K'Nex Corkscrew Canyon

by K'Nex

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0007Y4DAC
• Item model number: 11866
• Manufacturer recommended age: 9 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,785 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Some tiny little toy people are in for a tremendously fun time once you construct this elaborate water park model using this complex, challenging, and entertaining 785-piece construction set. The people ride in little plastic inner tubes and slowly climb a long incline with the assistance of a mechanized lift system. Once at the top, they slide down a series of ramps made to simulate the most exciting ride at the water park (no actual water is involved in this toy). The highlight of the ride is the built-in funnel, which the tubes appear to get sucked in to before being dropped onto another ramp below. Detailed instructions are included. --Charlie Williams

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars K'nex Corkscrew Canyon, August 1, 2005

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Daniel (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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

This review is from: K'Nex Corkscrew Canyon (Toy)

This K'nex set is perfect for you if you are really into K'nex and a challenging building experience. The set includes instructions for two builds, but I chose to build Corkscrew Canyon instead of the alternate build of it. It was very exciting and challenging to build. The set has some fairly large pieces, but they are very easy to install on the set. There are not as many pieces as some larger K'nex sets - some of the pieces include track pieces, a funnel, motor, and cardboard decorations. The rest are the regular rods and connectors as other K'nex sets.

There are also three people on swimming tubes inculded to ride the set once completed. They can go down a series of three ramps into the funnel, and then ending with another ramp to the chain lift. Then they go up the lift and repeat the process over and over again.

The track pieces are very cool because they are blue with white streaks, making them looks like water splashes. Some people may think the set requires water to operate, but it does not. The electronic sounds are cool, too. They include various screams, laughters, and water sounds.

If you build the Corkscrew Canyon instead of the alternate build, there will be a good number of extra pieces once you complete the set, especially the clear blue tubes and orange tubes. Do not worry about that. The alternate build will include all if not most of those extra pieces.

I really enjoyed building Corkscrew Canyon. If you chose to buy this set, I hope you enjoy building it, too.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Neatest Toys knex Has made, July 12, 2005

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mrhappybomb - See all my reviews

= 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: K'Nex Corkscrew Canyon (Toy)

This one is defenatly beter than the Air Tower by far not very may knex parts but onces its done it looks really cool easpecially the Tolite Drop thats always Fun if your looking for a neat building toy this one is for you!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging Build; Fun to use, August 30, 2006

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Patent Lawyer (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: K'Nex Corkscrew Canyon (Toy)

Our family was THRILLED with the operation of this toy...it was the most interesting toy (of Imaginext, K'nex, Hot Wheels) that we have constructed so far. We got this toy on markdown at a toy store, and concluded that it was the best deal we've EVER gotten.

Construction: My 8 year old son needed a little help to build this, which 10 year old sister was unable to provide (too hard to find the mistake, and she's not as good with spacial skills as little bro). Good spacial skills are required, so recommended for older kids and/or experienced builders.

Oversight: It took a little parent correction of complicated build (checking for firm clicking and good angles) and tweaking of ramp heights to get this working perfectly and feeling surprisingly stable. Instructions were fully detailed drawings of steps, fairly easy to follow, but a little difficult to tell the orange from the red (deducible by length).

Operation: The run of the three tubers is fascinating to watch (at least an hour...'til bedtime). There is only one ramp that has not quite enough slope to *always* get the tuber down, but he goes off by himself; occasional flips of tubers upright in the bottom pool before the lift are helpful but not required (25% of the time). Less than 10% of the time does a tuber flip cause the tuber to run off the ramp. We've had 2.5 hours operation without mishap (once we tightened the lift belt and lift sticks) so far, and are looking forward to trying the alternate build. We were very impressed with the engineering; particularly since we'd had to build our own machines from scratch for class assignments, and the kids know how hard it is to plan something that actually works.

Reliability: Cannot yet speak to reliability, as we haven't yet encountered a problem.

Missing parts: Unsure whether parts were missing, or whether kids just lost two rods when tearing open packages. We were able to find the same length and color rods in our other K'nex sets, and there are some "leftover"/replacement parts for most of the pieces--particularly the unique pieces.