Mattel Hot Wheels Flip N Go Spin City Playset

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.

Played with constantly - for about a week. This was the second version as the first one broke out of the box. If the original hadn't been a gift and the disappoint so great on the loss of the first, wouldn't have done it.

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.