100 Piece Block N Roll Building Set

by Block N Roll

Product Features

• Recipient of the Parent's Guide Award for Children's Media and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award
• system comes with 100 brightly colored pieces that are large, durable, and easy to connect

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00002DHE6
• Item model number: 2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,528 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

This innovative construction system combines the challenge of creating your own unique horizontal maze structures with the action and excitement of rolling marbles. Recipient of the Parent's Guide Award for Children's Media and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award, the system comes with 100 brightly colored pieces that are large, durable, and easy to connect, and the entire system can be combined with most major brands of construction blocks to create even more imaginative configurations. An excellent way for children to develop hand-eye coordination and manipulative skills, the system also encourages creativity and spatial reasoning as young builders improvise and invent their own one-of-a-kind mazes. Once you erect a structure, the real fun begins as you release the marbles into the maze and watch them roll down ramps, glide through tunnels, make 90-degree turns, and plunge through drop-through pieces. The set includes 10 marbles. --Chris Burns

Product Description

This innovative construction system combines the challenge of creating your own unique horizontal maze structures with the action and excitement of rolling marbles. Recipient of the Parent's Guide Award for Children's Media and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award, the system comes with 100 brightly colored pieces that are large, durable, and easy to connect, and the entire system can be combined with most major brands of construction blocks to create even more imaginative configurations. An excellent way for children to develop hand-eye coordination and manipulative skills, the system also encourages creativity and spatial reasoning as young builders improvise and invent their own one-of-a-kind mazes. Once you erect a structure, the real fun begins as you release the marbles into the maze and watch them roll down ramps, glide through tunnels, make 90-degree turns, and plunge through drop-through pieces. The set includes 10 marbles. --Chris Burns

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A BLAST!, January 11, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 100 Piece Block N Roll Building Set (Toy)

purchased this for my 5 year old son & we have all had such a blast building & playing with it! Couldn't keep the adults away from it at his birthday party! One set is perfect, but we're going to be purchasing at least one more 100 piece set to build longer & curvy-er mazes! Super fun for everyone (even the 5 year old)!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great toy, with one caveat, August 12, 2003

By 

Jennifer (Huntersville, NC United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 100 Piece Block N Roll Building Set (Toy)

This is a great toy for my children, ages 5-1/2 and 8. It's open-ended and perfect for engineering/visually oriented kids. My sons love to race their marbles and watch them move down the tracks. The tunnels are a neat feature, and I understand there are add on pieces you can buy, including loops. My sons have spent several hours designing and perfecting their layouts. One word of caution, though, is that the pieces can be difficult to take apart, and upon seperating them, my son, our neighbor and I have all cut our fingers. We're still trying to figure out the secret to taking the structures apart more efficiently and easily.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating and painful !, January 1, 2008

By 

R3 (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: 100 Piece Block N Roll Building Set (Toy)

I don't see how people can rate this toy highly. Half the time the pieces just fall apart from each other spontaneously, the other times you need to fight with them to get them apart. AND THEN YOU GET CUT! I got cut and note that "Jennifer" in her five-star August 12 '03 review of the 100 piece said that she, her son, and her neighbor have all been cut. Also note that Hattie said in her four-star April '07 review of the 200 piece set that, "You really need some supporting blocks under your structure". That's in line with my claim that the thing falls apart too easily. And I feel that even with Duplos/Megablocks, that its hard to support the "incline" pieces. You can't build pictured structures exactly as they're shown without having them fall apart. A whole cantilever section will just drop off like arms off a zombie in some B movie. And there are no step-by-step instructions (like in so many other construction toys) to show what to use to make a pictured structure (at least that's true in the case of my 100 piece set). That's sort of fine if the idea is to "create your own", but it's a pain when your kid is saying, "make me that one" and you can't quite make out what's in the picture. Actually I think they don't add instructions because instructions would sort of be saying, "Here's a structure that works", but they don't work, b/c they fall apart. !@#$%^&*