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(More customer reviews)Our 4 and 2 yr old have played with Discovery Toys Marble Works at my aunt's house and were begging for a marble game. We found the 55-piece Redbox Marble Run (box labeled no.23641) on Christmas toy clearance and decided to take a chance. Unfortunately, the pieces don't stay together very well--they pop apart when the kids play with the game and some pieces don't fit tight enough to stay together. I put the set together as pictured and then taped all the pieces so that it wouldn't come apart. With the marble run taped together it played fairly well. There are two pieces with spinning attachments that spin when marbles go down the track--those pieces are not attached in any way and sit there simply by gravity; they sometimes get knocked off by marbles rolling past or definitely fall off when the set is tipped over. The 10 marbles that come with the set are about 9/16 inch which is just smaller than the standard 5/8 marbles--we don't have any standard marbles yet but I think that they may be able to be used with the set.
When we play with the Discovery Toys MarbleWorks we can take the set apart and put it up again in a different configuration to give some variety. Today I took off the tape (which we had on for a week) and attempted to take the set apart and put it back together with my two boys--what a disaster. They wanted to put marbles on it but without it being taped together it kept popping apart and falling down. I'll try to rearrange the set when they're asleep and tape it together again.
I've ordered the more expensive Discovery Toys MarbleWorks and we'll be throwing this set away when it arrives.
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Make zany marble run structures with this 55-piece kit, and then let your marbles loose. Build huge structures filled with ramps, tunnels, pinwheels and more, then race the marbles. Adult supervision is recommended. Measures 36"W x 31"H when assembled.
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