Apitor 298PCS Pink Building Set for Girls, 8-in-1 Electric Motor Robotic Science Kits, STEM Kits, Educational Craft Building Toys, Birthday Gifts for Boys Girls 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Year Old

It's much harder to find a building set for girls, especially one with the motorization included. This is so much fun. When I showed my daughter how the motor worked, and how her carriage will actually move, she got so excited to build it! The included tray is nice, and the pieces went together easily. The only pain is having to use the app to build it. We're used to books, which I guess the app does save paper which I appreciate. It just took me out of my comfort zone, and we couldn't mindlessly work on the set without having the tablet on.

Grand son likes it.

My son liked this building set very much!He loves to play with Legos blocks, and these pieces are compatible with Legos, so I had no trouble with the other parts of the other brands when I had to assembled.The box only includes an instructions manual for 1 robot, but in the App, you can download it and be able to see more models to assemble.My son spent a good time assembling the sets.The app is pretty easy to be used, it has the option to sign up, but you can log in as a guest, without having to make an account and you can continue seeing the options that has to build.Recommended.

The media could not be loaded. The building block set seems to be of good quality and the pieces all fit together very well. The motor works fine as well.The box only includes instructions for building one design. All of the other designs mentioned require the use of the app to bring up the instructions. The included instructions also show icons that are supposed to be to scale for identifying pieces, but they aren't actually to scale. Using the app to identify pieces will be even more challenging since there won't be a set scale. At first glance, it did look like some of the pieces were color coded to make identification easier, but it turned out some of the pieces simply come in two different colors. This threw me off for a few minutes while trying to find matching pieces in the box for a build.Some of the pieces are quite small, so younger kids will struggle to build these designs (and the set should be kept away from the really young set that still like to put things in their mouths).Overall, this kit works pretty well. The use of an app instead of more in-box printed instructions is a bit disappointing, but the set still works fine.

What I would have given for a kit like this when I grew up! Lego Technic didn't exist 'back in the day' but I sure had fun with all of the Lego I collected back then. My son and I had lots of fun with Lego as he was growing up and I made sure to grab all of his bricks and put them away for later as he (thought he) "outgrew" them. My grandsons will (eventually) be the recipients of quite a Lego haul once they're old enough!This STEM based kit, and a few others, will be held back for a few years until they start to show interest in the more sophisticated Technic kits. While their dad is a pharmacist, they come from a long and broad line of Engineers who love playing with technology. So I'm sure they'll enjoy this kit eventually too.WARNING:MOST Construction Instructions are In The APP ONLY! The paper instructions are for just one model, rather than all 14 included in the kit.Given that I'm looking 5+ years down the road before my first grandson will be even close to ready to start playing with this, my attention turns to the App and how to "give it a long life" so that the instructions will be available to my grandchildren for the next 15-20 years. I haven't played with the app yet, but I'm hoping there will be a way to "download" the instructions in a format that will live-on for decades. Paper is always good for that, and maybe even PDF files. Time will tell.This kit comes with only one paper based construction instruction set, and leaves the other 13 to the App, unfortunately. Another benefit to this kit is a second manual that talks about the mechanical engineering principles that are demonstrated and "baked into" these robots.The list price of the kit seems kind of high, but given that the price of Lego has always been "on the high side" of the toy budget, it's not surprising for this "technic" equivalent kit to be on the high end too. The long term value is there, so remember to consider the educational value as well as the fun value when considering the purchase!