Beaker Creatures Lab Set

My 8year old son had so much fun with this. Would have loved more beaker creatures to be included, but he decided to save his pocket money to buy more.

Really easy to set up, took longer than expected to dissolve but entertained seven year old for about 30 minutes. Enjoyable but quite an expensive way to start a collection. Took longer to set up and tidy away than the entertainment value.

Got this for my 5 year old niece and she loved it. Something we could go together!

It is a good play for my son

Plus point (there's only one): 1. Quality: It seems to be well made and fits together well. None of it’s flimsy or cheap feeling. Which is a good job really, or it would have been like adding insult to injury. Downsides: 1. Time: It takes longer to set up than to dissolve the creatures. It takes longer to wash it all up afterwards than it did to dissolve the creatures. It takes longer to make a cup of tea than it does to dissolve the creatures. I think you’re probably getting the idea... 2. “Science”: Describing this as any kind of educational toy is tenuous at best (downright misleading if I’m feeling more candid); I’ve seen more bubbles emerge from a still lemonade. It LOOKS like a mad scientist’s lab (and that was enough to make my son want to spend his birthday money on this more than anything else) but if your child’s into science, you’d be better buying a chemistry set. 3. Packaging: Once you’ve set it up, it’s either impossible or unfathomably difficult to take apart again to get it flat enough to go back in the box. Why do seemingly all toy and game manufacturers seem intent on not letting you put stuff back in the box afterwards? Seriously, guys – it’s as if none of you involved in the design process have ever met any parents. Do you even do focus groups? FYI, we don’t have infinite shelf space (or a desire for more dust traps). Once the novelty’s worn off, we just want it back in the box and hidden away for long enough that we can get rid of it without hearing the roar of "Noooo! That's my favourite thing and I want to keep it forever!" 4. Price point: It cost £20. £20! Twenty whole sterling pounds! In. A. SALE! Trust me, this is just ludicrously priced for what it does. I could see this would be the case and really tried to talk my science-mad 6-year old out of it, but he’d been sold the promised land of milk and honey and was adamant this is how he wanted to spend his birthday voucher. In fact, the valuable life lesson he learned about value for money in the precise moment the phrase “Is that it?!” left his lips after just 2.3 minutes enjoying (and exhausting) it, is probably the only thing about this item worth £20. It’s also the sole reason it gets the one star I’ve given it.

Wonderful present for my 6 year old

Average. My son saw these on YouTube. You can tell by the description it’s basically a bath bomb, out of which comes a toy, but in a fancier setting. As others have said, there was ZERO fizz or drama... potentially due to the eggs/bath bombs being old. We added vinegar which did make them fizz but defeated the object of the kit. Over very quickly but this was to be expected. NOT to be confused with an educational kit, because it’s certainly not.

What an absolute waste of money and a disappointed child. The bathbombs with the creatures inside all crumbled away when unwrapping them and revealing the creature toy, so there was nothing to hold in the green tongs and to dissolve. Luckily we had some bathbombs at home so we could do it with them. But then the pressure was too hard for my 5yo (and me) to push the plunger. Then when we eventually managed to do this, the tube popped off from underneath and water went everywhere. This was just a wet, disappointing mess.

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Sorry this product is for my grandson christmas present.

Good little kit the extra little science lab tools that come with it are useful as well haven’t seen anywhere else where I can find nice large plastic beakers. To the people that are saying their child could not push down both chambers, Make sure you are taking out the slack of the tubing look underneath as in my experience the tubes wanted to naturally kink and pulling the slack up help to relieve this my three-year-old was able to push both down at the same time. Only thing that I found a little frustrating but understandably overlooked was that the chambers set a bit higher than the reservoir and thus gravity takes over and you will end up with water in the reservoir before you start pumping. The work around for this Was to first fill up the chambers pump the water into the reservoir and then pull the water back creating vacuum stopping the water from seeping into the reservoir so that you have a dry reservoir if that’s important to you.

Es un juguete educativo muy interesante, necesita ayuda de un adulto para el ensamble pero nada complicado. Material bueno aunque obvio requiere cuidado. Llegó en perfecto estado y le ha regalado experiencias increíbles a mi hijo. Complementè con otros kits de la misma marca así como la bata de científico y realmente le fascinó. Las bombas efervescentes y los muñequitos coleccionables son geniales y nos encantaron a todos. Un gasto que realmente vale la pena. Mi hijo tiene 5 años y lo ha disfrutado bastante.

The set is pretty cool and my soon really enjoyed preparing everything for the experiment. Personally, i was diasppointed that the balls did not make any bubbles at all... a bath bomb would have made much more bubbles. For a science kit, it is not that much it offers. We will try to reuse it and try to make other experiments with it!