Block Builders

Block Builders

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Item: FA061
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Winner of the 2011 Parents' Choice Gold Award!
Architecture... deconstructed and reconstructed!
Transform, configure, and manipulate Block Builders for endless building and perpetual design.

Discover your inner architect as you fold and unfold the six distinctively hinged blocks to create skyscrapers, modern art sculptures, geometric marvels - just about anything you can imagine! When you put Block Builders together in unexpected ways (some pieces open and some closed), you reveal striking architectural wonders.

Solve the 50 challenge puzzles and test your ability to think in multiple dimensions! Visualize, conceptualize, and realize new building innovations! Block Builders is a refreshing visual-spatial vacation - and an adventure in analytical thought!

Block Builders puzzle challenge cards range from beginner to expert (each one coded so you'll know what you're up against!) Look at the design on the front of the card and recreate the shape using the indicated number of blocks! Stumped? The solution is provided in an exploded view on the opposite side of the card.

What will you build?
How will you build?
Build with Block Builders!

Block Builders Architectural Blocks

6 cubes, each uniquely hinged for innovative creating

Visualize, conceptualize and realize a world of architecture

Ideal for free-form exploration of architecture

50 building puzzle challenge cards engage & extend critical thought

Work independently or as a group to solve the 50 challenge cards

Great exercise in visual perception & spatial awareness

Each building card contains educational facts of modern & historic architecture

3 Levels of difficulty included - Beginner, Intermediate, Expert

Contents: 6 Hinged Blocks, 50 Challenge Cards

Additionally, each Block Builders card contains fascinating facts! Famous design styles, architectural wonders, architecture terms, even quotes by legendary architects. Examples:

ArchiTerms:
Turret: a small tower, usually starting at some distance from the ground, attached to a building such as a castle or fortress
ArchiFact:
There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty. Lady Liberty was sculpted by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi.
ArchiStyle:
Baroque: A style that flourished in the 17th & 18th centuries, characterized by exuberant decoration, curvaceous forms and grand scale.
ArchiPlace:
The Louvre: perhaps the most famous museum in the world, it is the permanent home to the Mona Lisa.
ArchiQuote:
Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo da Vinci

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Toy Value Index
8.58

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	Toy IQ 163 Genius
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UPC	182129000670

Manufacturer SKU	FA061

Date Added to Fat Brain Toys	9/7/2011

Manufactured In	Peoples Republic of China

Manufacturer Recommended Minimum Age	5 years

Fat Brain Toys Monthly Sales Ranking	#2325

Total Customer Reviews:	5
Average Customer Rating:	5.00 (site average 4.56)
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Block Builders
Posted 9/3/2012 by richard mitchell

Bought for my grandson who likes to build cities with his blocks. He likes these blocks very much and uses them as an addition to his other blocks. My grandson really likes these blocks.

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2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
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Posted 3/13/2012 by Paramjeet Nande

Very Good product. Keep the child going.

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Posted 2/27/2012 by Carol A.

I bought this to help my daughters (ages 3,6,9) with spacial reasoning. All of them were immediately interested and seem to enjoy it very much.

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6 of 6 customers found this review helpful.
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We liked it.
Posted 1/7/2012 by Jill

I bought this for my 4 boys ranging in age from 11-15. They said it was "awesome." They said some solutions were easy and some were hard. They would like more cards since they got through the first 50 fairly quickly.

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7 of 8 customers found this review helpful.
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Some alternate spelling variations of this product:
fao61, block builders, block-builders, blockbuilders, building blocks, modern blocks, architecture, architectural, building challenges, blocks, arkitectural, arkitecture, block puzzles, visual-spatial, visual spatial, visual-spacial, visual spacial, visualspatial, visualspacial, hinged blocks, hinge blocks, Fat Brain Toy Co.

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