Zome Tool - Bucky Ball
Retail Price: $19.95
Normally $18.99
Today's Sale Price: $18.48
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Item: ZT006
Quantity on Hand: 6
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Discover a molecule so exciting, it's the state molecule of Texas.
Named after R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, "BuckyBall" is the nickname for a Carbon 60 molecule. Like the faces of a soccer ball, it has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. A great science project, complete with fun facts to know and tell.
Includes:
150 total parts
60 black nodes
90 short blue struts
AGES 6 to ADULT. Swallowing danger. Not for children under 3 years of age.
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Toy Value Index: 9.27
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Fat Brain Index: 8.22
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UPC
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709743100748
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Manufacturer SKU
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Z74
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Manufactured In
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 United States
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Fat Brain Toys Sales Ranking
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#1690
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Recommended Age
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10+
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WARNING:
CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts.
Not for children under 3 yrs.
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Zome Tool - Bucky Ball has been reviewed 14 times with an average rating of 4.64. Click here to view all Zome Tool - Bucky Ball reviews...
Buckyj Balls
Posted 12/22/2009 by Richard Sindeldecker
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Bought as a gift for christmas
A rating of Zome Tool - Bucky Ball
Posted 11/30/2009 by Laurie Ryan
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This was a huge hit with all our children and their children. We saw our sons doing science type lessons with their girls as they assembled the ball. Will surely suggest this item to anyone who likes the challenge of creating and building things.
Bucky Ball kit review
Posted 11/3/2009 by Wayne Mansell
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The kit consists of the correct number of nodes and blue links to construct the Bucky Ball model.
There was an instruction leaflet and general information pertaining to the Carbon 60 molecule it was intended to represent.
All in all I think that the components were well made and had a hi-tech feel to them.
Overall, the kit did what it said on the tin but unfortunately no more! - From my perspective this is limited in foresight. After all, this is a small kit and could be treated as a taster kit by Fat Brain toys.
I am currently thinking about purchasing the Creative Kit 4 which retails at approximately $200 USD.
If I had a few of the alternative link parts to adress my concerns on the kits flexibility it would have been a much clearer decision.
I appreciate that you are only a distributor to Zome Tools, but as you took the effort to add a news letter, etc... you obviously see yourselves as a value add as well as a developer.
Overall though, the experience was good.
Really Cool!
Posted 10/21/2009 by Mike Little
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I had been using huge kits of magnetic ball bearings and rods to build my special interest which is Platonic and Archimedean solids. The magnet just doesn't work well for something like the bucky ball. I built the bucky ball and took it to work. I tore down the bucky ball and made the 3 platonic solids that can be made without green struts. It is amazing how such a simple design can make so many shapes. I was sold when I heard that Zome can be used to make all the archimedean solids except for two stub solids. I intend to get many more of these.
Information about Zome Tool - Bucky Ball
Posted 3/24/2008 by Margaret M
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This is a fun project. My son loved putting the bucky ball together. The directions are very hard to read and follow, but once you get working on it, you don't really need them. My big complaint, though, is that Zome made all the bonds the same, and in reality, each carbon atom within the bucky all should have one double bond and two single bonds. To fix this glaring error on their part, we ended up cutting masking tape to wrap around the bonds that were supposed to be single bonds.
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Elkhorn, Nebraska USA 68022