Marble Run toy not made in China

[steve]

One of the reasons I started this site was because all of the baby and toddler toys I could find were made in China. Other than the safety concerns, I hated the thought of paying huge amounts of money to prop up a government whose main mission is to harm and destroy us so that when she becomes a grown up they'll be the dominant power (and we all know that as awful as some people here in the US behave as the world's leading superpower, China will be 1000x worse.

One of the first toys I got her after I resolved not to buy toys made in China was this series of marble runs by Hape. Just looking at it you can see a huge difference. While most marble runs are cheap, flimsy, injection molded plastic that can barely stay together with the weight of a marble on it, these German-made toys are solidly made and a TON of fun.



Here's another German-made brand called Hubelino. Unlike Hape it's plastic and not wood, but unlike other plastic ones that are cheap and made in China, this is sturdy and very well made.