Block tower V2 - VTech Marble Rush compatible

“Third-party product compatible Marble Rush™. Marble Rush™ is a registered trademark owned by VTech Holdings Ltd., with no connection to this product.”

VTech Marble Rush - Block tower V2: new version, more solid and stable with only 1.5g of extra filament!

Prints with no supports! There is just a brim to ensure good model adhesion

My son received a second VTech Marble Rush track as a Christmas gift, and I found it interesting to be able to complete and improve it with printed models

I found a set of .stl models online but:
- the models were difficult to fit into the original parts, which damaged them...
- the models were less flush than the originals once fitted
- the two 2x-upturn_road models had excessively wide attachments, making fitting impossible, and simply reducing the part made it too short...
- the plates were hollow and therefore required many supports, so I closed them with a low infill: faster to print and less filament waste in supports! (yes, the original brand ones are hollow, but only to allow them to be stacked. Here the 3D model was not stackable anyway...)
- the plates had a small, useless notch creating a weakness, so I removed it
- the shape of some parts requires a lot of supports, so I decided to work on optimizing them to offer print profiles on MakerWorld to make things easier for Bambu Lab owners in the same situation as me.
- the strength of some 3D printed PLA parts was very poor, and yet I believe it's still the most suitable material here! So I worked on the orientation of the parts on the plate as well as the infill.
- many elements are missing, I added some either by heavily modifying existing models or by creating completely new ones. I hope to add even more!

I offer you various parts to create a Marble Run compatible with Vtech Marble Rush tracks

You will see in the photos what I was able to print directly with my profiles, but obviously the print quality (appearance, strength, ease of support removal) will depend greatly on the quality of your filament calibration! And the result will be much better if you use specific filament for the support interface (which I didn't do because this type of part has more of a mechanical role than an aesthetic one for me...)

List of parts available in my collection (or coming soon…):
 

It is possible that there are new files not shown above: check my dedicated collection!

https://makerworld.com/en/collections/4164242-vtech-marble-rush

If you find better settings, share them! I will test your print profiles with real interest!