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My kids are a 3 and a 5 year old. The 5 year old was able to make a simple marble run. This is a good gift, if you are planning on playing with it, with your children..@5 years old you will have to help them play with it.Cons: I wish the pieces stayed in better, it does break apart fairly easily.Wish it came with more than 4 long slideTubes. And more elbow pieces.Pros : is a really cool and fun toy

The media could not be loaded. We love all things picasso. I have 2 daughters 2 & 4 and every gifting holiday we get them a new set of picasso tiles. We added the marble run this year and it's really taken our magnetic tile collection to a new level. The pieces interlock and for the first month or so both my girls had a hard time connecting the pieces but are both now pros. We also had an issue with a couple of the corner pieces not staying locked into the tile like they are supposed to be, but a quick email to picasso and they more than remedied the situation. I love these things! These are one toy that I can count on my kids to continually play with and constantly change. I do not mind spending money on these tiles or this marble run. I personally have had both magna tile brand, picasso and some other random brands and have to say hands down picasso very well made for the best price absolutely!

This has been a great toy for my 4 year old. He watches a ton of "Marble Run" videos on youtube and has wanted a marble run toy of his own. He has other Picasso magnetic tile sets, so I figured this would work well with his other sets. It does! It's fun to assemble, it's fun to play with, and in just the couple days since Christmas, he has put many hours into this set, and it's his his favorite new toy (arguably, he has a "talking hamster" that he talks to the entire time he plays with this). And he has spent untold hours playing with other Picasso sets over the past two years. These are generally excellent, fun products.However, there are square connectors (the parts with the magnets that link everything together) that need to be snapped on the ends of the various slides, tunnels, turns splits and funnels. There are a ton of them included -- like 78. But that's probably 30-40 short of what you need to actually use all the other parts. And you'd need about double that if you were going to use (e.g.) the lower half of the tunnels and turns and such to have an open-top marble run. You can maximally use only about 2/3rds of the set at one time, because the shortage of square magnetic parts is a huge impediment.On opening the box, two parts were cracked before we even played with it. I used packing tape to reinforce them. Another one broke pretty quickly, and I again used packing tape to fix it. Not really the biggest crisis since the square-piece-shortage makes it impossible to use everything at once, anyway. But the other magnetic tile sets have been surprisingly durable, and some of the marble track parts were broken on shipment and one broke with minor abuse (under a blanket on the couch, and I sat on it).

My nephew is advanced for his age, but he isn't quite able to connect the pieces himself. It took me and my brother a little time to get the feel for putting the pieces together. My nephew enjoyed the stickers a lot. He has a lot of fun putting the marbles in and watching them. I suggest buying extra marbles. There are some great ones that light up that are super fun. They're motion activated LED so they turn off and on by themselves. We used other Picasso tiles to help support and add on to the set.

The joins are pretty stable but hard for small hands to engage. We also found that the stands were a little unstable when trying to click in more track pieces. We eventually decided to build the marble run on a base of regular magnet blocks (Pic included), making it much more stable and easier to build. 5yo can now mostly play independently and is really enjoying it.

This is an awesome set. It works with Magna Tiles and is a ton of fun to build. 5 year olds can kinda get it, but any younger, and they'll need a parent to help/do it. It is really fun, and really cool. The "marbles" are large- slightly less than a ping pong ball, and they are a little heavy for lacking magnets. A thrown one could damage something expensive. The bigger the set, the more pieces to make, so I'd recommend going large on this.I've also heard discount retailers TJ and others can have this brand at a good deal.

My kids love this but definitely need adult help putting it together. (They are ages 4 & 6) That said once you get the tubes to snap in, it’s pretty sturdy. Fun STEM toy for the whole family & you get a ton of pieces! My only complaint would be the lack of instructions for assembly. EG different building ideas/patterns would be great.

Although the recommended age listed on the marble run box is 3+, it is not for toddlers. It's hard to assemble and not stable once put together. Also, the marbles are supposed to glow but only one lit-up.