My 2.5 year old daughter loves magnets and blocks, so I thought this would be a winner. It was a little pricey, but I figured it would be worth it. The toy is advertised as having strong magnets for building, and the photos show vertical constructions. But we found the magnets are not strong enough to build even the simplest vertical structure, such as the cube pictured in the advertisement. The only thing we could get to stay up was a pyramid. Anything else collapses. I tried a couple of different ways to construct the cube, even trying to construct the "walls" on the ground and lifting them up (like they do for houses!) but no luck. My kids made shapes flat on the floor and played with them, and rolled the balls around. But there is no way to use this product as it is advertised.
