Hot Wheels Starter Set Track Set

by Mattel

Product Features

• Super 2-in-1 track set
• Design it, build it, race it
• Includes over 7 feet of track and one Hot Wheels basic vehicle
• Not for use with some Hot Wheels vehicles
• Recommended Ages 4 and Up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 12.3 x 19.9 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000E82YLG
• Item model number: J7965
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,434 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Check out the performance of Hot Wheels? vehicles, racing on a motorized super 2-in-1 track set! Kids design it, build it, race it! Includes over 7 feet of track and one Hot Wheels? basic vehicle. Not for use with some Hot Wheels? vehicles. Unassembled. Requires two ?D? batteries, not included.

Product Description

Check out the performance of Hot Wheels vehicles, racing on the reconfigurable, motorized Rapid Transit Starter Set track set!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Christmas Present, December 7, 2006

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Heidi (Idaho Falls, ID USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Wheels Starter Set Track Set (Toy)

This was our 4-year old's favorite toy that he received for Christmas. Most Hot Wheels racecars work on the track as long as the batteries are strong enough. My son can work it easily himself. He and his friends laugh and laugh as the cars whip around the track. My only complaint would be the easy access to the batteries. My kids take the batteries in and out unless I hide them.

48 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What happened to Hot Wheels??, December 27, 2006

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Edward Holt (Tacoma, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Wheels Starter Set Track Set (Toy)

When I was a kid I had Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and track to go with them. You could buy speed sets, launchers, loops, AND strips of track. But now it seems the only way you can get track is in a set and that is it. And only a few styles of cars really work well with the motorized pusher. No chance for my kid come up with her own design. No need to be creative. The manufacturers have taken the fun out of it and told kids to watch the cars go around and around and around and around and around, but don't bother laying track out from the top of thier dresser to the bed to the floor, hit the loop, and launch across the room.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Starter Hot Wheels Set (as the name implies), January 9, 2007

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Diane Suplick (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Wheels Starter Set Track Set (Toy)

We bought this set for our 4 year old son for Christmas along with a Hot Wheels pack of cars. It is his first Hot Wheels set, and a good starter. My husband said we had to get a set that had at least one loop in it. The set is not too hard to set up, but I will definitely keep the instructions around for the first 1-2 times that I have to set it up to make sure I get the tracks together right. It is battery powered, so make sure to have 2 D batteries (we forgot those and had to wait until December 26th to play with it properly). When we set it up without the batteries, my son would manually push the cars around the track.

The next day when we got the batteries, it was exciting to see the cars shoot around the track. As they pass through the motor, it shoots them through with enough force to get all the way around the track and through the motor again. You can place 2, 3 or maybe 4 cars on the track at the same time, and see them jumping over each other as they come down the loop. After awhile, you have to push the tracks back together, as the force of the cars going around the track causes it to pull apart. My son also has turned on just the battery powered part when it is not connected to the track and placed car after car in the motor to make them shoot out, which can be a bit of a hazard if our 2 year old or the dog is in the path of the shooting car. My husband had him shoot them into a cushion after that.

My son is a real Thomas the Tank Engine and Cars movie fan, so we thought it would be a nice next step away from more Thomas engines and tracks. He still likes his Thomas trains and his Cars, but he plays with this too as long as I help him set it up and stay there to supervise especially when his 2 year old sister is around. When he gets older, he will be able to set them up himself, as he already is able to break it down on his own and put some of the pieces together. But now at 4, he needs me to put it together for him.

It's not so big that it's too much trouble to set up and take down in one play session which is the other reason I like this starter set.