Skyrail Marble Run Roller Coaster 250-pc. Set

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Design and construct your own roller coaster with this skyrail marble coaster set. It teaches the basic principles of mechanics and physics, such as gravity, speed, inertia and weight. Building the coaster is really fun, and then you get to watch the marbles race down and around over 40' of track! Imported. Set includes 250 pieces.

Our boys are masters at the Quadrilla Marble Railway, Twist and Rail as well as with the 3D Gear Tech by Quercetti so we thought this was the natural extension.

The quality seems good, and its easy to build the towers, and the rails are pretty easy to connect to them too. However the leverage the rails are applying to the towers continually topples them over. Bigger (or heavier) bases would help, or perhaps if we did it on a big grid where we could hold them down.

In any case this totally failed to live up to expectations. It was a disappointment for us.


Keep in mind most reviews are written shortly after receiving the product. However this kept the interest of my 7-yo for a good year which is impressive. However, once the track is built, after about the 50th time around the track, it is a rather boring. Most of the fun is building the track and there is only a limited number of tracks you can build. If you have a kid that like to build things, they'll love it. But it is only good for a short amount of play time once in a while but it is one of those toys that will get taken out once in a while over and over again. The steel balls can get scattered under furniture though if you are not careful to supervise as sometimes the ball falls off. The motor seems a bit unreliable after a while but overall a good toy.


This is an awesome marble run! My twin daughters got this for Christmas. They were 6 years old at the time. They can easily put the pieces together themselves, and we have had no problems with pieces breaking. I do recommend the 250 piece set because then you have LOTS of pieces to work with. It is so versatile! It does take up our whole family room when almost all the pieces are used! My 2 year old LOVES to make the marbles go on the run once we get it built, so it is great for the whole family. Sometimes it does take an adult to help build a run that works, but parents should be spending time with their kids helping them learn. My girls can also assemble it themselves. The instruction booklet has lots of runs you can build or you can just experiment yourself to see what works and what doesn't. It takes some trial and error, which is a great learning experience for my daughters. My husband is an engineer, so he also loves playing with this with my daughters. It comes with two types of marbles -- some that are a bit heavier than the others. Any kind of marble will work on it, though. We had a marble set and used those marbles, which were even lighter (they worked better on the loop the loop). The recommended age is 8 and up, but I think any elementary age children can do this to some extent. Any younger, and they really won't know how to set it up, but they will love making the marbles go. One thing parents will really love is that you can take it all apart and it all fits back into the box for storage. One last thing -- it works better on carpet. We have wood floors, and the "towers" slide around too much on the wood, so we have to set it up on the rug in the family room. One last bonus is that is glows in the dark! How fun!


I also wrote a review for the Quercetti Marble Run 224-pc. Set, which I bought for my son last Christmas. This 'younger' set really sparked my son's interest in marble runs, so he asked for the Skyrail set this Christmas because it was more complicated and could do more loops. He loves this set even more than the first. He built his first coaster run, and upon watching the marble complete it's course, his 9 year old brother said, "That is the coolest thing I've ever seen." (and he is not easily impressed with anything).

If you are also buying this as a 'graduate' set, this is a different type of marble run than the other set. Whereas the other set is more gimicky in the ways that marbles can move through vortexes and spinners and is more forgiving of mistakes, this is a true roller coaster. You have the flexibility to make the loop as big or small as you want, but without the right amount of momentum you passenger (the marble) won't make it around the loop and it will fall to the bottom. You may have to explain these types of concepts to a younger child.

I love this set because there is an endless amount of configurations you can create with this set. The instruction book is helpful in giving ideas and getting kids started, but after a few of those, most children will be eager to build one on their own. In addition to the loops and curves you can build, you can also build various tower configurations for a very cool 'layered' effect. This set is definitely worth the money -- I would rather spend $100+ on something that will last and is worthwhile, than $50 on junk that they won't play with in 2 days.

The pieces are well made, but they are not indestructible. If you're giving this to a younger child, they need to be warned that the pieces will snap and break if they're not careful.

I agree with another reviewer that I wish the bases were made of a heavy diecast metal to make everything sturdy, although this would have tripled the price and make it expensive to ship. We've had to weigh down the bases with other household objects for help. If your marble run is not perfectly configured, the marble might droop across a long set of track. We've used old Duplo Lego's to help support tracks where it needed it. Even the instruction book shows how tracks are propped up with books.
Be aware you need a lot of floor space to set up these big coaster configurations. I've resigned myself to the fact that I pretty much gave up my living room until my son is tires of his roller coaster.


We already had a marble run ($2 at a yard sale) and I wasn't sure it was worth it to get another. But this is a totally different beast!

Our other marble run, which is still lots of fun, consists of plastic, pre-molded pieces that can be fit together in many different ways.

The Skyrail set consists of long, skinny straight track which can be formed into loops and hills and curves. (It's glow in the dark, too, but we haven't really made use of that yet).

The Skyrail set is easy to learn to manipulate-- my 6 year old son is now a champion at using the connector pieces. There are also towers, which must be put together (so can be used in an infinite number of ways) to hold the track off the floor.

It's true that some frustration ensues when my son builds a design and discovers the marbles go flying off it....but then he tweaks his design, finding a way to have the marbles build up speed without being launched off the track.

The diagram book which comes with the set is very helpful-- it shows not only how to fit the pieces together but gives design examples. So far, my son doesn't seem to be able to follow these (so I do), but I like that he can enjoy it now, and grow with it in time.

Our favorite way of using this toy involves draping it over the sofa to create hills, or over tables, etc. If you can tolerate a little mess, in other words, there's a lot of fun to be had with this. (And my 4 year old daughter is also starting to manipulate the pieces).


This toy is a lot of fun but it brakes easily. I wold suggest that if you are younger you should get someone older to help. But, other than that it is a lot of fun!


This is a wonderful construction toy for a child who is tired of Knex and Lego. Designing the track so that the marble stays on is a good lesson in momentum and angles. Probably too difficult for any child under 9.

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About Skyrail Marble Run Roller Coaster 250-pc. Set detail

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2834 in Toys & Games
• Brand: International Playthings
• Model: 6435
• Dimensions: 4.20 pounds

Features

• Set includes 250 pieces
• Teaches basic principles of mechanics and physics, such as gravity, speed, inertia and weight
• Over 40' of track
• Imported

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