Wed, 10 Jan 2007
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The set on the right I picked up at the local Radio Shack for half price. It is made by a company called Life Like. The scale is slightly bigger than HO (1/64 I think). The quality of this set is only marginal. The track does not stay together very well and the guard rail does not attach very well and one of the controllers had a sticking plunger. Never the less, it is quite fun to play with and my son really seemed to enjoy it once he got the hang of it.
When we went up to Canada, my brother-in-law gave the other set (on the left) to my son for a Christmas present. It is made by Artin which is a more active player in slot cars these days. They make a wide variety of sets. This one is much more challenging with the loop-d-loops. You have to go full throttle to make it around but you also have to break hard to avoid deslotting when you come down. It took us a while to get the hang of this one but it is tremendous fun now that we have. The quality of the Artin set is much higher than the other one. The cars are faster and have stronger magnets. The magnets are an innovation which was not used in the older sets I had when I was young. These magnets act as ground effects and hold the cars to the track.
Well after all this fun, I started looking around the Internet to see what is out there and discovered that there is lots of activity in slot cars. Now I am entertaining the idea of building a track out of wood. Old Slot Racer has lots of info on how to do it as well as photos and video of tracks that have been built. You can be really creative with building your own track. This could be a fun project.
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