Stick-O Fish Game: Magnetic toy with faces reviewed
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This toy gives children from 18 months the opportunity to play with magnetic construction toys.
The toy set consists of 26 shapes with which your little one can build the nicest characters, all in an underwater theme.
- Fun underwater theme with different ways to make characters
- Good explanation booklet
- Reversible magnets in sticks so it always sticks
- Fishing game doesn't work very well
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Specifications
- Material: Plastic
- Construction method: Magnetic
- Contents: 26 parts
- Theme: Underwater
- Age from: 1,5 years
- 4 balls, 6 rods, 1 long rod, 1 curved rod, 1 oval rod, 2 flat ovals, 2 ice cream cones and 13 accessories such as a fishing rod, tails and more
- Vote yes
- Neodymium magnets
What is the Stick-O Fishing Game?
The Stick-O fishing game is a building set for children from 18 months in an underwater theme. With the included magnetic fishing rod, it is also a fishing game.
There are magnetic rods that, together with the balls and extra parts, can form different fish bodies, jellyfish, seahorses and an octopus.
There is a sample booklet with different ways to use up the set completely and it offers enough space to make your own creations.
These magnetic bars also come from Magformers, the brand with the high quality magnetic tiles.
The same neodymium magnets are used, and the rotating magnet system is also incorporated.
This makes the magnet system very sturdy and ensures that all rods can click together.
Smartmax is a brand with similar magnet rods, and some rods repel each other.
Best magnetic toys for your baby
The toy set consists of 26 molds with which your little one can build the nicest characters, all in an underwater theme with magnetic fishing rod.
What makes the Stick-O fishing game fun?
Of course the magnetic fishing rod for great fishing!
The way you can easily create your own animals makes a magnetic fishing game like this a lot more fun than other fishing games I've seen.
Other fishing games are really just wooden fishing rods and some wooden pieces with a magnet in them.
This set really lets your child build an underwater world so that they can also get creative.
The building and the game are fun from about 2 years old to about 5 years old.
The shapes can be used on other Stick-O parts, but also on the Smartmax building sets.
This also gives it a lot of flexibility to reuse when your kids get a little older.
Stick-O fishing game cons
26 parts seems like a lot, but many of them are also accessories. Building with it is therefore very limited.
As with so many magnetic toys, it gets more fun the more you get, and then it gets pretty pricey in the end.
Still, there's a lot you can do with it. Enough to be fun for a while and then see if you want to buy more of Stick-O.
Stick-O fishing game alternatives
smart max
Best magnetic rods to build with
Clicking these together is a lot easier than the tiles from Magformers. This makes the toy really suitable from 1 year old as SmartMax says.
Stick-O is for smaller children than Smartmax and offers more shapes in addition to fun building bars and balls.
As a result, you get less real building material for your money and the quality of the Smartmax magnets is slightly higher.
It's nice, those shapes. Especially for the toddlers and toddlers among us.
For example, in the fishing game you also get a fishing rod, but the best are the fins and tails to make fish with.
It's more about creating a fantasy world than unleashing your creativity on structures like cubes and castles, so for me the Smartmax Starter Set (reviewed here) a piece of more educational magnet toy.
Geomag MagiCube
Best magnetic toys for your toddler
This is only fun to buy when they just turn 1 so they can use it for a while. At 3 years old it's not really fun anymore.
If your child is younger than 2 years old, you may want the MagiCube by Geomag (reviewed here) to consider.
It's only 3 blocks so they can't build that much with it, but it's more suitable for 1 to 2 years.
Completely safe plastic and large blocks, and they can still do puzzles with them.
Conclusion
Stick-O is one of the best magnetic toy sets for children aged 1,5 to 4 years. After that, a different kind of magnet toy may be more suitable.
Always something to do for the holidays or rainy day?
Play Choice now has the ultimate activity book collection, with over 60 pages of fun coloring pages and educational puzzles.
Joost Nusselder, the founder of Speelkeuze.nl is a content marketer, father and loves trying out new toys. As a child he came into contact with everything related to games when his mother started the Tinnen Soldaat in Ede. Now he and his team create helpful blog articles to help loyal readers with fun play ideas.