Costco Air Hockey Table – an honest review

Isn't Costco known to sell handpicked, quality products at a great price and with an unbeatable warranty. What about Air Hockey Tables? What Air Hockey table do Costco sell? Is it worth buying your Hockey Table from Costco?

Costco in the U.S. sells the Medal Sports 89" Air Hockey Table for $350 to $470 depending on whether the table is on sale and where the purchase was made (in-store or online).

Overall, great reviews and table features show this could be a great purchase. However, this table is not currently available on Costco's website but potentially available in store.

In this article, we are going to review this table and let you know if it is worth buying your Air Hockey table from Costco or from somewhere else.

Costco's Air Hockey Table review

About the manufacturer

Medal Sports, also known as MD Sports, creates all sorts of table games including billiards, foosball, basketball, and of course, air hockey. They're a brand that's geared towards the mass market and not necessarily towards professional or competitive air hockey. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it just depends on what you're looking for. Many of their products, especially some of their multi-game tables deliver a lot of value.

If you want to learn more about Medal Sports, check our article here.

Features

Described as premium on Costco's website, we would rather describe this table as a great entry to intermediary level air powered hockey table. It is perfect for a small office or home crowd.

It looks good with its steel legs and the wood finish on the sides and comes with an electronic scorer and has an even air flow across the table. It's big enough to fit a whole family of 4 and play against each other.

Costco's Air Hockey Table Video

People described the assembly process as easy, but the table as heavy. In terms of installation, the legs need to be put together first, then attached to the table (top) which comes already put together. Costco requires 2 people to put the table together, which indeed can be heavy.

Costco's Air Hockey Table Assembly

People described the assembly process as easy, but the table as heavy. In terms of installation, the legs need to be put together first, then attached to the table as the whole top is one piece mostly made of wood, which comes already put together. The instructions indicate that  2 people must put the table together, as it weighs about 200lb.

Where to buy?

This table should be available in Costco stores (in the U.S. and Canada) and online at www.costco.com.

What customers didn't like - Negative reviews

Recent negative reviews show that customers didn't like the wood edges and finishings overall. They also did not like the fact that some electronics parts stopped working after a few plays, and sometimes, the tables came already cracked.

Here are a few examples:

• The wood on the side has completely chipped away a month after purchase
• ...it was VERY heavy.
• ...the electronics worked for literally 5 minutes, then never worked again. Also, the air flow is spotty at best....rarely it works and most times it doesn’t. It’s so bad, even the kids get frustrated and won’t use it. I am beyond disappointed. This literally is un-useable.
• The edges are peeling and what’s underneath is particle board.
• I bought this for Christmas, ... and the sensor for one of the goals is not working already. 1/2 a day, maybe 10 plays and already not working the way is supposed to work.
• ...the table top had a large crack in the middle.
• The only thing I don’t like about it is that there are 3 min and 5 min game times but it doesn’t announce when you have reached the time limit, it just stops keeping track of points.
• ...The only thing I would recommend is heavy duty pucks for adults. The ones it came with fly off when my hubby and I play. Granted we both pretend like we are in some sort of tournament - Note: Here is our selection of the best air hockey pucks including heavy duty ones.

Other feedback

We've collected here some of the best feedback we heard about the table on other sites.

• someone reported the price to be $399
• My kid has been hounding me for one but I gotta feeling this will see great use at first but it will become a 200 pound dust collector or lego table soon enough
• If this was a dome rod hockey table I'd be all over it! Miss mine. - Learn more about Bubble or Dome Hockey
• Size is perfect, you can play 2v2 easily. It's more for kids because the size of the goal is a bit small, playing 2v2 with 4 adults, the score will stay very low, it's easy to protect your net. Playing 1v1 is ok.
• Of course, it's got the cult of the new stuff. For the the first months it was played on almost a daily basis but not anymore. But when will be allowed to have some visit at home, kids will play with their friends for sure.
• The table is big but if space is not an issue, go for it.
  

At a glance, all buyers think it is a great product at first, but they don't use it as much over time. They mention they would want to have some other use for it such as other games.

Is it worth buying this table from Costco?

Overall, this table is a great pick, especially for the price. With a powerful air blower motor, electronic scorers with sound and enough pushers and pucks for the whole family, it could be a great and fun purchase.

However, based on customer reviews, the product is great but not amazing. In case a problem occurs, you would have to go back and forth to the store with this nearly 90-inch table of 200lb in your trunk, or pay a higher price online because of shipping.

If you want to make the most of your Costco membership and take advantage of Costco's warranty, it could be a safe purchase though.

Are you interested in other options available, keep reading.