Frigits Deluxe
by Think of It
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Toys and Games Reviews of Frigits Deluxe
Customer Review: Hours of Imaginitive Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
We've had Frigits for at least 6 years. They have stood the test of time through two children with a 5 year age difference.
There is an infinite selection of ways to set it up. It can be changed over and over, easily adjusted and rearranged. The magnets that hold it to your refrigerator or metal door are strong and the Frigits do not drop off easily.
There is a great sound quality to the Frigits as the marble goes through the parts. Some click, some spin, some rock the marble back and forth.
We added the Frigits Extension - Launcher which is a great way to start the run.
Not all marbles fit but the standard size works great. It does take some trial and error to get the marble to hit all things correctly but that is the best part. The learning process as you work your way down one stage at a time, adjusting and relaunching is whats makes this a great educational toy.
The only problem is with the marbles dropping all over the floor. Even with the catcher bin at the bottom, marbles inevitably drop in different places and if your floor is anything like mine, it is not level. The marbles always rolled under the refrigerator. We would periodically roll it out and collect 5-10 marbles if we couldn't scoot them out with a coat hanger.
Also, when your child is playing with this, it is difficult to gain access to the refrigerator since they are sitting in front of it (for a long time!). If you have french doors to your refrigerator, it will not work either but many doors in a home (leading outside) are metal and can act as a refrigerator substitute.
Customer Review: Great idea, but...
Summary: 3 Stars
I found this item on a list of toys for kids with Autism. My son has Autism & I thought he might like this and purchased it for Christmas. I was disappointed in the performance of some of the pieces. There are two buckets and I'm guessing, because of their shape, that one bucket is supposed to tip one way & the other bucket tips the other way. One of our buckets consistently tips the way it's designed to, while the other bucket tips whichever way it feels like at that moment and randomly spills marbles onto the floor. The piece that looks like a ferris wheel or water mill wheel did not work at all; no matter how I positioned it, the marbles just bounced off of it onto the floor. My son was disappointed in this because he loves to watch things spin.
Overall, it's a great idea if you can get it to work like it's supposed to. Maybe I got a faulty set or something. Anyhow, I was disappointed & so was my son.
Customer Review: LOVE IT!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this based on Amazon reviews. I'd never seen or heard of it. Everyone loves it. While not a WOW toy upon being opened (my kids didn't know what it was), everyone played with it throughout Christmas day. It traveled to a relatives for an extended family gathering. Whoops of celebration were heard from the kitchen all day. I am certain every person present tried their hand at building a run that would work. A competition ensued, seeing who could build a successful run from the top to the bottom of the fridge. It was the first toy my children played with today, the day after Christmas.
Not a toy that will stay out year round. Rather, something that will disappear and reappear to keep it fresh and fun.
Would recommend it completely. Well made, fun colors, creative, and FUN!
Customer Review: Easy fun for the family - watch those marbles!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second set of these fridge-based marble run toys I've bought and both times it's been a huge hit at the holiday get-togethers. Basically, everyone starts putting up and re-arranging pieces on the side of the fridge and tries to see if the marbles will go through to the end without flying off the end of a ramp or bounce off somewhere. It's a lot of fun, takes a bit of teamwork and figuring out and is something just about anyone can do.
I will say, watch out for the marbles. When they go off the track, they can roll anywhere! Other than that little issue, this is a fun puzzle and interesting way for folks to hang around the kitchen while dinner is cooking or cookies are being baked. Everyone has fun from the grown-ups to the kids to even the dog...but don't let him get that marble!
Customer Review: Frigits Deluxe - A Hit with Kids of All Ages!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This last-minute Christmas purchase through Amazon turned out to be the biggest hit - with 'kids' of all ages that came to our house on Christmas Day. My 7 year old son told Santa and everyone he wanted this - and at the last minute, I realized that we didn't have it. Thankfully, I was able to place an expedited order through Amazon, and it arrived in time. He was thrilled to find it under the tree, immediately got it out and spent a while constructing a maze on the refrigerator. For the rest of the day, members of our extended family, ranging from 6 to 76 designed and built and tweaked mazes. And they still do - everyone who comes into our house is immediately intrigued by it and stops to play - kids and grown-ups alike.