ThinkPlay Gears Extreme

Please note:
Piece colors vary, so some of the projects will not match the colors of those shown in the project manual.

Retail price: $191.99
Our price: $182.95

Ages: 5+

Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 days.

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Product Code: 694-701

Timberdoodle's Review

ThinkPlay STEM Gears Extreme

ThinkPlay Gears Extreme is an extraordinary kit from ThinkPlay, the internationally award-winning educational construction system. Designed to explore the fundamental physics of movement and rotation, effects of friction, creating power, and how simple machines need and use gears, this 488-piece set comes with a whole suite of instructions.


The gear wheels come in five sizes with different teeth arrangements, and each gear is marked clearly with its number of teeth. There are also two types of gear wheels, some with a smooth shaft and others with a geared one. 


ThinkPlay Gears Extreme's side-connecting block pieces enable your young builder to make circles, curves, and spirals that remain impossible with traditional sets.


With ThinkPlay Chains, your child can build a clock, snowplow, chainsaw, and more technical models such as intricate chain panels. Or, creative engineers can assemble new constructions of an original design.


ThinkPlay Pulleys is an engaging way for your child to investigate the useful simple machine, pulleys. There are eleven appealing pulley projects that your young builders will enjoy, from a bird with fluttering tail feathers to a helicopter with rotating blades. ThinkPlay Pulleys includes nine pulleys, four silicone bands, and detailed instruction sheets. Two fishing models call for some string that you will need to provide.


Note: Colors in your set may vary from those depicted in your manual.

Features









Manufacturer: Morphun
Faith-Based: No

CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Awards and Endorsements:
2012 Poland Gold Award
2012 Practical Pre-School Gold Award
2013 India Didactics Award
2013 BESA Education Resource of the year
2014 Bizziebaby Silver Award
2020 STEM.org Authenticated Educational Product
2021 Newsweek Best in STEM

ThinkPlay Gears Extreme Review by Making Everyday Magic

review by Making Everyday Magic

”Not to spoil your watching of the video, but I have never been so pleased to tell you that my assumptions about this product were so off base.”

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ThinkPlay Gears Extreme Review by One Luckey Wife

review by One Luckey Wife

”Thinkplay Gears is such a fun and engaging toy for kids. It comes with so many projects to make. They start off easy and get progressively harder.”

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Customer Reviews

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Karolyn B.
Excellent

These blocks are amazing and teach great engineering/STEAM skills at a young age.

Especially good if you are available to help complete projects or if you have multiple students that can work together on these.

I thought the workbook of instructions were a little less helpful or organized a little more poorly than the beginner ThinkPlay Blocks set for preschoolers.

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T.
fun with help

There are enough gears in the box for two kids to do almost every project as long as they don't care about the colors. I had to find the pieces for my kindergartener, or it would take her forever to complete them.

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allyson
Child not interested

Albeit I think they are very overpriced for what this is. But I have a lego fanatic and builder so I thought these would be a hit-they weren't. My child was pretty bored using these. Maybe in a year or two there will be more interest. The quality is amazing and there are so many neat things to build. I'm hoping maybe we can try these again in the future, but for now my first grader is not excited about it.

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Lisa
Amazing Fun

This is so much fun! My daughter needs a little bit of help at 5. We'll continue to use it next year again, since we only did half. I am super impressed with how cool it is.

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bina w.
perfect for little hands

We had to sit with our little one to help him figure out the pieces and how they work and how to read the directions, after a month or so, he's able to do it on his own. It's worth it if you don't have any other building work for your child to play with. My kiddo loves what he makes!