Transparent Marble Run 43-pc. Set from International Playthings
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Minimum Age: 4 years
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Product Description Create your own marble runs with this exciting 46-piece Quercetti Transparent Marble Run set. Reproduce the models pictured on the box or enjoy experimenting with your own designs. Quercetti Transparent Marble Run has interlocking chutes, bridges, columns and spinning-wheels that can be combined in infinite variations for long-lasting fun. Quercetti Transparent Marble Run stimulates creativity and reasoning both of which are required to build impressive-looking structures with the correct angles of inclination.
Editorial Review What goes up must come down! With the Transparent Marble Run, kids will erect tubes, chutes, bridges, and spinning wheels and send nine swirled marbles one after another through the structure, all the while learning some simple principles of physics. Many designs are possible with the transparent and pliable blue, yellow, and pink tubes. The enclosed marbles can't jump the track and, at the end of the run, they come to rest neatly in a tray. When playtime is over, all the pieces fit in a durable plastic box. --Lynne Sampson
Customer Reviews
A-maze-ingly fun! Posted 22 November 2008
This product has been out for several years now and still is a pretty popular toy. How it works is, you stack the plastic pieces together to make a maze for the marbles to got down. Some pieces are tubes, some are ramps and some have a wheel that the marble spins around on to get to the next section of maze. It takes some critical thinking to get the maze right and the use of small motor skills to get the sections together. It is really fun for home or a classroom. I do not recommend this toy for under the age of 5, however, because of small parts.
marble run Posted 30 June 2008
nice toy except requires adult assistance to build. once ready my daughter gets engaged for a long time.
A lilttle disappointing Posted 08 February 2008
I purchased this for my 4 year old son. He loved the idea of it, but it was much more challenging to assemble then we anticipated. Its not like you can just hook it all together and then the marble goes. You have to really plan it out and keep testing whether the marble goes the way you are intending it to go. Also, my son backed up and stepped on a piece and it broke in half, so maybe rubber, as opposed to plastic, would be more sturdy. I was also under the impression if you dropped the marbles at the top, they could find different ways down to the bottom. Not the case. They all went the same way, so much of the structure went unused... although it "looked" like it would be cool.
Excellent fun Posted 20 October 2007
This is such a good toy for constructive play. It gets children thinking in three dimentions and a bit of physics (gravity) thrown in. All the children I have gotten it for will spend time trying to make the marbles go where they want. It would be nice to have larger pictures of the models shown on the box, sometimes it is hard to see which way to turn the channel pieces, but we just "try it out" and the children like that too. The holder for the wheel is fragile, we broke one the first time we were using it. It is excellent fun.
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