Hi Gravitrax Fans! Today we're going to unbox the GraviTrax Starter Set.
This is also called the basic Starter Set to differentiate it from the
seven other GraviTrax starter sets that have been released in the meantime. But this was
the original: The GraviTrax Starter Set. It normally retails for sixty dollars, but it can
be found for forty to fifty dollars nowadays usually. Just look for sales, look online.
So the Starter Set has all the basic pieces you need to really start your marble runs.
Here you have a manual that's written in various languages, and it familiarizes the user with each
piece in the set, and kind of how to use it. So it's good if you're not familiar with GraviTrax
to take a moment and read this. It's only four pages long, and in multiple languages.
Next we have track pieces. Track pieces bridge the gap between tiles.
In the Starter Set, you have three different lengths of track pieces: short, medium, and
long. The long tracks there's three of those. They bridge three spaces. Let's put those in there.
The medium track, you get six of those. They bridge two spaces.
And the short track,s you get nine of those. And they bridge a single space between tiles.
What should we open next? Okay, here's the launch pad, which can simultaneously launch
three marbles to start your marble run.
This is the magnetic cannon which imparts new energy to a marble using magnets. It's very cool.
Okay, then we have our height tiles. The black ones are the half height tiles.
They're five millimeters high each, and you get how many? You get 12 of the half height tiles.
The full height tiles are the gray ones. They're 10 millimeters tall, twice as tall, and you get
40 of those in the Starter Set. These are what give your marble the height, the potential energy
to start your marble run and run downhill. So
these tiles are very important. You can't do anything without them. Or not much at least.
And here we have some assorted base tiles.
And you'll see that they have inserts that go into them, so we'll see how these go together here.
You get one vortex, which is pretty cool. Marble goes down the chute.
You get one three in one or three-way merge, and you also get two of these two-way merge tiles,
which also double as switches when you put the switch insert in. You get
two switches. Or you can take the green part out and just use it as a two-way merge. Very flexible.
You also get a landing pad with its insert. That's
where the marble will usually end up at the end of its marble run.
Then you get these inserts. So that's a catcher insert. You get two catcher inserts that go into
the bases. You get one splash pad, which has divots for marbles to be there, and that can
be hit along. And then this is the freefall insert. Marble falls through that and down.
And as far as the actual base tiles that those inserts go into, you get three of those.
Now this is the finish line. It snaps into the three three-way merge, so that you can
have all three marbles of the colored marbles, if you're racing, go into that finish line and the
finish line will tell you, you know, which one finished first. So you can figure out who won.
These are the curved tiles. You get... uh... let's see, how many curved tiles do you get?
Let's take a look. That's 21. 21 curved tiles, and you also get
three of the junction tiles, which are those straight intersecting tiles.
So you'll be using the curved tiles most of all.
And here's some of the marbles. You get one of each color, and then you
get three of the silver marbles in the starter set. So there's three.
And they have the red..
green.. or is that blue? I can't tell. I'm color blind. Red green and blue. There's the green.
That other one was blue. They kind of look the same depending on the light.
Now we get two clear platforms, and these are really cool because you can
put the platforms up in the sky and build a whole little mini marble run on the platforms.
We'll get back to that, but here's the base plates. Each base plate is about one foot square,
and you get four of them. They interlock with the puzzle tabs in any configuration you want.
You'll have to punch out those inserts. You get four of those, so that's that's pretty good.
So this is a manual of some tracks that you can build, to kinda get you started. It gives
you some ideas, you know, kind of like in a lego set, you might want to build what's in the manual
first before you go off on your own and build your own. Also in the back part of this manual you have
some puzzles to solve, where you can... it'll tell you, okay, with these pieces can you
can you make the track work? Can you make a track to get the marble from the beginning to the end?
A little critical thinking there. This is the same track manual that's in the XXL.
So that's it for the unboxing of the GraviTrax Starter Set.
All these pieces come in the set, and it's pretty much everything you need to get
started. Now you can add to that any of the extensions, any of the Vertical Pro pieces,
other starter sets. But this gets you started with everything that you need.
I hope you found this video helpful. If so, hit the thumbs up button. Also see my other
unboxing videos, and my comparison videos where I compare one starter set to another.
We'll see you next time. My name is Chris. Thanks for joining me.