Hot Wheels Crazy Croc Reviews

• Not a winner

  
  By A1NLKD94CLTE7B on 2006-04-10
  My 5-year-old son begged for this after seeing the commercials for it, and I don't think he spent more than 30 minutes playing with it once he finally got it. Firstly, the croc repeats the same 15 seconds of annoying insults and irritating laughter continuously. Fortunately, you can turn this off. Secondly, we tried a wide variety of cars and it was pretty rare to get any of them to drop down and land correctly. I couldn't get any of them to launch from the boat. My son has bought most of the Hot Wheels tracks released in the last couple of years, and this one didn't seem to be well designed at all for having fun. I would recommend passing on this track.
  
  

• Crazy Croc Set by Hot Wheels

  
  By A1NGYLZAFTD5UP on 2006-04-18
  My son had wanted this set since he first saw the commercial on TV. I told him that none of the Hot Wheels sets ever did what they said they would do on TV, but he still got this toy as a present. So sure enough...it doesn't do what it's supposed to do. He probably has way over 300 cars and we haven't been able to find one yet that works with it. I know it says "not for use with some cars", but that is ridiculous. So now my son has a toy that doesn't work, but that he won't let me return because he's convinced that someday he will find a car that works. People shouldn't market toys that don't do as shown on TV. This is very misleading to both children and adults. I am not impressed with this set at all.
  
  

• What happened to quality?

  
  By A1EF9WD6877J4H on 2006-05-27
  I'm dissapointed in this product and have to say in Mattel. Do they test these products? My 5 year old son saw the product on TV and wanted it (oh, the power of advertising!), we bought it, and regret it. The set does not come with a car first of all and many of my son's matchbox cars do not fit the launcher. The launcher doesn't even launch. It just drops the darn car! The sound is annoying so don't bother buying batteries either.
  
  
  

• Great Toy

  
  By A2TXKYF36AIUQD on 2006-10-08
  My son received this for his 4th birthday and we love it. Yeah, you have to find the right type of car (don't they sell a set just for this item?), but once you do it really does work. Just takes practice and a little bit of patience.
  
  

• Do not buy this toy!

  
  By ARNT7G2LKG6G7 on 2006-12-31
  No wonder they are selling a 30 dollar toy for 5 bucks, it does not work and the quality is sub par. I have three boys so we get alot of hotwheels toys and this one is the worst I have seen. Do not take if it was free. Garbarge and disappointment await. I gave one star because you have to, but I would give negitive stars if I could.
  
  
• Piece of junk
  By A1LYMHOFGQR318 on 2006-05-01
  My 4 year old son received this toy for his birthday. He was extremely excited after having viewed comercial after comercial for this play set. My children have several of the Hot Wheels and Matchbox play sets and realize that some are better than others. However, DON'T waste your money on this product. Between my children they have about 150 cars. We have yet to find a car that works on this set. The voice stopped working after a few minutes of play. Even if we could get it to work, there isn't that much to do on the set to even make it interesting. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in Mattel in releasing such a poor product into the market.
  
  
  
• Lame, toy!
  By A1HOE2IRHQXYBY on 2006-12-27
  Leave this one "on the shelf"!! A "Hotwheels" product which doesn't come with "wheels"!????!!! Who would have thought at $25.00 it doesn't come with a car and then they have the nerve to make it not work with other Hotwheels cars!! This is a very annoying junk toy which was such a disappointment to my son Christmas morning. I would not have been so disatisfied had I shopped on Amazon and got it for the price being offered now--$5.00!!
  
  
• crazy croc lots of fun and thats no croc.lol.
  By A2E0JX7VAMU03Q on 2006-11-26
  anyway whos writing these reviews parents,my son loves this toy,and every kid i know that plays with it from ages 3 to 10 like it too. its a toy not a lifetime investment. and i paid 25 dollars for it too by the way.order it every kid will love it. its hotwheels for crying out loud.
  
  
• Works Great for us!
  By A38SM2OBC3E5TC on 2007-01-08
  After reading all the negative reviews, I was hesitant to buy this toy for my son. but he really wanted it, and everytime he saw the commercial he went nuts!! I bought it in September and put it away for Christmas. He talked about this thing almost everyday! Finally on Christmas morning, he discovered that Santa left it for him. It didn't require much assembly, Just sliding ramps onto the croc. Our Crazy Croc works perfectly 7 out of 10 times. It's good for him to see that things don't work exactly the same every time. We have a great time with it. The noises it makes are pretty cool, it burps and laughs and says a few phrases, but thankfully it can be shut off. My 3 1/2 year old LOVES it. The key is to make sure everything is lined up, and to find a car that fits it. We have about 50 different cars, and most of them fit. He has his favorites, and most of them fit. Not every car has to fit, Isn't that the beauty of the world? That everything is different, works different and gives different results for different people? I'm certainly glad we got it!!
  
  
• Big disappointment
  By A3H8V6TDN7OH1I on 2006-12-22
  We bought this croc for our son (5) who loves anything Hot Wheels and found that most of the cars don't work with this. Also, the sounds are annoying to the point of my son wanting it to stop.. which is very rare. Half of the time the crocs mouth won't drop shut, and I agree with one of the other reviews saying that it's nearly impossible to get the car in the boat. We tried and tried and got it in there once. Most of the time the car never even made it to the boat because it flipped over after dropping from the crocs mouth. Amazon is correct in charging only $5 for this toy, it's not worth any more than that.
  
  
  
• Very Disappointed
  By A2QA6X44Y0APJQ on 2006-12-26
  Ho Ho Ho!!
  My 6 year old has been asking for this toy for about 6 months now and today he finally got it. He's had it for about 5 hours now and is already tired of it. We've tried no less that 20 different cars and have yet been able to get it to work. The only thing it seems to do consistently is play that obnoxious sound over and over again (if you know how to turn the sound off, let me know. I'm ready to remove the batteries or clip the speaker wire).
  
  Do not buy this toy. You'll be very disappointed in it.
  
  
• Crazy Croc is a piece of "Croc"
  By A30CFEMM4ZZ8QG on 2006-12-31
  I purchased Crazy Croc even after reading all the bad reviews, but my son really wanted it so I bought it for him for Christmas anyway. It was the worst gift i've ever bought....please don't even waste your money....trust me, check the reviews first, now that's worth it....
  
  
• Not even worth the $5.
  By A1FEJW19WN85BB on 2006-12-31
  I got this for my grandson (6) who wanted it because of the commercials. As stated by most of the other reviewers, it just doesn't work. Everyone who bought it should be able to get their money back, or Mattel should send each one a free car that will work. It's a piece of junk. The Terrordactyl works very well, but you'd be crazy to buy the crazy croc. Maybe we should all send them back to the Company with out complaints.
  
  
• I swear it's an Alligator - Crazy Croc Does the trick
  By AUPN5FGWSK7OS on 2006-12-14
  My son and neighbor kid were totally caught up in Mattel's ad.
  
  Everybody else on-line is out of stock.
  
  Amazon's price is unbeatable - WOW!! - [....].
  
  Sam just got it in the mail.
  
  Perfect pre-Christmas gift.
  
  I know the above sounds indulgent but he loves hotwheels - all types of cars.
  
  The Croc is tricky.
  
  Yes - the sound can be turned off.
  
  Works best with the 1987 Camaro.
  
  
  
• problems in quality control
  By A6BMHFHWLI0TC on 2007-01-18
  I happened to have 4 of these and gave them to kids and check how they play.
  2 out of 4 work fine. most of cars fit into the slot and kids love to play with. the other 2 have a problem to fit the car and the spring in the boat does not work properly so the car stopped when it get in the boat.
  manufacture needs to do quality control on these item so that customer does not have some defective product
  
  

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