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17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 My son loved this. Paying for the name. Jan 17, 2010
By truth seeker
"truth seeker"
My son loves the show, loved playing with this. Fancy packagaing for crafts that could have been bought for under $3.Then you add some of your own. Used it all up in about 4 days.Fragments left here and there. I would buy a book on science experiments and do them, but it was a gift, he loved getting it and playing with it. He is 12.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 mythbuster world of water Dec 26, 2009
By Traci Campbell
The packaging is great, but not worth the price. There are like 3 experiments in the entire package. Was duped into buying all 3 because of a cheaper price, but not worth it dollar wise. The experiments were cool and fun but repeats of experiments they do in school. Quality of the items in the package is great. I would probably not buy another mythbuster though.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Finally a science kit that worlks Dec 29, 2009
By L. Tompkins
"Mom of 3 Boys"
Bought this for my eight year old son. He could do the experiments by himself and enjoyed them. We've bought many other kits that just fell apart. This one was durable and fun. We'll probably pick up a couple for gifts for his friends.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Who wrote the instructions? Mar 27, 2011
By 20YAT
I don't know who wrote the instructions, but complete steps certainly would help. I advised my son to get his feet wet with the easiest experiment first: making different sugar water solutions, adding food coloring, then adding one to the other drop by drop to create a liquid rainbow as the colors separate out due to differing water densities. Not too difficult and visually rewarding. However, when you have to fight the instructions each step of the way the fun dissipates fairly quickly. Step one states to pour 1 tablespoon of water in the cylinder, but the picture shows the water poured into one of the 1-liter bottles in the kit. Which is it, the cylinder or the bottle? Well, since one tablespoon of water doesn't even fill the five feet protruding at the base of the bottle we opted for the cylinder. Also, the instructions do specifically state cylinder and there is a cylinder in the kit. The cylinder is the wrong choice, but you don't discover the mistake until a few steps later. At which point, you have to start over. Another step instructs you to add a tablespoon of sugar to cups of clear and yellow water. The child is not instructed to mix it or let the sugar sit in an undissolved pile at the bottom of the cup. I advised my son to stir the water until the sugar was completely dissolved, which he did. Since the object of the experiment was to establish different water densities, this seemed what the designers of the kit want the child to do. After a tedious half hour spent adding first the clear then the yellow solution drop by drop to the red water, my son ended up with a cylinder/bottle of uniformly pale red sugar water. No rainbow. No fun. Was he supposed to leave the solutions unmixed? Was he supposed to use all the food coloring provided in the kit or just a few drops to change the color of the water? Who knows? And I don't blame him for not caring enough to repeat the now boring (instead of fun) experiment to find out where things went wrong. And all this disappointment because the instructions are more interested in being quippy and cute rather than complete. You have to love the irony of step six: "Repeat the above step with the yellow sugar water. Isn't that colorful?" No, it's not.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great gift for inquiring minds Dec 30, 2009
By J. E. Cobery
My nine year old loves this gift. He's a fan of the show and loves its theory and the "build" aspects. This item has the same. The experiments both stimulate and satisfy his curiosity.
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