Fun for ALL ages!!! Best gift idea of the year.

We bought these as a birthday gift for our son when he turned two. They were his absolute favorite gift, rivaling his new Fisher-Price GeoTrax set (and he's a train freak). He loves carrying around these heavy little marble-sized silver balls, and sticking the inch-long rods together. They are extremely, strongly magnetic. The polarized ends jump together - or push apart - and the balls jump onto the rods in strands of two or three. The balls are not magnetic, so they do have a tendency to get separated (and carried away) from the set, but the magnetic rods all stick together, so they won't be easy to lose. The more sets, or the larger set you have, the better. 35 pieces is not as much as you'd expect it to be, definitely get at least 70, and a storage box/jar/bag for them as well. We're storing ours (140 pcs) in a standard-size peanut butter (plastic) jar - the screw-on lid helps limit accessibility to little hands.The 35-piece set has 14 balls, five each of red/yellow/green rods, and six blue rods. The 70-piece set has 28 balls, ten each of yellow/green rods, and eleven each of red/blue rods. 70 pieces clump together in a wad about the size of a tennis ball; 140 about the size of a (melting? hehe) softball. My husband had to get a set of his own and loves playing with them as much as our son does. This is a GREAT GIFT idea for anyone, particularly a guy, of any age. Our son is good about not putting things like this in his mouth, but of course I keep a close eye on him while we have these out. I would not let age (if you're careful) deter from a very high recommendation!!! I would not trust a cheaper brand - these are very durable.

I love my Magnetix!!!!

I've had mine for a year and I still love them. I want more for Christmas, lots more! They are so much fun, when it's time to turn off the T.V. and stop playing games I don't even care anymore because I can play with them instead.

Birthday Blast

I live in The Bahamas and for my nephews 8th birthday party he only invited 6 of his best friends from school. I bought him 2 boxes of magnetix and a toy motorcycle. I thought he would go crazy over the talking motorcycle, but to my surprise he and his friends dropped all their party games and went crazy over the magnetix. Their eyes just lit right up! They even had a bouncing castle for fun outside but it was just monies wasted but the magnetix made up for that. This is a great item for kids, especially those who like to build!