Customer Reviews

Mattel Hot Wheels Flip N Go Spin City Playset

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

After having negative experiences with other hot wheels tracks, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. First of all, there is no assembly required. Also, it is very easy for my children to use; even my 2 year old! It offers a lot of things to do so more than 2 children can use it at one time. And, finally, it is durable without parts that are always needing to be fixed.

We bought this for my son's 4th birthday and he loves it! It is an interactive toy that uses his imagination and he plays for hours! I love that it is one unit - we don't have to constantly reattach parts or put it together when he wants to play with it. My daughter, age 6, loves it as well and they have tons of fun together. Storage is easy - not a million little pieces. I highly recommend it!

My 7 year old son has had his fair share of race sets, all of which either ended up breaking, losing pieces, or being permanently put away due to lack of space. This set was given to him for his birthday, and he adores it. We've had some problems with getting the pole in the middle to stay upright. It's fine once it's in there, but the kids have a tough time getting it to stay in place; they usually need help from the parents, which is fine, it only takes a second or two. Other than burning through batteries (probably due to my son forgetting to turn it off), it's been a great little set and it's very nice to be able to fold it up and put it away at the end of the day instead of it taking up more space in his room. He likes the sound effects and the spiral track, and I like the fact that it's pretty durable and not obnoxious. :)

I bought this for my grandson - and it was the only disappointment of our early holiday gift giving.

The shoddiness is apparent as soon as you wrestle the box open. The flaps are glued tightly and you practically need a crowbar to open it. There's a loose part that flopped out of the end of the box I opened . . . except it really isn't loose at all. It's a major part of the toy and it is tethered to the rest of it. It would have been nice of Mattel to let you know. I suspect many of these toys are damaged upon opening.

Once assembled, the toy is really a big nothing. It most certainly will NOT work with all Hot Wheels cars. Mattel has a tiny warning on the box: "NOT FOR USE WITH SOME HOT WHEELS VEHICLES". Of the dozens of Hot Wheels we've accumulated, none worked well.

Of course there isn't much to this toy. There's a silly lift to get the toy car into the sillier "2-level garage". You have to flip two levers to make it all work, a task that young minds will quickly find boring. Then there is a spiral ramp that can be height adjusted. None of these things work together. Each is a separate operation. The end is getting the car to go down the spiral ramp.

There are several programmed noises and announcements, the novelty of which wears off in a few moments.

In short, this toy has very little play value. I suspect the spiral racing ramp will be broken within a short time. The range of cars it will work with is extremely limited.

Fortunately, Amazon has a good return policy which we're using.

Jerry

We got this for our 3 & 6 year old boys. It was fun for a week or so, but they don't seem to play with it much anymore. It makes a lot of noise, and when they play with it now, it's not really making the cars go, it's just playing all the different noises. I think it needs to go on a shelf for a while and then bring it back out - it really seemed like a cool toy to me!
Don't make this mistake: as any parents know, these days toys are tethered to their boxes lest they should escape. One of the plastic cords I cut in an effort to liberate the toy from the box was not designed to be cut, it was the cord that holds the two pieces together for the "flip & go" feature. Well, ours will never "flip & go": it sits where it sits, and doesn't go on trips, and that hasn't been a big problem for us. I just wasn't very happy about "breaking it" right out of the box.

This is not worth the money. It is cheap and poorly constructed. Sound effects never worked from the first day. Very few of the hundreds of hot wheels work well on the track. Does not work smoothyly. My 3 year old never played with it after Christmas morning. Deeply disappointed in Hot Wheels.

It is about time that Hot Wheels came out with a product that doesn't break straight out of the box!! My son LOVES this toy. These types of toys usually only last at most a week or two because of pieces snapping and breaking but this one is still going strong after 2 months. The best part is the fact that I don't have to keep putting it back together every 10 minutes. And he uses it with his brother and friends. Also, has all of the little sounds and "stops" along the way so it keeps his attention. The boys playing with this are 6 to 9 years old. I highly recommend this for everybody and also for people who are sick and tired of throwing away $40 for flimsy car sets. Worth every stinkin' penny.

"Santa" just put the Spin City together just after our almost 3 year old went to bed here in Christmas Eve. The first thing we did was cut the tether that holds the toy together into the box. Big mistake, that plastic tether is what goes inside the tower to make the spiral lift work. No instructions point this out. The instructions look like tax law. The toy itself is a miserable and flimsy design. Why not have the car launch and KEEP going down the spiral instead of taking pit stop for the child to have to physically turn the car to allow it to continue the remaining 50% down the spiral ramp? The sound effects are on the ramp itself, meaning, the car has to be physically HELD DOWN underneath a plastic hook to understand that "hey, you're getting a tune up" or "hey, you're getting a paint job." Santa is not pleased but has become more skilled with duct tape in making a desperate repair before Christmas morning arrives. Good thing we have a well made Melissa and Doug art easel we are happy with!

We've had this product a year now and it hasn't lost its fun value. there are a number of different little activities to do on it; it hasn't gotten trashed despite being put to the test; and it allows for more than one child to play with it at a time. A good car toy.

Looks cool and fun, but can only entertain for short periods of time. As mentioned in other reviews, the 2 main parts of this toy operate separately and take away from the fun moment by having to adjust the spiral to work with the washer/garage section. Most of the cars do work to some degree of success i.e. speed of descent on ramp. The one main fault I see with this kind of toy is that it does not have enough to it to keep a child interested for more than 15 minutes, but does give you enough time to get something done while the child is playing with it.

This makes a good "take a long" toy to share with other relatives/friends children and was one of the better toys released during that year.