I can't believe you have all the sets WOW 😲😲😲

Interesting set and I agree it can be considered a crossover between action drivers and hot wheels. You mention the Mattel layout. While that works, it may have been layout that way for marketing/photogenic purposes. Another option you may want to consider is that the "key" playsets, The airport, Parking garage, fire station, and police station all have a "main street." (note the airport main street has a left or right turn arrow) I'm talking about the road piece that has a double yellow line. Connecting the sets together so that the "main street" is the same from one set to the next not only allows the police station and the fire station to flow directly onto the "main street" but also increases the number of actual operational "side streets." The airport side street, the parking garage, the fire station, and the police station will all have clearly defined intersections this way. Granted, this takes up more room, but the layout is more realistic, in my opinion. The bus station, pizza hut, gas station, etc.-- are fillers and can be placed anywhere to complete the set based on your layout. Finally, extending the roads. I have been using the hot wheels city track pack (10-piece set). It connects to action drivers and will work until Mattel comes out with its own city road set for action drivers. As for this Volcano playset, I have it on order and looking forward to getting it, thanks to the great video that 64 created. (Thanks Again). I agree it doesn't belong in the city-so since my city layout is extended, this set will be on a side table attached to the canyon adventure set. I will use the hot wheels city track to connect these two playsets to the city. Perhaps you might consider this a bit extreme- but my grandson enjoys it, and it's been fun to build it.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for watching! And I agree on the marketing aspect - it’s assembled so most of the sets face out for the photo, even if they don’t really make “sense” in that setup, ha. Another odd part I noticed is the weird Pizza Hut/Bus Station/Gas Station parking lot/road mix near the center on Mattel’s setup - even though they connect it makes a weird, back-alley type setup that limits the play space they make together bc they bunched them together too much. The Main Street setup is great! That sounds like it makes more sense than the Mattel setup, even if they all don’t fit together in a linear fashion. The Hot Wheels City Roads connecting the city to the volcano and canyon set is a cool setup too - your grandson is a lucky guy for having a cool grandpa to set him up a city like that! He’ll definitely get a kick out of the volcano if he already likes the calmer city stuff too 😎🏁

Essential sets ranked { Fire Station, Airport, Police Station, Hospital, Auto Shop, Gas Station, Parking Garage} the other sets are add ons imo. All are great sets though Matchbox at its best

Still hoping next year they could do something like a car dealership, or a car wash or even a drive in theatre. There's still room to grow.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Agree! A car dealership is on a lot of people’s want list (including my own) and a car wash and drive-in would be awesome! I’d really like a grocery store or a licensed retail store like a Target, and/or a even a licensed car dealer like Tesla or Chevy. A post office, city hall, an apartment complex/houses, and a truck stop would all be pretty easy and make great additions to the city. I really hope they keep this line going for several years so we can get more of those types of sets!

@chrismayer3919

Жыл бұрын

A working car wash might be nice 💦🚗

@laneschilling4836

7 ай бұрын

There is a car wash now luckily!

Thank you. My son toy set did not come with instructions. What a life saver. Happy holidays man.

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

Happy that I was able to help! Happy holidays to you as well!

Excellent! One suggestion to make this set more "realistic" would be to get some wild animal toys and make a national park out of it.

This set definitely leans towards hot wheels but still fits with action drivers set. As you said should of been called volcano research center since the “escape eruption” is what feels out of place.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the mix of overly fantasy volcano mechanics and realistic lab stickers is an odd blend of scenery for sure, ha! Still a good set, just a bit oddball. But hey, toys are meant to be fun, so if our collections were all bus stops and gas stations, it wouldn’t be as colorful or action packed as it is with the volcano 😎🌋

@MrGpdp

2 жыл бұрын

@@64Wheels yeah I know the kids going love this one since there are several ways to send the cars down the ramps.

This is a good one !! Yes 👍🏽

Matchbox should build a train station for kids and the box will came with a train

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

A train station would be great! I’d love a train station or even like a bigger city Metro Line style train.

Thanks for the instructions. Much appreciated

The airport is still my absolute favorite. Matchbox hit the jackpot with that play set.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

The Airport is great! I really like the “upstairs” terminal section bc I feel like that’s such an awesome, realistic looking part of the set! I also like the huge amount of play space on that set!

@blackjack23able

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah probably the greatest airport playset ever made for diecast cars.

This is the kind of playset I love. I get the market for the other Action Drivers Sets, but they aren't really 'Action' to me. THIS is action. The others are neat, but too mundane for my tastes, while this has a nice blend of realism and fantasy. It reminds me of the old dragon castle playset I had as a kid, but turned down a bit. This sort of 'realistic scenario with fantasy exaggeration' vibe makes a perfect midpoint between the typical Matchbox realism and the extreme fantastical aesthetic of Hot Wheels sets.

A thought came to me as I was rewatching the Video. The only way that the canyon Rescue and this volcano escape would fit in a city-theme layout- would be if these two playsets were considered amusement park attractions. Think Disney World or Universal. Ya, I admit -a bit of a stretch.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

I could see that though - an actual amusement park playset utilizing the Hot Wheels Loopster casting would be so cool!

@blackjack23able

2 жыл бұрын

Hot wheels actually made an amusement park type playset some years back.

@MrGpdp

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t actually have volcano but this is exactly how my niece/nephew play with the canyon set. They play in the city then travel to the canyon to go off-roading, and somehow always ends up with me getting hurt (gator bit me, rock hit my head, etc) and needing be air lifted back to hospital.

I do not collect die cast but Action Driver sets looked cool. I bought 2 of them and became addicted. I now have all the sets but I have not put them all together yet. Yesterday I broke out the Volcano Escape and put it together. It is a WOW set. So here is what I think this set is about and why it fits into the city. It is not a real volcano but a theme park set around a mechanical volcano. The park allows 4x4's to use their skills to drive thru the park. People can hike and do other activities as well. The eruption of the volcano adds to the mystery of the park and ejects harmless balls. It is all fun for the whole family!

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s awesome! The Volcano set does have a bit of an amusement/attraction feel to it. I also hope they do an actual amusement style park playset eventually too! The Canyon Adventure also feels a bit like an off-road adventure center. Overall there really isn’t a bad set in the Action Drivers line-up!

Yup got my son the volcano and police station so cool

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

😎 both are cool sets - I especially like the police station because of all the parking area it has!

Yea I really don't think this set fits in with the rest. I do like the idea of streets you can buy separately. Also intersections and maybe traffic lights would be great!

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

A traffic set with roads, cones, stop lights, etc would be great! We need to convince Matchbox to make them ha!

That’s cool I just got that for Christmas 2023

But I wish to get the fire station and Airport soon!

There's a bot in the comments that you may PARTICULARLY not want on THIS type of video, just thought I should get it noticed. Great video, these are great sets for the most part. Even the lesser ones are still pretty cool. Lookin' at buyin' me one of the little bus stations myself, and maybe the garage workshop. I'll be on the lookout for that Pizza Hut, but somethin' tells me you won't likely find a lot of those around, and certainly not below scalper's fees.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads-up on the bots - I try to delete those as soon as I see them! The Bus Stop is a great little set as is Auto Shop, but if I had to pick I’d go with the Auto Shop bc it’s bigger and has more “play” factor, but you can’t go wrong with either! The Pizza Hut is on the small side but it’s worth picking up for the nostalgia factor alone ha! I don’t know if you have Meijer’s stores in your area, but I’ve seen the Pizza Hut sets on the shelf at Meijer’s and some people have seen them at Wal-Greens/CVS stores too.

All of them because they are so cool

Great video, and thank you! As I see more and more of these sets, it seems like there are 2 classes - the more toylike, almost fantasy sets (like the one featured in this video) and the more realistic city sets. While I like them all, and all look to be high quality, I tend to favor the city sets for their realism. But all these review videos are fun to watch. Love the colors of all the sets. Well done! Also, I'm sure it's just me and I'm strange, but even the box the set comes in looks cool to me, and I'd have to keep it just for its coolness.

@64Wheels

8 ай бұрын

You’re correct there - they seem to be splitting into more fantastical style sets like the volcano and Canyon Adventure and the realistic sets like the auto shop and the Pizza Hut. They are both great but definitely serve two different play styles and buyers ha. The boxes have excellent box art and colors too!

I like it! This one’s more for kids to have fun and they prob tried something new

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

For sure - this one skews more play than collect, but it’s still a fun one to add to the town. I’m okay with a few sets like this as long as they all don’t become this, bc Action Drivers are such great, affordable, semi-realistic sets and I hope they continue this line for a long time!

So cool!

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! It’s a huge set with a ton of features - definitely one of the more play-packed sets!

By the way, great video!

Thanks

That they include a whereabouts for trucks and trailers, that would be good

I only have the Fuel Station, The Pizza Hut found at Target and Meijer, then the latest, the Crane Cronstruction Site off of Amazon!

R.I.P Action drivers 2020-2022

Sam will you please share the upc bar code or Target item number on the receipt so I can search my area for one? Great review! 👍

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Sure! Once I get back home later today I’ll post the upc info on it😎

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Okay I checked the receipt and the item number Target assigned to the set is 087071236. I hope that helps!

@justinh4923

2 жыл бұрын

@@64Wheels thank you!

Might make a decent pretend entertainment ‘theme park’ to drive around

Thanks for doing this. Mattel's set-up does not make logical sense to me. I found a way for it to work much better than their set-up. This volcano set is the first one I'm skipping - it just doesn't fit in. Like you said, it's not a "city" piece and has too much of a fantasy element. I have set my city up on a 6-foot table alongside the aircraft carrier without the Top Gun logo to make it fit (and it does - it looks great), and they fit perfectly on that (at least until more sets are made). I don't collect diecast cars - I got into the Action Drivers sets, though, and bought Matchbox cars to fit with the sets. Thank goodness for Working Rigs, because sometimes the varying scale of Matchbox really annoys me - like the bus that comes with the Bus Station; it's way undersized/scale. Anyway, thanks again for doing these reviews. I hope. they do no more fantasy sets and instead continue with more realistic sets - I'd love a restaurant, grocery store, car dealership, and some type of housing area.

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! The Mattel setup does need some tweaking, but I assume they did it for more of marketing purposes rather than being 100% play ready, but minus a few of the road fitment issues it’s not too bad. When I was editing the video I realized I actually had the fire station set facing the wrong way from the photo but it still ended up working okay. The aircraft carrier is a great set too - they need a Action Drivers Dock/Harbor set with some boats, cranes, trucks and shipping containers to give us more “city” water sets. I’ve ran into the same issue of Matchbox being scaled smaller, as they also scale to the package rather than to a certain scale - and I 100% agree on the Working Rigs. Love those! I have a bunch of them and actually need to open about 5-6 of them on video still!

Ours will not light up or make sound- we have tried replacing batteries. Are we missing an on switch?! Or is it defective?

@64Wheels

6 ай бұрын

I would check that the assembly point on the “rock/boulder” switch is hitting the sound trigger at the base of the volcano. Sometimes the assembly switch/rod can get misaligned and not be lined up with the sound trigger. The sound is triggered by the long flat orange rod inside the right side of the tunnel - if you hit the trigger boulder and don’t see that rod move then you know the switch isn’t connected correctly.

Hello, lifetime toy collector here including Hot Wheels and Matchbox. I have a question about your Matchbox Gas Station. I have this playset but it was one of the first ones I bought for my son and I and it's peg layout is limited. You have yours in the middle of your layout. I cannot do this with ours. It has no middle pegs on the long sides to connect to the newer sets. I presume Mattel modified this playset to work with newer Action Drivers sets. We have to place it on the outside of the rest of the sets. Did they update the Gas Station connectivity with later production sets? The next problem would be if I bought another one is how to know when it was produced. We have all of the first wave Action Drivers, some 2022s and a couple 2023s. I look to collect the remaining ones when possible to continue to grow this great 1/64 city play system. Mattel made great city sets for Hot Wheels in the past but I do not prefer their newer city play sets but I do understand their decision to design them different for kids now with fun exaggerated play features.Thank you for maybe answering this question and found your channel to search Action Driver sets we still need. Have subscribed.

@64Wheels

9 ай бұрын

Hey Jason! Thanks for watching! The gas station was one of the first sets released back in 2021 when they launched the line and the peg spacing was a bit different than they are now (as you’ve noticed). I think the peg spacing was different for the gas station, hospital, and the parking garage (if I remember right). The second year sets and the rest have the updated peg spacing, so the early sets will only connect in a certain way to the newer sets, which does limit the set-up, but I think they did it to ensure better fitment for sets in the future. And agree that the Matchbox sets are so much better than Hot Wheels - I don’t know why they’ve gone so unrealistic with their sets, but they are so gimmicky they run out of play time fast.

My "story" theory is: Its a parking lot in the outskirts, next to the jungle; where a volcano has suddenlty grown out of the ground; swallowing the whole lot, thats why you see an elevator and broken ramps... .. i thought you would try the playset with a car, to see some of the options ... ... also... i like how "moderate" matchbox style is with their fantasy tracks; if it was for HotWheels. it would've had a Tiki mask face, or a shark, or teeth and an angry face; ... not that we go really serious, but maybe a mat or a park with some soft plastic or rubber track simulating rough terrain; for our off road themed and or construction vehicles will be welcome someday

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s a pretty good backstory for the set! I like it! Very Land of the Lost or La Brea style! Matchbox fantasy is so much better than HWs - I don’t know why HWs decided to go full on fantasy bc their older City sets were so cool and sold well too. Now their sets are like a spider flame thrower swap gorilla attack car wash lol. I understand those sets are meant for kids, but as a kid I always wanted more real street/store style stuff, not dragon shaped car launchers.

I have the airport,fire station, and the police station

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

Sweet - the fire station is probably my favorite set. All of them are great though!

Might been better had they dun motorway set like autocity or container port or car ferry or truck stop

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Agree! The old school Motorway sets were some of my favorite as a kid and I still have the Motorway car dealer, Super Chargers Monster Truck Arena, and a few others. I also have the 70s ferry/dock set too and those were some of the best sets out there. I’ll have to do a video on them sometime and compare those old ones to the new ones🏁

Mine didn’t come with the car

@64Wheels

7 күн бұрын

😭😭😭 You can probably snag one off eBay for pretty cheap if you can’t return your set for one with the car.

How much was this

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

@00:28 in I talk about the price and where I found it 😎

Nice face reveal

@64Wheels

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks - I actually did a face reveal when I did a barn find video after I got my ‘74 Plymouth Fury III delivered…but I think a lot of people missed it bc it wasn’t a diecast video lol.

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Mildly disappointing. Could you try using the vehicle playset to play with a vehicle next time? I would have liked to see that. Otherwise, nice video

@64Wheels

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - I usually don’t “play” with the sets during the video bc just playing with it doesn’t show the full extent of the set. I would have had to send a car down the ramp 5-6 times just to trigger the volcano action and it’s simply just quicker to hit the triggers and show you the toy function without having to sit through all the resetting. I’ll use the vehicles in a lot of the smaller sets but for bigger ones like this I usually sit them out and just show how the actions functions ha.

@Daniel_Eaton

Жыл бұрын

@@64Wheels fair enough. Rather than having no interaction with a vehicle it seems like tapping the trigger mechanism would cause a car to advance rather than just be immediately released down the track. What do those bumps on the track do? They seem to move when you press the button.