Description
This 75-piece colour-coded building set includes a musical light-show rocket ship, thrilling ramps, fast tracks, extreme launchers and bases that all easily connect together. The easy-to-follow levelled guide includes a variety of different builds from beginner to advanced, or create your own courses.
When construction is complete, drop the 10 marbles into action and watch them race down ramps to the launcher and button challenges. Compete with family and friends using the exciting launchers to keep the marbles in motion and bring them back to the beginning. Combine with other Marble Rush™ sets (sold separately) to create an extreme play set.
What our testers said
“Oh look, it launches straight up, and this blocks it.” – Boy aged 8
“Let’s see how far this will jump.” – Girl aged 7
What our experts think
The Marble Rush Launchpad set allows children to experiment with dynamic parts in a moving construction, offering them opportunities to develop logical thinking and creative problem-solving skills as they create a working marble course. As they work together with their peers to build the construction and work out solutions when things go wrong, children are developing important social skills such as communication, negotiation and cooperation.
Once the course was built, children were able to practice trial and error learning and creative problem-solving as they tested out what works, what doesn’t and what they can try differently. This is an important aspect of STEM play, as it allows children to experiment with concepts in engineering and science, making predictions about what they think will happen and seeing if they are right.
Although younger children in particular required adult guidance to follow the instructions for the construction, as they used the set more they were able to build more independently. Children were motivated to complete the courses, even if they required a little support which provides a great opportunity for developing perseverance.
Skills developed
– Develops creative problem-solving skills
– Encourages communication and cooperation through collaborative play
– Promotes perseverance
