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We send all of our orders via Royal Mail, last posting dates per their guidance are as follows: UK Inland Services Friday 18th December: 2nd class and 2nd class signed forMonday 21st December: 1st class, 1st class signed for and Royal Mail Tracked 48Despite this guidance however, please note that we would strongly suggest that you place all Christmas orders with us by 4pm on Friday 18th December to avoid disappointment. Orders will be processed on the following Monday, however in the case of our local Post Office experiencing exceptional demand, it cannot be guaranteed that orders placed after 18th...

With the new national lockdown beginning from midnight tonight, we continue to live in very uncertain times. However, we want to reassure all our customers that we will still be operating as normal in the run-up to Christmas. The lockdown will not affect our processing times and we will continue to get all of your orders out as quickly as we possibly can. We have changed our shipping rates this week. For the rest of 2020, we are charging just £1.50 for all orders shipped within the UK (Royal Mail second class). First class, tracked, signed and international shipping options...

Here at MAD Factory we are always trying to expand our product range, but we have always been extremely selective about what we sell. We are only interested in products that are well designed and well made from good quality materials, are durable, reliable, educational....and most of all are a lot of fun! We are now proud to stock a range of fabulous marble machines and automata kits from our friends at Robotime. They have designed a fascinating range of laser cut marble machines, which we now sell, these are Marble Squad, Marble Parkour and Marble Explorer.  With these kits, you can...

We are now delighted to add another fantastic, full-colour automata kit from GoModelshop to our every expanding collection. The time it's the awesome "Dragon on the Cloud" kit. What's really great about this range of kits is that they are totally glue-less, so there's absolutely no need to make a mess when making them. Build it and then turn the handle to watch the automaton come to life. They make for a brilliant learning tool to teach kids about cams and linkages. Also check out the rest of our fabulous range of automata kits. Remember, postage is now just £1.50...

We are very excited to announce that we finally have full, step-by-step, video build instructions uploaded to our youtube channel for both Marble Machine #1 versions of our MAD kits, the handcranked and the motorised models. These can be found at youtube.com/themadmuseumltd . Also, in response to some pieces of very constructive feedback from our customers, we have entirely redone the written instructions for the Marble Machine #1 Motorised kit. These, along with all of the other kit instructions, can be found on the museum website here: themadmuseum.co.uk/mad-kits/ . Finally, to the shop we have added a "spares" category, here you can...