Saturday, January 30, 2016

Re-Ment - Science Room Set Review

Hello! Late last year I purchased the full 10-piece Re-Ment Science Room set from eBay for a total of $42. It was being shipped from Hong Kong so it took a few weeks to arrive.

Re-Ment is a company that makes highly detailed doll miniatures; that includes food, furniture, accessories, and clothing. They also make animal figures and magnets.

Anyway~ I needed a science set for a video I'm working on. I'm not super crafty so I figured I might as well buy this set instead of wasting my time and money trying to make my own doll-sized science equipment.

Top of box set.
This is the outside of the box that contains 10 smaller boxes inside, which contains the 10 different sets.


I'm pretty sure this was the bottom of the box set. Sorry! I took these photos a while ago and just got around to writing the review. I do that when I get excited to open something, lol.

Side of the box set.

Side.

Lab table.
I opened the box and was surprised to see it came with a small lab table that you fold up yourself. It's too small for a 1/6 scale doll, however. That's too bad, but maybe it would fit 1/12 scale.

Tiny box.
So this is what the outside of the boxes that are inside the box look like... lol.
All 10 of them look exactly the same since they're supposed to be blind boxes. Meaning, if you were to buy a single set at the store you wouldn't know which one you were getting.

Side of the box.
On the side, it shows you all the possible sets.

Set #1 An anatomical model.
So, I took the photos all out of order. This isn't going to affect my review since I'm going to put them in order as I type, but I thought I'd let you know that I'm a dummy and I made this hard on myself.
*crying*
Items in their plastic packaging.


All the sets come with a single pamphlet that opens up and explains... something. Probably the use of the item or maybe an experiment. I haven't taken time to read this, because although yes I can read Japanese, I read like a pre-schooler. Maybe worse, I'm so slow. LOL.


These models always creeped me out, but this set wouldn't be complete without it.


dat booty.

Intestines.

Stomach.

Heart.

Liver.
The liver doesn't stay in place well until after you add the lungs.

Lungs.

Model complete!
If I named any of the organs wrong please correct me.
I'm now worried about the rest of the set since I have no idea what most of this stuff is. Sure I used them in my own science class but I didn't memorize what everything is called. xD

Set #2 Experiment of boiling water. 



This is probably explaining the experiment.
Duh...
Shut up. ;___;


This set contains a beaker, a tripod, a wire gauze square with a ceramic center, a flame, and a bottle to hold the flame.

Everything all put together.

Set #3 Roberval balance.



This is probably explaining the parts of the scale and looks like its comparing the weight of different objects.


Here we have a balance, two plates, forceps, and I'm not sure what the other two are.


This set reminds me of that time I spilled some sort of acid in class while trying to use a balance. It wasn't my fault. D:
The forceps were no good. They dropped everything. I know it was the forceps because when I used my friend's I had perfect grip. Ugh, but of course my teacher still scolded me. It's been years and I'm still upset, lol.

Set #4 Experiment of starch.




This set comes with a book, a bottle of starch (I guess?), a dropper, a petri dishe with a cover, and a potato.


The date on top says June 6th and there is a picture of the potato. It says "imo" and that means "potato".



Set #5 Experiment of water solution. 




Here we have a mortar and pestle, a Florence flask, an Erlenmeyer flask, and a graduated cylinder. Yes, I did have to look up the names. I knew the two in the middle were flasks, but I didn't know their specific names.

Set #6 Function of electric current.




Wow, this is the first one that I completely don't know what it is. I can see there's a battery, but I don't know what the wires are called or what that other machine is.


Set #7 Dissection of frog.




This set comes with a tray, a frog, scissors, tweezers, and I think the other tool is a file or a knife but I'm not sure.


I never had to dissect a frog. Good thing too because I'm incredibly squeamish.

Set #8 Making a sponge toffee.




This set comes with a Bunsen burner, some sort of wooden stirring rod (?), a copper pan, and a sponge cake.


Set #9 A microscope.




Here we have a bottle that I'm pretty sure says methylene on it, a microscope, two glass slides, and a leaf.


Set #10 Cleaning up.




Finally, for the last set we have two test tubes, one with some sort of material still inside. Carrying the test tubes is a test tube rack. It also comes with a Florence flask and a beaker.


The measuring tools in all the sets have the value lines. A neat little detail that's difficult to see.

Re-Ment Science Room full set.

This set was worth the money. I'm definitely looking to buy more full sets in the future. Usually I buy Re-Ment items one set at a time so I can choose only the ones I really want.
In this case I wanted everything, lol.

This set is exactly what I was hoping for. I always expect top quality from Re-Ment and that's what you get.