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Transparent Marble Run 43-pc. Set | 
 enlarge | Brand: International Playthings
Category: Toy
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.47
You Save: $3.52 (18%)
New (13) from $16.47
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1009
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 11.5 x 3.6
MPN: QA6546
Model: QA6546
UPC: 492040703964
EAN: 0492040703964
ASIN: B00000J4QK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 44 piece set includes transparent tubes | | • | New improved base pieces | | • | Includes high-quality, real marbles | | • | Recommended Age: 4 yrs and up |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
A-maze-ingly fun! November 22, 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 June 30, 2008
nice toy except requires adult assistance to build. once ready my daughter gets engaged for a long time.
 A lilttle disappointing February 8, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Disappointed December 25, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Marble run arrived packed only in a plastic bag with no instructions. The pieces did not seem to be the same as the product photograph. A very disappointed little boy on Christmas morning.
 Excellent fun October 20, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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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