Features:

  • Encourage critical thinking and STEM skills with this fun, dynamic toy!
  • Endless combinations of designs provide multiple levels of learning
  • Includes 14 magnetic foam pieces (longest measures 10"L x 2"H), 4 marbles, and 10 activity cards
  • Winner of the Toy Industry Association 2016 Specialty Toy of the Year Award
  • Ideal for ages 5+
Our children LOVE this!

So creative and taps their creativity. Don't care for how small the marbles are and we're still looking for a better option than on our regrigerator. They have managed to misplace all 4 marbles within the first week (they are small and likely rolled under appliances) but have found other round objects to use in their place. A little pricey for what you get, but they will use it a lot for awhile, so that justified our purchase of this creative "toy."

Buy it, buy it, buy it

I've written like two reviews before. This product deserves one. We bought a big piece of sheet metal from the hardware store, nailed it to our son's wall, bought the Tumble Trax, and it's been peace in our house ever since. The Trax are well-built and the instructions are great. My 3.5 year old son has played with them the last two hours, and has built all of the tracks on his own with the easy to follow instructions. He has played, I've been able to catch up on work. This is one cheap babysitter. Highly recommend.

Like hands-on children's museum

Inspired by children's museum where my child can get hands-on activities, I got this marble run set which with plenty of pieces to arrange. It's good quality and my empty wall is now put to good use. (Note that I trapped these on the wall for now, until I get a super huge magnetic sheet for more arrangement flexibility) I recommend this set over the flimsy plastic marble run with tiny glass marbles that might cause suffocation.

Christmas Crowd Pleaser

I purchased this for my 5yo son. He has always enjoyed puzzles, LEGOs, and other marble run toys, so I had a feeling he might like this magnetic version. He and my 8yo daughter, and 6yo niece all had the best time setting up different arrangements on the spare refrigerator over Christmas break. I fully intend to give my niece a set for her upcoming birthday. If fridge space is at a premium, I would suggest using a large oil pan. They are relatively lightweight, so you can hang them on the wall with command strips, then you can have a magnetic play station set up in an area of your home with less traffic than the kitchen.

Great science toy

My kids (5 and 7) loved this set!!! It came with plastic marbles, but the glass ones they already had worked too. They love seeing how the different types of marbles react on the run. And they even work well together to create their run. I didn't want this happening on my fridge with marbles flying into tile or under the fridge, so I bought an oil change drip pan at WalMart for $11 and attached it to the playroom wall with the scotch sticky stuff. Drip pan is pretty much the perfect size for this set (see pic). If you have kids younger than 5, you should know that the white portion in the middle (where the marble rolls) is foam...could be pulled apart if your kid is so inclined.

Fun and educational!

My 6 year old loves this marble run! He spends a good amount of time rearranging the pieces and trying different ways to make it work. I love that he is having fun while also using his brain to figure things out. When he isn't using it I sometimes have fun playing with it myself!

Great set and great quality!!

This is set is amazing!! Very good quality and easy for children to build and play with. My daughter first used one of these at a STEM class at her sister’s school and fell in love with them. A lot of pieces to keep them busy for hours while using their imagination along with the pictures provided. Do not hesitate to buy this set!!

Entertaining for both adults and children

This is a wonderful toy for young kids. It gets them experimenting with physics and having them test out positioning the ramps. It even gets adults pretty entertained. The material are decent but won't survive rough play so keep that in mind for rambunctious children. We keep this one in the box and only bring it out occassionally as it has so many pieces (and because the largest magnetic space we have is in our kitchen).

Totally Worth It

This is a pretty great toy set. It’s imaginative and fun as well as inventive. All our kids ages 2-7 like playing with it. They love to race the marbles down the tracks and will do so for a long time. It comes with a set of laminated cards you can use for inspiration. Our youngest liked these a lot and I was surprised how well they could follow the card to make a track. It made it a toy they could use without me!! Though we use it a great deal together. The pieces are light but sturdy made of foam and have taken significant use and are holding up well. Since we use them on a chalk board they have been cleaned a bit too and they still look great after being covered in colored chalk. The magnets are strong and the pieces hold well, but not ridiculously so. Making rearranging or removing easy. The marbles that come with it are a bit lighter than the standard run of the mill kind so work best with the set. But regular ones work well too (since we seem to lose the given ones from time to time). It’s when you build a track that gets going fast and the force of the stop makes the basket piece fall off. But who can get mad at that? The tracks can go pretty fast.

Best $17 spent ever!

Works great. Durable. My kids are 4, 6, & 7 and love it. It's not ugly on the refrigerator because I keep it on the side and it's the only thing over there. When adults come over they love playing with it too....who wouldn't? And it's fun to see how different weight and size marbles work on the track so we consider it an extra/bonus challenge if you make a track that works for all marble sizes. Love. The Puzzle Cards aren't used as often. If they get lost in the future I won't be disappointed...they don't make or break this toy.

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