Unleash your creativity with blocks that light up, move, and make sounds! "SparkBlocks" lands in Japan. No smartphone or PC needed; intuitively understand electronic circuits by assembling!

Kibidango Inc. (Headquarters: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Ryota Matsuzaki) will launch a crowdfunding project for "SparkBlocks," a next-generation STEM educational toy from Canada, on its platform "Kibidango."

SparkBlocks are blocks that allow you to add electronic gimmicks such as movement, light, and sound to your creations simply by connecting them together. No wiring, no apps, and of course, no soldering required. The design allows them to be combined with blocks already at home, adding the new fun of technology to familiar block play. It's a new proposal that allows children and adults alike to enjoy the surprise and invention experience of unknowingly encountering real engineering while playing.

The appeal of SparkBlocks is that it adds a new layer of play, "electronic parts," to the enjoyment of classic block play. Creations light up, make sounds, spin, and start moving. The excitement of technology is added to block play, making it an irresistible experience not only for children who love blocks but also for adults who have long admired electronic toys.

Moreover, SparkBlocks' block parts are marked with circuit diagram symbols used by professional engineers. Without even realizing they are studying, children naturally learn fundamental electrical concepts such as polarity, current, resistance, series connections, and parallel connections as they build, test, and play with them. The ability to put away smartphones and focus on the toy in front of them, experimenting and trying things out with their hands, is a unique value of SparkBlocks.

This product also offers a way to add new expressions like "light," "movement," "sound," and "circuits" to the creative play of LEGO® blocks, which captivates the world. By breathing life into built cities, vehicles, robots, and devices with electronic gimmicks, doors to hitherto unimagined play and inventions are opened. The developers are two fathers who have poured their passion into making things in Canada. The two great...