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Little magnets are a choking hazard and may require surgical removal if swallowed! Not for children!
These are not "Buckyballs" brand, or Neocube. They are the same type and quality of magnets, but they come in a plain wrapper instead of a plastic case with a brand name. (And they cost much less.) Our Super Magnet Balls are not exactly the same size as BuckyBalls. If you want a big set of them to make big shapes, you need to buy all one brand. OUR SUPER MAGNET BALLS ARE NOW THE EXACT SAME SIZE AS BUCKYBALLS. They are NOT the cheap-o, 3mm magnet balls you might see on eBay.
These are sets of 216 VERY powerful, ball-shaped, neodymium magnets. Just one of these little magnets can easily hold up the other 215 of them! If you try to be a comedian and stick them onto your cheeks or ears as fake piercings, you will quickly take them off because they hold so tight that they hurt! (Probably another good reason not to give them to small children.)
Maybe you've seen the Buckyballs videos, and you've yearned to get your hands on a set of the super-powered magnet balls that are all the rage on the toy market, but you've been reluctant to pay $29.95+ for a pack of magnetized BB's. Following that same line of thinking, you probably speculate that the same thing must somewhere be available for a cheaper price than Buckyballs. That line of thinking is correct, and here it is!
$17.99
$18.99
*Blue / Purple / Blueish Purple
These are, for all practical purposes, the same product as Buckyballs, but in a plainer package. They do all the same tricks and are every bit as powerful and enthralling as the much-hyped Buckyballs brand magnets, they are the same size, and they come in the same 216 piece set, but without the mass-marketing, name-brand price.
Spherical magnets have North and South poles, just like the planet Earth. They are both diametrically polarized. (That means that they have a north pole hemisphere and a south pole hemisphere, with an invisible equator line separating the two halves.) All the electrons line up so to form a magnetic field the shape of a doughnut (toroid), with the inner center of the magnet ball being the doughnut hole:
Magnet balls are fun to play with because you can make lots of geometrically appealing shapes and patterns with them. Given a small bit of practice, you can get the magnet balls to snap into these shapes and patterns by what appears to be pure magic!
Spherical neodymium magnets are weird/fun/amazing because they are very powerful for their size, and because you can make them appear to me magical. (See any Buckyballs video.) The trick to making great works of art with magnet balls is to keep in mind this polarity to make them align in artistic shapes. The trick to making them look magical is practice. It's kind of tricky, but not too tricky to be fun and rewarding. They're fun! Get some!
This is a set of 216 itty-bitty magnets with very strong magnetic power. They could easily be swallowed and are NOT for children under the age of 14 years.
If you have trouble keeping magnets out of your mouth or are otherwise compelled to swallow them for unexplainable reasons, you really should look for some that are too big to be swallowed. If you have this magnet-eating compulsion AND you have braces in your mouth, you should really stay away from strong magnets all together. Heh...
Why do we say you should be at least 14 years old to play with little magnets? Because the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission says so! (I can't help but wonder about the mental capacity of CPSC board members' children...)
