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Pixos Ultimate Design Station |  | Brand: Pixos
Category: Toy
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $13.49
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2301
Genre: Arcade Games
ESRB: Everyone
Age: 4 - 10.3333333333 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 11.1 x 12
Model: 6009720
UPC: 778988754276
EAN: 0778988754276
ASIN: B0016A57DS
Release Date: August 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | With a built in fan and a suction tool, you'll get everything you need for a total Pixos experience | | • | Create 2D designs | | • | Create 3D designs | | • | Moving parts, hinges and wheels | | • | 500 Pixos, 1 2D Design Tray, 1 3D Design tray with 4 3D Shapes, 3 Double Sided Templates, 1 Instruction booklets |
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Product Description
The Pixos Super Station represents the most complete activity center yet. Make 2D and 3D creations that incorporate a moving wheel or hinge. With a built in fan and a suction tool, you'll get everything you need for a total Pixos experience.
Amazon.com Review
The Spinmaster Pixos Ultimate Design Station allows young children to make a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional sculptures and designs with no ink or mess. Designed for kids age four and older, the PixOs Ultimate Design Station is a clean and easy way for children to explore their artistic sides as they create original sculptures. Note: Because of its many small pieces, this toy is not appropriate for small children under the age of four.  | Ultimate Design Station Ages: 4+
Requires: - 2 "AA" batteries (not included)
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This PiXos design station allows your kids to create unique 2-D and 3-D sculptures.
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An Easy, Clean Art Studio
PixOs are tiny, colored beads that adhere together when lightly sprayed by water and allowed to dry. The premise is simple, but it allows kids to create fairly complex sculptures in a non-toxic and mess-free way. Using PixOs, children create designs by placing the beads on a grid-like tray. To place PixOs, kids can use either the provided "pen," or use their fingers. Once the PixOs have been placed, the child sprays them with water using the included spray bottle and allows them to dry. Once dry, the PixOs sculptures can be removed from the tray and placed anywhere. The Ultimate Design Station requires some assembly, which a parent should be able to quickly do. Once assembled, the station provides many tools that make playing with PixOs even easier. It includes a PixOs sorter and dispenser, which is helpful since the tiny beads are often easy to lose track of. It also features a bendable hose fan, which can help speed up the drying process. This hose fan can also function as a clamp, allowing kids to hold their creations in place and work on them piece-by-piece. Please note that the PixOs are tiny. Although the recommended age on the box says four and up, younger children may require close supervision. Templates and Accessories Expand Creative Options
Included with the Ultimate Design Station are four template designs of varying difficulty that will help children get accustomed to using PixOs. With these templates, kids can make dinosaurs, cars, fish and more. Once these templates have been mastered, kids can create whatever they want and will only be limited by their imaginations. Also included are two wheels and two hinges, which are designed to clasp onto PixOs beads. With these accessories, you can make cars, crocodile jaws, or anything else one can think of. What's in the Box
500 PixOs, PixOs Sorter and Dispenser, hose fan, six template designs, two trays, water sprayer, standard instructions, 3D instructions.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 What a piece of crap! February 14, 2010
D. L. Cantwell (Central Washington)
Awful Christmas gift for the kids.
First of all, the contraption didn't work. The tiny balls are supposed to come down the chute but each ball just got stuck. So we thought, the hell with it, we won't use the contraption, but those tiny balls went everywhere.
About 10-minutes of trying to make the darn thing work, and 2-minutes of play, then back in the box and it's never been touched since.
We had actually purchased TWO of these. One for my kids, and one for my niece. I had to go out shopping again because after the fiasco with this piece of crap, my husband wouldn't let me give the second one to my niece.
Don't waste your money like we did!
 A well-thought out redesign for this product February 9, 2010
M. Aiken Koppize
My kids had the original version of this Pixos unit (previously called "Aquadots") and in comparing the two, the engineers made some nice improvements. The fan is now out of reach (no finger pinch worry) and the dispensing tube is less clog-prone. It is more simple and sturdy (no worry about this thing tipping over and having hundreds of little color balls everywhere). Kids got some fun out of this before it ended up on the shelf in a few weeks.
 My daughter is very creative with this toy February 3, 2010
W. White (Northern Cali)
I never knew just how creative my daughters mind really was till we played with the Pixos station.
 Fun toy, but don't acidentally throw away the tray! February 1, 2010
G. Rigler
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My son is 7 and loves the 3-D Pixos! The station is nice and keeps the little pixos organized and neatly contained. My only warning would be to open with your child and make sure to keep the 3-D tray. It is clear plastic and looks like it's just part of the packaging. We initially threw it away, but luckily read the directions and realized it before the garbage was taken away!
Frustrating and nondurable January 30, 2010
Mom Cubed (Illinois)
My daughter received this for Christmas and it has been a complete disaster. First of all, the toy is cheaply made and the fan barely works. Therefore, be prepared to wait at LEAST 20 minutes for the creation to dry or it will fall apart; potentially resulting in tears of frustration. I don't blame her since she just spent how many painstaking minutes placing each tiny ball into the correct position. Secondly, she has a 3 1/2 year old brother who of course wants to "watch" but invariably ends up bumping the tray and sending little balls scattering to all four corners of the kitchen! Which leads to tears of frustration for me since I have to find each and every one so our 19 month old does not eat them! I am just glad I didn't waste my hard earned money on this silly contraption!
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