Did I Waste my Money? Stabilo Woody 3-in-1 Crayon Review & Comparison with Neocolor 2 Crayons

This has got to be one of the products I have had the most requests to review! I resisted for a long time because they were very expensive for a children's crayon and I am very happy with my Caran D'ache Neoolor 2 crayons which are artist quality and cheaper than these. I couldn't find any comparisons of these two products so when they came out with the pastel tones I decided to bite the bullet and try them for myself.

I ordered the set of 18 Stabilo woody 3-in-1 crayons with the 6 new pastel colors from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xGT291 *they have different sets on that page to pick from and the set prices are good. If you want the best deal on all of the colors you can buy the original 18 set: https://amzn.to/3tPP8cG and the 6 pastel set: https://amzn.to/39Hpy2S and have all colors for just under $60 currently. But yikes, these are kids' crayons and I would really urge you to try the Neocolor 2 crayons: https://shrsl.com/3ktbn if you are about to drop that much coin.

Blick has sets and open stock: https://shrsl.com/3ktau

Joggles has the best price on open stock: https://www.joggles.com/art-journals-and-mixed-media/stabilo-woody-pencils

Jackson's has good prices too and they ship worldwide from the UK: https://www.jacksonsart.com/en-us/search/?q=woody%2B3%2Bin%2B1&___store=jacksonsart_us&acc=0e65972dce68dad4d52d063967f0a705

Features of Stabilo Woody 3-in-1 pencils:
10mm lead
Can be used 3 ways: as a colored pencil, crayon, or watercolor
Sets come with a sharpener and sometimes a brush.
Pros:
Soft water-soluble lead with write on most surfaces like windows for fun decorating effects
Can be used over other media for shading or highlights.
Thick lead
The 24 colors available are nice

Cons:
Price in USA: Cheapest is $2.39 at joggles or in sets on Amazon ranging from $16 to $40ish *This product is much less in Europe

The lead only goes 2/3 the way down the barrel which is deceiving as they are short pencils, to begin with. You are not getting as much usable product as you think. *To be fair tho, you probably wouldn't be able to sharpen them far enough to use lead that went the whole way down, I'm probably just being too picky.

Bottom line: These are nice but I would recommend Caran Dache Neocolor 2 over these if the price is similar: https://shrsl.com/3ktbn *You can set of 30 Neo2s for the same price as a set of 18 of the Woody 3-in-1 and the Neo2s are artist-grade, not made for kids. that said the woodys stick over the Neo2s and if you got the pastel woodys the colors are different than the colors in the Neo2 84 set so it's a good way to test these out without buying essentially an identical product. I am probably being too hard on these but for the price, I really expected more. I don't know what exactly but the way people raved about them I thought they must be magic. These might be a rebranding of the old Stabilo tones which were an artist crayon available in 60 colors but were discontinued years ago.
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