Discovery Toys MARBLEWORKS Marble Run Starter | Kid-Powered Learning | STEM Educational Building Block Toy Learning & Childhood Development 5 Years Old and Up

I was so happy to be able to gift this Discovery Toys Marbleworks Set to my 5-yr-old grandson! My own son had the original Discovery Toys Marbleworks Set many years ago, and I remembered we got years of play out of it. This set is a sturdy set for little hands to play with as they create their own marble run! It is a quality set, and yes, it does cost a bit more than some of the other marble run kits out there, but it will last a long time! My grandson literally couldn’t stop playing with it! Tip: purchase an extra pack of marbles!

My grandkids love this. Endless possibilities, the more they use it the more creative options for building a marble run the come up with! My grandkids are 6-11 and they all love it.

I have a 4 year old son and three 2 year old sons. The year my older son turned 3, we got him the Marbulous marble run for Christmas. I chose the Marbulous that year because it was a little more moderately priced than the Discovery toy and seemed to have more ramp types. While the Marbulous is not a bad toy, it is unstable enough that any moderate amount of play with it by very excited 2 year olds would cause it to tip over and fall apart. They're too young to really put it back together again, and I found myself having to repeatedly build and rebuild marble courses, so it got very frustrating for me. I tried out the Discovery Marbleworks beginner set because other reviewers commented on how stable it is, and I have to agree. Once I tried out and liked the starter set, I bought the ultra deluxe set to go with it and put together a fairly complex run for my kids to play with. In the week since it's been set up, it hasn't tipped over and fallen apart a single time. Recently I tried to incorporate the pieces from another competitor, the Imaginarium one, that also has some cool pieces. While I've been able to Frankenstein the two sets together using certain pieces of PVC pipe, I would definitely recommend the Discover toy over the Imaginarium toy as the Imaginarium toy seems flimsy and very unstable in comparison. If you are trying to decide between the three brands I've mentioned, let my trial and error help you. I wholly recommend the Discovery brand marble run!

For some reason, when I got these, they didn't seem as sturdy as the Marbleworks set that I had as a child 25 or so years ago. I got this set when my daughter was three, and it wasn't something she could really do on her own at that age--which is alright, it was a toy we played together with. Now, she's 5 1/2 and getting the hang of building with this set on her own. 5+ really seems like the perfect age for this toy. This set comes with plenty of fun and basic pieces, and none of the pieces have broken in two years of use, so maybe they're sturdier than I thought initially. My mom was a Discovery Toys salesperson when I was a kid, and I have really fond memories of playing with this toy alone and with my siblings. I think my daughter enjoys it, too.

These exactly match my 40 year old MarbleWorks set. Both sets have identical dimensions and interoperate perfectly. These are more expensive than other brands but also much better quality.

I was excited to buy this set for my kids since I had the same one in the 80s. To the leadership of DT Learning Products (in Illinois), I hope you're getting a great deal with your Chinese manufacturing. This set arrived missing a large piece and shows poor size consistency and quality control. As we started to assemble the set, I quickly realized there is no jump piece. That's the best part of the set! It's listed on the part manifest, we have half-circle landing pad, but no jump chute. Swell. As my kids started to build and send the marbles down, I saw the marbles stopping or getting stuck. The spinning wheel part gets hung up and can stop the marble. The feet did not rest evenly on the smooth laminate floor and wobbled. The start gate tipper is warped. The towers didn't seem to result in consistent heights, which affects the ramp angles and slows down the marbles. Overall, the effect to me is that this is a poor quality set. My kids quickly lost interest since the marbles don't descend smoothly or consistently, even sometimes stopping entirely. I thought I was buying a higher quality set at this price. Very disappointed, do NOT recommend.

Bought two of the starter kits and I couldn't be more delighted, so much fun! The only thing that was a let down are the marbles, because the picture shows bright colored balls and it came with clear with a few colors inside. Very hard to see for racing and how do I find more marbles this size, nothing from my bag of marbles would work?

This marble run set came with absolutely no instructions or directions — just a box filled with plastic pieces. The packaging says it includes 46 pieces and mentions being able to “design, construct, and reconfigure an endless number of thrilling and workable marble lines,” which sounds great… but unfortunately there were no illustrations or example builds included at all to help you get started. So basically, you’re completely on your own figuring out how the pieces connect and what layouts actually work. That being said, after some trial and error, we did get a track put together, and my grandson has definitely had fun playing with it. It’s entertaining, and once you get something built, it runs the way it should. However, we still had plenty of pieces left over, which makes me think that if we’d had even a simple picture guide or a few suggested configuration ideas, we could have built a much better (and bigger) marble run and gotten more out of the full set. ✅ Pros: Fun, keeps kids engaged, encourages creativity ❌ Cons: No instructions, no build examples, frustrating setup Overall, it’s a good toy once assembled — I just wish the company included basic directions or diagrams to make it easier and more enjoyable to build.

Works well. Has the marble starter block.