Description
Build and explore a bustling city with the City Center Set – a magnetic construction kit designed to inspire creativity, problem-solving, and imaginative play. Featuring a range of interactive elements, this set allows children to create a dynamic urban landscape with vehicles, buildings, and roadways.
Key features include:
- Magnetic wheel axles and chassis to build and customise cars, lorries, and more
- Spiral staircases, balconies, and steps for vertical construction
- Road and fence pieces to link areas and shape the layout of a lively city
- microMAGS characters to add fun, personality, and storytelling opportunities
Children can design, build, and reconfigure their city over and over, developing fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and planning abilities as they play. Ideal for young builders with big ideas, this engaging set encourages hands-on learning and open-ended exploration.
Recommended by Dr Gummer’s Good Play Guide.
“We are building a rainbow house.” Girl, aged 3.
“Let’s put all the bits together to be like a castle!” Girl, aged 6
A firm favourite among our testers, the Magna-Tiles City Center set instantly captured children’s interest with its colourful pieces and click-together design. The magnetic tiles sparked curiosity and creativity, with younger children particularly fascinated by how the pieces “stuck” together to form sturdy structures.
Children explored imaginative play independently and in groups, constructing everything from vehicles to cityscapes using the variety of included parts—stairs, wheeled bases, hinged doors, and more. Some followed the box illustrations for guidance, while others let their imagination take the lead, designing unique urban worlds.
Parents praised the set for promoting focus and sustained play, while supporting valuable developmental skills. The hands-on building process helped strengthen fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and spatial reasoning.
This versatile, open-ended toy appealed to a broad age range and offered hours of engaging play. It also introduced basic scientific concepts in an accessible, age-appropriate way
Inspires imagination and creativity.
Helps develop fine motor skills.
Supports early Maths skills, such as shape recognition and spatial awareness.
