Spacewarp (toy)
Spacewarp is line of build-it-yourself toy rolling ball "roller coasters" first made in the 1980s. Users cut lengths of track to the correct size from a single roll of thick plastic tubing, forming curves and loops held in place by plastic track rail holders which attach to metal rods held vertical in a black plastic base. Steel balls roll around the track and on to a battery-powered Screw conveyor that takes them to the top to start all over again.
Availability
Sets
1985-1995:
- 10
- 15 (17,000mm rail, 8 base plates)
- 20
- 30
- 40
- I (11,000mm rail, 6 base plates, toothed lift)
- II (12 base plates)
- L (6 base plates, electric lights)
- Action 1 (windmill)
- Action 2
- Blue Wings (28,000mm rail, 11 base plates)
- Space Tree
- W (8 base plates)
- Black Wolf (20,000mm rail, 8 base plates, staircase, chimes, black plastic tubing)
2005–present:
Sets are assigned a complexity level of 1 to 8.
- Desktop (preformed plastic tracks instead of plastic tubing for rails)
- 231-1/Start (5,000mm rail, 3 base plates, Level 1)
- 231-2/3500 (9,000mm rail, 2 base plates, Level 2)
- 231-3/5000 (16,000mm rail, 6 base plates, Level 3)
- 231-4 (26,000mm rail, 9 base plates, Level 4)
- 231-5/10000 (32,000mm rail, 12 base plates, Level 5)
- 231-6 (60,000mm rail, 6 base plates, Level 6)
- 231-7 (16,000mm rail, 6 base plates, Level 7)
- 231-8 (40,000mm rail, 12 base plates, Level 8)
Accessories
Additional accessories include lighting kits, a staircase, bell ringer, escalator and more.
Knock-Offs
As with many popular toys, nearly identical counterfeit editions have emerged under the Chinese "Spacerail" brand[1].
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