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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I'll finally be able to track stand. Hurrah!
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  • zenistar
    zenistar Posts: 75
    Looks cool but just feels wrong - Scalextrics has to have mini coopers blasting around the track :)
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    zenistar wrote:
    Looks cool but just feels wrong - Scalextrics has to have mini coopers blasting around the track :)

    That's the one I had, the 300. Yellow and red mini's. Loved it.
  • cambs
    cambs Posts: 235
    ..and the great thing about having kids is you can do it all over again.

    Every year i check out their christmas lists and persuade them to drop whatever and get a new car, bridge, pit stop lane etc.

    The digital version is brilliant, wish we'd had it when i was young.
  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    I can't imagine this is a very exciting analog for track cycling though?
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  • thefilbertfox
    thefilbertfox Posts: 91
    Saw this on "Something for the Weekend" a week or so ago.
    Didn't look that impressive.

    My idea of a Scalextric track is akin to the one James May built around the Brooklands Circuit.
    New Malden to Epsom Downs
    60 percent of the time, all of the time
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  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    £70! You could buy a bike for that and just do it for real !
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    cambs wrote:
    The digital version is brilliant, wish we'd had it when i was young.

    What's the advantage? Variable speed?
  • cambs
    cambs Posts: 235
    You can run four cars on the same two lane track (or 6 on 4-lanes) and the ability to overtake (a bit like signal points on a railway track), are the big plusses, add pit-stop lanes, electronic lap counter , reverse travel direction.
    The cars are a bit grippier too as they have a magnet in the floor pan.
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    essex-commuter wrote:
    zenistar wrote:
    Looks cool but just feels wrong - Scalextrics has to have mini coopers blasting around the track :)

    That's the one I had, the 300. Yellow and red mini's. Loved it.

    me too - or at least I started off with that set. accumulated loads more track and cars over the years.

    It made a reappearance from the loft about 6 years ago and was updated to the newer power pack and a couple of newer cars, but not the digital overtaking thing which is only a year or two old I think.

    I can see it coming down from the loft again soon, its great fun.
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