MECCANOErector Super Construction 25-in-1 Motorized Building Set, Steam Education Toy, 638 Parts, for Ages 10+

Just lie the set we would build when we were younger but better! Had electric motor to incorporate into builds. So much fun for kids and keeps them busy for hours! The instructions are very clear for younger children !

Bought as gift. Arrived on time and as expected. He will spend lots of time with this one!

I bought this as a Christmas gift for my 9 year old nephew. I wanted him to have a fun but challenging gift that would educate and provide creative and challenging opportunities for him to make things with his dad or me, or on his own. I also wanted him to have something he wouldn't outgrow quickly.This erector set meets all of those objectives; I think it's the coolest gift I've ever gotten him. The quality of the set is very, very good. The steel pieces are relatively heavy, and the finished projects are VERY solid. I totally disagree with the few naysayers regarding the quality of this set; it is VERY well made.The documentation for the projects is also very clear. My nephew and I built the dune buggy project together over the course of a couple of days, and the schematics laid out exactly what pieces you needed, where they went, and in what order to assemble them. There is no text, but you don't need any because of the clarity of the schematics. He played with his finished dune buggy and made his own modifications to it throughout his spring break this year.If you're giving this as a gift to a younger child, you should consider that in some cases it really helps to have two sets of hands, but that of course is part of the fun . . building something together. There are a lot of pieces, some of them small, but the carrying case opens like a tool box and has plenty of little containers to hold the many different parts.Final note: I'm 53, and I'm seriously thinking about buying one of these sets for myself! Great tool for bonding with your favorite kid(s).

I actually purchased this for myself as a boy in his mid-20's, and I definitely don't regret it. I've always heard decent things about erector sets in the past, and I figured I'd give it a try. I purchased this originally just to build a few of the models in this set, but then I actually started implemented the steel/construction pieces from this set into making my own custom Arduino based robot. I just added things to a chassis I already had, and made it my own. If you're probably thinking of doing the same thing, definitely worth it. It's high quality parts and steel, they don't bend too easily. You can literally make anything out of them since each piece has holes all throughout them, making it easy to bolt things anywhere.Good set, the case itself is organized on the inside instead of other toys you buy these days where you buy them, and they're just bags of things all together. The case is the storage, so you won't need to purchase additional storage or worry about losing things. I can see where this product might be a little too advanced for some children if you're trying to build the models, but it's a great learning curve in a more technical aspect of building.Anyways, I definitely recommend it since you can implement these pieces into a ton of things outside of the actual models presented in the pictures (they're cool, but the idea of engineering your own works is a bit cooler).

First...the "Motorized Racing Car & More" set is exactly the same as the "Special Edition" set. The simply changed the name, its the same 643 piece set.Second, their is a problem with the motorized unit. The switch design on the battery pack is extremely poor. If the switch is not fully thrown to the left or right or fully in the center off, it will melt and be rendered useless. My son and I built the airplane model first(he's 6, took us a few hours together), and after 10 minutes of play the motor quit working(no, not 10 minutes of continuous running). Well, he hadn't quite thrown the switch fully, and after taking it apart the flaw was apparent. Its a proprietary double pole, double throw switch built on a PCB board. There isn't enough space between the board contacts. If the switch is in between positions, the contactor is shorting the positive and negative leads of the battery pack together on the board. This causes lots of heat, quickly heats the thin metal contactor, and in the process melts the switch handle. In my opinion it should recalled, I don't know if its possible to melt or rupture 4 AA batteries by shorting them, but they got really warm. I had to rig up a new submini DPDT switch as a replacement on the outside of the unit.Otherwise....it's a great erector set. We built the crane after I fixed the battery pack. It's pretty awesome. It uses a 48:1 gear reduction(more like pulley reduction), on the motor and it can lift quite a bit of weight for a toy. Both the boom and the cable of the crane run off the motor, it's a pretty ingenious model I think. Crane also rotates on the base via a manually controlled wheel. Took him, with my help, most of a Saturday plus a couple hours of the following Sunday.

My dad bought it for me 30 years ago, now I bought it for my son. however, this game is not for everyone. you need to have a technical background and a strong imagination for technical drawing.