Thames & Kosmos Candy Vending Machine STEM Experiment Kit | Build a 2-ft Tall Toy Vending Machine | 10 Experiments with Gravity, Motion, Math | Coin Sorting Bank | Engineering & Math Lessons

Name: Thames & Kosmos Candy Vending Machine STEM Experiment Kit | Build a 2-ft Tall Toy Vending Machine | 10 Experiments with Gravity, Motion, Math | Coin Sorting Bank | Engineering & Math Lessons
Brand: Thames & Kosmos
SKU: 0814743016965
Price: 80.56 EUR
Availability: InStock

Brand:Thames & Kosmos

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A 2022 Toy of the Year Award finalist (Construction category). A 2022 ASTRA Best Toys for Kids finalist. A 16-page, full-color step-by-step manual guides assembly and experiments and an assembly video is available via a QR code in the manual; For ages 8+ with help or 10+ for independent play. The machine can be refilled with your own treats and prizes for long-lasting fun. Learn about gears, gravity, forces, motion, collisions, and more — even some simple math lessons with money. Experiment to make the coins perform cool tricks and stunts in the customizable coin track area. Construct your own toy vending machine that sorts coins, dispenses candy or other small prizes, and doubles as a coin bank!.

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EAN: 0814743016965

Categories Toys & Games,

Age Range (Description)	Kid
Brand	Thames & Kosmos
Educational Objective	Sorting Skill, Exploratory Skills, STEM
Item Dimensions LxWxH	13 x 3.8 x 11.5 inches

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Scritto da: Jordan

Cool item, definitely for a kid 8+

Went ahead and bought this for our 6yo and she loved the whole concept but needed help building it and getting it to function (and she’s pretty mechanically minded). The candy it came with was GROSS! So definitely have something else ready. The coins would get stuck in the collection area. Hard to store once it’s together bc to put it in the box again you’ve gotta take most of it apart and it’s not something that we use everyday and wanna keep out more then a few days at a time. But I gotta say, when other kids come over it’s always a hit! I think for a kiddo over 8 it would be a really great gift.

Scritto da: Ningguo Yang

Kids favorite

This product is super easy to put together. No tools required, just snap parts together by hands. The mechanics are so simple, there’s really no reason for it not to work except if you have a missing or broken parts situation. However, it does require that the instructions be followed carefully because some details are easy to be missed by a child, e.g., the orientation of certain parts. The finished product instantly became a hit with my 5 and 9 year old boys. They picked out all the smaller candies they got from the last Halloween, as well as coins from their piggy bank, and played with this candy vending machine nonstop. They plan on charging their friends for candies when they come for play dates and expect that they will gladly pay for them because of the fun of it. The boys also excitedly talked about where to source exotic candies to make their friends more motivated to pay, say, a trip to the Japanese store. Alternatively I think we can also turn it into a mini toys vending machine which is an added fun. On a final note, our kids are not looking to make money - their friends usually just come by anytime and rummage through our house for snacks. It’s really just for the fun of having a “vending machine”.

Scritto da: Sgt7pepper

Great fun, better than other TK kits

This is pretty good for a fully plastic kit that snaps together. It was fun to build and play with.

Scritto da: Lyda Volek

So fun

Was great but candy melted

Scritto da: Colleen and Justin

Very cool

This was a Christmas gift for our daughter and she loves it. The candy came melted but the company replaced it fairly quickly.(we used Christmas candy in the meantime) really fun to put together and fun to come up with new ways to move the pieces around.

Scritto da: Sydney C.

Waste of Money

I thought this would be so cool for my sons for Christmas & it was a nightmare from the second I opened the box. It is cheap & flimsy I think personally for the price tag & the directions are not super clear. You have to really really pay attention to the pictures or you’ll put a piece on backwards, etc. Once I got it together, it was a hit with my kids but that quickly came to an end when it kept falling apart & pieces were getting jammed, etc. This was something I wanted to hang on the wall as an incentive for my kids for behaving & doing things to help around the house, etc. Needless to say, it never even got the chance to be hung on the wall because pieces were already breaking. A lot of these reviews are crazy to me because this was a hunk of almost $40 junk in my eyes, but I guess it worked out for some people. & some of the pieces included to make different ways for the coins to go were just annoying & went straight in the trash (such as the little bell looking things, they aren’t bells at all.. they make the coin stop & it falls out of the machine completely wherever & rolls under things) This is taken apart & in the top of the junk closet just waiting for the trash which is unfortunate for almost $40 to be completely wasted. The candy included also tasted horrible & was an extremely weird texture that left a weird “film” on your fingers just from touching it. I would just save your money & put it towards a STEM activity that actually works, stays together, doesn’t break so easily, & is worth the money.

Scritto da: C holmes

Wouldn't purchase again

I expected better things from this. It is easy to assemble, but the excitement of setting it up is lost immediately. The pieces don't work just anywhere on the face, and there aren't too many options to switch it up.

Scritto da: NicollettaC

Flimsy, Huge disappoinment for my 9yo

My daughter was so excited when she opened this. She worked very hard with her father to put it together, but no matter how you could figure it rarely works. If you move it a centimeter then it stops functioning and you have to fiddle with any piece for another 5 minutes in hopes that it may work again.

Scritto da: David Wong

Best customer service!

Product works great if following instructions exactly. Had a part break after normal use. Contacted support and they right away tried to send me the broken piece. Unfortunately, customs denied the package 3 times. So, Thames & Kosmos sent me a whole new set! Thanks for such great customer service.