Gridfinity Marble Run Expansion #4 "Drop It"

Hey there everyone! It never gets old saying that our family is still having fun with this project! I had an awesome request for a vertical drop element so here is what I came up with. I have been doing my best to keep every piece within the grid feature of gridfinity so that elements can be stacked next to each other without interfering with the pieces around them. This was a bit of a challenge in creating the “catch” piece of this element as I did not want to make a funnel or cone. I think what I came up with works pretty good, its not perfect, but I had 100% success when testing drops as high as 10 blocks from drop to catch. Also included in this set are what I call Curve Savers. I had a friend say that when using the block curves, marbles moving fast had a tendency to “jump the rails”. I too had encountered this problem so I felt we needed to add a top piece that we can put on fast moving curves to keep the marbles on track. I designed this in a way that the bridge pieces lock the