Galt Toys, Marble Racer, Construction Toy, Ages 4 Years Plus

My 4 year old son loves watching the YouTube marble racing and can be entertained for ages with them. So for Christmas I bought him a huge complicated marble run that sent the marbles up by batteries etc, it took 3 hours to build and broke within 5 minutes. So I searched amazon for more of a 'racing' mable run, and came across this one. It certainly is a 'racer' where you put in 4 marbles at the top, twist the top bit and the marbles fall equally into the top bit and start their race. They love it, then it goes into the circular bit where any marble can get a head start and then it falls into another circular bit and some get held up and any marble can win! At the end of the race is a podium, where it'll have a first, second, third and fourth winner. My son and his brothers are thoroughly entertained with this, they start tournaments and what not with all different colour marbles.A few minor snags, well it didn't come with building instructions? So I had to figure it out looking at the box. I imagine you could build your own racer, but that's far too complicated for my skill set, perhaps my kids will try but I doubt it will be as good as what we've followed on the box. We will buy another Galt marble run to add to it and that I am sure will give us more choice of runs to build.Another snag being that it can fall over and break, it isn't super sturdy but with a solid ground it's fine, they just need to be careful, but agin when we add to it with another run then I am sure we can sturdy it more.Lastly, the marbles... some are every so slightly too big and get stuck, it would be good to have come with more choice of colours so they could really get a good race going, it may mean just trial and error until we find a good few marbles they can add to it.Other than those few points, it really is a great marble run, looks just as good as the Youtube ones.

Excellent Product. There are no instructions as many have said, but there are absolutely NO stability issues. It is simply in the design. THe products work perfectly.What you get in the box:Lots of pieces to fit together.Lots of marbles.THats it.There are two unique pieces that is different from other GALT marble runs, and that is the "racer" start trap at the top, which allows 4 marbles to be released at the same time, and the "finisher trap" which shows you more easily which marble came first, second third etc. It's not a big deal, but it's a nice addition.The key thing is you must start building small. If you've not built a house before, you don't want to jump in and try and build it all in one go...you'll just get stuck and it'll collapse. Much as the kids will want to build whats on the box, start small. Very small. And very soon you'll be able to build bigger. The negative reviews i think have come from people simply not putting it together properly, and getting frustrated with it. Four reviews, all saying unstable...thats due to design of the run by the owner, not the product itself.Grab two "feet" and a connecting piece. Three peices. That's all. Link them up. There ya go. Your first marble run! If you are building it for some younger kids, let them play with it now - its a start, and it will keep them busy while you work on more complext peices! It will be more than stable, as its not very tall, and the feet will be fine.Now grab a third foot, and another running peice. If you want to build a tower, its best to put the feet in a triangle shape to start with, then later you can build your own wacky designs. So now you have three feet, arranged in a triangle, and two running pieces. YOu should be able to put a arble in the top running piece and let it go all the way down. If it doesn't just check the holes and make sure there is a logical path downwards. Each running piece has one side without a hole, one side with a hole, so you always want the holey side to drop into another running piece with the non hole side. Then you can add another running peice to go back onto the first leg. Of course you will need some filler bit to fit in between the lower runing piece and the new top runinng piece. And so on...Once you get used to it, its very simple and easy to do.My 9 year old daughter looves building with it, and has built some very complex runs, and my 2 year old son loves playing with it all too. Both of them have been playing with the set every day pretty much sice Christmas..its a big hit.Highly recommended, and even more fun when you buy another set so you can build more elaborate runs!

Great, easy, and hard wearing. Havn't given 5's as using with young children. They love the simpler sets to construct. This a little advanced but will grow into it. Once constructed however the facination and fun is fantastic fast furious an memorizing. We used it for lots in home learning, conducting, timetrials of teams, logging quickest team, first finishers, last finishers, etc.....

When set up as the box shows, it is in fact unstable. I found that one circular drop piece seems to be out of alignment (the red one). To combat this, I used one of the parallel connectors to ensure that the piping coming from beneath the circular drop, would not converge. This gave it greater stability.I would suggest anyone that is having difficulty with stability issues, test the pieces that require 2 struts below. You can do this by joining the straight piping to make 2 lengths and fit them to each piece checking for convergence or maintaining the parallel structure needed.My boy loves this and it has been keeping him entertained.

My son loved it

Bought this for a 4 year old as an addition to a set he already had. He loved that bigger marble runs could be built. The item arrived well packaged and sooner than the date expected.

I bought this for my 3 year old. One set. Looked like fun.Jump forward two months and I've purchased another 2. 3 sets. And my 3 year old is not allowed to go anywhere near daddy's toy. I build the biggest baddest marble runs, taller than me. I race 20 marbles at a time. 30 sometimes. When friends came over they all enjoyed having a race, some enjoyed it. Friends don't come over anymore though, but I don't care, just means more racing for me. I think my wife left; haven't checked.This is the best hobby a man could have. Cheaper than golf and more fulfilling as well.

Es de material resistente que soporta el juego de un niño de 6, divertido

Made from a good strong plastic, easily put together, and is pretty sturdy. Might have to make a few minor adjustments as with any structure you build. My 12 year old helped my 4 & 7 yr old build the picture on the box. The 7 year old was also able to build his own. My 4 year old liked watching the marbles roll down.

Cercavo una pista per biglie per mia figlia di 4 anni che l'ha chiesta per natale. Ho cercato tra tanti prodotti e alla fine ho scelto questa di galt. Ho preso quella da 80 pezzi, e sono soddisfatta. Tra i tantissimi regali ricevuti a natale questo sta andando alla grande. Mia figlia si è appassionata subito dei percorsi e dei vari pezzi. Inutile dire che da sola non è ancora in grado di creare giri difficili, ma una volta costruita con me poi la usa di continuo. Gli incastri sono molto duri per cui una volta stabilizzata non cade facilmente.Consiglio l'acquisto. La scatola è grande e di effetto. Consegna perfetta

Excellente qualité, toutes les pièces y sont, mon enfant adore et moi j'aime beaucoup la qualité des pièces. Très beau circuit de bille.

Excelente calidad, robusto y muy entretenido.Ademas de hacer el montaje que viene en la caja es muy creativo ya que puedes hacer cualquier montaje, horas y horas de diversion montando y haciendo carreras