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User Submitted Quadrilla Marble Railway, Twist and Rail ReviewsDate: 2009-01-06 5 year olds & 40 year olds love this Marble Run This Marble Run provided hours of fun once it was opened on Christmas day. The 5 year old who received this as a gift studied the box while his dad opened it and assembled the first Marble Run. Once created, the 5 year old and his 3 year old sister took turns dropping marbles, watching them run through the maze and laughing in delight at the whole experience. When the kids took a break the adults had just as much fun creating new configurations. Date: 2008-12-30 Terrific toy for the whole family! Our kids, at 4 and 2, aren't ready yet to be able to set this up on their own, but over time they will learn how the various blocks work and be able to do it. There is definitely an initial learning curve. The first time I tried to set it up, I wasn't getting the blocks together right and they kept falling over. Once I figured that out and we built the samples in the booklet, we now have a much better idea of what each block does and how to put them together to create runs. So I'd strongly recommend doing those first unless you're really good at this sort of thing. We plan to buy expansions now -- while Twist & Rail is a great start, I think we need at least one other full set to mix with it. Too much fun to resist though! Date: 2008-12-06 fun but can be frustrating I LOVE this toy -- the solid wood, the intellectual challenge of getting the marbles to go the way you want them -- but my kids (5 and 7) sometimes get frustrated with its complexity and the ease with which it gets knocked down. That said, they do like to get it out when friends come over and, if we build a really good run, they can all play with it for a while (30-60 minutes) without getting bored. Eventually, someone always bumps it and it falls down. We've had it for a year now, and I think it is the kind of toy that they will pull out periodically for years to come. Date: 2008-10-14 there is a learning curve We got this set last Christmas. At the time it was almost completely ignored, and seemed too complicated to mess with. We had a big problem with them crashing down. Put it away for months. When I got it back out (I was thinking of selling it)and tried one more time; we started again. This time we watched the dvd that comes with it. We had made several mistakes. The two most obvious are not using the wood base plates on the bottom supports, and trying to make it go down using gravity. By building the sides level and letting the dropping motion move it forward you get a much more stable structure. By starting with small runs, and building on them, constantly testing the run as we built it...had a whole different experience. Our mistake at Christmas was trying to make the fabulous run, without building up to that point. We also tend to put those cool spirals at the bottom, not the top. They are the harder pieces to balance. This is not Discovery Toys Marbleworks..it takes planning and experimenting. But the result is more satisfying. Now my kids can make wonderful things, and want more add-on pieces. My kids who play with this are 10yrs,9 yrsand 6 years old. Date: 2008-09-08 Sturdy construction, 7-year-old plays for hours This toy is well made, and is not too easy nor too challenging for my mechanically-minded 7-year-old. Normally I would not spend this much money on a toy, but I've been pleased with the how much my son has enjoyed the intellectual challenge!
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