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| Brand: Trends Uk Ltd
Category: Toy
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £11.00
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Rating:  48 reviews
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 4.9 x 7.1
MPN: 194459
EAN: 5011805194455
ASIN: B0010DKZTW
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 Incredible Game August 8, 2008
M. A. Hussain
26 out of 43 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2KC1ILAUIC1UF
Superb fun between Jenga and Kerplunk - but watch you don't lose the balls October 18, 2008
MM Turner (Birmingham, England)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
WobBally is one of those games which makes you think "why didn't anyone invent this before?". Basically it's a tower about 25 cm high of large, coloured ball bearings separated by rings. What holds them in place and stops them wobbling about? you ask. Absolutely nothing.
WobBally arrives in a clear plastic case which holds everything in place. You put it on a flat, hard surface and turn the case while holding the base still, and, in some ingenious way, this levels the tower. You know it's level, because a single metal ball bearing at the top of the case ends up staying in a centre spot. Then you remove the plastic case. Don't do this until you are ready to play! I opened the case with WobBally on my kitchen table, saw it wobble slightly, and noticed there was a bit of stray thread somewhere. "I'll just pull that out" I said to myself, not having read through the instructions. Disaster! The entire tower instantly collapsed, sending the coloured balls bouncing all across the kitchen (I'm still looking for one, if you see it anywhere). Once you've located the balls again, it doesn't take long to reassemble the tower. And this, more or less, is the game.
If you actually read the instructions, you discover that you are supposed to prod the balls into the tower with the supplied prodding sticks, neatly housed along with the spare balls (good thought!) and some plastic stuff for retaining balls no longer in use, in a tube in the centre. You take all that stuff out before you play. Just like Jenga or Kerplunk (remember Kerplunk?), you take it in turns to prod balls in, until someone makes the tower collapse, and that person is out. You're supposed to all shout WobBally! when they do, but that doesn't actually affect the play. Once you've mastered that level, you can play with the coloured dice, which tells you which coloured ball you have to play, and once you have that down, you can additionally play with the numbered dice, telling you which level.
So, exactly how much fun is this? Enormous fun. The moment you take the lid off and see the whole thing wobbling around, you know it's going to be great. Once you've seen the tower literally explode into flying coloured balls, you know it's incredibly great.
Of course, you've already spotted that this is only going to carry on being a great game as long as you haven't lost too many of the balls. The inclusion of spares tells you the manufacturers were aware of this. My recommendation is to play in some kind of tray with a high raised side. This isn't going to stop the most excitable balls, which will still bounce out, but it will help.
This is a very cleverly designed game. Obviously, in plastic, it's not going to survive a great deal of small child anger. Actually, it seems to be a game ideally made for older groups, especially students. I see all night WobBally parties on the horizon...
This is one of the most captivating games I've seen for a long, long time. Absolutely brilliant.
Now it's back to the kitchen to look for that final ball...
 Sophisticated Family Fun October 20, 2008
D. Elliott (Ulverston, Cumbria)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Numerous reviews and video clips already describe WobBally so I restrict comments to the game. Yes it's like `Jenga' but use of colours for a large number of balls allows for more sophisticated play options. It is good fun to play and exciting to watch the efforts of competitors with a precariously teetering stack rather than the static tower of `Jenga'. For WobBally I believe greater dexterity and steadiness is required for body and mind, and it is not for the clumsy or faint-hearted. The game is advertised as suitable for 5 years old to adult - but 5 seems a bit young, and in any case at that age there is a need for supervision to ensure balls are not taken as sweets. The stack is cleverly contrived but re-building is unlikely to be achieved by a 5 year old - and it can be irksome for an adult.
The game is nicely packaged and all components fit within itself making it easy to put away - so when next getting it out to play there should be no danger that bits are missing. However it is easy to lose balls during play, and the plastic surround strip provided is inadequate for prevention of spillage when the stack collapses - better to set the game on some form of tray. All in all this is an excellent product. I suspect there will be bumper Christmas sales for WobBally with gifts aimed at families rather than individuals.
 Not a great new game for the family November 2, 2008
P. M. Fernandez (London)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
We're always on the lookout for new family games that we can play together. Unfortunately, I don't anticipate this one commanding a lot of our attention.
On the plus side, the game is well designed and packaged - it all fits together neatly into its container; the wobbly tower wobbles suitably, and looks neat.
On the downside, the actual gameplay isn't that interesting. It is broadly similar to Jenga, in terms of trying to get balls out of the tower without causing it to collapse. However, the rules don't seem to deal with the fact that you are fairly likely to trigger partial collapses; you are also likely to knock more than one ball out at a time. Also, the time taken to set the game up seems to be as great or greater as the amount of time taken to play the game. And whilst it is generally nicely presented, there's a silly plastic barrier which is designed to go around the whole thing that is just naff.
A good concept. But it could possibly have gone through a couple more passes through the evaluation cycle before being released, in our opinion.
 Well made - passing interest October 18, 2008
Withnail67 (UK)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a fun item, colourful and well packaged. It has good production values and is well designed. The game is a cross between the "wooden-push-out-blocks" game and a well known 1960s and 1970s game involving pulling sticks out to release marbles!
It is fun, and some children I know were well engaged - but when the stack of marbles and plastic rings falls, it does take a long time to restack them. It says that the game is for 5+, but I would put it as rather older. Quite diverting - not sure how much lasting appeal it will have. Would make a good general Christmas gift for an 8 year old.
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