This was a bit of a stocking filler present for my eldest son last Christmas when he was 5 years old. My sons are both really into construction, whether that be lego or duplo, or just plain building blocks. I thought the concept of introducing magnetism into this was quite a nice idea, and I thought he would enjoy playing with a geo mag set. I bought the smallest set available which was a colour set containing 22 pieces for around £10. 10 pieces are round silver balls that are used as joints in your construction. There are then 6 orange rods, and 6 yellow rods which are all a couple of inches in length, and quite strong magnets. To say this is ...  Read the complete review

It's amazing how satisfying playing with magnets is, even at my age there's something about their repelling and attracting properties that I like. I can spend ages clicking magnets together and trying to force the repelling ends to stick- sad eh? anyway I bought my son the Geomag colour 20 piece set for Christmas one year. I see on Amazon they retail for £8, I think I paid a bit more than that at the time. Geomag is an magnetic toy comprising of magnetic rods and nickle plated steel balls which can be assembled into geometric shapes. The rods are plastic coated 1 inch or so long bars with a south-polarised magnet at one end and a north polarised magnet at the ...  Read the complete review