BUKI BU220 - Marble Runs

Good product. My nephew loved it!

Loved this marble run. All the pieces are pretty solid plastic and you have enough variety to build some interesting tracks. The instructions for it are basically just pictures you refer to when building. It comes with a leaflet with Easy, Medium & Hard tracks to build. It's pretty easy for an adult to follow but young children will struggle. Our boys 3&6 years loved putting the marbles down the tracks we built but struggled making tracks. Our eldest could make a small one on his own. If your looking at independent play 6+ Years at least. Otherwise supervision needed. The marble lift is pretty cool according to my boys. Although you do need at least 2 marbles at the bottom of it to pick one up. If there is just one it won't pick it up. As there are plenty of marbles supplied it's not a problem. It also has indents in its base so you can fit marble track pieces to it and raise it higher. Only down side is it take Size C batteries which aren't supplied and it's not something everyone keeps in stock. We actually found that this set was compatible with a set we already had by Marbulous. In fact the pieces appear identical. This is huge plus as we have been able to build some pretty impressive runs with so many pieces available to us. We have already had hours of fun with this set and am sure will have many more.

Not for a first-time marble run builder! We have had several different marble run sets over the years and this is by far the most challenging build, even for an adult. Brilliant mechanism design, marbles really flow nicely. Agree with another reviewer that the lift is slow, releasing one marble every 5 seconds or so, but I think it keeps your interest nicely at this pace, particularly with the switch piece that diverts consecutive marbles in different directions - you have time to watch one marble get quite far before another starts its amazing course!

Buki - PM851 - Maxi marble runs The set. There are over 90 plus marbles pieces in the set. Building. There are lots of tubes and risers so you can make quite complicate3d marble runs. The kids played with this four many hours and I think that got more play value out of it than their PlayStation. we all joined in and it is great fun thinking up ideas to build the marble run. Once you have created your marble run you use the marble lift (battery operated) to load them and watch them go down your marble run. Play value. This is excellent as you have to plan how you want the marbles to run and then build the run using the parts. It’s a bit like plastic plumbing but great fun. Robustness. Although all plastic it is well made and has taken a lot of abuse from our kids. They play with it most days and have friends around and are now timing their runs to ass who can produce the fastest run. I think it is simple but creative and the kids love it. Overall. A game and kit that keeps lasting interest and is great fun. This one is a winner.

We own a couple of marble run sets and also a couple of the roller-coaster style ones too. As the illustrations seems to show that both sorts are included in the one box, as well as a lot of other unique pieces, I was quite excited to get this set to test. On the whole it hasn’t disappointed, though there is a minor caveat, which I’ll describe later. The set has been designed to be compatible with a standard marble run design, that is available fairly ubiquitously in most toy retailers. If you already own a standard set from other manufacturers, then you should have no problem getting these to mate up. My disappointment came when coming to try and join up some Quercetti Sky Rail, to the rail pieces included, only to discover that they are made to a slightly different ‘gauge’. Annoyingly the clips on the rails, that fit into the connectors have the same dimensions, it’s just that the rails are too different to join up. It shouldn’t be too difficult for someone with a modicum of technical ability to devise a work around; my little boy wouldn’t agree to me setting about the rails with a craft knife however. The pieces are all of a high quality, tough plastic and held together well when building the included design. As far as quality goes, I could find no gripe here. The number of special pieces is very good, in a set of this size. Off the top of my head, there is one alternating track splitter; two cups that catch falling balls and tip them into two of three baskets; a few sections of marble rail and connectors – enough for a full loop and a half; five sections of track that look like they are compatible with Hubelino – a type of marble run that attaches to double size plastic building bricks (Duplo and the like) – on this last count I will try and find out if this is true and amend the review appropriately as we no longer have any bricks that size. The biggest single piece is the marble return lift, which is 56cm tall and returns marbles at a rate of about one a second. This last feature is fairly remarkable, considering how reasonably priced the entire set is. I think that this is a great stand-alone set or a nice addition to an existing collection.

I was a little disappointed in this marble run, and that’s almost entirely because of its unique selling point- the motorised marble-lifter. 56 centimetres tall is not all that much- many of the marble runs in this price bracket can stand much taller. It’s also incredibly slow. It’s very large and quite heavy, and even with two completely brand new LR14 batteries (not included) in, it lifts marbles at a very sedate pace indeed- so slow that by the time the next marble has reached the top, the marble that previously reached the top has already travelled all the way down the marble run and settled at the bottom. There’s an actual pause between one marble finishing and the next one starting. Now maybe as a relaxation device that’s fine, but with young kids for whom sometimes the appeal of marble runs is noise and chaos and racing, it’s just far too sedentary. It does have some things going for it though for sure. The counter-balanced tilting scoops are good fun, though if two marbles try to drop in in quick succession one marble normally ends up on the floor. The blue plastic spiral section is a neat touch too, and remarkably reliable for something that initially seems quite flimsy. The splitting section, that will send each marble in the opposite direction to the previous marble, is a key part of keeping things interesting, and makes you wish there were more ways of introducing randomness to it. Although it looks almost identical to a Galt marble run, the two systems are not interchangeable, sadly. There’s probably some complex or legal reason why that’s the case but the two are so agonisingly close that my daughter said “can we stick them together?” and we were both disappointed- and a little surprised- to find the answer was “almost, but no”. There’s an inconsistency in the piece count; though it says 92 pieces on the box (112 pieces if you count the 20 marbles), in the instruction leaflet, such as it is, the one shown on the box is described as the 104-piece build. All you get to build it from is a photograph of what it’s supposed to look like when it’s finished, so if you’re exactly trying to replicate what’s on the box, it becomes a bit of an observational challenge. The build quality is not bad at all, there are some neat ideas in here, and the instructions are OK-ish- but unfortunately if you’re going to spend twenty-something quid on a marble run, I’d suggest you’d have more fun getting a larger, motor-free version which will give you more variety for the money.

I like the fact that I don't just have to immediately think up a track and that if u are a beginner u can stick to the instructions. Also, it all fits together really well. All except the blue flimsy track, that is, because it is slightly snapped and it stops the marbles from running properly. Thx for reading!

This product is a bit of a disaster it is a great idea but the quality of the product makes it useless. It falls apart at the slightest touch including my own never mind a 3 year old. I ended up buying an alternate product which has been much more sturdy.

Unser Sohn ist 3,5 Jahre alt, er hat die Murmel Bahn zu Ostern bekommen. Wir bauen Sie fast jeden Tag auf, ich würde die Bahn jederzeit wieder kaufen. Der Spaßfaktor ist hier sehr hoch er baut sehr gerne und liebt es die Murmeln zu beobachten wie diese die Strecke entlang laufen. Für den Preis ist die Bahn echt top! Das einzige was mich etwas stört ist das die einzelnen Teile (nur bestimmte) hier und da etwas instabil sind diese hätten etwas fester sein können aber das ist meckern auf hohen Niveau!

Le jeu "Buki Formule Billes" est une expérience ludique et éducative remarquable. Destiné aux enfants curieux, ce kit permet de créer un circuit de billes fascinant. Les enfants peuvent explorer les principes de la physique et de l'ingénierie en assemblant les différentes pièces. Le jeu stimule la créativité, la résolution de problèmes et la motricité fine. Les instructions sont claires et faciles à suivre, permettant même aux plus jeunes de construire leur circuit. C'est un excellent moyen de combiner amusement et apprentissage, idéal pour les après-midi pluvieux ou les moments de jeu en famille.

Very qualitative product,the best knikkerbaan we had till now. Stable, easy to assemble.

Pues como decia en el titular, un auténtico acierto. Yo habia crecido con uno de estos y tenia un recuerdo muy bueno. Al crecer mis hijos ( 4 y 5 años ) y buscando juguetes creativos, me acordé de las pistas de canicas de mi infancia y buscando mucho, me decidí por estas. Acierto total. ¿ Que tienes que buscar en un juego de pistas de este tipo ? Yo creo que lo principal es que puedan jugar con canicas normales, de las de vidrio de toda la vida. No digo que las de plástico vayan mal, ojo, pero en las pistas de canicas de plástico no puedes usar las de vidrio. Esta es de canicas normales, que puedes encontrar en cualquier jugueteria o en el chino de la esquina. Otra cosa que es importante es que las piezas encajen bien y estas lo hacen. Tiene el certificado CE, el auténtico, de la comunidad europea, no el de China Export, el juguete en sí es francés, aunque como todo, seguro que se fabrica en Asia. Pero leyendo sobre pistas de estas, en muchas de las baratas, hablan de plásticos quebradizos y rompibles. Esta no. Se nota que es un buen material a prueba de estas fieras. En las críticas que se hacen a esta clase de juguetes estan las de inestabilidad. Esta clase de pistas son así. Son torres altas, con diferencias de peso entre tramos y si a esto se junta la mala calidad del producto, la jugabilidad se ve comprometida. En este, una vez montado, queda bien. No se va a escapar a alguna destruccion involuntaria debido al furor de los crios, pero en general, muy bien esta marca. Y respecto a la jugabilidad que hablabamos antes, esta asegurada. Los mios ya han hecho todos los circuitos y ahora han empezado a crear los suyos propios, muy rusticos y elementales, pero estan en ello. Sorprendido muy gratamente. Se pueden tirar un buen rato jugando sin pelearse, algo inusual entre los dos mios por lo menos. Este se lo ha traido Papa Noel y el mayor ya me esta pidiendo una ampliacion para Reyes, que supongo que le traeran, ya que vale solo 20 euros y los considero bien gastados. Ah, se me olvidava: el ascensor. Yo le pillé este con ascensor porque en mi epoca no habia. Pero que si os lo quereis ahorrar y comprar otro kit de esta marca sin el elevador, van a jugar igual. Los mios suelen dejar el elevador encendido y a la misma vez van tirando canicas por las otras entradas que suelen tener estos circuitos. Resumen: si buscais pistas de canicas, las de esta marca son buenas y de calidad.

Pista Meravigliosa , come da descrizione. Dotata di 20 palline ed ascensore, ci si starebbe ore a guardarla. Il Montaggio è molto semplice, è tutto ad incastro, oltre alle istruzioni che ti indicano come costruire varie piste, c'è anche la possibilità di crearne a piacere. L'ho associata ad una pista che già avevo per avere ancor di più spazio per le biglie. Consigliatissima per chi ha bambini.