Hot Wheels Zero G Hypersonic Track Set

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 12 x 18 inches ; 3.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00005BO0Q
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,266 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

Product Description

This Hypersonic Track comes with everything a Hot Wheels fan could want: extreme speed, unbelievable stunts and explosive crashes, all in a unique and challenging layout. You can even control passing and motorized racing. Includes one exclusive Hot Wheels vehicle. Requires 2 "D" alkaline batteries (not included).

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't do a whole lot, April 24, 2004

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LANCE R LINDLEY "hagakure" (Yokosuka, Japan) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hot Wheels Zero G Hypersonic Track Set (Toy)

Once you've put this set together -- and it's deceptively difficult for as small as it is -- and fire it up, you and your kid will probably say, "Cool!" 5-10 minutes later, you'll be looking for something else to do. If you buy another Hot Wheels car to put on the track (Matchbox cars don't work, and the box warns that "not all Hot Wheels cars are compatible" either), maybe there is some excitement in hoping the cars will crash at the intersection, causing the little "explosion" the designers have built in at the only possible crash site. However, straight out of the box, what you get is one car, a battery-powered impeller and a tiny track with two possible loop patterns, each of which literally takes less than two full seconds to complete. So you turn it on, drop the car on the track and watch it rocket around this loop and over a tiny (9 cm to be exact) jump again and again and again. If you want to interact, you can push down a lever and make the car take a different loop that is even smaller and has no jump. Is it cool? Initially... but it quickly becomes as interesting as watching the clothes spin around in the dryer.

56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mattel are you listening?, March 14, 2004

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Pasquale Argenio (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hot Wheels Zero G Hypersonic Track Set (Toy)

This toy is about as much fun as all of the other over-hyped pieces of crap Mattel is foisting on our children nowadays. The greedy misers go out of their way to make sure none of the sets work together or can interconnect (and yes, I've bought a half-dozen or so). What you get is basically a self-contained unit that can only be put together one way. And they won't sell you individual tracks and connectors in stores any longer (though I saw one review that claimed you could get them direct from Mattel). Well, growing up my brother and I had only gravity, but we could put tracks together in a myriad of imaginative ways and create our own race courses, instead of being stuck with some adult's idea of what is supposed to be fun. Now wouldn't that be a great educational and creative "breakthrough" today?

I was able to buy a few spare pieces of track left on a shelf by accident in one toystore, no connectors and the salepeople didn't know what I was talking about. I made my own connectors from plastic milk jugs and my five year old likes the homemade tracks better than all the monstrous junk you can buy.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible craftsmanship..., July 25, 2004

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J. Sterrette (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hot Wheels Zero G Hypersonic Track Set (Toy)

This toy is terribly made. The connections between the pieces of track always come apart, because the connectors are so flimsy. Also, the "rails" on the sections do not always line up, so cars may hit them and lose speed, causing them to fall from the track. It's so bad that the car that is included barely makes it around the track once or twice before it falls.