Customer Reviews

Quercetti 45-Piece Transparent Marble Run - Marble Run Construction Toy

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I purchased this marble run after looking at about 30 others. I liked that it was transparent and had many pcs that looked interesting and fun. My daughters are 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 and they both really enjoy using it. The clear pcs make for extra excitement while the marbles run.
The problem is that there is only ONE bottom pc that allows the marbles to fall through. Otherwise all the marbles get stuck at the end in a blue end pc that has no hole.
Also the marbles are really small (and maybe all marble runs have small marbles) but I don't even know where to get some extra marbles in case we lose some, which we will :)
I am still happy I purchased this marble run but it does need some modification by the manufacturer.

Really fun toy - my 4 yr old girl loved it (although it has been only 2 weeks since we got it).
Definitely needs some adult supervision as the parts are a little hard to connect.
It really needs to be on a table top or hard floor to keep its balance.
I think this transparent version is great because you see the ball - opaque ones would
only allow you to see the ball going in and at the end, coming out.
The construction seems durable enough - there is a slight stretch in the plastic.
You could twist it without breaking. Have fun!

I did the research and heard the complaints and I think a phd thesis can be made by studying how peoples' (rising) expectations today contrast to the overall (decline in) quality of all manufacturing and then cross compare it with 50 years ago and then end up by telling everyone to get over it. This item is a great deal. It needs some patience and some brains, if you have none, Amazon can not sell you any. It is well made but does reflect the cheapening quality we parents are used to when we replace toys of our youth. I personally recommend getting 2 sets because the kids love it, and we benefit from having more kids playing together than taking turns. It does have a great variety of pieces, some other sets seemed to have 1 or 2 more types of spins and bumps but I like the quality of this one.

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.

I bought this product a couple years ago for my then four-year old daughter. She was very excited about it then, and still enjoys playing with it now. It is a popular toy with the children in my preschool class and one that is often brought out when friends are over.
Younger children will have a hard time assembling a working run on their own.
It won't last forever. As I said, we've had it for over two years now and have used it quite a bit. The purple wheel pieces never worked very well (marbles would get caught up in them) and broke easily. We have some blue connector pieces that have cracks and won't stack anymore. Despite that, I feel it is a good value for the money because it is an inexpensive set and lasted through a lot of playtime.
Now that I've seen how much the kids enjoy it and how timeless it is (children of many ages seem to gravitate toward it), I'll probably buy a wooden set because they appear more durable. If you aren't sure if your children will like it or think they might tire of it, get this set first and try it out. I wasn't disappointed.

This toy is a great idea. Kids think and experiment until they find a configuration that works. That aspect of it is great. What I don't care for is the brittle plastic. Several pieces cracked the first few times we played with it. And that was supervised play at the table, no rough stuff. Some of the pcs don't fit together easily, and any kind of pressure causes the plastic to crack. We have used lots of superglue and salvaged everything so far, but kind of a drag that it is so fragile.

My son loves this toy. The only flaw is that it comes with smaller marbles. My son has a collection of marbles that he was looking forward to using with this, but they are too large (they are standard size though.) All in all, it is a good alternative to the pricey wood versions.

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.

I had a marble run toy that was so much fun when I was a kid. In contrast to the marble run toy I had as a kid, this Quercetti brand marble run toy is made of poor quality plastic and is very frustrating. The kids have a much harder time putting this Quercetti marble run together than than my childhood toy (which they get to use when they visit my parents).

We purchased this marble run for our 4-year old son because of his great love for wooden marble run assembly blocks, which he has been using since he was 2. While this set ia terrific idea and certainly has a lot of educational value, it is made of very flimsy plastic and is in no way durable. Taking it apart and putting it back together in different configurations (which should be half the fun) always proves fatal for at least one more piece of the set for us; they crack and spliter off sharp chards every time. While I love this idea and love wooden marble sets, I regret purchasing this and certainly don't recommend it as it is made of such flimsy plastic.