6th-Mar-22, 06:36 AM
Yes Alan, you’re not a fan of Scalextric…
However, some of us are. Mostly, Scalextric cars are great fun to work on and race on a home or Scalextric club track. Occasionally they’ve produced a real dog, but that makes it even more satisfying to get it performing! The current crop of cars (since 2016j are generally excellent when compared like for like… not against an NSR - that’s comparing apples with oranges.
My background - since I was a toddler - is playing with Scalextric, problem-solving issues and using whatever ‘tools’ are around the house to fix things. Yes, a clear set-up plate would be useful for mediaboy - but a piece of track is equally useful (possibly more useful, given that’s what the car is catching on…).
The glory of this hobby is that it’s so diverse. Thank goodness there’s no prescriptive way of doing it - huge fun can be had at all ‘levels of the market’. Sometimes I think we can take playing with toy cars all a bit too seriously…
However, some of us are. Mostly, Scalextric cars are great fun to work on and race on a home or Scalextric club track. Occasionally they’ve produced a real dog, but that makes it even more satisfying to get it performing! The current crop of cars (since 2016j are generally excellent when compared like for like… not against an NSR - that’s comparing apples with oranges.
My background - since I was a toddler - is playing with Scalextric, problem-solving issues and using whatever ‘tools’ are around the house to fix things. Yes, a clear set-up plate would be useful for mediaboy - but a piece of track is equally useful (possibly more useful, given that’s what the car is catching on…).
The glory of this hobby is that it’s so diverse. Thank goodness there’s no prescriptive way of doing it - huge fun can be had at all ‘levels of the market’. Sometimes I think we can take playing with toy cars all a bit too seriously…
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