Nintendo Mario Circuit Ultimate Building Set
Best Product From Nintendo
Lots of fun~Lot a time to assemble.
Mario Vs. Toad in the Ultimate Race Over five feet of track pieces.View larger 3...2...1...GO!! K'NEX brings your favorite Nintendo game to life. Challenge your imagination as you create countless adventures building this set and watch Mario and Toad race through the complete, multi-level Mario Circuit Track in their super-fast motorized Wild Wing and Standard Karts. Mario and Toad zoom down and around the huge five-foot-wide course, through twists, turns, and jumps -- but they better be careful, because there are lots of moving obstacles, ready to knock those karts right off the track. Push levers to send the gaping jaws of the Piranha Plant reaching down, the growling Chain Chomp chomping across, or the mischievous Goombas waddling thro...
- Build Mario and Toad in their Standard Karts
- Sliding Piranha Plant obstacle
- Moving Chain Chomp obstacle
- Swinging Goombas obstacle
- 2 Super-fast, battery-powered motors for karts
So much fun - if only it would stay together!
My son loves legos and Mario, and the idea of combining the two thrilled him! He could not wait to start assembling the track when he saw this box. It really is massive, and takes up a good deal of space in his room. While the box says this is appropriate for ages six and above, I can't see the average six year old being able to tackle this project without a lot of adult help (which is part of the fun in my opinion, but beware!). The kit comes with almost 700 pieces in neatly packaged sections. The instructions are fairly straightforward - there was only one spot where we couldn't quite understand what the diagram implied. With adults and kids working together, it still took about four hours over the course of a few days. It's that big!
The track itself is neat. It comes with two cars and the means to build Mario and Toad for said cars. They are battery powered, and zip along pretty quickly along the track. The cars also zip on wood floors for added fun while the track...
Fun for Occasional Short Sessions
Don't get me wrong with my 3 star rating - there's absolutely nothing wrong with this Mario-themed K'nex set. The construction quality is good, the set is sturdy once assembled, and the cars and components will hold up to use over time even in the hands of rambunctious little ones. Assembling the set was fun, probably even more so for dad than for my 7 year old son, as he doesn't yet quite have the patience needed for an hour or two project getting a toy ready for play. The reason that I am not giving this a higher rating is because it simply isn't very interactive. My son was very excited when we finished building it and fired the cars up for their initial laps, and he really loved watching the cars zip around the track...for a while. But after the initial excitement wore off, I've found that he hasn't played with the set very much at all. Aside from watching the cars go round and round, there isn't really much to do with this set. There are a few pieces that you can use to...
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