Making Stuff

From giant bulk bags of raw nuts, to creamy smooth spread, Gears and Wiz see all the machines that sort, roast, crush and package peanut butter.

Gears and Wiz discover old-fashioned apple cider is made by fancy high-tech machinery.

Wiz falls in love with the cuddly toys and Gears meets someone familiar when he learns how teddy bears are made.

Wiz and Gears find themselves in the drum factory ;Gears learns what a snare is and Wiz gets a special paint job.

Wiz and Gears take a visit to Canada’s Mint reveals how coils of steel are turned into the laminated coins we use every day.

Gears and Wiz visit a laser machine that makes the most diabolical puzzles ever with crazy shapes and amazing pictures.

Mango purée, mango juice and mango pulp are mixed and frozen to create the icy Italian treat that Gears and Wiz wish they could eat.

Computers, presses, inks and paper run at high speed as Gears and Wiz see how stickers are created.

Gears and Wiz visit the best bakery in Montréal to see how flaky croissants are made with French flour and fresh butter.

Gears and Wiz marvel at the precision needed to make the steel dies and moulds for all the toy parts.

Gears and Wiz encounter a crazy octopus-like machine with many hoses that feeds an army of plastic injection moulders in the toy factory.

Gears and Wiz discover how flour, yeast, and water can make many delicious varieties of bread including their favourite baguettes.

Gears “directs” and Wiz plays along in the classroom harmonica orchestra.

These yummy treats are made by a master chocolatier as Gears and Wiz cheer for their favourite type of decoration: crushed peppermint candy.

Gears and Wiz watch a team of super seamstresses turn high-tech fabric and insulation into a dandy sleeping bag.

Gears and Wiz discover spaghetti and lasagne are made in places other than Italy.

Gears and Wiz see how pencil leads have a bath in hot wax before they are able to write, and the secret of how the lead gets into the pencil is revealed!

Gears thinks he has uncovered an army of robots wearing socks but Wiz sets him straight by explaining the feet are for making rain boots in induction mould machines!

Gears and Wiz see what appears to be an oversized BBQ turn out a kayak that even a kid can paddle.

Gears and Wiz follow the ladders, corkscrews and poles as machines bend and weld steel pipes to build a playground.

From a shiny sheet of brass, a shape is cut and folded, hammered and welded into the classic curved section of a French horn.

Gears and Wiz watch as a flat brass plate becomes the bell of the horn after being spun on a lathe and heated over an open flame.

Gears and Wiz see how a simple slab of wood gets cut, shaped, glued and wired up to make an electric guitar.

Gears and Wiz learn how these model trains are perfect smaller versions of the real thing, right down to the paint colours and designs.