International Playthings
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Toys and Games Reviews of Tomy Gearation
Customer Review: Gearmania!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the coolest toys in our house. I have to confess that my husband and I and our grown-up friends have played with this just as much as our daughter has. She got this toy for Christmas when she was just 15 months old (it's recommended for 3 and under, but the smallest part is the size of a half dollar) and has played with it consistently since then. She's two now. The toy has really grown with her. When she was a baby, she just liked looking at the colorful cogs after we had set them in motion. When she began to play pretend games, she actually gave some of the cogs nicknames and would talk to them. Now she can put the cogs together herself, and she's starting to learn that in order to move, the gears have to be touching with their "teeth" locked together. At friends' houses I have seen similar toys that the child turns by hand. Some stick on the fridge or another metal surface; others attach to a peg board. Neither of these designs is as "playable" as the Gearation. Young toddlers can't turn the crank smoothly enough to really make the toy work correctly.Gearation is relatively inexpensive, easy to store, really durable, and provides an infinite number of combinations for a curious child to explore. A sure winner!
Customer Review: A Toy to Go Back to Over and Over
Summary: 5 Stars
We have had our Gearation for at least 7 years and it is one that consistently comes back out of the toy closet. It is not really a day to day toy but one that goes in the toy rotation. It has held the attention of children from ages 3 to 10 and has certainly stood the test of time for durability.
It is easy enough to manipulate for children of varying ages. It has two speeds for the gears to turn and the direction can be changed from clockwise to counterclockwise.
Children must figure out how to assemble the gears (in an infinite number of possibilities) without having them lock up. It is fun for kids to see what happens with each gear as it becomes part of the works. All the gears have cool features: some flip over, others have googly eyes that turn, some make noise.
The motor is pretty strong and can turn the majority of gears if they are placed carefully.
It is pretty easy for kids to carry from one room to another using the handle and the parts stay put since they are magnetized to the board.
I would highly recommend this toy.
Customer Review: Fascinating to 1 1/2 year old and up
Summary: 5 Stars
My son got this toy at 18 months, and it kept his interest for nearly 6 months. I added on the amusement park after 3 months, and he figured out directions, speed, on and off, how to set gears against each other so they would start spinning, and he even learnt to look at the back of each gear to see whether it could go into the middle part on the motor cog. The toy and he were practically inseparable for weeks, and its been known to have stayed on for the whole day at a time... Cons: its noisy especially at the slow setting, and my son liked it on, so even if we switched it off, he would walk over and switch it on even if he was not playing with it right then. Get rechargeable batteries!
The pieces turn up all over the place!
Its started making a grating noise at some point, louder even than the usual whine. The noise went away mysteriously after a couple of days. It quit working after 6 months. So the 4 stars on durability. Not too bad given the price and tough usage it had been put through.
Customer Review: One of those "MUST HAVES" for all ages!
Summary: 5 Stars
Gave this to my (then) 2 year old. First without batteries in it, and she loved it, playing with the moving pieces by themselves was fun for her. Then we added the batteries and got it moving. She loved it! Now, another review said their 3 year old was bored after a few days. I don't know of many toys that a 3 year will play with for days on end. What you do is the popular technique called "hide it for 2 weeks then bring it out again when you need an hour to yourself".
There is NO other toy like this one. Nothing out there that does what this does. Now, my 1 year old and now 5 year old play with it still. Talk about durable! My year old is sitting on at as I type this. I think she hopes she will spin like the gears. :-)
Children love to connect the pieces and watch each one do their unique thing, flip flop, ding a bell, clickety sounds, spin around, move side to side etc. The best thing... it takes up little space and there are no small parts to worry about. I love playing with it and I'm in my 30's.
Customer Review: A great toy that will entertain for months!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the original Gearation set for my son for Christmas two years ago. He was almost three. Now I'm buying the add-on set (the Gearation Amusement Park) for his fifth birthday becase he and I (and his sisters, stepdad, friends, and other family) had so much fun with the original set. It demonstrates some fundamental mechanics in a fun way, and it's accessible without guidelines or instructions. It's been durable too - not only has it survived lots of use for the last two years, it has also been transported in an RV across the country when we moved house from CA to TX. It's there now on his toy shelf, waiting for the next time he has a friend over to play - it's one of the favorite play-with-a-buddy toys for my son, and one that he and I have enjoyed together also. It won't survive a lot of exposure to the outdoors, but it is a super rainy day toy, and it can be set up anywhere (including in a car). We love it, and I would recommend it to anyone for a kid aged 3-6.