The pillars have special notches to connect them with the transparent walls and create more intricate paths for the marbles. If you just want to add height but not width or additional options, you could probably just add the Extension Vertical set, but it doesn’t add any additional tracks or marbles.

The starter set is your construction kit that gives you everything you need to build a really cool and entertaining marble run. The GraviTrax Starter Set is suitable for all, boys and girls, women and men and all constructors and master builders from the age of 8.The GraviTrax PRO, along with its expansions and accessories, is a marvelous set that can build both simple setups and elaborate configurations, depending on the ages and desires of the people playing. An electronic-free, expandable construction set, GraviTrax uses STEM-friendly concepts and open-play options to challenge children as they develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills! Electronic-free, GraviTrax construction sets use STEM-friendly concepts while building critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The GraviTrax sets are designed for anyone aged 8 and up (though I might recommend 10 and up for the GraviTrax PRO) and are perfect for solo, group, or family play. Here, you or your child, godchild, grandchild, niece or whoever else comes along, can choose from several cool starter sets from the different product lines.

Similar to needing a level table, you must make sure that all of your hexes, tiles, and pillars are seated snugly and pushed down completely. Children and adults get access to mathematics and physics in a playful way and also train valuable skills such as logical thinking, creativity, conception, powers of deduction and problem solving. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. My next thought was that multiple marbles running at the same time sometimes moved too quickly to follow them all at once, so sometimes we just ran one marble at a time down the run to see what happened.

Some of the accessories, such as the zipline (not tested) and the magnetic cannon (included in the starter sets) require you to use extra marbles to make them work, but those accessory sets don’t seem to come with extra marbles. Add some surprise to your tracks by sending up to three marbles into the Mixer and see which sides they exit from. All GraviTrax elements can be combined with each other in any way and each track can be extended endlessly. special elements from the GraviTrax PRO series provide many possibilities: Chase the balls across different levels, change direction and hold exciting races.

Hexes need to be punched out of the four base plates (tip: save these to be used as game pieces for other games you play! Develops critical skills – Playing and building with GraviTrax builds spatial reasoning and planning skills, and provides a great stealth learning experience. Once the basics are mastered, simply add expansion sets and accessories to propel those metal marbles around the tricked-out track of your dreams!

Comes complete with instructions, 8 pillars, 4 tunnel pillars, 4 walls (2 long, 2 medium) and 16 balconies.