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My Son (age 6)loves hexbugs, and was very excited about the idea of making a two story structure. He wanted this set so much that he saved up his allowance for it. I am pleased to report that it is great fun, and he is already saving up for another set. We attached it to the Battle bridge set and nano habitat set, and created a huge set. The bugs can go up and down the ramp the way we set it up. Very cool, and very fun to watch!

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My 8 year old son loves this toy! He can play with it for hours and not get bored. The pieces are movable, so he can create his own shape with it and sometimes adds other items to the "maze" from around his bedroom. You can also purchase other elements to connect to this one. It is really fun watching the little hexbugs running around and trying to get them to go the way you want. Compared to a lot of other toys that my son has asked for, this one is reasonably priced and entertaining for a long time. He has had it for two months and goes back to it at least two or three times a week. We have not had to replace the batteries on the original bugs, yet, although they are starting to get a little slower.

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It's really fun to watch the bugs bump into the walls until they find the spiral, then make their way to the next level. We like to mess with our bugs and keep the gates locked closed for a while, see if they can figure out what to do. Yes, I know the bugs are not sentient -it's fun to mess with them anyway.

Load up on those little button batteries -hex bugs eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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I bought this for my 9-year-old nephew for his birthday. My mother bought him a larger set, so my intention was for this starter pack to compliment the larger one. Nephew loved the Hexbug Nano set and he and his sister spent over an hour just sitting and watching the bugs go around the maze he built.

Pros:

-The spiral was lots of fun. It lets the bugs travel from one level to another and adds interest to the maze. It interfaced easily with the larger set.

-This set comes with stop/go gates which help control the flow of the bugs

-The setup is customizable. It can be moved around as desired. You could buy additional sets and they would work easily with each other.

Cons:

-Setup of the spiral required some fiddling to get it right

-Can't chose which color "bug" you get. This makes it harder to pick a range of colors (because kids don't want two of the same color).

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This is the second Nano set we've purchased. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to have the same appeal as the first set which had a lot more changeability and visual impact.

Our first set was the Hexbug Nano Habitat Set and was played with a lot more than this set. I think the stacking of layers takes some of the visibility out of what the bugs are doing.

So a nice set but not as good as the first one we had. The plus is that you can combine sets since all the parts are interchangeable.