Customer Reviews

Zometool - Pioneer Kit

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I've always been fascinated by geometric shapes and
symmetry, so the Zome System was right up my alley.
I bought it for a big kid--me!
I also recommend getting the book "Zome Geometry",
which provides exercises, directions, and "challenges"
to really get you experimenting and thinking
analytically. Apparently Amazon only offers the
Pioneer Kit, and I noticed many reviewers suggesting
the purchase of multiple kits. Hopefully, Amazon (Toys
R Us) will start offering some of the larger kits;
beyond the Pioneer kit (121 pieces), you can also find
the 242-piece Adventurer kit, all the way up to the
1308-piece Advanced Math Kit (which also includes
advanced "green" struts for constructing truly fantastic
shapes).
[[UPDATE : Amazon now offers the larger "Explorer" Kit as well!]]

Zome allows you to build an endless variety of figures:
pyramids, cubes, prisms, dodecahedrons (12-sided ball),
and far beyond--whatever your imagination comes up with,
while giving you the chance to learn geometry in a
"hands-on" way.

I highly recommend this "toy" for kids, teachers, or
anyone fascinated with geometric figures.

I have a Zome set myself and have enjoyed it very much. It isn't a "one-design" kit like some I've seen. It's much more fun when you aren't restricted to only one object to make. Some advice: a larger set can make something so large that kids can fit inside...

This is the kind of toy you steal from your kids. It's incredibly absorbing. I've seen chemists make fantastically elaborate models with this stuff. More interesting than Lego. You'll want to get more than one set to make bigger models.

We got this kit for our son, the Lego freak! He's HOOKED ON ZOME!!! We can't wait to get additional kits and build even bigger and cooler things. I highly recommend this for anyone and everyone -- solo or family fun. ALL THUMBS UP!

I grew up playing with LEGOs and Erector set, and Zome are just as cool. Think of them as a scientific update to Tinkertoy. I first bought Zomes (this set) last Christmas for my 7 year old daughter. I saw them in a science store and thought they looked like fun. Before wrapping them up I decided give them a quick try and was instantly hooked. I stopped playing four hours later. My daughter loves them, too. We play with them regularly and do not grow tired of this toy.

Warning: I had to buy more pieces because there were not enough parts for really complicated models, and for octahedrons you need an expansion set. This kit is a good starting point.

Your imagination is only limited by the number of parts you have. Zome is fun for anyone who likes You can build very intricate designs, or you can build simple things. I have great fun creating molecular models, imitating crystal structures, placing [buckey] balls inside of balls inside of balls, and fractal-type three-dimensional designs. My daughter usually builds houses and other structures, and lots of stars. We have well over a thousand parts now and frequently build objects that encompass the living room.

For more information I recommend you check out [...]. This is also the best place to get more parts as you can buy specific pieces by the pound, 'naked' kits (without the packaging, saves money), glow-in-the-dark kits, DVD's and books full of building projects, and special pieces only available from their site.

The sticks are fairly resilient and will last for years as long as you are gentle removing them from the spheres. The spheres will last forever, and you can get other colored spheres if you want to build molecular models.

Zome is a great product, and anyone over the age of six or so can play.

Got this for my grandson who's very hard to buy for. He was so excited about this set and works with it all the time. He's asked his parents to buy him the additional pieces so he can construct bigger things. Great item!

Once again in this kit ZomeTool fails to provide an adequate number of pieces to build all the models in the enclosed booklets. This is a real problem for all who purchase anything less than the most expensive $119 Kit, which itself requires additional $40 kits to be able to make more than one model at a time. The partial kits (DNA, Buckyball, Bubble, etc) sold by ZomeTool are the rough equivalent of selling a set of Lincoln Logs with only 7 logs, half a door and 3 roof tiles: not a complete cabin. This is true of all the smaller kits. To be Educational for K-12, a toy has to have enough pieces. These simply don't and the Seller should be ashamed, in my opinion. The affordable kits are simply incomplete, and the larger Kits are too expensive. After all, we're talking about injection-molded plastic here, folks, not gold-plated platiniridium or GaAs wafers. Disappointing . . . . .

My 9 year old son loves to play with this! Even his older siblings, who are in high school and college, joined in and played! He loves to create and build, and he saw himself building molecules and spacecrafts...the possibilities are endless!

I'm a grad student. I bought this hoping to duplicate one of the most basic crystal structures: close packed. It turns out the normal kit can't reproduce this extremely basic structure. I would have to buy the $40 dollar add-on. I would give it a two, but I'm sure it's a great toy. But seriously, for science, if it can't do regular tetrahedra and octahedra that's weird.

Why so many negative reviews? Nobody wants to make regular tetrahedra and octahedra but me?

Is a excellent educational toy in wish your child can develop the creativity and the imagination