Vehicle Reviews

This toy might be alright for older children, but it definately can be difficult for the younger child. To rev the car in order for it to continue through the entire track you need to do it slowly, which my child has no patience for. Then, when you get it going, it can be very difficult to place it on the track so it is aimed correctly and stays on. Its diffucult for an adult, nevermind a young child. i would say it is definately for children over 7, which my child is not. the manufactorers say 4 and up .... that is wrong. my child gets very frusterated with the toy and it is sitting in his room unused.... a waste of money on my part. The track also doesnt stay together very well, and the sky line bridge part gets messed up very easily and it becomes not aligned and then it doesnt work, so i have to check it each time we try to play with it to make sure it is in the right position.

My son loves his "rev-ups rev-ups" as he calls them. He's almost three and plays with this all the time. We bought him the other playsets to go with it and a few more cars too. The only draw back we have is the tracks fall apart easily and for a three year old he can't fix them himself, so we were constantly repairing the tracks. We finally just used a little hot glue to secure them a little better and now he's good to go.

My little boy is 4 and he absolutely loves this Rev Ups track. He has tons of toys and cars and tracks and this is the only one he plays with for any length of time. The little magnetic cars are ingenious and will travel up or down any metal surface (like the refrigerator). The only drawback is that the box shows about 10 different cars available but I have not been able to find them. The track comes with one and my husband found one at [...] but when I went to find another they were unavailable.
But no matter, my little boy has loads of fun with the 2 he has and I am sure yours would too.

Wow , this is one strong, fun toy. Both my kids have spent hours playing with it. We have had it a for more than a year now and it has been held to the ground, so it makes that horable clicking noce that battery power vechicles make when you stop them going, it has been thrown around by an adventurous one year old. AND it has spent the night in the swimming pool!!!! and 16months after buying it we are still using the same batteries, even after the pool incident :-)

Both my kids 4 1/2 and 18 months just can't get enough of this toy!!!

My daughter has loved Thomas and his friends since she was just a year old. Now three, she loves to add another train to Thomas each time he goes around the track. This has taught her that Thomas has limits, just like everyone else. She has learned about batteries and turns him off to save his energy. She also pushes trains around the track and races Thomas. This was by far, the BEST "Thomas" purchase we have ever made! All of these trains are very well made, sturdy and best of all - guaranteed.

I bought the medium set for my son about 10 months ago. It's become his favorite toy. Unfortunately, the THOMAS car has done a disappearing act and my 2.5 year old has not accepted the Learning Curve Thomas as a substitute. I've had to purchase the Thomas cars to replace the missing one. DEFINATELY recommended.

We found this brand new wagon beside our garbage dump...
It was just there with the cardboard shipping paper still in it! Well, to say the least...my husband took it and my 10 year old and 29 month old just had a ball!
they have gone to the patio and just played with it or walked around the complex with it. The 10 year old likes to be in it with her sister...
So, embarrassing, it wasn't! She had more fun than all of us!

I just rated this 5 stars...what a blessing it was to find this!

This isn't even the one we had. The one we had was larger and much more expensive. It was left outside, 1 time, and the next thing we knew it was rusting and peeling and garbage!

This is the consummate throw back toy in a day when everyone plays with computer generated toys. This wagon, like many others, will get your kid outside, where kids should be, playing and enteracting with others. We got one for our daughter, who loves to use it to pull her babies around the yard with, and to help me when I'm doing yard work. It is also a great way to take little kids for a walk, which leads to the park.

I bought this toy for 6 year old boy for Christmas. I have to say I am rather disappointed in it. He opened the box saw all the pieces and it was just another toy to put together. After I helped him assemble it he never played with it again! There is really only one way the pieces can fit and work together despite Fisher Price marketing it otherwise. There are lots of extra little pieces many of them I just put away for fear my younger child would choke on them, and they are not essential for play with this toy. I would not buy it again. Perhaps it lends itself more to play if one already has some of the other imagenext toys to play with it, but I'm not going to find out, I won't be buying anymore of these pieces! I recommend Lego sets over this!

This toy is awesome!!! We have all had fun playing with it!!!!!

She recently received this set for her 5th birthday, and her eyes just lit up when she opened it! She did have to sit aside while her father and I assembled it for the first time, but then it was hours and hours of fun! It is our first Imaginext, and I do not expect it to stay perfectly together all the time, it stays together well for most purposes. Two quibbles though. The door which just slides into the hole for the door, falls out very easily. Second, it seems as though they've included the BARE minimum of pieces to brace the dock and base of the lighthouse. I am talking about the pieces (only TWO?) for supporting the dock sections, and the rock sections for setting up the lighthouse portion of things(three, I believe). The windowed fence pieces may be used as support though, and when configuring the lighthouse as a vertical tower, this is necessary, I believe. When in this configuration, each room only has TWO walls, which the picture of the lighthouse in this configuration on the box, is shown from such an angle that you cannot tell this, and you automatically assume that it is more "complete". Still, it gives plenty of access for playing, but I still think at least for this configuration, the box was rather misleading. One could wish for say two more wall pieces and one more base piece, along with a couple more support pieces, but this IS one of the lesser-priced sets. And I do believe that for the price paid you do get enough fun for the money. Several other configurations have proved my daughter's favorite for playing, and even given the limited number of pieces in the set, I was pleased that several building configurations ARE possible. On occasion she does call us over to "fix" it, but I have no problem with that, and it's usually just one of the windowed fence pieces that we usually have attached at one end, that require "fixing". She loves the little pieces that came with the set, the diving helmet, the turtle, and lobster, among other things. So this review is a little mixed, more because of that misleading picturing of the tower configuration, and what seems like a stingy allotment of especiallly dock support pieces, than anything. Very fun, my daughter enjoys this, and we ARE looking forward to getting her more Imaginext.

These cars keep flying out of the tracks as they go around the flexi bend. It looks so cool when it works, but when I do it, I can get the car to go around successfully maybe one in ten times. My three year old? Forget it! I tried revving the cars as little as possible, thinking they had too much juice, but no such luck. We're returning it 2 hours after assembling.

Santa brought this for our 4.5 year old. Once it is setup (save a picture or the directions) it stays together -- even after a lot of use. (Can't say the same for our Hot Wheel sets). It is NOT difficult to setup mind you, just a bit hard to recall the twists if you haven't set it up in awhile. No batteries needed. The cars rev themselves up and off they go! Since there are two tracks, friends/siblings can play, but great for solo play too. Doesn't take up a lot of floor space either. Would recommend for 3+.

My 3-year-old son loves this toy. It is his favorite Christmas gift. The cars are easy for a young child to race. They run very fast through the loops. It's very fun to watch.

My son got this as 4th bday present and within three minutes he had the crane broken. When you want to push the buttons to make niose or the propeller move the propeller hits you. he doesn't care to play with it.

my three year old is a rescue fanatic. he loves fire trucks and ambulances and when he got this for christmas he was THRILLED. it makes great sounds, it's easy to fly around and it has a moving hook that easily picks up the two stretchers it comes with as well as most cars and trucks lying around the house. the front flips open for batman or robin or whomever might be in the mood to fly to fit right in. it's july and it's in constant use and i dont recall changing the batteries more than once or twice, and it's still in one piece so that means it's durable by our standards. i heartily recommend this.

a fully hands on toy that lets the child use his imagination. My three year old loves it and and won't let anyone touch it! Very durable and a great gift for any child who loves helicopters.

Great action combined with great sound equals a great game. This game is a very complex shooter. The controls may be difficult to begin with, but with a little bit of time and the in game training the scenarios supply you with, they become rather intuitive pretty quickly. Played with the dual shock controller, this game is great. It really takes advantage of both of the sticks and makes flying very easy. Movement is so easy that the hardest part of this game is flying straight.

G-Police provides you with various vehicles and weapons that are used throughout the game. The storyline is decent and the graphics are pretty good. Some scenarios are very difficult and the loading times are very long. This is a good, low-price game.

This game was good and had good graphics but the controls were hard to use and it wasn't too realistic. Thats what I think about this game.

I purchased this toy because of other reviews I read on it, which praised how many soldiers it could carry, as well as the three BAT included figures.

While it's true that there are enough pegged platforms outside of the vehicle to hold something like 16-20 total soldiers, it's really stretching it. When you have 6-12 soldiers standing on a runner with one foot and holding on to the outside of the transport, they're easy targets for enemy fire. As a result, this toy is best for holding a maximum of eight soldiers (six under the red canopy and two up front). Though two gunner stations are included to the left and right rear of the vehicle, any soldiers placed in these stations can't turn to face anything their rotating guns would target. They can only face in one direction (directly away from the vehicle), making them pretty useless. It's not like they have a display in front of them that would show what the gun is pointed at.

So essentially, the vehicle holds eight troops. Considering how large it is (nearly the entire volume of the box it comes in), the shelf space it takes up could have been put to better use. I'm also disappointed that this vehicle comes totally assembled. Half the fun of GI Joe, for me, is assembling the vehicles like a model kit.

I do agree that the included BAT figures are very cool. They're a $9.99 value on their own (average shelf cost for a figure 3-pack). However, the vehicle really needs a minimum of six soldiers for it to make any sense as a crew transport. No additional BAT figures are sold seperately, so unless you mix and match your troops, you really have to buy the Cobra Infantry 6 pack and use them with this vehicle instead.

All in all, I'd say buy this vehicle if you really want the BAT troops. You're essentially getting a $10 vehicle along with them, which is a fair value for it, as long as you realize that the three BAT figures won't be enough troops to use with it. But I wouldn't recommend buying this for the vehicle. There are better ones out there.

This vehicle is incredible! Personnel carriers are few and far between in the Joe line and its about time we saw one. The vehicle is sturdy, aestectically pleasing, and just plain fun. Prior to this, Cobra had one transport, the Parasite. Well, that thing was just lame! The BAT APC has room for easily a dozen figures, and unlikely the Monster Blaster APC, good-looking & reasonably realistic colors. While I won't be using them to transport robots, the three figure are a nice touch, they will see alot of use in my collection. I've picked up two & these will be perfect for carring my legions of upcoming Cobra Infantry packs. Definitely pick atleast one of these up from your local TRU.

My first reaction was "WOW!" Fans of both the vintage and current 3 3/4" GIJOE figures will love this set! In my opinion, the best vehicle exclusive yet! The colors on the finished product are much better than early prototype photos I had seen! Happy to say the colors do not disappoint! Nice dark red and black Cobra colors for the vehicle with just a little bit of gold. Appropriatly colored vinyl labels. The 3 B.A.T.S. are awesome looking in gold and black, and they each come with 3 arm weapon attatchments! This vehicle has space to hold up to an incredible 17 figures! Now you have something to send all your Cobra troops into battle against the G.I. JOE team! I really think Hasbro and Toys R Us have a real winner with this one!

I just wish though, that they were sold in stores without the whole set. It took quite awhile to get them all. I was glad to learn that they were avaible online. The toy truck goes perfect with my construction toys that I have already. I couldn't do without it.The rest of the set is durable, and have never had it break on me.

It might not have enough moving parts to keep an older child's interest, but my almost 3 year old son loves running his hotwheels up and down the ramps. It's been pretty sturdy for us set up on a low table, and doesn't come apart unless knocked to the floor. He likes it because it's something to "vroom" his cars around on and there's a tunnel under the road he can stuff things into, I like it because I don't have to re-assemble it very often and there aren't any detachable pieces to keep track of, all in all we're both happy with it.

Like most matchbox toys, I don't think this toy has actually stayed together for a full day. I can't tell you how many times I have put it back together. All the parts come apart too easily. I bought this for my son a yr ago and he rarely plays w/ it.

My boys are 4 and 2.5 and they think it is so much fun cracking it up and then fixing it. The 4 year old is who got it for his birthday. There is a button on the remote that you push to "fix it" The 2.5 doesn't understand how to get it to go where he wants with the remote but gets it going in some direction and it crashes so he has no complaint. The 4 year old can get it going in either direction as it is an easy to use remote. The purpose is to crash it so it is the perfect learn to drive a remote car if you ask me!
ONE COMPLAINT, they don't come with a charger (even though it says it does in the write up here). The box says that you can use a 9 volt for the remote and BUY a 6V rechargeable Battery and charger for the vehicle OR use 5 AA batteries for the vehicle. I figured 5 AA batteries no big deal we'll keep it. WELL, Run time is only 30 minutes before you need to replace the battery. I didn't see that part on the box when we got it and didn't know why it was dying 30 minutes after playing with it and then saw that part. So buying the charger and chargeable battery is a must and worth it so you don't go broke buying batteries. Which is an added cost to purchasing the item... If he didn't love it so it would've gone back to the store so we are off to get a rechargeable remote control car battery... I did call the company and they said as long as the voltage matches up another car charger and battery will work. I was told we should be able to get one for $15 which will save money in the long run.

I ordered the Regenerator and received it to find that the batterypack is not included and cannot even find it on AMAZON.com or even which one is needed. There was no indication that the battery was not included.

It would be nice to know that you have to order the battery pack and charger for the Regenerator when you are placing an order, JC Penny has the charger and battery included with it. Now I have to go look for the charger & battery. Not Happy.The reason I ordered them on line was to stay away from all the long lines.