| Quadrilla Marble Railway, Twist and Rail |  | Brand: Hape International
Category: Toy
Buy New: $134.99
as of 3/10/2010 12:34 PST details
New (6) from $134.99
Seller: Depot Toys
Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 12,373
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 4 - 10 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11.5
Dimensions (in): 21 x 13 x 5.5
MPN: DAM3628001
Model: QU2800110
UPC: 692343601350
EAN: 0084543098519
ASIN: B000FJTP1G
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The best selling Quadrilla Set. | | • | Smart Design Booklet included. | | • | Quadrilla blocks are colored in child safe, water based stains. | | • | Includes 97 pieces plus 50 marbles and a Play Tips DVD | | • | Ages 3 and up |
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Product Description
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2006! The design possibilities are endless with the new Quadrilla Twist and Rail Set. Infinite marble runs in one great set! Brilliantly colored wood. Highly stable design. Amazingly easy construction. Fast-moving effects. Curved & Straight Rails, Connecting Blocks, Accelerators, and Great Action Pieces! Instructions for 3 Rail Combinations. Includes 94 pieces & 50 marbles. Ages 4+
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 39
 Good for all ages! December 5, 2006
Stuart|Anne (Seattle, WA)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
My sister recently got this for my son's fourth birthday, and I am really impressed with it. The quality is excellent. The blocks are solid wood, but for strength the rails are a multi-layer plywood. This hopefully will avoid some of the breakage our Brio tracks saw in the hands of the younger brother.
The other thing we were impressed by is how interesting they are to build and play with. In the beginning the kids wanted us to build them, and they would just roll the marbles. However, now they are already working out how to build their own runs!
In terms of which set is the best to start with, we'd have to pick this one. The Quadrilla Marble Railway, Basic Set is really too small to do very much with, and may get boring sooner than it deserves to. This set is a good size to start with. It includes many different kinds of pieces including rails, curves and the ever popular spiral and teeter-totter! I think the number of different creations you can make will also help this toy age as well, as the kids get older they will make more complex creations, but can still have fun.
The grown ups enjoy building (and designing) runs as much as the kids. The biggest frustration is that our "helpers" occasionally knock over the masterpiece that was just about to be so unbelievably awesome. Almost enough to make you want go build when the kids are not there to play!
Addendum (Sept 2009): Three years later we are STILL playing with this. Many toys have come and gone. Toy tools have been given away, and we've moved to little Legos. But the Quadrilla are still in active use. Not everyday, but fairly regularly. So we're pretty happy about how our investment has aged!
Don't spend the money on other marble toys, this is the BEST! May 12, 2006
K. Mantarro (Lawrenceville, NJ)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
We've tried other type of marble work toys and none of them come close to the quality of this set. It is worth every penny of investment! This set is high quality construction and will not break. It sets up very well and is very sturdy (unlike the plastic warble works) if on a stable surface will stay up ... no wobbling. You will keep this set forever and pass it down through the family for generations!
Go ahead and splurg on this set you will not be dissapointed!
You will get more than hours and hours of entertainment out of it for the young and old!
Fabulous, Creative, Long Lasting, Durable Toy June 18, 2006
D. Lohr (St. Louis, MO)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this set for my three children 5,4,2 last Christmas at a fancy toy store. This product is top of the line and my kids can not get enough of this. The marble runs are easy to build, sturdy and so much for them to play with. There are a variety to build with the more advanced sets also we bought a few more "fun" and cool looking marbles as they raced them down. The kids can change out the different blocks to make the marbles react in different ways- which is a creative aspect. I LOVE THIS TOY!!!! My kids beg me to make them a new marble run all the time. You do need a hard surface to build on, since we didn't have a "train table" we put it on a hard piece of cardboard so it laid flat on the carpet, that way you don't have to hear the clink-clink of the marbles as they hit the bottom...
Mesmerizes kids of all ages! August 16, 2007
Learning All The Time (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
We have other marble runs, and I really balked at purchasing this pricey set (which is rarely, if ever on sale) in spite of how fascinated my children were by a Quadrilla set at a museum store. A doting relative purchased this for my kids last year, and the kids play with it regularly. It is the clear favorite of all our marble runs.
It has relatively simple construction (unlike say, the Skyrail marble run), so it is a great game for getting kids of all ages to work co-operatively together. Everyone is excited to see the marbles run along the track and they are very supportive of other kids (and adults!) who say, "what if we do this?"
Plus it is beautiful - bright, high quality wood, and it comes with lots of marbles. When you use lots of them at one time, they have quite a mesmerizing sound as they glide across the wood tracks.
It is such a wonderful toy that I've since broken out the wallet to get a few of the expansion sets :)
Fantastic Toy!! December 29, 2006
Twinmom (Waukon, IA United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is also my first review ever - but I felt compelled given our enthusiasm over this toy. We gave this set to our son this Christmas - he will be five next month - and he and the whole family LOVE it! The quality is excellent and well worth the higher cost (compared to the more inexpensive plastic runs). So far, my son has wanted me to build the runs, but I know that as his confidence grows with the toy he will take off into building on his own. And getting as many marbles as we can, as quickly as we can, going down the run is just flat out addictive fun! We felt that this was a great set to start with since (as another reviewer said) it comes with both curved and straight rails along with a spiral and a teeter-totter. I'm already looking forward to buying some of the accessory and add-on sets for my son's birthday and other holidays! I'm sure we are going to get years of enjoyment out of this toy. I highly recommend it!
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