Hi, GraviTrax fans! Today we're going to unbox the GraviTrax Speed Starter Set, which is now
available in the United States of America. That's right, you can buy it from Target dot com for the
retail price of one hundred and thirty dollars. Although I would look
for their occasional sales and discounts that often give you you know up to twenty five
dollars off a one hundred dollar purchase. Or you may want to wait until January when
this will be clearanced, maybe, if they have any left over after the Christmas season.
So let's see what's in the Speed Starter Set and we're going to compare that with the other
starter sets. First of all it comes with a Starter Set Speed instructions. Tells you how
to put everything together, how to assemble the pieces, and how to basically use the pieces. Then
you get a manual showing you some tracks and some layouts that you can build using the Speed Starter
set. Be forewarned, everything may not work perfectly. Ravensburger doesn't do the best job
of proving out their tracks you may have to use some of your own ingenuity and skill
to finish the tracks. Not bad. That's part of the GraviTrax system.
First of all, you get two large clear platforms.
These are in every starter set. No big deal. You normally get two of these in every starter set,
no matter if it's the basic starter set, or the Obstacle, or the Extreme.
Oh, now we got four of these silver marbles. Not bad, usually you get about three,
so you're getting an extra one here. So that's cool. An extra marble, whoo hoo!
You get not one gauss cannon,
but two gauss cannons. Now, that's a bonus because most starter sets only come with one gauss cannon.
You also get a Flip Expansion, or I should say Extension. The Flip is normally a $10
add-on, so that's nice to have in there bundled with the Starter Set Speed.
Let's see what else we have. Well, we have the
launch pad. The launch pad comes in every other starter set.
And check this out we have some of the cool curved rails and so forth, that normally are
not in starter sets. In fact, the only other starter set they're in is the Giant. So we get
two of the trackball catchers, one convex and one concave drop track or O-track as they're called.
And normally these are in the tunnel set. And then we get two of the long Bernoulli
tracks. Again, these are normally Tunnel expansion pieces. So this is the first
starter set that they're actually in, besides of course the Giant which is now out.
Then we have some of these base tiles which are open and allow you to put little inserts in
them. You have uh two switches, which is normal for a starter set. I'm still taking out these
guys. Okay and then we get the... okay one, two, three of those. Actually there's a few more coming
because... and then then there's this one which is a landing pad there. That's the landing pad. Okay,
two switches, and you can also use them as two-way merges. A Vortex right there with two entrances,
and a three-in-one or a three-way merge. That is typical for all the starter sets.
Then you get the building tiles, or the height tiles. These are the gold of the
GraviTrax world. They give you the height you need. There's 56 of these large height tiles. You
see there's two bags of them. 56 is par for the course, although the Basic Starter Set only has
40. So the Obstacle, Speed, and Extreme Starter Set have 56 of these guys. So it's nice to have 56
instead of 40. The Vertical Pro Starter set only has 20 of them, but of course it has the pillars.
Okay, what do we open next? Okay, these are the Spirals. There are two
Spirals. Normally the Spiral Expansion comes with two spirals in it, so...
Let's show you how the Spiral goes together.
How to assemble the Spiral. The Spiral is a really cool accessory. And again,
if you buy the Spiral accessory, the $10 accessory from Ravensburger, you will get
two in that accessory kit. So this is worth, you know, a $10 add-on essentially that is bundled.
So first you put that base green piece in the base tile. Then you add as many of these
intermediate pieces as you would like, and each one adds one half height tile to the spiral.
So that way you can count how high you're going and you will always match up with other pieces.
Now you can put as few of these as you want. You don't have to put any. You can just put the... you
can leave them all out and just go with the base. And then on top you'll see here we're going to put
a special piece, which has the inserts for the track to rest in. So we're just going
to finish putting the...there we go. So that that's what it looks like when it's finished.
And we have a few more pieces here to go. So you get 12 of those spiral curve pieces, and
then a spiral top, you get one each per spiral. So you could put those 12 spiral curve pieces
all on one Spiral if you want, and make a really tall one. And then the second
one would be a really short one. But uh i'm just putting them on there so you can see.
There goes the top and there they're complete. Spirals are a very cool thing to have.
Next, we have the short Bernoulli rails. You get eight of them, which is pretty neat.
And actually, the only other sets that have them... well actually a lot of sets
have them. The Vertical Pro Starter Set has them,
the Extreme, the Giant, the Lite, and the Advent Calendar has eight of them.
So pretty cool. They were normally uh... they first came out in the Vertical Pro
Starter Set. You get two straight pieces, three of the left curves, and three of the right curves.
Okay, as far as track pieces, you get about the same amount as you get in any other starter
set. That is you get three of the long tracks. Long tracks cover three spaces.
One two three. And then you get six of the medium tracks. Medium tracks cover two spaces. And that's
what you would get in almost every other starter set, except the Giant which has three times that.
And then you get nine of the short tracks. These are the most used tracks, and they span
one space between tiles. There are nine of these in the other starter sets,
such as the Basic Starter Set, the Vertical Pro Starter Set, the Obstacle Starter Set.
There's 15 of those though in the Extreme Starter Set, and 27 in the Giant. Nine in the Lite.
Okay let's see what else we have here. Okay, this looks like the Loop.
This is the looping... Loop or looping accessory. It just snaps together in the middle,
and snaps into the base. If you want it to be very firm, I would recommend super gluing it into the
base. Why? Because it will wobble sometimes, and wobble means the marble loses momentum. Okay,
here's the short height tiles. These are half the height of the large height tiles, and you get 12
of these, which is the same amount you get in the Base Starter Set, or the Obstacle Starter Set,
or the Extreme Starter Set. You only get six of these in the Lite, and you get 32 in the Giant,
and 24 in the XXL Starter Set.
Bonus here, you get two each of the speed long rails. That's these really thin ones. Makes them
go really fast. It's kind of like walking a tightrope. And then you get two of the slow
rails. I love the slow rails they just really slow your marble run down, and give it some
more time to just kind of mellow out like a good coffee, you know? Just kind of steeping like tea,
and just makes that that marble run kind of linger a little bit longer, so you can enjoy it.
Okay so we're going to open up, let's see.. I believe, uh, yeah why don't we open up the
inserts here. I’m going to tear this bag open. Show you. Okay, no, actually these are the tunnel
pieces. Okay. So we get four tunnel pieces. First of all is the switch. There is a...so
this is really a third switch for your track here. Put the little toggle in the middle,
and then snap on the cover. And then this becomes an insert that goes in those base tiles I showed
you about earlier. But guess what? You get some more base tiles just to dedicate to these guys.
These are all from the tunnel set. Then you get a straight piece. There you go. Nice. And
two of these curves.
Now of course the straight piece has a dedicated base piece with the entrances
180 degrees apart from each other, whereas the curves go in the three-way entrance base tiles.
In addition, you get this cool guy. This is called a dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-da! What is he called?
A vertical u-turn tunnel. It snaps together, and it actually makes the marble go down from
one level to the next. That's all part of the... normally part of the Tunnel Set.
Okay so here we go. Here's the other base tiles I was telling you about that go to the Tunnel Set.
So there's the one for the straight piece. You see they're right...the
entrances are across from each other. But most of the others are these three ways.
So those you can, if you want to, you can dedicate to these tunnel pieces, or use them elsewhere.
So that's how they go together. And then put the same thing with the switch. The switch uses
a three-way opening base tile. And of course the straight tunnel piece. Tunnel pieces are
nice. There's actually a lot of uses for them. The curves are really great if the marble's
going really fast, keeps the marble on the track. Great to have, especially for a Speed Set right?
Now, here's a bunch of the miscellaneous green pieces. First of all you got your finish line.
Finish line is designed to fit in to the three-way merge. You see, the three-way merge actually has
two openings and indentations on the side of that. So it fits in and kind of swivels
and just lays down, and then you can figure out which marble finished first.
Put these switch toppers on the two-way merges, and you get a switch. Of course there's two of
those. So one two. Just like most starter sets have two of these. These are great,
really, for making your track, taking it to the next level.
These are splash. No, they're not splash pads. These are, what are they called...ramps?
They're called catcher inserts, and they go into the base tiles there.
And then this is the splash pad. Splash insert. And what you can do is you can put
marbles in those little indentations and they'll just stay there until they're hit
by another marble coming along. And you can use that to make one marble send two more off,
or drop it from above and even send three marbles going, going their way.
And then this is the free fall insert. I'm not a big fan of these, because
you know the marbles go in and they fall down, but they never fall straight down. They keep
going with their momentum, and you know, unless they're falling on a catcher insert, then you're
gonna maybe have some trouble. Trying to have those fall on a splash pad doesn't work very well.
This is the landing pad. That's how it goes together. You get one of those for
this the starter set.
Now here's the bonus. This is the unique thing... two of these small clear platforms. Now,
this is the gold mine right here, because these don't come in a lot of other sets.
They only come in the Extreme starter set and the Giant and, then there's one of
them in the Lite. So it's great to get two of those. And one comes in the Advent Calendar.
Of course you get a red marble, a blue marble, and a green marble, so you can go Christmas with the
red and green if you want, or you know just have a race between colors. All the starter
sets will pretty much have one of each of these, except the Giant which has three...three times.
Okay, then you get your curved tiles. Most of these are just curved tiles, and you get 28 of
them, slightly more than other sets which have 21, like the the Base Starter Set and the Obstacle.
And you also have some of the crisscross, I guess you could say,
or junction tiles. Four of those are in there as well.
Okay, here we go. Base plates. Normally you get four in a starter set, but in
the Speed Starter Set, you get six. That's nice. You get a little more building area.
With the Speed Starter Set, you can spread out. You can make that marble go faster and farther.
So six is nice. It's a couple extra base plates in there. The only one other one that has six is
the Extreme. The Giant has eight, the XXL has six, and the rest have four.
That's it! That is the total empty box contents of the GraviTrax Speed Starter Set.
So do I recommend getting this? It's actually a very good set. You can get the Obstacle Starter
Set still on Ebay for about 60 to 70 dollars brand new, because it was clearanced this past January.
So a lot of sellers are still selling those, and you also get five...five
expansions there. So that might be a better deal, but the Speed is not a bad deal.
Hope you enjoyed this. Hope it's informative. Thanks a lot.
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