DMX Racer: Dynamic Motion Express - Exclusive Pro Slot Car Racing, 2.4GHz 4 Player 18' Multi-Track, Progressive Remote Control Vehicles, Lane Changing

Many hours of enjoyment with the whole family. After a couple days racing I bought extra track -- 12 more straights and 12 move curves -- on ebay. Made some good layouts with crossovers, figure 8s, and even a small (1 inch) jump. The cars are easy to spin out, which is great because you have to actually drive not just go wide open. Get rechargeable batteries. I got too many, 24 total batteries is enough. The controllers' batteries last a long time but the cars go maybe 45m continuous, which is actually pretty good! The underside of the car has a cover over the batteries. I never put it back on and did not have any issues. We set up one controller with a twist tie around the trigger and set the car to slowest speed. Put that car in the outside lane and now you gotta really work the track. Great fun beating my brothers and sons-in-law ! 2 year old grandson acted as Godzilla blocking the cars.

Overall, Worth the money, However, These run on AAA batteries, ( 4 per car/radio )so don't forget to order some rechargeables. The track goes together and comes apart fairly easy. The reverse function is kinda useless but sometimes ( rarely ) it can right your car on the track after a slideout or crash. Running 2 cars is pretty easy, 3 is a bit more tricky, running 4 is complete bumpercar caose. The track is only wide enough to run 3 cars side by side, but, its so tight they rub as they go around. They should have some form of soft impact bumpers, but nope, hard plastic. only a matter of time before the shells crack and break, but for now, and for the price, A decent buy,

This is an excellent race set. IMO 1/32 size cars are so much more fun and realistic than the smaller HO cars. I used to have a set as a kid that used the 2-slot tracks with transformer that had the metal contacts right in the track. These worked good, but if you jostled the track, the connection was broken, so you were always fiddling with the track. And if the track got too big, you lost power at the far end. The nice thing about this new style is that it uses the slots to keep the cars on the track, but no electrical "connection" is necessary, because everything is remote control. The cars get their power from 2 AAA batteries (which actually, by the way, last a longer time than you'd think). And somehow they've figured out how to use multiple slots so that the cars can change lanes. And it really works! Basically, the track is wide enough for 3 cars abreast. You can actually steer around cars and pass them, or slide over and block them. Very cool! Also, the controls come with a nifty system that prevents you from just going full pedal to the metal all the time: you only get 20 second of full power before it slows down for a "recharge" period before you can use full power again. So it makes you race with strategy to save your maximum speed bursts when you really need them. Anyway, this is a very cool race set that works great. I will be buying more track for my grand children so they can expand their course. By the way, the track snaps together and comes apart fairly easily. My 10 and 12 year old grand kids are having fun coming up with new configurations. And there is no limit to the size: since the power comes from the car, and not the track, you can add as much track as you want without losing power or having connection issues. Very cool! I only wish Amazon would sell more kits of additional track. What they offer now is pricey, and limited. If you go to the DMX website there are more accessories available. But since they come from Hong Kong, it takes a long to time to get, and shipping is a little high.

I have 3 kids and we have tried the other, cheaper, tracks and they all got about 10 minutes of use. I had my doubts but this track is SO MUCH BETTER! The ability to change lanes is huge! This adds much more fun to the racing. You can cut off other cars and plot strategic passing opportunities. My kids have played on this for three days (about 45 mins or so each day) and first set of AAA batteries are still going (though slightly slower). TIP: #1 You can usually go full throttle all the way around the outside lane because the small wall will keep you on track BUT the drag of the wall and the fact you are going farther in the outside lane means that you can go faster on an inside lane if you are good controlling the throttle. #2 You can use the steering wheel in the turns to control your 'drift' and keep from doing a full 180 in the turns. #3 If the cars seem to be spinning out at every turn try dusting off the track and the rear tires.

I received the race set on the 12th, set up was easy. One of the four cars runs very slow and will continually stop. I tried changing batteries and nothing worked . The other three cars run great. I cannot find a telephone number to call the company, I registered with DMX slots and sent an email on Friday and a follow up on Monday still no response. The parent company is in China. I had read reviews that others have found customer service excellent. I would love to know how they were able to reach someone. Hoping to the four cars for my Grandkids. This product was rated very well, so I counted on that. If anyone has any suggestions, I would like to hear them

I did NOT receive a Freebie in trade for a review, I purchased it here from Amazon, however I did find it cheaper on another online retailer with a red logo made of concentric circles., but that sale only lasted 1 day. I am familiar with many types of recent race track toys, including Anki Drive, Anki OverDrive, and Digital Slot Cars. I rent out slot car race tracks to birthday parties, so I get more into them then most people, just to keep them working. I have been following DMX Slots for a few years, as they slowly released info on their slot car product, been waiting to try it. I was going to wait until they released their 2.4ghz radio version that can run 15 cars, however I settled and bought this Infra Red version for now. I have mixed feelings about it, it feels both well made and cheap at the same time. Being molded IN COLOR forces the car bodies to appear cheap, but they are durable, and part of me actually likes the molded in color look on some products. The electronics inside are not cheap, and have unused features built into them, like more lights, and better radio control options. So future cars could have more features. The way the lane change works, is a little bit more clunky then they have shown in their product vides, it seems the module rotates too fast sometimes, you have to get used to it, or your car will over shoot the last outer slot and fly off the track at the next curve. You can fix it though, if your fast enough to drive it back into the slot before you get to the curve. DMX also sells wall barriers, separately, these would keep the car on the track, and make it easier to re-slot just by driving forward instead of picking it up off the floor, however I feel they are overpriced and have not purchased them, I would rather make my own on my 3D printer. When a car runs on its guide pin, out of the slot, the track rattle is fairly noisy. The cars have "chips", a sort of removable switch I think, to change how the speed behaves. Which to me just comes off as a way to create a part that does not need to exist, to sell more parts, yet they are not actually selling them yet. I used freshly opened Eneloop AAA cells, the cars where NOT going fast enough to drive/slide around the corners. Anki Overdrive is a LOT more fun than this, however you will be spending more money on that, to get the equivalent 4 cars going, on a similarly sized track, especially after you buy tablets/phones to control them. DMX falls more in with digial slots cars, being a track that changes lanes, however slot cars do not have to worry about batteries. Both DMX and Slot Cars will require some tweaking out of the box to run perfectly, for example one of my DMX cars had a loose screw on the rear gear box, and I had to finish assembling it for it to run right. I bought a few more sets from the sale price, will keep testing it out... and update later. I am hoping to use this for the younger kids when I do a SlotCarRental birthday.

My family loves this purchase. We did have a difficult time putting the track pieces together, especially when attaching a corner piece. When you put two corner pieces together, the resulting length does not equal the length of a straight piece. It also does not equal the length of two straight pieces. We used this package along with 8 additional straight pieces and four additional curves (we like to go big). Even though we laid out our track before hand to make sure it would all fit, we didn't find out that the track would be a half-inch off until we put the last couple pieces in, which caused a couple corners to lift off the ground. It was a good chance to teach my kids a few important concepts of engineering and product design. The track and product itself are fantastic, but the truck must be symmetrical in order to fit together properly. The elaborate track we had planned didn't work, but the symmetrical track we made is a lot of fun too. I would recommend this product.

Great to play with the grandkids, still works too.