Toobeez TBZ-57C Giant Construction (57 Piece Set), Multi

I got this for my son's 7th birthday. I hesitated between EZ Fort and Toobeez. And I went for toobeez because the toobeez site says it's more sturdy and you can use them for the teambuiding exercices. It's true: they are more sturdy and the team building exercices look fun. But my 7 year old is interested in building forts, not teambuilding ;-) The fort creation possibilities with only one set are rather limited (the various tube length only allow you to build one cube of a given size).Bottom line is: if you want a blanket fort making toy, save money and go for EZ fort...

I'm a childminder and having two kids of my own I have found that this is great for team working even at an early age the little ones can pass the coloured poles to the older ones to put together.

Great.....arrived very quick

Fabulous product. Hours of fun!

This is one of the best things we own. This is great for team work and quality time for the family

Quite a good product.Bloody expensive in comparison to other toys, but nethertheless still good.Easy to use and assemble, and even American's can use it.

There can't be many products that are sold as both a child's toy and a corporate team building resource - although anyone who has ever been on a corporate away day may not find it altogether surprising.What is remarkable about the Toobeez is that you need not consider its dual attributes as mutually exclusive: the very experience of opening the box will be to encounter both simultaneously. For as your small children cling to your ankles, making their impossible-to-deliver offers of help, you will need all your leadership skills if you are to progress in the task of taking this product from box to build without attracting the attention of Social Services.As we all know the instructions that precede each exercise on a team building awayday generate sensations of almost catatonic weariness. So full marks to Toobeez for verisimilitude in that regard. Your management skills in flexible thinking and optimization of resources will be challenged when you realize the colours of the components before you do not match those in the picture of the simple child's house your offspring are willing you to construct. Those skills will similarly be required when, perhaps fifteen minutes into the exercise, you realise the measurements given are not for each of the segments - as one would logically expect - but rather for the segments plus their joining device. At least, being alone, you are saved being given that information by the smug completer-finisher from Accounts.However it is at about this stage you wouldn't mind being able to ask a colleague from your Technology Division if this really is the only way to build a cube with a roof on: you may not know much about cantilevers, but you never would have thought so many suspended joists would be required. But then you remember what it would be like if your Tech colleague told you. So you make the executive decision slavishly to follow the picture, all the while doubting the parts before you will be adequate for the sum required - much like you do each day at work.But with the clock ticking down, and the promise of a coffee break spurring you on, you will eventually demonstrate your managerial reach by completing construction of a moderately sized but reasonably sturdy outline of a small house with one hand while pinning an increasingly impatient small child to the floor with the other.The object is largely useless of course until you have demonstrated initiative and resilience by raiding the laundry cupboard for sheets to provide walls and a roof, searched your desk for bulldog clips to hold these on with, and served the juice and biscuits with which to entice your little blighters to go inside and stay still for something over thirty seconds.So congratulations. You both have a diploma in `Leading Small Teams Through Transformational Change' and children who have been moderately occupied through another wet Sunday afternoon.But as we all know, team building comes in modules - and the modules don't come cheap. You'll already have been bemused by how little can be made with £100 worth of this stuff. You'll need to get at least one, and possibly two, more sets for the Toobeez promise to be delivered.And that's when the penny drops: become a consultant.

We did a lot of research into this product and read many reviews, most of which said that this was a durable toy.Firstly on opening the package we found that the 42 page ideas book was not included and on first use 2 of the medium sized poles are too big diamiter wise so the yellow connectors do not stay inside them, therefore making it very frustrating for the children to use as it keeps falling apart. My three children have lost interest in this toy very quickly. I have tried to contact the Toobeez company direct to get the ideas book to no avail!!! Not very impressed with this very expense toy.