Hi GraviTrax fans! This is Chris from the Masked Marble.
Today on Set Versus Set we compare the contents of the GraviTrax Starter Set XXL
and the GraviTrax Starter Set Obstacle. Which pieces do these sets have in common?
Which pieces are unique to each set? Find out on today's Set Versus Set.
First of all, the common pieces. Both sets have these pieces in common. Everything
you see in the middle here are included in both the XXL and the Obstacle Starter Set.
What are these pieces? Well, first of all you get two
large clear platforms. These are great for building on. You can you can suspend that into
the air using height tiles. You also get 4 base plates. The base plates are about one foot square,
and they provide the base for your marble run. Both sets have 56 large height tiles.
Each of the large height tiles is one centimeter in height, or 10 millimeters. That's where you
get your height from. Both of these sets also have 12 small height tiles, which are half the height
of the large height tile. They allow you to dial in a height. Both sets have 21 curved tiles.
Let's readjust the view here.
And both sets also have 3 junction tiles.
Inside both the XXL and Obstacle Starter Set you will find a three-way merge - a three in one.
And a finish line, which allows you to know the order of the marbles as they finish. Which one
won the race? Two switches, and the switches come apart and you can use the base as a two-way merge.
Both of the sets also have a Vortex that drops the
marble down to the next lower level through a clear platform.
A Magnetic Cannon.
A Launch Pad that launches three marbles simultaneously. A landing pad and landing
pad insert, where the marbles will end their run. A splash pad with basic tile,
and the splash pad insert has divots in it to hold the marbles in place until they are hit by other
marbles. A free fall insert with basic tile. This drops the marble down to the next lower level.
2 catcher inserts and a basic tile. So you get a total of five inserts, but only four basic tiles.
You get 3 colored marbles.
6 of the silver marbles. 3 of the long tracks, 6 of the medium tracks,
and 9 of the short tracks.
That's everything that is in common
between the two sets. Now let's look at what's unique about the Obstacle Starter Set.
That's everything pictured here. First of all you get a Zipline included. The Zipline expansion
is normally a $10 expansion. You get a Spiral expansion that has two spirals. That's normally
a $10 dollar expansion. You see that i have them in their highest and lowest configuration. They
have these adjustable pieces that you can put on or off to make the Spiral different height.
You get 3 transfers. The 3 transfers are also a $10 expansion normally.
Also you get 3 Bridges and 3 additional silver marbles as counterweights. You have to use 3 of
the common silver marbles also as counterweights
on the Bridges. The Bridges is normally a $25 expansion, and it normally comes with this slow
rail, which is four spaces long. And it really slows the marble down nice and slow, like that.
And also the speed rail. Now the speed rail is kind of like walking a tight rope.
It makes the marble go fast. But it also… the marble could sometimes fall off of it
unless it's going straight. Let me see if I can get this working here. So you can see
how fast the marble goes. So it goes nice and fast, and then slow on the slow rail.
The Obstacle set has 2 of the Trampolines. The Trampoline expansion normally comes with 2,
and it's a $10 expansion. And the marbles just bounce off of the Trampolines like that.
Also included with that Trampoline expansion are 2 of these small green angled tiles that
allow you to fine-tune the angle of the Trampoline. But I use them everywhere.
You also get a single sheet of a track that you can build with all of those bundled expansions
in the Obstacle Starter Set. Then you get just a regular track manual that's 24 pages,
that shows you just using the basic pieces of the Obstacle Starter Set some tracks that you
can build to get familiar with how to build GraviTrax tracks. And then lastly you get
the parts manual for the Obstacle Starter Set. It tells you what each part is, what it does,
how to assemble it if necessary. and that includes the bundled expansions.
So that's everything that's unique about the Obstacle Starter Set. That's all the unique pieces
that are not in the XXL Let's look at the pieces that are in the XXL
that are not in the Obstacle Starter Set.
You get some more height tiles, an additional 24 of those.
And this is everything that's unique here. Sorry about my shadow there.
So 24 more height tiles for a total of 80. You get 12 more small height tiles. That's double
what you would get in the Obstacle. You get double the curve tiles at 42,
so another 21. You get double the junction tiles, another 3 of those.
2 more switches, that's double. Another Vortex, that's also double.
Then you get another three-way merge and finish line. You also get another Launch Pad,
another landing pad with landing pad insert,
another splash pad with basic tile, another free fall insert with basic tile,
another two catcher inserts and one basic tile. You also get double the track,
which means another 3 long pieces, another 6 medium pieces, and another 9 of the short pieces.
You also get a Hammer expansion. That's normally a $10 expansion. The marble comes in,
triggers the Hammer, and the Hammer shoots it along. Gives it a little more energy.
You also get a Looping expansion. That's normally a $10 expansion.
You also get the manuals for both of those expansions.
You also get the parts manual and the track manual that come with the XXL.
This is a larger 48 page track manual, because it not only has tracks that you can build,
but in the back it has puzzles that you can solve.
And here's the parts manual that comes with the XXL. This parts manual is four pages long,
and is repeated in multiple languages. It tells you what each piece is and how to use it.
Also in the Starter Set XXL, you get 2 more of the clear platforms for a total of 4.
And you also get 2 more base plates for a total of 6. So not quite double
the base plates. And that's everything that's unique about the Starter Set XXL.
My name is Chris from the Masked Marble, and I hope you've enjoyed this comparison
of the Starter Set XXL and the Starter Set Obstacle. Join us next time on Set
Versus Set for another comparison between GraviTrax Starter Sets.