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BuckyBalls: Insanely Fun Magnetic Toy

By Alex in Toy & Video Games, Video Clips on Aug 31, 2009 at 4:42 am



BuckyBalls Magnetic Toy – $29.95 [YouTube Clip]

This is the current rage in the Neatorama Shop: Zoomdoggle’s insanely fun BuckyBalls – a set of 216 balls made from powerful rare earth magnets.

You can shape and mold an unlimited variations of magnetic sculpture (of course, if you get more than 1, you can combine them to create a mega-sculpture!). Tear ‘em apart and snap ‘em back together for hours of fun.

BuckyBalls is this week’s featured product at the Neatorama Shop. For a limited time, you’ll get a free Mystery Gift for the purchase of each BuckyBalls (What will you get? Well, we won’t tell you … it’s a mystery!)

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  1. tobot
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 5:39 am

    great fun, ive got one . but deadly to kids and animals if they swallow it

  2. christof
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 6:22 am

    I was just about to say, that you'll not want any type of magnet in the house if you have small children. Deadly and hard to diagnose if you don't catch them in the act.

  3. helimx
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 9:34 am

    super cool toy!! I'm gonna order a 4 or 5. some for the kids, some for me and the wife. lol

    there's a few other "similar" products on the market. but the magnetism isn't as strong.
    ebay has em, or you can google it, and get the alternatives.

  4. Neil
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    I have a neocube, the original one. I like it a lot more. dailystab.com is having a contest where they are giving some away.

  5. Alex
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Magnetic toys aren't for children under the age of 13 - the product and the product page at the shopping cart do have ample warning about swallowing danger.

  6. sc0tty
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    wow those are pretty sweet. did you know bucky balls are actually a chemical compound too? its made out of 120 carbon-12 atoms and it looks kinda like a soccerball with hex pattern holding it all together. they are pretty interesting and have some cool qualities. made me think of it when he made the little ball. thats kinda what they look like.... except microscopic

  7. vmos
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    I've got these and it's damn near impossible to make anything other than an irregular blob.
    You see, the thing about magnets is they like to stick to magnetic things and magnets, well they're very magnetic

  8. ted
    Aug 31st, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    I think you've shown these before. Pretty neat.

  9. The Manticore
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 4:33 am

    @vmos I never had any problem making things with mine. I also got the neocube a while ago.

    making the cube did take some practice though. lol

  10. Anonymustard
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Markup may be a bit high -- $5 cheaper at ThinkGeek, and I guess they still make a profit. Does look kind of cool, though.

  11. helimx
    Sep 1st, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    you can get em on ebay, with no jar, for $17.50

  12. Danny
    Oct 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    why don't u just buy a cybercube? They come with 343 spheres and you can get 10% off your purchase by entering the promo code "cordawg92". I found it to be alot cheaper.. just go to thecubercubeDOTcom :D

  13. neocube
    Oct 24th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    this magnet toy is very cool, buckyballs, cybercube, neocube finaly all are some just different use different name for trademark

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