Customer Reviews

Mattel Speed Racer Launcher Big Rig

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My ten year old son bought this with the money he'd saved up. A very big deal. We shopped around the internet before we bought it on Amazon. This was the best deal we found.
This is really a fun toy. Speed Racer rides inside, lifts up at the push of a button, then unloads down a ramp that lifts up from the top of the truck.
My son assigns everyone in the house a particular Hot Wheels truck w/car. He always gets this Speed Racer truck/car. The trucks drive up and upload their cars. The cars race. He always wins. Huh. I know it is durable because it has fallen off the racetrack a few times (the kitchen bar is a part of the race track so it's pretty high.)

My son is 5yrs old and started watching all these older cartoons/movies. He fell in love with speed racer! Now, speed racer is a classic. I didn't know that until I looked on here and seen such high prices for these toys. This toy is a great toy and my son loves it...it just ended up being much smaller than I thought it was going to be. My son made mention that it needed to be bigger, but I changed the subject and he said nothing about it again. Amazon or somebody need to put a picture of a kid playing with this product to see the sizing better. Probably should do that for all the race car toys as well. The car isn't even as big as the typical machbox cars. But it is a really cool toy and my son still plays with it 30 days later!

Cool little toy, My Son won't go anywhere without it. we added more toys from the movie to play along. He LOVES it..
P.S. The Mach 6 is faster than the Mach 5.. ha ha!!

Great toy. Just fun to play with and imagine being speed racer. Truck doesn't work with a lot of other hot wheels (the car area is slim) but the included car fits great. No batteries, just imagination.

This is a small truck and car set made of plastic. It works fine, but not that exciting.

I took this to our 4-yr-old grandson for his birthday. It was his favorite present! His 6 1/2-yr-old sister wanted to play with it, too. We were wishing for at least one more car with the set.

A great toy for any Speed Racer fan! I got this for my 2 year old (almost 3) and he loves it! I had to show him how to work the launcher the first few times, but after that he was able to do it by himself. He is proud of all of his Speed Racers and shows them to everybody, even strangers!

If the creative people behind Speed Racer the movie had shown as much brilliance as the genius who licensed the toy contract to Mattel's Hot Wheels division, it would have been a box office smash rather than a box office disaster.

This launcher big rig is a perfect example; one Speed Racer Hot Wheels car can be carried and launched onto the floor at the touch of a button after the docking station is swung out. Swing it back into place and press the button again to raise the elevator. Roll the car up the trailer roof/loading ramp and press the elevator back down. Push the car backwards to cock the launcher, and you are ready to do it again. It comes with one car, a Mach 5 WITHOUT any movie accessory.

Defects? It would have been nice if the launcher could be connected to Hot Wheels track like the Hot Wheels Speed Racer Carrying Case Launcher with car can be and if the cab had been either detachable or at least turnable.

I bought this for my 5 year old grandson who is a Speed racer fan for christmas. I hope he will like it and play with it alot. He lives in Oregon so we won't see him for christmas this year. It looks like he will have fun with it though.