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Pros & Cons
Pros
This marble maze is fun and engaging. Easy to understand assembly manual. Watching the elevator - and the upper gear - at work is fascinating.
The movement is smooth and reliable. Rokr also provide metal rods for axels and plastic bushings to keep gears aligned and on their axel. It has a few quirks in operation where some elevator steps stick. The pegs stick up a bit so sanding flush is ess... Read More
Piece are really sturdy and impressively precise. There is no glue or screws, everything is pressure fit. Most of it fits very tightly, so some pieces need to be given a decent amount of force.
Cons
The mechanical potion of this puzzle was garbage. Buyer beware - do not buy this product. No workaround. Now it is just a piece of junk.
The shafts and cogs regularly get stuck causing parts of it to pop apart. The hand crank is also very fragile and one must rotate it very very slowly because it rattles the entire model.
Too much back and forth slop between the elevator buckers causes the balls to partially fall in between. Had to trim one of the top pieces to keep it from catching the edge of the next bucket up and bind up the entire mechanism. The balls are not lift... Read More
Highlights
Quality
It was fun to do with the hubby during texas 2021 snowpocalypse
Love that this puzzle can be played with
The company gets good reviews for the quality of their puzzles
If you are in my age group and remember growing up with the game 34mouse trap34 you will love this at least the finished product
Packaging/appearance
Full disclosure i bought this to give as a gift so i have not seen the contents
Competitiveness
Keep some elmers glue and an xacto knife handy
Overview
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- This product had a total of 2,918 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 12 2023.
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Running the marbles once assembled is limited however
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The light wood pieces break and lose their connections fairly quickly
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We started using glue to keep some pieces together but just not really built to last
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When having to push a little harder to pop them out a couple of the pieces have broke
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Hesitated on buying this for our 9 yearold given the age recommendations but he completed the task with ease and without any assistance
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Total build time is about 8 hours
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just be warned that some parts are more fragile than others so be very careful when removing parts from their sheets
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also make sure that the ball at step 5 is firmly pressed into its basket
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