Rube Goldberg - The Acrobat Challenge

I used these in my middle school science class as a way to help demonstrate Newton's laws. The setups are challenging, but not so much that it can't be done in under 30 minutes by a few 12 year old kids without much of any assistance from an adult. Out of the three sets I used; basketball, water the plant, and acrobat challenge, each of the sets had some groups that completed them. Those that did not were very close, but ran out of time during the 40 minute period.

I bought this for my eight-year-old nephew, and quickly found out it would never be operational “as pictured”.It looked cooler on the box. The structure itself is pretty flimsy, and I’m not sure we ever figured out how the monkey would stay at the highest level on the balance beam without falling down before it’s time? Perhaps, the trick was with the snake? Everything else was trial and error trying to position parts so they would domino into each other as intended. It didn’t work out for us and I would not recommend purchasing.Even being completely meticulous about it (as an adult) we could not get it to function properly one time, let alone seeing an eight-year-old try to attempt it! Luckily it was somewhat cheap to begin with, but still a flop.

Cool toy for kids.

Some of the parts didn't line up quite right so half of the machine worked and the other half, to get it going, you have to get the ball a-rolling by hand. It is such a pity because the machine is so fun-looking and colourful and my daughter loves Rube Goldberg machines so she played with it for a few days and hasn't touched it since.

My youngest daughter (6 yrs) loves this Rube Goldberg Acrobat toy .As soon as it arrived , I gave it to her and she haven’t stop playing with it . I really wanted to play with it myself .This toy works perfectly as long as you put it up correctly .

This product was not worth the money. Too frustrating parts didn’t work. Overall bad product and never could get it to work properly.

As all of Rube Goldberg books this one was terrific.

Looks like fun!

NOPE!!! waste of money does not fully work even in the small stages. things are badly made unbalanced. we have to make so may alterations and still the hand and the canon would not connect. Absolutely a waste of time and money.If you are going to sell Crap on amazon just post this item may be crap and doesnt work. that was you are honest.