6foot Monster Jam ThunderRoarus Vertical Drop

I was excited to receive and have my toddler play with the Monster Jam ThunderROARus Drop Playset.

The playset came in a large box and instructions for assembly. The instructions are colourful and full of pictures however, they could have been better by labelling the parts with numbers.

The playset itself took about 45 min to set up. Once set up, you do need a lot of room for it, so you should take note of that if you are limited in space. You can't really 'pack away' the set once set up, nor would you want to if you want it readily available to play with.
You do also need 2 tripple AAA batteries with the set to get the lights and sounds. Those do not come with the packaging and must be bought separately.

I do not like the fact that you need to attach/mount the vertical dropset to your wall and that it takes up a large amount of room. The drop set stands at 6 feet tall. There is a little convenient crank on the side that does allow your little one to crank up the monster truck to the top of the vertical drop.

For the vertical drop itself, on some occasions, the monster truck did not follow along the track once released, and just fell off the track. These were far and few in between though. The drop itself looks pretty epic, especially with the effect of the monster car shooting out of Dino's mouth and the ability to perform a range of jumps/stunts ranging from a high jump, a front flip and a corkscrew. The corkscrew jump was my favourite!

The monster truck itself is very well made and is a 1:64 scale die cast. The truck is very resilient to withstand such high drops.

The thrill of this playset however, is short lived. Once you've played with it for an hour or so, it gets repetitive. It would be nice if going forward, you could attach tracks to this play set to build it out and add variation so that it doesn't get repetitive.

This pictures are both with and without the wall mount attached.

For the vertical drop itself, on some occassions, the monster truck did not follow along the track once released, and just fell off the track. These were far and few in between though. The drop itself looks pretty epic, especially with the effect of the monster car shooting out of Dino's mouth and the ability to perform a range of jumps/stunts ranging from a high jump, a front flip and a corkscrew. The corkscrew jump was my favourite!

The monster truck itself is very well made and is a 1:64 scale die cast. The truck is very resilient to withstand such high drops.

The thrill of this playset however, is short lived. Once you've played with it for an hour or so, it gets repetitive. It would be nice if going forward, you could attach tracks to this play set to build it out and add variation so that it doesn't get repetitive.