Disney Cars: Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge Track Set
by Mattel
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Toys and Games Reviews of Disney Cars: Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge Track Set
Customer Review: Not as Bad as the reviews! Quite Good actually
Summary: 4 Stars
I do not write too many reviews. But I was very perturbed by the poor reviews this toy received. My son has wanted this Trak set for over 1 year. I avoided buying it because of the awful reviews. I broke down and bought it for him with full intention of returning it,if it was flimsy and non-duarble as most of the reviews claim.
First of all you have to put it together properly which can be a little tricky. My first attempt failed but I could tell it was flimsy and something wasnt correct so I took it apart and did it again. Success!! It is fairly stable my 5 year old and destructive 2 year old played with it for hours without breaking anything. I even did the first few races myself to be sure.
The ONLY complaint I have is all Pixar cars do not work on it, so far Florence and Ramon are too wide to fit, but Doc, Sally, and Lightening work just fine. I purchased some 5 pack of cars at Toys R Us to go with it. My son says some of his Hot Wheels cars work too! Overall happy with the product and will purchase others for gifts for my friends kids.
Customer Review: amazing toy, works perfectly with weaker batteries
Summary: 5 Stars
after reading all the horrible reviews about this toy I wasn't sure if I should really get it, but now I'm glad that I did. It is an amazing toy, and it is not hard to assemble. I'm actually pretty akward in putting stuff together, no matter what it is, but I had this track assembled in about 30 minutes, and it was fun! Everybody should be able to assemble it, there are letters and numbers on the bottom of the pieces, and all you have to do is to put A1 to A1, B2 to B2, and so on. It's really not that hard. The track looks really flimsy and it does wobble a little bit when you play with it, but the car stays on the track forever. The secret is that you shouldn't use brand new batteries, use "weaker" or older ones. I would love to put a movie online, showing the kid play with the toy, just to prove that the car does not fall off the track. It even hops smoothly into that shovel thing, which I would have never expected.
Just put it together properly which shouldn't be too difficult.
If I can do it, anyone should be able to do it ;-)
Customer Review: Not Totally Happy
Summary: 3 Stars
Putting this toy together is not nearly as difficult as some on here would have you believe. The directions are just simple pictures that show you what needs to be connected to what and don't give written instructions, but you shouldn't need them since the pieces are clearly labeled and connect with the other piece with the same label. It took me about 20 minutes to put it together.
My 3 year old loves it, but after about a week of use, we are starting to notice a problem. The point where the car does the 180 and spins around seems to have become a problem spot. For some reason, both of the cars we use on the track reach this point but only do a 90 degree turn and then stop. It seems like the vertical descent isn't quite enough at this point to keep the vehicle moving. I'm going to try some silicon spray and/or some graphite to keep the friction down at this point and see how it works.
If it wasn't for this problem, I'd be giving this 4 or 5 stars.
Customer Review: Don't waste your time or money on this.
Summary: 1 Stars
First let me say, I grew up playing with Mattel toys. Whatever they have done is a crying shame. I read the reviews on this toy and against my better judgement I bought it for my son. You can't imagine how excited he was to see this under the tree.
We put it together two days later and one of the reviews said to use "older" batteries with this. It didn't matter if the batteries were old or new the car wouldn't go through the rubber tires. I'm sorry it did go through and it just bumped back against them. The thing had no power to push the car up the track.
I took it apart and put it back together to make sure I didn't mess up and still it didn't work. I'm appaled that Mattel even is selling this garbage to kids. What happened to the days when making kids happy was more important then just making a dollar.
Stay away from this toy. It's not worth the money you spend on it. My son ended up disappointed instead of happy. Thanks Mattel.
Customer Review: Great . . . for a few days
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a 3 & 4 year old that reeeeeeally wanted this for Christmas. They LOVED playing with it for 4-5 days, but that's when it started having problems. First, the wheels that shoot the cars around the track started getting off track, causing friction, thus it couldn't get the power it needed to shoot the cars up and around the track anymore. Several times my husband took that part apart to fix it, and it worked fine for awhile, then it'd start all over again. Currently, besides that happening, the track mis-aligned somehow, so one part of the ramp is too high, another too low, etc. The cars can't move around it properly. Also, only certain cars (one comes with it) have the right weight and size to work on the ramp . . . no Hot Wheels. Overall, my kids played with it for hours at a time before it started having problems----now (only a few weeks later) it is in a non-functioning heap in the playroom. In hindsight . . . not a wise purchase.