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Instructions for a Hot Wheels Serpent Cyclone

The Hot Wheels Serpent Cyclone is a toy racetrack made to make Hot Wheels cars and trucks very fast. By pushing a car into the starting gate, you're sending it through a series of loops very quickly, with the goal being to knock the head off of the serpent at the end of the track. This is a fairly complicated track, but Hot Wheels made the process much simpler by labeling each part for assembly. Putting one together should take about an hour.

Things You'll Need

Phillips-head screwdriver
4 D-size batteries

Instructions

- 1
  Turn over the main base of the Hot Wheels Serpent Cyclone and locate the battery covers on the outsides of the base. Remove the covers using a Phillips-head screwdriver and install two D batteries into each compartment for a total of four batteries in the base. Reinstall the battery covers with the Phillips-head screwdriver, then flip the base over so it's right side up with the square end of the base pointing to the left.
- 2
  Lay out all of the pieces to the kit so that the labels for each component are facing up so you can quickly assemble the parts. Push the tubular body piece onto the side of the base closest to you using your hands.
- 3
  Lay out the parts of the track labeled from A to F. Push the A side of the track into the base at the square end until it clicks into place. Connect the B tab of one track to the B slot on the first track. Repeat this process until 5 total pieces of track work their way around in a loop and you connect the F tab on the end of the loop to the F slot on the side of the base.
- 4
  Push the snake body into the square end of the base aligning the peg with the hole in the base and making sure the peg runs all the way up through the body. Align the pegs on the section of track labeled C/D with the pegs on the side of the snake body and push them together to connect the snake body with the loop.
- 5
  Connect the G ramp to the G slot on the opposite side of the base from the F slot using your hands. Connect the J ramp to the slot next to the F ramp on the base so it aligns with the G ramp. Push in the snap-in side lock to connect the G and J ramps together with a slight gap between the two. Repeat this process for the H and K ramp and the I and L ramps in the same fashion.
- 6
  Snap on the top lock connectors on the top of the ramps to connect the J and K ramps, and the K and L ramps. Connect the Y-shaped Q connector into the Q slot on the base which is opposite the L ramp. Connect the pistol grip handle car loader into the left side of the Y connector with your hands.
- 7
  Connect the P side of the Y connector to the P ramp with your hands. Connect O to O, N to N and M to M on the ramps to form a loop that runs from the right side of the Y connector to the L side ramp on the base. Connect one of the support beams to the O/N ramp on the loop.
- 8
  Push the head onto the snake. Flip on the "On" switch which is between the H and I ramps on the base. Put a Hot Wheels car onto the car loader and push down the trigger to drop the car into the base. The car should run through the track, up the L ramp, around the three loops, up and to the snake's head and finally through the end loop and back through the Y connector.

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