Marble Genius Marble Run Extreme Set, 300 Translucent Pieces, STEM Toy

Let me tell you about my experience with the Marble Genius Marble Run - it was a blast! This super set comes with 150 complete pieces, including 85 translucent marbulous pieces and a set of 65 glass marbles. It's perfect for all ages, from toddlers to adults, and provides endless hours of entertainment and creative fun.The set is incredibly easy to assemble, and the instructions are straightforward and easy to follow. I was able to put together a maze track within minutes, and I was amazed by the different options for track configurations. The best part? It's a race game, so you can challenge your friends or family members to see who can get their marble to the end of the track first. The friendly competition made for some hilarious moments and lots of laughter.One of the things I appreciated about this set is the durability of the pieces. I have two young children who can be rough on toys, but the Marble Genius Marble Run held up to their wear and tear without any issues. The marbles are the perfect size for little hands, and they love watching them zip through the maze.But the fun doesn't stop there. This set is perfect for sparking creativity and problem-solving skills. My kids loved experimenting with different track designs and adding their own twists and turns to the maze. It was so fun to see their imaginations run wild as they built new tracks and watched the marbles race through them.Overall, I would give the Marble Genius Marble Run a five out of five-star rating. It's a fantastic toy for both kids and adults, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fun and engaging activity. It's durable, easy to assemble, and promotes creativity and problem-solving skills. Plus, it's a great way to spend quality time with friends and family. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and add this super set to your cart - you won't regret it!Marble runs are a great toy for kids that promote creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. Here are some tips and tricks for getting the most out of a marble run toy set:1. Start small: If your child is new to marble runs, start with a smaller set to get them familiar with the concepts and mechanics of the toy. As they get more comfortable, you can add more pieces to create more complex runs.2. Mix and match: Don't be afraid to mix and match different marble run sets to create unique and interesting designs. This will keep your child engaged and curious, and help them explore the endless possibilities of the toy.3. Experiment with different marbles: Different marbles have different weights and properties that can affect how they move through the run. Encourage your child to experiment with different types of marbles to see how they behave and which ones work best for different parts of the run.4. Create challenges: Challenge your child to build a run that can transport a marble from one end to the other as quickly as possible, or with the fewest number of pieces. This will help them develop problem-solving skills and critical thinking.5. Document their creations: Take pictures or videos of your child's creations to showcase their hard work and creativity. This will help build their confidence and encourage them to keep exploring and experimenting with the toy.6. Clean up properly: Make sure to properly clean up the marble run after each use. This will help keep the pieces organized and prevent lost or damaged pieces. It will also ensure that the set is ready for the next playtime.7. Play together: Marble runs can be a fun and engaging activity for the whole family. Play with your child and encourage them to share their ideas and designs with you. This will create a fun and positive experience that your child will cherish for years to come.

This is a good product and one of our best purchases. We also bought the “Nat Geo” branded one first, this one is far superior in every way.Quality: the pieces actually stick together and work. Our Nat Geo one is all loose and falls apart. They overall feel truly sturdy.Value: I wish we had waited to get it on sale after checking the price history but it’s still a great buy. We bought the extreme version and it’s honestly worth it. Our Nat Geo one came with 7 working pieces for $40, this one has so many more. You can build tower after tower and connect them and then rebuild completely separately.All said, our kid is about to turn three and she loves figuring out how to put these together. She loves throwing marbles down and watching it over and over. It’s literally hours and hours of fun. You can also make it as hard or as easy as you want!I highly recommend for all kids. Of course, be careful with little kids and marbles! We had this growing up and I’m happy to see that our kid loves it just as much.Also, the photo only shows some of the pieces. It’s from when we just opened it. If I think of it, I’ll upload a better one with our next play session.All said, I genuinely love this product and this is not an ad. We paid fully price (probably foolish) but it’s going to be a toy that sticks around.

I got this set for my friend's son's birthday. I had read some reviews on some of the other marble mazes that looked really cool, but they all seemed to fall short in one aspect or another. I must say that I'm very happy with this purchase!My friend's son is 7, and while he has a great time putting this together, he has the most amount of fun watching the marbles go through the course. The pieces are a really sturdy plastic and fit together really well. I know some of the other marble courses I read reviews on seemed to have fitting issues. I didn't experience any of that with the pieces in this set. While they come apart easily, they also fit together and stick together well. There is a really nice variety of pieces in this set. There are some graduated "step like" pieces, some pieces that resemble slides, pieces that resemble windmills and two giant funnels that make for great starting or middle points along the course! What's really nice is that all of the specialty pieces come in pairs. We were able to set up a competition style game between friends so see who could set up the fastest course! It honestly was a blast!I think this set is really universal and can appeal to both kids and adults of all ages. The possibilities are truly endless. You can challenge your child (or yourself) to make the fastest course for the marble, or to make the course that takes the longest for the marble to go through. It's really neat seeing the creative ideas that everyone can come up with. Whether you're using all the pieces for one huge course, or breaking them into groups of two for a "race," this set is tons of fun and I highly recommend it!

My 4 1/2 year old grandson LOVES this and so do I! Highly recommend-I caught it on sale. Very sturdy and not too hard to assemble the 150 piece set. Several hours of fun over the past 2 days! I removed 1 star only because I could not get app to work. I was hoping for access to give me more ideas on the multiple ways it can be assembled. We want to build out all the options! I’m glad I didn’t spend $70-80 or more on a more expensive set-this one is perfect and just the right size. I’ll keep it set up for a long time I believe!

FINALLY!!! This is our third marble run/maze and folks, we have a winner! The first one was given to us, is dinosaur themed, and really can be put together only one way. While my son enjoyed putting the marbles down the run, and hey, what 4 year old boy doesn't love a dinosaur theme?!--it just had no room for being creative and he couldn't build it himself. Then our second set was the Migoga by Quercetti with a hand cranked elevator for a perpetual motion effect. We did NO research on it (big mistake not reading any reviews), just bought it in an educational toy store when they were having a sale, because it looked cool, seemed like you could buy other Quercetti sets to add to it and it's made in ITALY, NOT CHINA, which we liked. But that set, too, seemed to want to be built according to one design plan (especially if you actually want to use the elevator) and if you try to improvise, it just isn't intuitively easy to build with. Now, I am an absolute novice at marble runs, but at 47 years old, I'd think a toy designed for a kid shouldn't be too hard to use, and the Quercetti just wasn't stable enough or easy to build creatively with. NOW...with Christmas barely 3 weeks behind us, I just had to try again to get a marble run that my now 5 year old could work with, one that my husband and I could play with, too, and be creative with, one that had lots of options that we wouldn't get bored with. THIS IS IT! I love the transparent nature of the pieces. This extreme set has lots of bells and whistles. It's fun. I highly recommend it. And I'm glad we didn't start with the "starter" set - I'd say get all the fun at once! I've included video of our first creation. When you see marbles getting stuck and needing a nudge, those are marbles we already had here, NOT the ones that came with this set. The 20 it came with work perfectly.

First off, let's talk about the product itself. This marble run is perfect. The pieces fit together exactly as I would want them to do so: not too tight and not too loose. They stay together snugly enough so that nothing comes apart unintentionally and at the same time my 2 year old can pull the components apart with no problems when she is building something. Of course as you build your marble run up higher and higher you do have to support the different parts you've built with support legs. That's just physics. You have to support what you've built or gravity is going to take it out of commission. My kids and I opened this maze up last Friday morning and we literally spent the entire day playing with it without watching any TV. That's how much fun this marble run is. Also, we had so much fun that it quickly became clear to me that this was a toy we would be playing with for a long time to come so I quickly went and ordered some booster packs such as the bases, the sky high circles, and the Marble Genius booster set.This brings us to my comment on customer service. The one additional part that I really wanted to buy was the Tubes! Tubes! Tubes! booster set which contains extra of the straight tube pieces. Like I said previously, it becomes pretty obvious to you very quickly that if you want to build a very tall marble run that you will need a lot of the straight tube pieces so that you can build up support for the components at the top of the marble run. Unfortunately, I scoured the Internet and couldn't find the tubes set anywhere at all. I went to the Marble Genius website and found the "Contact Us" link and I sent an e-mail to the company where all I did was just simply ask when they thought that the Tubes! Tubes! Tubes! set would likely be in back in stock again. Within 15 minutes of that e-mail (on a Friday night mind you), I got a reply from Jeff who told me to give him my address and that he was going to send me out some free tubes to help me out. Three days later, I received a shipment from Amazon which included a Marble Genius Starter Set for free to help me out with my tubes dilemma. My kids and I quickly opened it up and added it to the Super Set that we already had building a tower that was all the way up to my head six feet off the ground. If that's not just the greatest customer service on the face of this Earth then I don't know what is.Buy this product confidently and know that you are going to get a great product that will be backed by perfect customer service if for some reason you have any issue at all with anything related to this product.

Bought this set as a supplement to the Marbulous Marble Run - 82 Pieces + 50 Marbles (Total 132 Pc Set) Sturdy Setups with Clear Step-by-step Illustrated Instructions in Four Different Skills Levels With Reusable Plastic Bucket that we bought for our son Christmas of 2015. Shortly after Christmas he used gift money for a translucent set to get more pieces.These marble runs are very popular with the kids, and adults and opened up a new collection of marbles, of which we now have around 1500. I bought this particular set because we wanted more, and different, "stunt" pieces. I plan to give more pieces a few at a time as incentives.This set fits the Edushape Marbulous Marble Runs and I would probably recommend this one for a first set. Not that we are unhappy with the first 2, but this set offers more and different "stunts" and all of the pieces are building pieces, not just ornamental. Specifically, we like:The translucent pieces make it easier to track the marbles as they go through the run.The additional stunt pieces make it possible to have more involved and complex runs. Many that don't come in smaller setsThere are 3 or 4 large base or reservoirs to catch the marbles at the bottom. Kids love to see how many marbles they can have going at once. These extra bases will keep the marbles from piling up too fast. However, they aren't as deep as they appeared in the pictures.These are great interactive toys. If you are getting a set I recommend you also have a large plastic tub to keep them altogether, lots of additional and more colorful marbles (5/8ths "target" marbles and "pee wees" work ), clear plastic containers/jars to keep the marbles in. Glass jars are great for decorative purposes, but pouring glass marbles into them can and will chip marbles and break the glass container.Unlike many reviews I have been reading all over Amazon, I'm not getting anything for my review. No freebies, no discounts. Just think these are great toys.

a very cool toy for kids and adults

Exactly as described and the kids (and us) play with it daily

Mi hijo le encantó super recomendable se entretienen muy bien.

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Amazing product. There are multiple ways to build this marble run. Fun to play with kid.

Connectors snap together strong and my toddler loves it.