Eitech Solar Powered Toy Review

Eit­ech is a toy com­pany based in Ger­many that spe­cial­izes in steel con­struc­tion and mor­tar build­ing sets for kids.  They have kits for ages 4 on up.  The con­struc­tion mate­ri­als are brick and mor­tar or steel.  The kits for younger chil­dren are larger and enable the new model builder to get a feel for con­struc­tion.  The more advanced mod­els make a wide vari­ety of mod­els from houses to trans­porta­tion vehicles.

Eit­ech Solar Model

The kit I received was for three dif­fer­ent solar pow­ered mod­els.  I had the choice to make either a heli­copter, air­plane or a swamp boat.  I chose to make the heli­copter because I thought the kids would like it best.  The pro­peller has a solar panel that turns when it’s in the sun­light.  This pro­vided no end of enter­tain­ment for the kids.

The kits come sorted effi­ciently.  Pieces were sorted in dif­fer­ent com­part­ments to make find­ing them easy.  To be effi­cient and thor­ough, I checked to make sure all the pieces were present in the kit.  I counted hun­dreds of pieces.  There were at least the min­i­mum of pieces they noted in the inven­tory and then some.  The direc­tions were clear and sim­ple to under­stand.  There are pic­tures of each step and details on what part to use and where to put it so no read­ing is required.

Eit­ech solar model pieces

My kids are three so I wasn’t able to include them on the assem­bly of the heli­copter.   It took me about 1.5 hours to com­plete.  This toy would be a great project to enter­tain for hours.  Once the toy is put together the kids can choose a dif­fer­ent model to cre­ate.  It isn’t pos­si­ble to make all three mod­els simul­ta­ne­ously.  Indi­vid­u­ally each toy would pro­vide hours of entertainment.

After I put the toy together we took it out­side to play.  The kids loved it although with twins there was a lot of nego­ti­at­ing about whose turn it was, how long they had and when they could get another turn.  Here is a video of the solar pow­ered pro­peller with nar­ra­tion by my son and daughter.