Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Set - 150-Piece Set | 
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| Brand: Learning Resources
Category: Toy
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $29.99
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 2239
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 9 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 12 x 12
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MPN: LER9164
Model: LER9164
UPC: 765023010732
EAN: 0765023010732
ASIN: B00000JGWY
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Gear up for hours of fun | | • | 150-piece set | | • | Endless creative combinations | | • | Encourages creativity | | • | Giant storage tub |
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Product Description
Gear up for hours of colorful action with this 150-piece set that enables children to create hundreds of three-dimensional construction possibilities. Set features plastic gears, connectors and interlocking bases packaged in a giant storage tub with an Activity Guide.Awards: - National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors (1997)
- Good Toy Guide Award (1997)- UK
- Early Childhood News, Directors' Choice Awards (1998)
- Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal, Best Toy Award (1998)
- Practical Pre-School GOLD Awards (2001)-UK
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 29
 Great toy with some durability problems March 4, 2010
GenXmom (San Jose, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gears are a great toy, and my child loves to construct things daily. I really, really think Gears are a wonderful toy. Don't get me wrong.
After about a year, however, I can report that there *are* durability issues with the blue connectors. On the connectors, the little plastic prongs to which gears snap on/attach are weak, and you can see the stress points forming as white lines. The prong loses its shape and strength, then the gears start to fall off. I mean, fall off ALL the time. This has led to much frustration. Some of the prongs broke off long ago. I have to replace our whole bucket now because the gears won't stay on the connectors.
I also have to say that the gears have chipped as well.
 Neat toy, some pieces hard to put together and take apart February 11, 2010
Wendell C. Arnold
My children (4,4,3) really like this toy. They spend a lot of time with it but they do run into problems when trying to take some of the pieces apart.
 Love this toy! January 23, 2010
Hilary Steinberg
I bought this set of gears for my two year old grandson for the holidays and he loves it. It's sturdy, colorful and has endless possibilities for creative play and fine motor skills. It keeps him busy for a very long time!
Great, educational, absorbing fun for toddlers through elementary age January 22, 2010
Karen Baker (Brooklyn, NY United States)
Our set is 7 years old and on its 5th child. This toy has been a favorite of all my kids, boys and girls, as toddlers, preschoolers and older. It is absorbing and lends itself to group play even better than blocks, since there are problems relating to the gears to solve that seem to override "artistic differences" that cause so many fights with block building. My children were never so intent and cooperative playing together than with this toy. The bucket is huge and sturdy-- like a contractor might use, seriously. My only minor complaint is that the little pegs the gears snap on to have broken off on 4 of our pieces-- but 4 out of 150 after years of intense use is still not bad. My advice is to definitely avoid the motorized, lighted, and theme sets-- the mechanical challenges and possibilities of this set are interesting enough, and IMO kids should have time to focus on those things without the "entertainment" level getting involved.
Gears game is lots of fun! January 5, 2010
C. Cook (OR)
This gears game is not only colorful and lots of fun, it offers great fine motor skill practice. My son is 5 and he enjoys building and creating with it though he does like some guidance with figuring out the 3 dimensional aspects of building a really large structure out of this. I think for a child who is younger, the parts would get lost and scattered all over the house really easily. I think it's better for age 4+ as a table game that you get out and not a game that you keep down on the floor all the time. And when you keep it up and just get it down occasionally, it seems more exciting to the kids too!
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