FINALLY! This is our 3rd marble run/maze and folks we have a winner! The first one was gifted to us, it's dedicated to dinosaurs and in fact it can only be assembled one way. While my son loved levitating the balloons, and hey, what 4-year-old boy doesn't love the dinosaur theme?! - he simply had no room for creativity and could not build it himself. Then our second set was Quercetti's Migoga with a manual winding for a perpetuum motion effect. We did NOT research it (big mistake not reading reviews) but just bought it from an educational toy store when there was a sale because it looked cool, it seemed like you could buy other Quercetti sets to add to it , and it's made ITALY, NOT CHINA, which we liked. But again, this set seems to want to be built from a plan (especially if you really want to use the elevator) and if you're trying to improvise, it just isn't intuitively easy to build. Now I'm a complete novice at marbles, but at 47 I think a toy designed for a child shouldn't be too difficult to use, and the Quercetti just wasn't sturdy enough or easy enough to build. With. NOW. Merry Christmas is only 3 weeks away and I just had to try again to build a marble walkway for my now 5 year old to work with, my husband and I to play and be creative with and we wouldn't get bored. THAT'S IT! I love the transparent nature of the parts. There's a lot of bells and whistles in this extreme set. This is funny. I highly recommend it. And I'm glad we didn't start with the "starter" set - I'd say all the fun at once! I have attached a video of our first creation. If you see marbles getting stuck and need to be pushed, those are the marbles we already had, NOT the ones in this set. 20 he came with a job perfect.
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