Born to Play Bob The Builder Snap Trax Garage Set
The dreaded Bob track - Born to Play Bob The Builder Snap Trax Garage Set Toy Car

Product Type: Born to Play Toy Car

Newest Review: ... threw the instructions away and haven't been able to put it together again properly ever since. There are 24 pieces of track to put toget... more

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The dreaded Bob track
Born to Play Bob The Builder Snap Trax Garage Set

lilbitz

Member Name: lilbitz

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Born to Play Bob The Builder Snap Trax Garage Set

Date: 06/02/09

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Advantages: moving vehicles, working carwash

Disadvantages: hard to put together, keeps coming apart

We have had this set for over a year now. It comes with a working car wash and a manual lift along with five friction powered vehicles. This seemed like pretty good value. Our 3 year old son was crazy about it. However, the pieces only go together to make a rack in one way. So even when he learned to 'snap' the pieces together by himself there is no way to put it together that it will link up other than the one pictured on the box so he still needs help to do this. We even bought extra track to see if this would make it any more flexible but it doesn't. The other major problem with it is that it comes apart at the slightest bump so a little boy rolling around on the floor breaks it approximately once every two minutes. Once it comes apart in one place it invariably breaks somewhere else when you're trying to fix it. I find it the most frustrating toy he owns. The lift threads went after only a few days as well but my husband was able to fix it. I would get rid of it if he wasn't so taken by the car wash. I was also disappointed that the garage which is advertised as doubling as a storage box does not have the capacity to store more than a few vehicles. I was under the impression the track could be neatly packed up. It can't.

Summary: Very frustrating