Learning Resources Beaker Creatures Lab Set

My 8year old son had so much fun with this. Would have loved more beaker creatures to be included, but he decided to save his pocket money to buy more.

Got this for my 5 year old niece and she loved it. Something we could go together!

Really easy to set up, took longer than expected to dissolve but entertained seven year old for about 30 minutes. Enjoyable but quite an expensive way to start a collection.Took longer to set up and tidy away than the entertainment value.

It is a good play for my son

Wonderful present for my 6 year old

Average. My son saw these on YouTube. You can tell by the description it’s basically a bath bomb, out of which comes a toy, but in a fancier setting. As others have said, there was ZERO fizz or drama... potentially due to the eggs/bath bombs being old. We added vinegar which did make them fizz but defeated the object of the kit. Over very quickly but this was to be expected. NOT to be confused with an educational kit, because it’s certainly not.

My boys aged 4 and 6 absolutely loved the Liquid Reactor SuperLab. They were totally engrossed. They enjoyed watching the beaker creatures fuzz and working out how to use the pumps to move water into the main chamber. Their play turned them into mad scientists. Plus they loved to find the beaker creatures once they had dissolved and fizzed away.

Plus point (there's only one):1. Quality: It seems to be well made and fits together well. None of it’s flimsy or cheap feeling. Which is a good job really, or it would have been like adding insult to injury.Downsides:1. Time: It takes longer to set up than to dissolve the creatures. It takes longer to wash it all up afterwards than it did to dissolve the creatures. It takes longer to make a cup of tea than it does to dissolve the creatures. I think you’re probably getting the idea...2. “Science”: Describing this as any kind of educational toy is tenuous at best (downright misleading if I’m feeling more candid); I’ve seen more bubbles emerge from a still lemonade. It LOOKS like a mad scientist’s lab (and that was enough to make my son want to spend his birthday money on this more than anything else) but if your child’s into science, you’d be better buying a chemistry set.3. Packaging: Once you’ve set it up, it’s either impossible or unfathomably difficult to take apart again to get it flat enough to go back in the box. Why do seemingly all toy and game manufacturers seem intent on not letting you put stuff back in the box afterwards? Seriously, guys – it’s as if none of you involved in the design process have ever met any parents. Do you even do focus groups? FYI, we don’t have infinite shelf space (or a desire for more dust traps). Once the novelty’s worn off, we just want it back in the box and hidden away for long enough that we can get rid of it without hearing the roar of "Noooo! That's my favourite thing and I want to keep it forever!"4. Price point: It cost £20. £20! Twenty whole sterling pounds! In. A. SALE! Trust me, this is just ludicrously priced for what it does. I could see this would be the case and really tried to talk my science-mad 6-year old out of it, but he’d been sold the promised land of milk and honey and was adamant this is how he wanted to spend his birthday voucher. In fact, the valuable life lesson he learned about value for money in the precise moment the phrase “Is that it?!” left his lips after just 2.3 minutes enjoying (and exhausting) it, is probably the only thing about this item worth £20. It’s also the sole reason it gets the one star I’ve given it.