Beginners Engineering Building Block STEM Set

I hesitated ordering it based upon the price but with the other great reviews and knowing how much my boys love Legos and tools, I took a chance. My sons, age 5 and 6, just love this set!! They just played with it for the first time today for the 5 y/os birthday. The pieces are so sturdy, and since they screw together they can actually play with them without them falling apart (as opposed to traditional Lego bricks) There are only specific instructions for 2 machines, but it is fun to watch the kids stare at the pictures to figure out how the other machines were made and figure it out for themselves.

Both boys declared at bedtime tonight that this would be the first thing they played with tomorrow.

I bought this one as my son's 2-year-old birthday gift.
We've been looking for a great excavator/crane for a long long time, and this set completed my son's engineering truck set perfectly.

The excavator is really great. It can turn 360 degrees just like a real excavator, and the bucket and booms could work together like a real excavator too.

The front loader and the crane are also elegant.

The dump truck is a little better than another duplo dump truck.

And there are construction crew too so every machine could be controlled by a worker, which is a big plus.

The cement mixer is a little cheesy, and the wind turbine is not impressive either, but we think others are awesome.

We assembled all the trucks for him since he's too young, but he's already showing interest assembling/dissembling all the parts. I can't wait to see he builds his own truck. ^^

Overall, I'm super happy with it. :) The price is kind of high but I feel it's worth it.

My daughter will turn 2 in January, and she loved it. She has a tool box so she was a bit familiar with the screwdriver. We hope this is a toy that will grow with her age, as there is so much she can do. In my opinion it is expensive if you plan on buying toys for every age gap. It is safe for young kids. The only item I plan of taking away from her is the shovel. Will make an instructional video so she can assemble it as I think is way to difficult for her at the moment. For older kids it is a question of using logic on the assemble process.

Hand DOWN this is the BEST DUPLO set EVER!!! My son is OBSESSED with the Caterpillar tracks. There isn't a build set-by-step guide. However, it is simple to build it by looking at the pictures. He will play with this for several long turns using people in the Duplo Community People Set. There are repeats of the people in this set and the people set. Kids don't care though and if this is for a classroom or multiple children, it's great news. Less to fight over.

This kit is great. My 2 1/2 year-old daughter loves this. I spent the first few hours playing with it together so she could see how to use the screwdriver to attach wheels and keep some of the blocks together. She still plays with this every day (I bought it three months ago).

The provided lesson plan for teachers seems like they're trying to shoehorn this kit into being educational. I think it's best for just letting kids build fun construction machines.