Quadrilla Cyclone Wooden Marble Run Race Maze Construction Building Set| STEM Educational Learning Toys for Kids

I started looking at marble runs for my 4 daughters ages 3-12. At first, I was intrigued by the plastic ones, mostly because of their price. However, the more I researched, the more I was interested in the quality Hape Quadrilla wooden marble runs. What I love about this set is that my girls have to use critical thinking skills to build and then tweak the marble run to make the marble run smoothly all the way down. It isn't snapping plastic pieces together. Instead it's more like building with wooden blocks and tracks. We bought both the Cyclone set and the Music in Motion set. My 6 & 3 year old daughters love the Music in Motion set. My 8 and 12 year old love the engineering of the cyclone set. Honestly, I get into it, too! I'm already eyeing the next Hape Quadrilla sets I want! I love that this challenges my oldest girls and enchants my younger girls. I noticed some reviewers complained that the set comes apart easily....well, of course you want it to come apart! That's the whole fun of it- taking it apart and rebuilding into a completely different design! Why would you want one single fixed marble run? That would be boring! The fun is in engineering all different kinds of marble runs, with no 2 alike! The options for different designs makes this quality toy endless fun for a huge variety of ages! And by the way, I PAID FULL PRICE and NO ONE gave me anything for my review! LOL

It is a beautiful, fun toy for the whole family! Every different design is like an architectural accomplishment! It does take a bit of attention and time, but it is doable for most and has clear instructions. I love the sound of the rolling marbles. I see it as stunning sculpture when I enter a room with it. It does topple if it’s bumped, but stays up well if not. The small red ramps (plastic,) that are integral to every design, get lost easy, being small. Maybe include extra of those? I highly recommend this for groups with at least one capable set-up leader who is a big kid or adult. It’s a wonderful purchase & well worth the price I paid. Enjoy!

My kids love marbles and we have the plastic marble run sets that you can piece together--which they are able to build themselves and go back to playing with over and over again. I loved the look, the vibrant colors and the concept of this wooden one, and thought my kids would have fun building and learning about physics together. The way the pieces are holed it looks so neat and challenging! Unfortunately, even at 5.5 and 3.5, they aren't able to build these tracks independently-- an adult needs to help them, and even still, it is very challenging. Pieces do not stack and stick together well, so structures you finally put up get knocked down or topple over on their own in an instant. Try adding the impatience of young children to this, and it's just so disappointing and frustrating. Marbles get stuck or fall off. If you try to build the entire thing using all the pieces, it will take you quite a long time and many tries. Even grandparents gave up in the middle of building with the kids and commented 'this is not a good toy'..! Perhaps this is some people's idea of fun. I wish 'some people' were my kids! Since we are unfortunate owners of this set now, we will try it again year after year and I will update if one day it's awesome. For now I would not recommend..

I like how solidly made the pieces are, and it's fun for both myself and three-year old daughter. The two things I didn't like were that 1) it tips over almost as easily as a house of cards, so if my daughter reaches over to put the marbles in she is likely to topple something over, and 2) I didn't like that the teal and green blocks (and to a lesser extent, the yellow and wood blocks) look really similar in the instructions. I have to increase the lighting and stare at the final drawing to figure out which of them to use. There are so many other colors to pick from (pink, light purple, brown, even light green or light blue, would be better than teal).

If you are looking for a marble run, get this one, you won't regret it. When my son told me he wanted a marble run (his school had one at STEM class and he loved it) I started my research and found out there are lots of different ones, and I decided to buy this one. The quality of the wood and paint is great, as all of hape wooden toys. Since it's wooden the stability is pretty good compared with other plastic ones. It comes with a manual and loooots of different ways to assemble. It took my then 5yo son some time to be able to read the manual by him self, but now he is an expert. I love how he now understands perfect the pieces and what each one of them does and the effect they have when changed or more pieces are added. It's a fun toy for kids and adults. The marble run is a blast every time we have visits

This is a well made, fun, family educational toy. I bought it for my 5 year old grandson. I love that his parents have just as much fun playing with him with this. I think the family will get may years use with this marble run.

This has been an outstanding toy for the last 3+ years and I expect it to be with us for many years to come. The quality, durability, color, mechanics are all perfect and high quality. Nothing has chipped, dented, or broken in any way. I bought it for my son when he was 2 and now at 5 it just keeps getting better as he learns to follow the directions and build it more and more independently. This is an outstanding brain building toy, absolute better than any plastic junk. I only wish that this set included a catcher at the bottom. We build a makeshift coral so the marbles don't roll absolutely everywhere. We also always build it on hard floors as it seems unstable on carpet. This toy is absolutely worth the investment!

I bought 4 Hape Quadrilla items from various Amazon sellers for my son's 9th birthday. He has autism and loves marble runs. We have a plastic one, and he does like it, but his friend has a couple of these and he really enjoys them. So I bit the bullet on the price tag and splurged on the Cyclone, the Challenger, Music in Motion and the xylophone run. They are well-thought out, well made, and mercifully come with excellent visual step by step instructions. BUT this one had clearly already been opened and a piece was broken. I live in Canada and drive over the border to pick things up sometimes as it gives me greater access to variety. It's a long drive and comes with it's own costs, so I rarely bother to return things once I get them home. This item was obviously a return as the pieces were all jumbled inside the box (while the others were neatly placed in interior boxes), the marbles and smaller pieces were loose inside, and one of the big funnels had a broken guide piece. My son was so excited to set everything up that I can't be bothered to return it, but I'm unimpressed. For what these things cost, I expect better.

Wir haben die Murmelbahn nun schon ein Jahr und es ist wirklich eines der wenigen Spielzeuge womit wirklich regelmäßig gespielt und gebaut wird. Die Bahn macht einfach Spaß. Man kann auch neben den in der Anleitung beschriebenen Bahnen sehr gut eigene bauen. Auch wie die Steine funktionieren lernen die Kinder schnell. Positiv: 1. Es ist fast alles aus Holz. 2. Die Steine sind so gefertigt, dass sie, wenn die Kugeln kommen nicht verrutschen. Bei vielen Bahnen anderer Hersteller muss man erst noch komplizierte Türme zur Stabilisierung daneben bauen. Das braucht man hier nicht. Die Bedienung ist kinderleicht. 3. Sie macht immer wieder Spaß und auch nach einem Jahr wird es nicht langweilig. 4. Es sind sehr viele Murmeln dazu. Da können auch mal ein paar unter das Sofa rollen. Negativ: Vorweg, die Punkte sind Kleinigkeiten. 1. An den Richtungswechslern bildet sich manchmal ein Stau. Da muss man dann mit den Finger nachhelfen. Das passiert aber nicht sehr oft und ist auch von Stein zu Stein unterschiedlich. 2. In der Anleitung ist grün und türkis nahezu nicht zu unterscheiden. Obwohl die Anleitung gut gedruckt ist. 3. Es gibt noch separate Bauteile zum auffangen der Murmel am Ende der Bahn. Diese sind leider nicht mit dabei und müssten als Zubehör gekauft werde. Schöner wäre es, sie wären mit dabei. Da rollen nicht so viele Murmeln in der Gegend rum. Fazit : Tolles zeitloses Spielzeug. In Zukunft wäre es schön wenn es außer den Musiksteinen noch andere Sondersteine gibt. Die negativen Sachen sind bloß Kleinigkeiten. Deshalb keine Punkt abzug. Wir sind voll zufrieden.

Excelente producto. He comprado diferentes de la misma marca, muy buenos. Aunque no es para todos las personas.

I bought a small marble run in this line for my grandson, 6, for Christmas. He liked building that one and I think he will enjoy the challenge with this bigger one to add on. I counted all the pieces as other reviews have suggested to do so as sometimes pieces are missing (humans!). It’s true that it can easily get knocked over, but that’s all part of the challenge, and fun

大人が楽しいし、キレイです。 想定外の場所でビー玉が飛び出ることもあり。 大きいし、壊れやすいし、一度作ると壊すのがもったいないので、広い場所がないと遊ぶのが面倒になっちゃうかも。 また、三穴のレーンではビー玉の勢いが止まってしまって、ビー玉溜まりができてしまう。 さらに、組立見本の本、カラーなのですが、緑と深緑のブロックの区別がつきません。印刷の質の問題だと思いますが、 組み立て終えてから、玉の動きを見て調整するのが地味にイラつくポイントです。 しかし、悪い点はそれくらい。からころとビー玉が転がる様子は大人も癒されます。

Bought this for my 5 year old grandson's birthday. It is expensive to buy the whole run, and takes time to build. At his age, needs a lot of help with the construction but imagine that in another year he would happily design and construct the runs by himself. Once built it takes a little time to adjust so that the marbles don't fall off the track or come to a halt before the end of the run. You also have to be careful not to knock the construction as it is displaced very easily. But, a good well made toy overall which he is having fun playing with.