Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track Set

This is the best set I've seen from Hot Wheels in awhile. I'm so glad I got this for my 6yo. It's been a blast...even for me! Certainly true that not all the cars work with it, but since we over 500 of them it wasn't a problem to find a bunch that zoomed through the track. The lighter, slimmer cars fling the best. If you're gonna buy any Hot Wheels package set, this is the one I would lay out some cash for!! It was easy to put together too...only took about 5 mins. The batteries were a bit pricey (four D cells), but they haven't run out yet and we run this thing all the time.

My boys raced Hotwheels on this for hours! When they grew too old for it, we passed it along to cousins. It stood the test of time as far as sturdiness. It does take up some space the the cars to launch off frequently. Neither one of those things prevented us from using it. It can be taken apart and easily put back together if someone needed to store it out of the way.

Looks nice

I bought this for my 9 year old son for Christmas. He loves it. He uses all his hot wheels cars on the track they all work great. He plays with this more than any other toy. Delivery was fast. Great transaction

It's not that easy to get four cars going around the track. The track is small and the cars go whipping by quickly. The motors launch the cars pretty fast so that they get around the steep banked curves (or they fall off). The four 'D' batteries must be in top notch condition as each car will decrease the motor speed slightly as the car travels through the launcher housing. The motors must recover their speed before the next car arrives or else it won't launch it fast enough and the car will fall off the curve. Given the variables at play: batteries, car quality, track placement wobbliness, user's ability to time it just right, I found this toy somewhat frustrating. When I tried only two or three cars, they'd traverse the track just fine, go for awhile, and eventually one or all would fall off the track, but seldom crash. The more cars, the higher the likelihood of a crash, but getting more cars on the track is a pain (maybe fun for some). Overall, I don't like this Hot Wheels set and wouldn't recommend it. If the product had only been $20, I'd have given this 3 stars, but at $40 it is not worth it. One last minor gripe is that the battery housing is too tight (it's harder than it needs to be to insert/remove the 'D' cells) and the cheap battery cover barely stays in it's hinges.

HOt Wheels Criss Cross Track Set is great fun for all, but when a piece isn't just right the cars go flying off. I paid twice the sale price (at Target) from Amazon after a tedious search at online stores and walk up stores 3-4 weeks before Christmas. After reading reviews, I was dead set on getting this for my grandson, age 7. He loves it! It is not a toy that a child will spend over 10 minutes playing, however. BUT it is COOL to see the cars go zipping around the track even three and four at a time! I'm not sure this plastic track was worth the big price I paid over-looking the smile on my grandchild's face....Buying at Amazon, I was able to secure the track for Christmas and got it fast!

DO NOT USE BLUE SUPPORT BEAMS!!!We got this set for Christmas this year. We set it up as instructed and found it very difficult to get more than one car around the track. The problem is in the design of the set. The blue beams raise the tracks up high but they decrease the stability of the tracks. One car will go around just fine but the force of the car causes the opposite loops of the track to jostle back and forth severely. If you have two cars going this jostling is strong enough to cause the cars to fall off the track. My kids decided to remove the support beams and guess what. The tracks are way more stable and we were able to get multiple cars going at once for many laps around the track. We even got five cars around a couple of times but this is very tricky. I can not understand why Hot Wheels put these support beams on the set. Once you take them off it will make this toy a million times more fun for everyone.Also, the kids found a trick for getting mulitple cars going:Place a car on one of the arrow stickers and let it sit.Start a car on an opposite loop.The moving car will come around with enough force to knock the sitting car into the spinning wheels and still have enough movement to go through the wheels itself.We have tried placing three sitting cars on three arrows and we were able to send another car around and got all of the cars going around the track.This is a great tip for little kids to not get frustrated trying to get multiple cars on the track.In conclusion: DO NOT USE BLUE SUPPORT BEAMS!!!

My son wanted this toy for Christmas - SO BADLY. He wrote his leter to Santa and was thrilled at the thought of getting this on Christmas morning. Well, he got it. And we opened it up and put it together exactly how it was supposed to go. We put in the batteries and he eagerly turned on the switch. He then put the Hot Wheels car on the track , hoping it would fly around the track like it is supposed to. But what happened? nothing. It started up the first loop and fell off as it hit the corner. We never once got it to go around. We tried several other cars, and ironically the one it came with was the worst. Some of his heavier cars actually made it around the first loop, only to fall right off the second. After trying several different times to get it to work (even had other family members look at it to make sure I had it together properly). I told my son that it had to go back to Santa's Workshop and that I would go get him something else that worked to replace it. He was bummed, but he is looking forward to getting a new toy - once Amazon refunds me my money (I sent it back last week).