Rating:
Date: 2008-07-04
Frustratating Toy
Sorry Fisher Price, you really messed up on this toy! My boys (5 & 3 1/2) got this toy from Santa for Christmas... The garbage man got it this week. I could have donated it, but why pass on the frustration! Like many reviews before, the tracks will not stay together for any length of time. I was constantly putting the tracks back together. The amount of fun they had those first few days was not worth the meltdowns every time the track split apart... and it didn't even have to come completely apart... a gap between pieces would cause the cars not to race.

I thought maybe we got a bad track, but after reading the reviews seems like there are a lot of bad tracks out there... Too bad we didn't get one that worked like some of you who are having hours of fun... I seriously can't believe there are any good reviews for this race track. If you still buy this track, save the box and your receipt! If you get a bad track, take it back fast... it won't get any better!

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-02
Forgeddaboudit
So, in theory this was to be a vast improvement to their first release of the oval shake and go speedway that was released when the Shake 'n Go cars FIRST came out. The 'exciting' figure 8, the death defying leap the car make off the ramp and lands (most of the time) onto the track and continues its race), the anticipation of 'will the cars crash into eachother, with the cars 'realistic' car smashing sounds...

In reality, one you DO get this thing together (which if you get this for a child for christmas or for their birthday, you best assemble it BEFORE presenting it to them, trust me... however, please read on before making any decision... I certianly read all reviews on amazon before even myself purchasing this very set for my children this christmas... if only I could learn to listen to reviews...) Once you DO get it together, after it falls apart again and again as you put it together, if it is played with on carpet, it will continue to fall apart again and again. Yes select PARTS of it are held together by screws, but the structure still falls apart to where it needs to be put back together all the time to be played with.

The ramp in which the cars go up always falls out and needs to be put back in, the yellow ramps themselves fall out and need to be put back in... my kids loved this product for about 2 weeks. Then there this $40 piece of falling apart hunk of oversized plastic sat taking up room on the carpet in the playroom, as they played with the shake and go cars on the carpets elsewhere where they could just go straight across the floor and in the kitchen... needless to say, this set that was bought months ago, sits in a big black garbage bag and is in the storage area of the basement.

Save your money and put it in to a bunch of different shake 'n go cars, they have great fun just racing them around the house.

4 kids, 8 shake 'n go cars = a great time.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-28
A smash hit!
My son and daughters love this toy! They can spend hours playing with it, I have a home daycare as well and the kids will just sit there and play until the batteries die. My son was 18 months when he got this toy and was able to use it with no problem. He is now over two and still plays with it like it's a new toy. We recently added some cars to it as well. The only downside is the track can come apart easily, but my husband fixed that problem by taking small zip ties and securing the tracks together. Also keep a lot of batteries on hand!

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-21
Crash Speedway
The cars were great, but the speedway itself was impossible to assemble and keep together. There should be a better mechanism for locking the pieces in place.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-08
Hardy & Fun
This speedway works just as promised - only better! Our grandson, his dad and grandpa ( & ME!!!) spent hours playing with this! Additionally, these cars travel pretty much anywhere the surface is smooth! Great fun for ALL ages!!! Very much recommended!