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Hot Wheels Terrordactyl Track Set
 
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Hot Wheels Terrordactyl Track Set

by Mattel
2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Price: $119.00
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Product Features

  • Kids race to blast a flying pterodactyl out of the sky and avoid erupting volcanoes in this new high-speed Hot Wheels track set
  • Kid-powered super boosters send cars racing around the track, avoiding the pterodactyl that captures wayward Hot Wheels cars in its teeth
  • Win the race to launch the pterodactyl high into the air
  • Easy to assemble and folds for easy storage under a bed

Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 24 x 15 inches ; 2.2 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 6.6 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: B000E1KID4
  • Item model number: J3893
  • Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 9 years
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,030 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
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WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD- Small parts.

Product Description

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Kids race to blast a flying pterodactyl out of the sky and avoid erupting volcanoes in this new high-speed Hot Wheels track set. Kid-powered super boosters send cars racing around the track, avoiding the pterodactyl that captures wayward Hot Wheels cars in its teeth. Win the race to launch the pterodactyl high into the air. The Hot Wheels Terror-Dactyl Track Set is easy to assemble and folds for easy storage under a bed. Requires four 'D' batteries, not included. Not for use with some Hot Wheels vehicles.

Product Description

In this new high-speed Hot Wheels track set, kids must race to blast a flying pterodactyl out of the sky while avoiding an erupting volcano. Kid-powered super boosters send cars racing around the track, dodging the vicious pterodactyl that captures wayward Hot Wheels cars in its teeth. Win the race to launch the pterodactyl high into the air!

This Hot Wheels Track Set is easy to assemble and folds for quick storage under a bed. Requires 4 "D" batteries, not included. Includes one car. Also for use with other select Hot Wheels vehicles, sold separately.


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
57 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Worst toy ever September 20, 2006
First, it took over an hour to put together, including when we realized two pieces of track were mis-labled, AND when we had to take apart a "hard-wired" piece with a screwdriver to fix a flaw. At one point we told my little boy we thought it was broken and we'd have to get another toy -- he put his little hands over his face and burst out in tears, and that broke my heart in a million pieces so we kept at it. We finally got it put together and quickly realized, there is no way in the laws of either physics or engineering that it will ever, ever work the way it is supposed to.

It takes no batteries, which my husband thought would be a plus, and relies on the child pushing a lever to propel cars forward and around the track. The track has two options (theroretically) -- to go all around the loop-the-loop, or shoot at the dinosaur and set the dinosaur into flight.

Yeah right.

If our son were older and knew how it was supposed to work, he would have been sorely disappointed. But as he's three and a half, he thought it was too cool that the cars just launch randomly into space, never once doing what they were supposed to do. If you push the lever too hard, they fly off and hit the cat. If you push more gently, they just whiz and fall off the track.

And the dinosaur? Total garbage. Try to hit it and it just falls off -- no majestic soaring whatsoever.

Total waste of money and time.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
My son absolutely loves this horribly designed thing. We bought it yesterday and spent the requisite hour setting it up only to find that we couldn't get the stupid "Fair start Lever" to work the way it seemed that it should. The instructions say to lower the lever and then the players can crank the levers to make the cars go around, but the lever does absolutely nothing. It seems designed to avoid touching the red stop-blocks that it should be holding down. We were able to span the inexplicable gap in this lever with scotch tape and then use a trash can twist wire to permanently affix the start lever to the red stop blocks. Now the cranks are able to fire the cars out all the time.

The toy is a bit complex for my three-year-old, but he loves it anyway. I have to constantly put the pteradactyl back into the "launch tube" because he isn't strong enough to get it seated. He doesn't understand the game aspect of the toy at all, which is why we disabled it, although it doesn't work anyway, but you have to disable it to get the toy to work at all. He also doesn't understand how to set up the volcano and switch the track diverter, but he's happy having the cars launch off of the ramp anyway, so it's just as well.

Some of the older boys in the neighborhood played with it after I rigged it up and they seemed to enjoy the competitive game aspect of it, but I could never give this toy a review above a three because it didn't work out of the box. Anything that has to be rigged with tape and wire to achieve the advertised functionality should get a one, but the kids loved it so much, I gave it a three.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By K. Roth
I was really disappointed in this toy. I wish I had read the reviews before I bought it. I have a 5 year old who has a hard time "launching" the cars so that they keep going around the track. Honestly, I have a hard time keeping the car moving around the track. The pterodactyl is suppose to move from side to side so that either car going around the track can hit it and send it soaring, but the wind up mechanism wears down very quickly. Batteries would have been better than the wind up mechanism.

Save your money, there are better car sets out there. My son has hardly played with it since he got it three weeks ago.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
It failed
I got the set, but it came with only the main parts, no track set, so i couldn't return it or use it. ...
Published on September 26, 2009 by M. Littauer
Useless
If you enjoy your kids screaming at you in complete frustration because their new toy is a dimestore POS, then by all means order this or any other hot wheel toy track. Read more
Published on September 3, 2008 by Michael Harty
Sorry I didn't read the reviews
I rate this Hot Wheels track 5 stars for educational value--always check buyer reviews when spending $20+ for a toy. Read more
Published on June 11, 2008 by BeckyFS
Poor quality and frustrating
I agree with most of the reviews here. Broken track pieces and duct tape were what resulted after just a few days of play. Read more
Published on October 24, 2007 by J. Davis
stay away from the terrordactyl!
Mattel started making toys in the 1940s, but they sure haven't learned much. It seems like they hire summer interns each year to invent new toys, and the result is junk, instead... Read more
Published on September 18, 2007 by David0001
So True So True the other Reviews!
It took me an hour or more as well to put together this monstrosity only to find that to propel the cars around the track more than once you have to time it just so the car goes... Read more
Published on May 27, 2007 by S. smith
Big Mistake
I made the mistake of buying this toy for my 6 year old for Christmas. It never worked properly. It was hard for my son to place a car in the starting position in order to press... Read more
Published on February 9, 2007 by JonsMom
nice toy
My sun loved it but he was not able to make the car go all around the track.

He could assemble everything because he is 7 years old I do not think that younger kids... Read more
Published on January 19, 2007 by C. P. Franc
Takes a little while to put together but fun for a while
Parents will definitely need to help build this toy. It is pretty simple and an additional car must be purchased for any real fun. But fun for kids.
Published on January 15, 2007 by S. Curwen
Cheap and poorly designed
My 5 yr. old son got this from his grandparents for Christmas and although he thought it was very exciting, it has not been a good toy. Read more
Published on January 13, 2007 by R. Wilkinson
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Where do I find a track that you can keep building to? 1 Dec 18, 2006
BOOOO! Even if your kid BEGS don't waste your money. 2 Nov 26, 2006
Worst toy ever 0 Sep 16, 2006
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