Do you think the lack of metal rivets, which Magna-Tiles have, makes these more likely to break open and expose the magnets?
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You would have to be an engineer or at least have a mechanical force gauge handy to know for sure. In practice, we haven't had any of them break and I think it would require abuse that is beyond the capability of our 5 year old and her friends to inflict. If you want to send me a few bucks to cover replacement costs I will be happy to attack a few samples with a hammer and publish the results.
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No. We've had this game for more than a year and love it. Nothing broke and my 5y/o is not delicate
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The first set is now 1 year old, with 2nd set new, for 200 pieces. So far none of the pieces have shown any weakness or separations, but I can't comment as to likelihood as we only have Metro mags. and they are holding together. J.
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We've had this set for 2 years now, my 6 year old and my 2 year old play with it, and we only had 1 piece that fell from a very high place and opened, exposing the magnets. All the other pieces are still intact.
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The door has a fairly strong magnet. You should not have a problem with them opening unless considerable stress is involved.
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The magnetic edges are inside the heavy duty plastic piece. Someone would have to crush it to even begin to get magnet out of the piece.
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I tested my two colanders with a magnet. It was non-reactive but I don't know whether that confirms SURGICAL steel or not.
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@Sherry - I can only speak to having a cell phone and an older iPod near the tiles -- and the tiles did not create any sort of problem with those electronics. Personally I believe that the magnets in this product are not strong enough to cause damage to most modern electrical devices. Plasma, LED, and LCD computers, TVs, phones etc do not suffer from the same issues that the older "big" TVs used to (they are "solid-state"). However, you might want to exercise a bit of caution by not placing the entire box of tiles on top of a computer hard drive. Hard drives can be damaged by magnetic fields.
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For me, the magnets are very strong. Like all magnets, they work best if attached to solid, thick iron or steel. Mine is attached to one of the frames underneath. A metal alloy, or iron/steel with a thick covering (like rust-proofing) will weaken the bond.
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Magformers and Magna tiles do not work together as the magnets are on different spots on the shapes.
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Yes they are open in the middle of the shape. This makes them easy to handle and clean- up is a sinch! You can watch Utube videos to get the best "look- see". The magnets are securely enclosed inside of the plastic shape at intervals specific to the shape. Love, love, love Magformers.
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Unless you need thick, strong magnets, I'd suggest you look elsewhere. If you are creating the tiles for a child to manipulate, I'd look for a weaker magnet. I've recently seen some approx the same size at a common arts/craft store. Also, the yellow you see in this pic is actually a small foam layer for the adhesive side; that was NOT in the description when I purchased the magnets. It caused the magnets to be unusable for my purpose.
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Nopes, mostly of the flip flop cell covers do have magnet inside, as far as i can say i dont see any harm
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Quite a few of the cases use magnets to hold them closed, and so I don't think it's likely to be a problem.
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We have both Magnatiles and Magformers. The magnets do NOT line up. If I recall correctly, the Magformer shapes like squares and triangles are slightly smaller than their Magnatiles counterparts, and the bigger Magformers shapes have different magnet placement than on the Magnatiles. (But the Magformer magnets are much stronger!)
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The two pieces with the wheels have the magformer identification. None of the magnets do.
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Magnets are built in within the stabilizer. They help magna tiles stay together once placed on top
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My guess is you would have to tear open the case to get to the magnet -- not sure that's a good idea.
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Magnatiles and Magformers are not compatible. We have both types and prefer Magformers, hands down. It's a good investment.
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no they are not. I dont know if they can be, a mechanic I know ran a magnet in a circle in the middle to magnatize my screw driver bit. You should look that up on the internet as how to or call Black and Decker if they have them, magnetic bits are worth it.