[Ad- gifted products] I remember playing marbles as a kid, at my grandparents house, where the marbles were in the back barn used for games of knock out. When we received Freak Marbles, I realized that Robin hadn’t played with marbles before, as it’s just not a thing for the newer generation – however Freak Marbles aims to change it all.
Freak Marbles have brought characters, blind bag mystery, and different games to the marble world. Robin got the chance to open a starter pack of three characters that you can sort of see already, which includes a draw-string bag to hold all of your Freak Marbles in, along with one of the blind bags which contains a marble and their outer skin. These skins are all showcasing a different creature, character, or thing, where as the marble itself slots in as the head of the creature.
The Freak Marbles you end up with do have an attack, health, and power to them, for more advanced games, as you can play in an area where you track your Freak Marble’s health and when it smashes into another marble, you can track how much health that marble lost. It’s a fun idea for gameplay!
Robin’s favorite way to play with these marbles is actually to put a bunch of them in their outer skin, where they can stand up and become characters. She then likes taking one of the marbles out, as her playing one, and bowling this marble towards the standing ones, knocking them over. You can also play classic marble games with them, try to roll them over an end point, and so much more. The website itself has a bunch of fun videos showing off different ways to play.
Marble Freaks is a more collectable, fun version of marbles – they aren’t made of glass and all have the same size and weight, making them an extremely fun classic toy remastered. I do like the little character cases that they come in, though it is worth noting it’s hard moving the marble once it’s in the face area, so often they end up off centre, but Robin didn’t seem to mind at all!