Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track Set

by Mattel

Product Features

• Ultimate hit or miss action track set!
• Take on 4 intersecting crash zones!
• Never ending crashing and action
• Watch as cars maneuver loops and the Criss Cross
• Includes Criss Cross Track Set and one car

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 24 x 2.8 x 15 inches ; 5.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 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: B00383PO48
• Item model number: V2791
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 12 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,838 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #77 in Toys & Games > Play Vehicles > Vehicle Playsets
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Hands-On Review

With the Criss Cross Crash Track Set, your kids will have a chance to watch Hot Wheels cars speed around an elevated figure-eight track towards an accident that's bound to be exciting. Children five years and up will enjoy assembling the track and hearing the rush of the cars going around the loops, heading closer to that exhilarating collision with each trip around. Eventually the inevitable occurs--and when it does, you'll hear screeches of delight.

Criss Cross Crash Track Ages: 5 years and up Requires: 4 AA batteries What We Think Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Fast-paced racetrack with crash-em-up fun The Challenging: You'll need to purchase a second car to get the most out of the track In a Nutshell: Racetrack excitement for the Hot Wheels enthusiast

Brace yourself for dramatic high-speed crashes! View larger.

The turbo-boost mechanism in the central shoot launches cars around the course. View larger.

Turbo-Boost at Every Lap
The Criss Cross Track Set is designed to give cars a slingshot-like boost with every lap. As soon as a car makes the looped circuit--swoosh!--off it goes again with accelerated speed on another banked loop.

This turbo-boost effect is made possible by ingeniously simple mechanics. Once the car is inside the central chute, spinning rubber wheels grab the car by the sides and launch it around the course. After a car's momentum returns it after a trip around a loop, the car is propelled in another direction around yet another loop. When you have two or more cars on the track at once, they swirl wildly around the center platform.

Wait, Wait, Wait--Crash!
Add a second car to the track and it's just a matter of time before both cars cross paths in explosive fashion. When that happens, it's ka-boom time. The dramatic crash is a big part of the fun this track offers.

Easy-to-Read Instructions and Easy Set Up
Kids just learning to read can easily follow the directions that rely on detailed illustrations and arrows to convey the specifics of assembly. As long as kids follow the directions carefully, the track goes together easily. In a matter of minutes, your child will be off to the races.

What's in the Box
Criss Cross Crash Track Set central launch platform, four curved ramps, four straight ramps, four pre-bent loops of track with brackets, four support towers, one car, and instructions.

Product Description

Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track: The ultimate boosted set with awesome hit-or-miss action. Line up your Hot Wheels cars and take on the 4 intersecting crash zones. The action and crashing never stop with the Criss Cross Crash set!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

87 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Harder than it looks, October 20, 2010

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Jeff Swartz "SJ" (Arvada, Co USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track Set (Toy)

It's not that easy to get four cars going around the track. The track is small and the cars go whipping by quickly. The motors launch the cars pretty fast so that they get around the steep banked curves (or they fall off). The four 'D' batteries must be in top notch condition as each car will decrease the motor speed slightly as the car travels through the launcher housing. The motors must recover their speed before the next car arrives or else it won't launch it fast enough and the car will fall off the curve. Given the variables at play: batteries, car quality, track placement wobbliness, user's ability to time it just right, I found this toy somewhat frustrating. When I tried only two or three cars, they'd traverse the track just fine, go for awhile, and eventually one or all would fall off the track, but seldom crash. The more cars, the higher the likelihood of a crash, but getting more cars on the track is a pain (maybe fun for some). Overall, I don't like this Hot Wheels set and wouldn't recommend it. If the product had only been $20, I'd have given this 3 stars, but at $40 it is not worth it. One last minor gripe is that the battery housing is too tight (it's harder than it needs to be to insert/remove the 'D' cells) and the cheap battery cover barely stays in it's hinges.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Fun Fun, November 2, 2010

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Amelia Figueroa - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track Set (Toy)

This is my sons favorite toy, and whenever his friends come over they always ask to play with it as well. Luckily, that is no problem as setting up this toy and putting it away are both very easy. My son can play with this for hours. The cars are able to fly around the track so fast, and the crashing is always very excititng to him. For as much fun as he and his friends continue to have with this, I know it was a great purchase at a great value.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT USE BLUE SUPPORT BEAMS!!!, December 27, 2010

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Pat Swanson - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash Track Set (Toy)

DO NOT USE BLUE SUPPORT BEAMS!!!

We got this set for Christmas this year. We set it up as instructed and found it very difficult to get more than one car around the track. The problem is in the design of the set. The blue beams raise the tracks up high but they decrease the stability of the tracks. One car will go around just fine but the force of the car causes the opposite loops of the track to jostle back and forth severely. If you have two cars going this jostling is strong enough to cause the cars to fall off the track. My kids decided to remove the support beams and guess what. The tracks are way more stable and we were able to get multiple cars going at once for many laps around the track. We even got five cars around a couple of times but this is very tricky. I can not understand why Hot Wheels put these support beams on the set. Once you take them off it will make this toy a million times more fun for everyone.

Also, the kids found a trick for getting mulitple cars going:

Place a car on one of the arrow stickers and let it sit.

Start a car on an opposite loop.

The moving car will come around with enough force to knock the sitting car into the spinning wheels and still have enough movement to go through the wheels itself.

We have tried placing three sitting cars on three arrows and we were able to send another car around and got all of the cars going around the track.

This is a great tip for little kids to not get frustrated trying to get multiple cars on the track.

In conclusion: DO NOT USE BLUE SUPPORT BEAMS!!!