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Quadrilla Marble Run Review

Quadrilla Basic Set

The Quadrilla Basic set is just amazing. All three of my children ask to build it every day and giggle hysterically as they race to drop the marbles into the run.

The basic set comes with one spiral, and enough track to build several different layouts. The coloured blocks that hold the track each have different angled holes running through them, which means you need to think about the placement and rotation of the blocks when building the run.

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When I first opened the box I wondered if the set would be too hard for my 5 year old, as it also comes with spacer elements, track accelerators, hole covers and pieces to change the height and I thought it might be too confusing for him. As it turned out my fears were unfounded, and he worked it all out very quickly, helped by the clear and well laid out instructions. After just a few goes he could build the runs himself with no help.

 

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The quality of the marble run is fantastic, and I know we will get years and years of play from it.  Being made of wood it feels very high quality and the kids must realise this too because they actually take care of it!

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This is by far the best marble run we have played with, my children are having so much fun with it and I know it has great educational value for them as well.  Just watching our oldest figure things out, we can see it's great for improving logic, spatial awareness and problem solving skills as well as learning to appreciate gravity and motion.

Our favourite piece is what we now call the 'Decision Cube'.  This piece has a rocker inside it that leans one way then the other as successive marbles hit it therefore causing them to go out of different exits.  We use this to sort our marbles and our 5 year old loves nothing more than sorting things out.

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This set seems like just the start, the instructions show promise of ever more complex runs and you can also buy extension sets, such as the twist and rail and melody sets which look amazing too.

We would most definitely recommend this marble run, I think it is exceptionally good value.

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Quadrilla Basic Set Review

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