Fisher-Price GeoTrax Rail & Road System - Mile High Mountain

I purchased this for my grandson to add to his system.... He loves it....

We love the GeoTrax system. My son got it for Christmas 2 years ago when he was 3, and he still plays with it fairly frequently.The Mile High Mountain is the least-used of all our GeoTrax pieces. It is too hard for him to set up alone. Sometimes even I have trouble remembering exactly how to configure it. Once it's set up it, it works very well and is a lot of fun. If we had lots of room to leave the GeoTrax set up all the time, we would LOVE the moutain. But we keep our GeoTrax in several huge tubs, and build new layouts all the time. The mountain adds frustration and delays to the building process. It also takes up a LOT of room in the huge storage tubs, that could be better spent on a zillion more track pieces. (Son likes to make really long tracks and "deliver" stuff from one room to another.)

Waste of money!Our 3 year old LOVES his GeoTrax - but when he got this and couldn't easily put add it to his other parts......We had nothing but tears and tantrums.I have to admit - that this is not an easy addition to the GeoTrax Collection. It is hard to build and falls apart easily.

This is a great set to use in conjunction with other Geotrax kits. I was glad that we ordered it early. We added the clock tower and some other tracks and lifts before Christmas. It works really well with the other components. As a stand alone toy it is nothing to get excited about. All the parts are sturdy and fit together well. My three year-old seems to enjoy destroying and rebuilding the track combintations almost more than running the cars on it.

Hours of fun for the whole family. The entire GeoTrax series of toys has been a great opportunity for our family to spend time together. All four of our children (ages 2-12...girl and boys) love building the "ultimate" train set.

I have a couple of sets of geotrax that i build with my 3yo son, and the problem I have with the mountain set is that it goes up the mountain, but doesn't come down. This means that if I'm combining it with other sets, I can't complete a loop that goes up the mountain. And that means if you have the remote controlled geotrax trains and like your train actually going round and round the track, you'll be finding yourself trying to bend and mold the mountain pieces to come back down. Really they should have just included a few extra pieces to make a loop.

Mile High Mountain adds a new level of play to the Geotrax system. Now vehicles can climb high into the sky to the Chalet at the top of the mountain. The chalet can be used for storing cargo which can then be sent via chute to a collection point at the bottom.The sloping track also crosses over a poseable tunnel. This can be used separately from the mountain. Tracks can continue higher or run back down the other side. The set also includes a diesel vehicle and a cargo crate.The set is full of the detail that makes this such a fun system. On the mountain you can find a bird in a nest, a rabbit, stalactites, several types of trees and even pinecones. A wonderful addition to any Geotrax setup. The only downside is that in order for the mountain to fit in a smaller box, there are some screws that need to be driven during assembly as opposed to the usual snap-together operation.

My 3-year old son loves trains in general, and is obsessed with having his trains (or cars or trucks or anything with wheels) go through tunnels. So this was a great treat for him. We've got a couple of pieces of the Geo Trax world already, so this was just another add-in. It takes a little more effort to put together than the other sets we've bought so far, but no problems with it. We have a standard size train table, and adding a piece like this, or the elevated tracks (which we also have) is starting to push the limits of the train table. I guess that's an overall "warning" about the Geo Trax sets...if your kid likes them, the more you buy, the more space you need if you want to set up the whole thing. Our space is limited, so our son can only set up certain pieces at a time. And he is pretty astute to set stuff up himself. We may get him started by doing the initial setup, but he'll eventually take it apart and do a different track layout.