I plan to purchase either some magna tiles or magformers. Is there an advantage to one type over the other? Magformers seem to be a lot cheaper which is always a plus.
Haven't played with the magna tiles, but we are HUGE magformers fans here (DCs 8 and 10 still drag them out regularly. Actually they're all over my living room floor as we speak). What my super visual-spatial one really loved was the way you create 2D shapes on the floor, and then pick them up to transform into 3D ones, something quite different from other building toys. (OK, what he *really* loved was tormenting me to use my pitiful ability to see what the resulting 3D shape would actually be!)
