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| View Larger Image | Toysmith 4 M Solar System Planetarium # 3427 | Toyby Toy Smith
| List Price: | $9.99 | | Price: | $7.76 | | You Save: | $2.23 (22%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Sales Rank: | 6,666th |
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FEATURES | - Assembled model has an 11.75" span
- Glow in the dark
- Kit includes parts and instructions
- No batteries required
- Turn the kids onto the notion of leaving a smaller carbon footprint
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Build your own glow-in-the-dark planetarium with this creative kit. Contains model with stand, brush, paint strip, instructions and more. Assembled model has a 11 3/4 inch span. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 8 reviews)
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Too much work for kids (Which means you have to do it) by Leonel Benedicto (New York, NY USA)  2 Stars
July 13, 2009
This toy is a flimsy piece of garbage. It's not at all realistic. You have to put everything together (more pieces than I thought). Then you have to deal with the pain of actually trying to paint each individual planet (some of which are smaller than a dime). Can you imagine having to use water paint (which runs badly) on a small little piece of plastic? Try using more than one color on something that tiny. You end up getting a glob of paint. Also very small parts, not recommended for people under 120 years old!
Look for a better model, I certainly will. Cause the one I ordered is already in some landfill somewhere.
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Not what you think... by Jem (Riverside County, CA USA)  1 Stars
May 17, 2009
I purchased this item for my son for his birthday. He has shown a great interest in science (planets, stars, etc.) Thought this would be a great starter kit - he is 8. Unfortunately, we got what we paid for. This item must be assembled and painted by the purchaser. When we opened the box we were disappointed to see that all of the planets including the Sun were all "male" ends. We could not put it together and the fact that you have to paint it yourself was a bummer. Were were truly expecting to receive exactly what the photo on the unit shows. I would not recommend this item to anyone - I would spend the extra money and purchase something that is already assembled or at least already painted. Sending this back would cost us the same for a new unit so we decided to toss it. If you are interested in the solar system and are looking to get a really cool model, look at something else.
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solar system toy review by Salvina Sivio (Glendale, NY) 2 Stars
April 09, 2009
The toy was ok for my son's solar system project - however it was very flimsy - one of the planets broke as we were assembling it. Then it comes with a glow in the dark paint - which dosen't even work!
Wasn't the best buy....
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My six year old was very pleased. by Lindsey B. Goddard  4 Stars
March 03, 2009
My daughter is in first grade. We were in the process of moving into a new home, but she still wanted to enter the Science Fair at her school. I didn't want to do anything too stressful, the move was stressful enough. So we decided to do research on why Pluto is no longer considered a planet. Easy, simple.
This model was the perfect visual aid. It was easy to assemble, and it's a lot of fun for her to manually rotate the planets around the sun now that it is complete. Our only problem was that the portions of paint provided were very small. Certain colors (brown and orange) are not included, and when we mixed them using other colors... we wasted too much and ended up with not enough yellow in the end.
Great product, especially for such a low price. Just be careful. Don't waste the paint!
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Great educational toy! by Mammy (New York)  5 Stars
January 30, 2009
My soon to be 5 yr.old grandson is into anything space! He absolutely LOVES this toy. It has over 1000 facts and questions. He already knows that Jupiter has 63 planets and he's only had this toy for one day! I would recommend this toy for any space loving child!!
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
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| 3D solar system kit
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| Our Solar System College Poster Print, 36x24
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| There's No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
by Tish Rabe (Author), Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator)
Au revoir, Pluto! In this newly revised, bestselling backlist title, beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched on a wild trip to visit the now eight planets in our solar system (per the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 decision to downgrade Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet), along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, Dick, and Sally. It’s a reading adventure that’s out of this world!
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| Solar System Mobile Kit
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