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Solar System Mobile Kit | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Toysmith
Category: Toy
Buy New: $13.74
New (3) from $13.74
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3713
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 23.4 x 10.2 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: choking_hazard_small_parts
UPC: 051168024100
EAN: 0051168024100
ASIN: B00000ISGS
Availability: Usually ships in 6-10 business days
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| Features:
| • | Created from actual NASA photographs, this extraordinary mobile measures over 40 inches across. | | • | Demonstration size is perfect for classroom or makes a dramatic home or office decoration. | | • | For ages 6 & up. | | • | Ships flat packed, some assembly required. | | • | Great gift idea! |
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Product Description
Grades K - 6. A giant mobile kit featuring actual NASA photography. Set includes 9 planets plus the sun and measures 40" across. Facts are included about each of the 10 NASA images.
Editorial Review
The budding, serious astronomer will love this solar-system mobile that features actual NASA photographs. The planets, made of thick, high-quality card stock, are double-sided, highlighting each orb's individual colors and features. The accompanying 16-page guidebook is a great primer and includes some nice passages like, "Perhaps you will someday rocket from Earth to land on the moons, race the comets, or play tag with Saturn's rings." It's enough to make any mobile watcher and potential astronaut starry-eyed. --Keith Simanton
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| Customer Reviews:
Don't put this up where it will move! December 30, 2008
The thin threads that you hang the planets with started breaking the day after Christmas(we hung it on Christmas day). My grandson wanted the mobile in his room where there is an overhead fan, and he was very excited that the planets "moved around the sun" when we got it put up! Because of the constant motion, the threads broke quickly. I wish it had been a bit more sturdy. Perhaps the thread could be replaced with nylon thread? The rods *do* bend, but my grandchildren didn't seem to mind! All in all, it was a hit.......but very short lived.
 Nice pictures but way too flimsy. December 26, 2008
The other reviewers are right on the money when they say this product is flimsy. After I finally managed to tie the thin threads (which you have to cut yourself), I bent the rods when trying to secure them in the tiny little holes in the plastic hubs. Finally got those rods straightened only to have them fall out when the most gentle touch was applied. I gave up at this point and put this tangled mess away for a time when I have some more patience. Only buy this if you have the time and presence of mind to muddle with the unforgiving materials. There has to be a better way!
Educational and nice to look at, but very flimsy. March 13, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I wish that I would have paid more attention to the previous reviewer's comment about this mobile not being very durable. I bought this mobile for my 6 year old son. I loved the fact that they used NASA pictures. This mobile was by far the most attractive looking solar system kit out there that I saw when I was shopping around. There's another kit that has 3D balls that looked very fake and cheap to me. To assemble this mobile you have to use 8 metal rods that you insert into tiny holes. Well, as soon as I would apply the smallest amount of pressure to insert the metal rod into the hole, the rod would bend. By the time I was done inserting all 8 rods, then I had to hang each planet from a rod. Here again, every time I touched one of the metal rods, it would fall out of the tiny hole and I would have to re-insert it. By the time I was done the rods looked really bad. The pros about this mobile are that it is educational (it comes with a poster full of great facts that my son loves reading), the pictures on the planets and sun are beautiful to look at (the detail is amazing), and it uses thread instead of fishing line like other solar system sets out there, which makes this set very easy to hang. The cons are that it is very flimsy and a pain to assemble. But once I actually got the mobile up and all the rods straightened out, I was happy with the way it looked. I'm just hoping my son doesn't shut his bedroom door too quickly causing a big gust of air to knock those metal rods out again!
 Beautiful NASA Images August 23, 2005
60 out of 63 found this review helpful
No children... bought this mobile for my office, I'm setting my sights on the final frontier. A better mobile might exist, but I never found it. The mobile consists of cardstock photos from NASA; I would not say it is durable, but it hangs from the ceiling so that should not be a deterent... as children should probably not be hanging from the ceiling anyway. It's easy to put together if you have two sets of hands and hangs beautifully once in place. Unlike a lot of the other mobiles I saw, this one has a sun... nice touch. I would highly recommend this product. The world needs more mobiles.
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