Mattel Hot Wheels Flip N Go Spin City Playset

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.

My son received Spin City right before his 5th birthday. It was broken within the first two hours of play. This toy has a "stick" that twists into the center of the toy to make a lift for the track. Anyway, I guess he twisted too hard (on the cheap plastic) and now the lift won't work. Now he has a stationary track. No more fun, but he loved the first two hours of this toy. He hasn't played with it since.

Where to start - I guess our major disappointment is in the up and down feature. After 15 minutes it no longer went up. My husband attempted to fix it, assuming a loose connection. No Luck. No it occasionally goes up? Even if it worked perfectly there are some major flaws. First of course is that it really only works with race cars. Hard to explain to a 3 yr old. You are supposed to start at the carwash and the car I guess flys onto the track but it never does that. When you do the carwash the car flys off the track entirely. And like others said the action stops because you have to flip the car slot to make it go down. I have a hard time figuring out how to use it. And I don't really feel it is a fold up and go toy because you would break things - there is no real cover like the other close up toys have.
We should have gotten turbo city.

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.

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.