Scalextric

jonny68

Used to absolutely love this as a child, every Xmas for years it was always scalextric i wanted off Santa ;)a proper retro toy, none of this ****e kids play with these days eh..anyone have fond memories of scalextric too?

sound_wave

always wanted one but never got one...

"scalextrics the winner"....

DArcy

When I was 4, my brother (who was then 14) got a huge Scalextrics set for Christmas. Then the following year, he got a second set. So we had two huge sets, & when you put them together, the circuits you could make were massive!! We used to have a little yellow & black Mini Cooper, a sporty Ford Escort...& we had bridges & all kindsa stuff. We had a little set of traffic lights that hung over the track for the start/finish line.

The only problem was the connections between the track pieces(especially when we started to mix in pieces from different sets). Sometimes the current wouldn't carry through from one piece of track to the next, the car'd stop dead & swerve off the track & the whole race would be wrecked.

We got very clever & started covering the track connectors with tinfoil Scalextrics & Mechano...it didn't get much better than that!!

dazberry

Scalextric never interested me 'cos I was a train sort of guy

But I remember calling up to my cousin one day after christmas, and he had gotten a scalextrix with AFAIR The General Lee and a Police car from the Dukes of Hazard. There was an extra button on each controller and if you pressed it the cars would spin (i.e. 180) and go in the opposite direction. Unfortunately the way he had it set up the cars would just pop off the track - but the idea was fantastic to a young mind

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Ruffty^

One year i got this middle sized scalextric set. there were no crossovers so the guy on the outside always finished first. he could just hold the button while the saap on the inside would fly off the track when he tried to hold the button. it was pretty poor but it had this huge lap counter thing with these foam planes on top. you`d do 6 laps r watever it was set to and then your corresponding plane would be launched. whoevers went further won, although cheating was rampent here, eg. putting thumb tacs on the front of the plane to give it more stability the box said "Skies the limit when your king of the track"

Jip

I had the Pole Position version and it had this really cool starting grid. It basically had a set of rollers that can be raised or lowered, the idea being that you put the rear wheels of your formula 1 car on the raised rollers making it look like the car was wheel spinning off the starting line. Now for the really cool bit, you got this sachet of oily stuff that you put into the rollers so that smoke bellowed out of the back wheels when you wheel spun ! Once you'd had enough with the smoking tires, you lowered the rollers and the cars lashed off, fantastic. I think I might still have it in the atic somewhere !