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Overview:
Just snap the interchangeable pieces together to create your own mutant dinosaur or alien! Best of all, use the special Skeleflex flexible joints to give your creation lifelike movement. Collect them all to create the ultimate skelesaur-alien monster!
Features:
- Each Skeleflex creature comes in a cool storage case
- The set has more than 20 bone pieces plus flexible joint pieces that can be snapped into any creation to add lifelike movement
- All pieces are interchangeable with other Skeleflex sets
NOTE: The Skelesaur Powerflex Skelelab is not required but is recommended if you want to automate your creatures movement.
About Skeleflex:
Skeleflex is a creative ball-and-socket building system that puts kids in control. Its interchangeable bone-shaped pieces can be combined to make aliens, dinosaurs and other fantastical creatures that move in a lifelike manner.
Rigid parts rotate at the point of connection and motion is enhanced by inserting bendable joints between bones. Form the skeletal framework then add small, flexible connectors to give heads, limbs, tails and torsos realistic movement.
Build predators with dropping jaws and flapping wings, or assemble aliens with wavering tentacles and swaying spines. Kids can make exact replicas of the creatures in their Skeleflex idea books, or they can design their own unique models. Construct a multi-headed, moving martian-asaurus, or follow step-by-step instructions for a more recognizable masterpiece.
Skeleflex sets come in bone or skull-shaped carrying cases and contain enough parts to assemble the alien or dinosaur depicted on its package. Dinosaur collections are based on exaggerated versions of prehistoric reptiles, but kids have the option of putting Triceratops horns on a Velociraptor's head if that's what makes them happy. All parts are compatible, even between dinosaur and alien species. Idea books contain tips for building grandiose creations by adding on and combining parts from different sets. No matter how tame or outrageous the vision is, it can be built and brought to life.
Ages 6+
Consumer Notices:
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD�Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Conforms to the safety requirements of ASTM F963.
from Raleigh, North Carolina on 9/22/2009
My son wanted it for his 12th birthday, and it arrived on time. He is pleased with it, so that means that i am pleased as well. Thanks.
from San Francisco, CA on 5/6/2009
Love it (Anthony, 4yo).
from New England on 12/29/2008
I love the variety of models and how they can interconnect with each other. My 7.5 year old was very excited when he saw the 2 dinosaurs and 2 aliens he got for Christmas. He dived right in the first day, eager to follow the instructions and put them together (he's been doing Lego for years). But some of the pieces were so hard to push in that he eventually grew frustrated and hasn't been as keen to mix 'n match the sets like he was in the beginning.
The ball and joint design is good for keeping the creatures together so they can be played with like action figures without falling apart, and it gives the them the ability to "pose", but getting them together in the first place can be hard work for kids (and adults -- I hurt my hand on some of them!). Maybe there's a "technique" to putting them together I missed in the instructions, so it could just be me. I just wanted to warn other parents that these are cool toys, but they aren't as easy as Lego to build. Once they are built though, they seem durable and stay built.
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from Carnage1 on 8/24/2008
It rocks! It looks almost real! But, I wish they'd include more black rubbery parts, cause there's only four. Plus, I don't want to mix different Skeleflex sets. And, if you straighten the spine and neck, adjust the back flippers to look like feet, adjust the front flippers to look like arms, point it's body up, move the head down to make it look forward and point its tail up, it lt looks like a two legged monster. It's AWESOME!
[2 of 3 customers found this review helpful]
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