After reading several reviews on all the life like race tracks we found this one and were impressed by all the positive reviews. We ended up buying it for our son's christmas present. Christmas eve we set it up, rather quickly and ran the cars around the track a few times. It worked though the cars fell off the track several times. Christmas morning he was thrilled, he wasn't rough in any way with it, actually ran the cars at a slower rate so they would stay on the track. It wasn't even 5 mintues later he was crying because one of the cars broke!! He was very upset and we have contacted the manufacturer several times with no help. A big disappointment, it was the present he really wanted and it only lasted 5 minutes. Not worth the money, I should have gone with my gut, remembering how these tracks never worked when I was a kid!