AGM MASTECH MR-09L

This is a really fun set at a good price. It’s not hobby-grade quality, but has enough extra features and at a good price to warrant a 5 star review. The overall quality and feel of the track, controllers, and cars I would call “toy-grade”. Very good toy-grade, but not on-par with the old sets from the good old 80’s. The track itself is lightweight and comes apart fairly easily. You can still drive for a few minutes without have to squeeze some track pieces back together, but it comes apart enough to be annoying. I recommend putting it on a rubbery surface to help with track stability. The full track slid around a bit on the table shown in my video - once I put it on some rubber flooring it was stable and held together a bit better. This set does have some really great features! You can control the maximum throttle with a plastic hand-screw at the bottom of the controller. Very helpful with my children so the cars aren’t perpetually flying off the track. Also, the cars aren’t magnetized which greatly helps with their track stability. It has little jumps, loops, and a turbo button (the cars will immediately fly off the track with turbo unless they are on a straight away). There you have it - not nice enough where you want to hide it away and only gingerly play with it all by yourself late at night after the kids have gone to bed. But it IS a very fun toy to share with your family and friends. For that reason it gets 5 stars from me.

I told my wife I was buying this for our 3 y/o son who's obsessed with hot wheels because 1) this is dynamic fun 2) two people can race, so he can play with his big sisters and 3) it was on sale at the time. But really? I bought it FOR ME, cause it's one of those awesome toys from childhood that my friend had and I didn't. My son loves it, all the kids race...BUT ME, I own the track, and no one will topple me from 1st place! Serious review: The decor is paper, and the "guardrails" do nothing but go flying should a car wipe-out. Save yourself some time and headache and just trash the decor. The track is so much fun, assembly is straightforward if you follow the instructions, and a hit with the kids!

I am surprised how good it is! Got it for the grandkids Christmas and it’s been a lot of fun. I’d buy it again

The included 3 cars run clockwise on the track and have brush contacts that I assume will eventually wear out. I see no solution for that on the mfg. website. No replacement cars either. I tried AFX brand Mega G+ cars (emphasis on “plus” because I don’t know anything about Mega G without the plus). They will run this track in reverse orientation (counter-clockwise) so you can’t mix and match brands in the same head-to-head race. Another downfall on AFX mega G + is that they get hung-up on these loops by their ends, though I am very pleased to see they do run at all, and I believe that when the included brush contact cars’ brushes wear out, the track will still be useable if I remove the track loops and banked turn (made up of the same loop-style curved track section pieces). Then I will try to run the Mega G+ cars exclusively in their counter-clockwise orientation. In counterclockwise orientation, they zip over the lap counter making it miss the lap count. The track sections work their way apart occasionally leaving gaps that need to be adjusted back together a little, as they just don’t snap together with a “click”. The track sections are not compatible with AFX branded track pieces, so adding on more track is proprietary in that regard. Bear in mind this large track is 1/4 or 1/5 the cost of an AFX track of comparable size. The track quality isn’t quite as durable, but I would say it still exceeds expectations for the 72 dollar price tag, and I would like to see the option to purchase replacement cars from the mfg. in the near future. The set came with 2 replacement brushes that can be changed in. I should also mention that AFX Mega G+ cars run about $40 each, so the cost of buying 2 new cars is the cost of replacing this whole set. The nice thing about AFX cars and the reason I even discuss them is that the contact shoes, tires, and some gear components can be easily replaced without buying new cars or a whole new track set. Saves on wasting excessive plastic.

I purchased this as a Christmas gift for my 5year old son. This was what he asked Santa for. The reason I chose this over any other track was for the cross section where your cars can run into each other (much like the classic one I had in the 90s). My husband put this together using the instructions provided and it was not easy because of the poor quality of the track supports Once he got it, visually it looked great. However, the lap counter for lane 2 is covered by an overhead track so you are unable to see unless you bend over with your check to the ground. Very disappointing. After reading the directions on how to work your controllers, we put it to the test. Controller 1- does not work AT ALL. (tested it countless of times and in the other port as well, and still nothing) Controller 2- works great! HOWEVER…. We only got 1 out of the 4 cars to actually make it around the track. We tried twisting the coils underneath the car for a better connection but still nothing. My husband has tried troubleshooting everything on it and we have had no luck. I understand toys fail but the fact it was a Santa gift, breaks my momma heart as my son is so sad.

I bought this as a birthday present for my grandson. Who’s six ever since we play with it every single time he’s here which is quite often for hours on end and ended up getting additional track for it making it super long and just so much more fun. This is the best purchase I’ve made in some time for him!

nice package but not correctly displayed on box. box shows three cars but includes four in set.

At over $120 this set is definitely overpriced. The quality is just not there, it’s all thin plastic, guess my expectations were higher. This would be good value at half the price.