Gifts2U Marble Run, 130Pcs Educational Construction Maze Block Set for Kids

Buy this today ! I loved this toy when I was a child and now my son loves it too , bring out there creative side with this ongoing fun building toy , lots of colorful pieces to build it high and watch the marbles make there way through, we keep buying sets to have many different ways for marbles to go, always a toy they go to when friends are over keeps them busy and happy !

It was a gift for grandson who loves marble run he enjoys playing with it .only downside about it is that it’s not compatible with regular size marbles it comes with its own marbles but are very small easy to lose

Ok my son is 4 yrs 2 mos old, he usually annihilates all toys however, I think because of how flimsy it is and how long it took me to put it together due to picture instructions only showing 1 side/1 angle of marble run hes not trying to have to wait again lol. I originally put it together at the kitchen table and needed to move it to his table and discovered how easy the pieces slide off of eachother, not like legos that snap into eachother and hold, no these pieces come off easy unless of course you grab it from the bottom pieces. So I would suggest assembling it on like a piece of cardboard so you can easily move it. The marble run over all does exactly what it's supposed to do, the wheels in his head were definitely turning because I could see it in his eyes. The price is fair, I wasnt trying to spend a whole lot on a toy I knew would interest him a couple minutes every once in a while. The colors are bright, the spinners, wheels, loop and windy track are a lot of fun to watch. The marbles are smaller than the typical marble, but you get a lot of them. I only put 5 marbles on the run because at the top of each run there is a stopper and it holds 1 marble per run, plus I would have an easier time keeping my eye on making sure marbles didnt get lost across the room only to get sucked up by the vacuum. They are clear with a little red and or yellow in the center, I have cranberry colored carpet and it's really hard to spot the little marble. Theres 1 part of the run where the marble doesnt fall down it lingers next to the hole and I believe it's due to an error in assembly but again the instructions are of a picture from 1 angle every so many steps. At the end of the day I am glad I purchased it, it does hold his interest for a min or 2, putting it together and looking for lost marbles suck, the price is not bad and has a lot of wheels, spinners, etc.

Pros: once assembled, it's kind of fun to watch my son okay with it. Bright colors, not super noisy and compact enough to fit on a cookie tray. For the price, it's worth it. Cons: enclosed paper instructions are garbage. Waste of time and energy and trees to even print it. Comes apart somewhat easily after assembled. The marbles are half the size of standard small marbles, so they easily disappear. This is why I placed the whole assembly on a cookie sheet. It catches runaway marbles; and makes it easier to "put away" assembled. All in all, truth in review? You get what you pay for. It's not horrible, but it's not great. Kid loves it anyway.

I hesitated before purchasing because some reviews claimed it's a small set. But since this is my son's first marble run set and we are constantly running out of toy storage space, I decided to give it a try. It turned out to be a good starter marble run set. The parts are colorful. Despite of looking on the flimsy side, they seem durable enough to have survived the first week of being played and "cleaned up" by a 3yo boy, without any broken parts yet. The marble tracks are small but the included marbles (30 of them) fit perfectly on them. Actually the marbles are the perfect size for his hands and he has found multiple use for them already. Setting up the tracks is challenging, though. But it was fun. Maybe more fun for the person actually did the setting-up, a.k.a., me.

Marble Works is a proven classic that will be here forever. This knock-off is lucky to last a week. Everything about this is disappointing. Not all of the pieces even function. The gravity wells are the worst, failing to drop the marble almost half the time. The 360 loop loses the marble most of the time. One of the gated ramps came broken. The tiny marbles are unsafe for children of any age. The instructions are horribly drawn, and not for any cost saving reason. The product will NOT work for young children, as it must be put together by an adult to make it work, and a small child using it will cause enough shift of the loose junctions to cause it to fail to drop the marbles. This could have been such a good thing, but it is so poorly manufactured that I will not be looking to buy anything else from this company.

The assembly diagram for this toy is an absolute mess. The box says it is for ages 3+, but it took three adults to assemble this toy following the directions enclosed in the package. The photos are very small, the product being assembled is rotated into different positions in some of the photos, and the colors of the pieces switch from photo to photo which makes it very difficult to orient the towers properly during assembly. My five year old really enjoyed the toy once assembled, though my three year old struggled mightily with the marble releases at the top of the towers. The recommended age is far too low, and while the box says it is fun for babies, I would not want my two year old anywhere near this thing. The marbles are about half the size of your typical marble, which makes them rather dangerous for little ones. Incidentally, the marbles are proportional to the rest of the marble run, as it was much smaller when assembled than expected. It would be more appropriately named a miniature marble run. The toy itself is STEM friendly, teaching kids cause and effect, gravity, and more, though I cannot recommend this toy due to the poor assembly instructions, safety concerns, and poor quality of the materials. This would be fine for an older kid (8-10 years old), but at that age, I don't believe they would find it to be interesting enough to be a worthy investment.

Great toy, easy to put together