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Serious Rubegoldbergian Fun
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
You're in for weeks and months of fun creating Rube Goldberg-like versions of the VorteX, a Techno Gears Marble Mania machine. You get over (375) pieces, many of them glow-in-the-dark, including baseplates, marbles, connectors, channels, "twisters," mills, tubes and gears to create intricate tracks to move marbles around, down, over and through the maze. Includes a battery-operated marble launcher that makes the whole thing automatic so you can sit back and watch your creation run by itself. In the dark. You add (3) "AA" batteries and a capacity for twisted thinking.
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94123 THE VORTEX |
Leonardo Rides Again
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Now you can re-create two of Leonardo Da Vinci's most prescient vehicles. You get everything you need to build small scale models of either his self-propelled cart or paddlewheel boat. The cart was driven by bent-wood spring tension and featured a gearing system and programmable steering. His was wood; yours is wood-like plastic, approx 6" square x 3-1/4" tall with all the right moving parts. The paddleboat was pedaled (making it a pedal-paddle boat) and your model will be approx 7-1/2" long x 2-3/4" wide x 1-1/2" tall. Both kits include a 16-page booklet with good instructions plus an overview of the maestro's life. For ages 8 and up.
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94116 LEONARDO'S BOAT | |
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94115 LEONARDO'S CART |
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Filthy Lucre
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
For archeologically minded numismatists, now comes the "Dirty Old Coins" kit, complete with (5) genuine, hand-struck ancient coins from 1,500 to over 2,000 years old, all with their own authentic dirt and ancient schmutz still attached. All "Made in the Roman Empire. Assembled in the U.S.A." You get a 12pp instruction booklet, a PC or Mac-compatible CD-ROM coin image database for identification, a stiff brush, double-lens magnifier, and cleaning and de-corrosion fluids. Most coins will be worth a few dollars, the supplier says, but some rare finds could be worth "hundreds or even thousands." Plenty of fun either way.
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93364 DIRTY OLD COINS |
Magic Rocks
Geology for those with short attention spans? The original Magic Rocks®, of course! Mix the solution in a jar of water, drop in the pebbles, and watch them grow into a forest of multi-color stalagmites. Growth starts in 10 minutes, is impressive in 30 minutes, and complete (up to 4" tall) in 2 hours. Extra credit if you can make it grow stalactites by gluing the pebbles to the bottom of a jar, then pouring the solution in and turning it upside down. Who knows? Maybe it will work. Comes with a set of marine decals to decorate the jar. Definitely not for use with living fish. For ages 10 and up.
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6207 MAGIC ROCK SET |
Three-Way All-Terrain Robot
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Just like those things that snap trees in half and load the trucks in your favorite swamp logger TV shows. The 3-in-1 ATR (All-Terrain Robot) operates on a wired remote and its (6) tracks can be configured to make a forklift, rover or (scissors-ish) gripper. Measures approx 7-3/8" to 9-5/8" long x 6-1/4" to 8-1/2" wide x 3-3/4" to 5-3/4" tall, depending on how you configure it. You build it with a small screwdriver and wire cutter, then (4) "AA" batteries. Includes profusely illustrated instructions and yes, it's yellow and black the way the construction gods intended. Ages 13 and up.
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94365 3-IN-1 ALL TERRAIN ROBOT WITH WIRED REMOTE |
Sunprint® Kit
Sunprints (or cyanotypes, or photograms) are everyone's favorite photo-sensitivity experiment, from third-graders to graphic artists and fine artists. You pick: The Sunprinters are a dozen 3-15/16" square sheets of photosensitive paper, an acrylic backing sheet and instructions. The large Sunprint Kit has (15) sheets of 12" x 7-3/4" photosensitive paper plus a clear acrylic sheet of the same size. Great for classroom demonstrations, and can be used to make prints from photo negatives as well as interesting effects from opaque or translucent objects. All you add is sunshine and water.
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93519 SUNPRINT KIT, LARGE | |
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3805 SUNPRINTERS |
Multiple Minerals
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
We've got rocks by the box. You pays yer money and you takes yer choice of our gallimaufry of geological goodies. The Mohs Kit is a mineral hardness scale set, with (9) specimens: gypsum, talc, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase, quartz, topaz and corundum. The Mineral Kit has (15) specimens: fluorite, microline, feldspar, hematite, pyrite, calcite, magnetite, talc, pyrolusite, graphite, milky quartz, mica, satin spar, selenite and alabaster gypsum. The Rock Kit has (15) specimens, (5) each of igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rock types. All kits include a small magnifier, tray and instruction pamphlet. The Mohs and Mineral Kits also come with a nail and ceramic streak plate.
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93720 MINERAL KIT | |
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93719 MOHS KIT | |
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93721 ROCK KIT |
Bridges To Burn
Or break, actually, as an heuristic exercise. Here's a classroom-full of bridge-building supplies based on the Illinois Institute of Technology's national bridge-building contest. Each kit contains enough balsa wood pieces and glue to supply (24) budding engineers or physics students with what it takes to test their skills at wooden bridge construction. Includes a 12pp teacher's guide with info about (6) bridge styles and (8) types of trusses, (24) rules/instruction sheets for students, (360) pieces of 1/8" square x 24" long wood, and (24) bottles of white glue. Among the most engaging and popular classroom projects in the country, it's designed for grades 7-12.
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93359 CLASSROOM BRIDGE KIT |
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Drill Through Rocks…
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
with this rock- and shell-driller for the budding (or already fully bloomed) crafter or jewelry designer. Call it a semi-toy that really works. Made like a drill press, it's designed to drill holes in small stones or sea shells for stringing on chains or mounting on jewelry. You get the drill, an AC adapter, an ounce of shells, 3 ounces of polished stones, a replacement drill bit, a jar of glue, and an assortment of (20) key-rings, chains, earring wires and rings. Has (2) safety locks and a protective dome to prevent injury, and uses water to lubricate the drill. Can be used by children age 8 and over, with adult supervision.
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93689 ROCK DRILL |
Mousetrap Power
The other hybrid. This kit has everything you need to design and build a mousetrap-driven racer, including instructions, balsa wood, wheels, axles, spacers, drive shaft and the mouse-trap engine itself. The finished model can be up to 18" long x 6" wide. Watch your fingers.
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93652 MOUSETRAP RACE KIT |
Talking Bandages
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Okay, these bandages don't talk out loud—but they do let your boo-boos make a statement. The tasteful bacon bandages are photo reproductions of a raw bacon slice. You get a box of (15) standard, 3" sterile bandages, with a bonus tiny plastic pig in every box. When you or your monkey get hurt, try the (15) 3” x 1-5/8” latex monkey-face bandages in assorted rainbow colors. The (24) 3” x 3/4” Funny Bones latex bandages, in assorted color combinations, are printed with skeletons. Whichever you stick with, you won't see it stuck on every other kid in school. Or at the office!
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92725 BACON BANDAGES | |
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94171 FUNNY BONES BANDAGES | |
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94185 MONKEY BANDAGES |
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