Ravensburger GraviTrax XXL Starter Set | Innovative Marble Run & STEM Toy for Kids | Engaging & Educational Building Game | Toy of The Year Finalist - Amazon Exclusive

This is a supplemental expansion of the big Gravitrax kit I got for the grandkids. They love it and have spent many hours working together on making the little silver balls twist and turn around the track. I got this so they could make bigger, longer configurations. The older kids like it and it's not always easy to find toys that appeal to that tricky adolescent age range.It gets them off screens and doing something mentally engaging. I'm all in for that.

The media could not be loaded. I wanted something less clunky and tedious than the vertical marble towers you build out of plastic cubes. My 7 year old loved watching them but they were unreliable, would tip over, and were so loud when the marbles would run through! So, we tried this.We've played with it a bunch and it's always exciting and new. If you're building a huge track, be ready to put some time and effort into it. I play with her because it requires a lot of critical thinking and planning ahead to make things work. But she's learned so much about momentum and gravity and it's awesome.The track builds horizontally, so we end up playing on the floor and go as big as possible every time. We've created mazes and race tracks, both are so much fun to make and then play with. Most of the pieces are plastic, but it feels fairly sturdy, and the peices fit together well without snapping tightly where they'd be a pain to pull apart. The base is cardboard, sturdy cardboard, but still something to be mindful of not wrecking.This is the first thing I've ever bought that fit nicely back into its original box! But you'll need a few gallon sized zip locks for all the pieces. I have 2 for the white track pieces, 1 for the green pieces and special pieces, 1 for all the height tiles, 1 for all the rail pieces, and a small one for marbles. We keep the pieces in the bags as we build and put them all back when we're done. It's organized and makes clean up a breeze! And they all fit in the box!!I highly recommend this track, it's really top notch, but it's not a little kid toy, and parents of small children may find themselves doing all the building and the kiddos just playing with it afterwards. I can see my daughter enjoying this for years!!!

I'm a grown man who bought the XXL set and a few hammers, scoops, flip accessories to finally try my hand at marble runs again. Now, free hand build this is a lot of fun and you can make a lot of really diverse and gimmicky runs but the full potential of what you can create is unlocked with the help of the Gravitrax App which has a kiddie version of 3D AutoCAD for this set. That's right, you can design multi level, multi dimension runs of insane depth and tricks, test the runs out for potential flaws before the Real Life Build and then when you're happy with the plans- Follow the Step by Step picture Build Instructions to Built it! That's just friggin awesome.Highly recommended 10/10 toy.Note: The Gravitrax App design isn't fully account for all the real life chaos and variances which could mess up the marble run if the tolerances are too close so when you design your marble runs, allow for some extra slope/distance/wider curves/shorter curves/height differences etc so you don't waste timing building a dead run that only works in the App.

Provides hours of fun! My kids (8 & 9) love Gravitrax!

My 9 year old grandson was CRAZY thrilled about this! He played with it til bedtime. It's also the first thing he went to when he woke up the next morning!. He loved creating new pathways for the marbles to travel!

Lawrence:. Awesome toy! Plastic pieces are strong. I know how people are breaking them. They are using them to remove a steel marble from the magnet cannon when they have it out of reach which requires a lot of force. I did this also and surprised the bridge piece didn't break but if it does break I won't leave a petty comment about it being weak, honestly forcing the marble off the magnet cannon should cause the bridge piece to break but I wouldn't use that little green part that catches the marble you only get one or two of those but that's how you break them...being stupid. These are so awesome, I'm buying a bunch of them. I dont mind the cardboard base either, kids might damage them but they're fine for big 40 year old kids like me. Can't wait to get the vertical pro kits, get those out soon!!!

The media could not be loaded. Not easy to assemble and instructions don’t explain some of the pieces. The pictures are nice but not necessarily accurate. My son enjoys it but it takes time to build.

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