Customer Reviews

Hot Wheels Highway Police Chase Playset

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

We bought this for our 4 year old (now 5) boy. He loves playing with it but gets frustrated that it is so flimsy. The high end of the hill is supposed to be supported by the orange trusses. Well, these will not stay together and certainly don't support the hill part. We have to put a couple of books underneath to prop it up. The car 'shooter' that propels the 'bad guy' car down the hill is difficult for the under 6 crowd to operate. And, as someone else mentioned, DON'T LOSE THE DIRECTIONS! It is difficult to put back together after you take it apart for storage. We finally numbered the pieces on the bottom so we can more quickly put it together by matching the numbered pieces. Overall a fun idea for a toy, but poorly made. I would recommend purchasing a different hot wheels town toy.

We gave this toy to our son as a birthday present. It was during assmebly that I realized how poorly some of this toy was designed. Slide the plastic signs and traffic signals onto the track - do NOT try to clip them on. The fragile bottoms of these pieces will break if you try to clip them on. The traffic lights do not seem to stay assembled - pieces keep falling off. The orange supports for the elevated section do not stay in place very well. One of the launchers is pretty cool, but it only works properly about 67% of the time.

The set is called "Ultimate Police Chase" but it only includes 1 (police) car!!! How much more would it have cost them to include a car for the bad guys?

I purchased this toy the other day for my 3 yr. old and what a BIG mistake.
The directions are of no help at all when trying to figure out what goes with what. This toy is the cheapiest made toy I've ever seen. Everything falls apart--lights, bridges,track and misc. pieces. When you push the release button the car
barely goes anywhere or falls off the track.
If all their products are made this way this will be our last purchase.
Don't waste your time and money on this item. :(

MY SON RECEIVED THIS TOY FOR CHRISTMAS WHEN HE WAS ALMOST FOUR. HE LOVED IT IMMEDIATELY AND STILL DOES. HOWEVER, MY HUSBAND AND I HATE IT BECAUSE IT IS SO CHEAPLY MADE, FALLS APART BY JUST BREATHING ON IT AND REQUIRES A LOT OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT TO GET IT BACK TOGETHER. IF MY SON DIDN'T LOVE PLAYING WITH IT SO MUCH IT WOULD HAVE GONE BACK TO THE STORE THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS! I RATED IT 2 STARS FOR EDUDATIONAL VALUE BECAUSE I GUESS THE CHILD WOULD LEARN PATIENCE AND SPATIAL SKILLS PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER SO OFTEN! :-) COME ON MATTEL - GET IT TOGETHER!

My kids love this toy, from ages 4-9. I am giving it to everyone for Christmas. One huge suggestion, don't lose the directions or picture on how to put it together. You will never figure it out without directions. It goes together one way and one way only. We ended up using the picture on the web site to put ours back together - as a guide-after HOURS of trying to do it on our own after we lost the directions. Have Fun !

The pieces of track are so flimsy. They constantly fall apart when my children play with it. The "launcher" at the donut shop didn't work from day one. So very different from the "Hotwheels" toys from when I was a child...but I guess most toys are.

I was really disappointed.

A three-year old Hot Wheels fan loves playing with this, but bugs Mom and Dad to come fix it every 10 minutes when the tracks loosen or the orange ramp holders fall down. It was tricky to put together, yet it doesn't hold together. The launcher is hard to operate because it's very tight. We have not even been able to figure out from the drawings how to make another button work. The main reason we got it is to give our son the opportunity to make his cars go all over the place. Unfortunately, the parts go all over the place, too.

I wish I had read the reviews before purchasing this toy!!! My son loved it at first but it's constantly falling apart when he plays with it. I hate it but I've given it one star for fun because he still plays with the jumping part of the track and the police car. The rest of it is stored away in a box on his shelves. I've given it one star each for educational value and durability only because I can't give it any less than one. (I would give it a negative star for durability if I could!)

Very Disappointed in this track. The police car rarely chased any cars down the ramp, which caused disappointment for my boys. The police car would hit the corner of the track and then stop while the other car went around the corner and down the hill. The track itself was very flimsy and the so called supports kept falling over. This toy sat on the shelf for a long time and when we moved, it went in the trash. The orange spinner that was supposed to shoot the cars back up the hill is worthless. I could barely give it enough power to work it up the ramp, it was almost impossible for my young sons to do it. This toy was definitely a waste of my money.

I agree with the rest of the reviews. This toy is very poorly made. I bought this toy for my 4 year old son who just loves race cars. I knew, because of the price, that this would not have been the most durable toy but I never expected it to be this flimsy. The tracks never stayed together, my husband and I had to constantly put it together. I guess my son got really tired of calling all the time that he just don't play with it anymore. Very disappointing!!!