Hot Wheels Toys

I purchased this to spend quality time with my 9 year old daughter who loves Speed Racer, probably because I am a huge fan.

Setup was pretty easy and straightforward. My first impression is how in the world will this contraption work? Well, it does, and it is lots of fun.

We only use the Speed Racer line of cars, so we don’t know how this works with other Hot Wheels. Most times, cars will run lap after lap after lap without incident. Occasionally a car will derail, but hey, some drivers probably just can’t handle the course! We’ve had 4 or more cars lapping at the same time, often for long periods. The four intersections provide for some spectacular crashes!

The height some of these cars fly into the air is amazing. And yes, they are deflected, drop down into the funnel, then into a spinning tube/tunnel which most of the time gets the car back on its tires for another lap, though sometimes maybe backwards!

Bottomline, lots of fun, giggles and squeals as the events unfold on the course. Easy to setup, seems very durable, the seams between track elements are pretty tight and smooth.

Detach the tower, and the whole unit can be moved in one piece, preserving the setup, for storage in a closet, making setting up again even easier.

There are collisions, car derailments, etc. so expect your cars paint to chip and scar, but to us that adds character.

My only complaint is that I wish it provided for an AC Adapter option. We’re not sure yet how much usage we’ll get with a set of 4xD batteries.

I thought that there was no way this thing would work the way it says it does on the package, but it really does. Buy an extra pack of cars and get 4 of them going at once, they shoot around the track and fly up in the air, and every once in a while you’ll get a good crash.

We gave this to our 4 year old for his birthday, it’s his favorite present. It needs a little adult supervision, every once in a while the track gets a little out of whack and needs to be adjusted, but other than that he can play with it by himself.

Make sure you have new batteries for it, otherwise the cars won’t make it around the first turn and will just fall off.

I gave it two stars for education because I figure it can help kids develop a little bit of physical intuition, concerning momentum and projectile motion. Other than that, there’s not much to learn here.

My 7 and 8 year old boys received this toy just after seeing the Speed Racer movie. It is a joy to watch them try to time the cars so that they collide at the various intersections. They love it when the cars leap into the air and then drop into the funnel that puts them back on the track. It is battery powered and the batteries seem to last for quite a while. You can only use the Speed Racer Hot Wheel cars, and they are all different in speed and balance so the boys like to see which ones can finish the circuit the fastest. The engineers that designed this toy must have had a blast doing it. They did a great job putting together a fun toy that my boys keep coming back to.