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| View Larger Image | Mega Volcano | Toyby Action Products International
| List Price: | $23.99 | | Price: | $18.11 | | You Save: | $5.88 (25%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Sales Rank: | 8,258th |
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FEATURES | - 12 volcano is easy to mold
- Quick dry plaster gauze for simple shaping
- Red and brown paints for a realistic look
- Includes 3 dinosaurs, plastic cup, and recipe for making lava
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Product Description
It's exploding with fun! The twelve inch volcano is easy to mold! Comes with quick dry plaster gauze for simple shaping and red and brown paints for a realistic look! This set includes three dinosaurs, plastic cup and recipe for making lava! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 3 reviews)
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Works great, over and over by Auntie J (Susanville, CA, United States)  5 Stars
July 01, 2009
My 4 yr old niece really liked this. She used it over and over (w/Dad's help) until it was battered and worn. One could do as much educational instruction as they wanted, varying the viscosity of the lava flow and/or altering the shape.
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Cheap components, and barely enough of them. Make your own! by Lia Lee  2 Stars
December 06, 2008
My son received this as a birthday present and LOVED it. I however, did not love it quite as much, because it takes more than a colorful box and a good idea to impress a Mom.
First of all, it's not at all sturdy. The volcano is made from a piece of semicircular posterboard that you are supposed to tape together to form a large cone. Problem is, the posterboard is folded to fit in the box, so it has flat sides and fold lines. So you have to roll it, tape it, and fudge it to make it go into a cone shape rather than a pyramid shape. Of course, I'm the one who had to do that, so I was pretty irritated.
Secondly, they are cheap and stingy with the plaster. They include barely enough plaster strips to cover your cone/pyramid. If you let your kids do this on their own, and they overlap their plaster strips AT ALL, they will run out of strips before the whole thing is covered. So if you do waste your money on this kit, you'd better be willing to supervise closely to make sure you don't waste any plaster too.
Thirdly, ditto my last point on the paint. There is barely enough to go around. There isn't any extra for your kids to experiment, make a mistake and fix it, etc.
Fourthly, this thing is made of cheap paper, plaster, and cheap paint. There is no shellac or protectant. There's only so many times you can let vinegar/baking soda fizz all over this thing before it falls apart.
In sum, if you have a big fan of volcanoes at your house, and he/she is pretty young, this kit will probably be a hit. The idea is great and it does, after all, end up producing a brown and red plaster-covered cone with a plastic cup in the top, and that's all most kids need. But you could also make your own for much less money, and get enough paint and plaster that you don't have to hover over the project to make sure it works.
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Great Volcano for the money by JM Mom 5 Stars
January 09, 2007
My 4 year old son is obsessed with volcanoes and asked for this for a year every time he saw it in a magazine. He loved building it with his dad and watching it erupt over and over. We are not sure where to store it, since it is a bit big. But, other than that we were very happy with it.
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| Volcano: Jump Into Science
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| Volcano Making Kit
by Toysmith
Grades 2 & up. Make a solid volcano with the mold and plaster that is provided. Paint and decorate it with lava flow, landscapes, etc. Put baking soda and vinegar into the crater and watch the eruption. Everything you need is in the kit.
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| Voyage to the Volcano
by Judith Stamper (Author), John Speirs (Illustrator)
Hi, I'm Dorothy Ann, one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. When we started learning about volcanoes, I thought we'd just be studying them in books -- but Ms. Frizzle had other ideas. She took us all the way to Hawaii, where we waded through lava and saw a real volcano blow its top. We had a great time -- even though the trip was sometimes almost too hot to handle! One thing's for sure: This was one explosive adventure that none of us will ever forget!
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| Children's Volcano Science Kit: your very own volcano will really erupt with bubbly, fizzy lava.
by Volcano Science Kit
Make a solid volcano with the mould and plaster provided. Paint and decorate it with lava flow, landscapes etc. Put in baking soda and vinegar into the "creater" and perform an amazing eruption in front of your friends and family. Your very own volcano will really erupt with bubbly, fizzy lava. It's an awesome science project and it makes a cool desk-top decoration too. The eruption could perform repeatedly and the fun is unlimited. Contains 1 volcano mould (2 parts), 2 fine quality plaster...
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