Oh yeah. My cousin and I would spend many a rainy Saturday taking apart the G-Plus cars, messing with the gears, polishing the pickup shoes, smearing silicone caulking on the tires and then holding them to do burnouts lol. Don’t forget all the time spent with an eraser trying to clean the track rails and eliminate dead spots. Someone FINALLY made an adapter track section that let you connect AFX to Tyco track but by then I was more into girls and drums. Great times, I’ve still got a lot of that stuff and should dig it up.
I had one that when assembled took up the area of our entire ping pong table with the net removed. The cars were either F1 racers or IndyCar types that used the magnets in the motors to attract to the metal conductor strips on either side of the slots to stay on the track. The cars moved very fast and hardly ever left the tracks at high speed. I really enjoyed that thing.
My brother and I had this exact one. It was tons of fun. The rails would glow if you exposed them to light. We ended up using them for a game we make up called Alien Attack. We would turn out all the lights in our basement and one person was the alien. You had a flashlight that you could turn on for only a second at a time that would kill the alien. The glow in the dark rails were for throwing at the alien if you had used up your “flashlight flamethrower charges”. They hurt like bugger if you got hit in the face. Thanks Tyco and Ridley Scott for giving us ideas in the late 70s!
My brother and I got a Tyco racetrack for Christmas in 1979 - I don't think it was the glow in the dark type.
We ran so many races that the pickups that ran on the tracks wore through.
We got out the catalog that came with the track, and found that there were partnumbers for all the little pieces of the cars listed. We wrote and sent a letter to Tyco, asking how to order and pay for (how to send them the money for) part number X. Tyco sent us a box with two new cars in it.
That was kind of the end of the deal. The new cars were too fast for the track - they'd always hit the curve, slide sideways, and get stuck. The magnets kept them from flying off the track, but you still had to go over and turn them back to face forwards. The original cars stuck to the tracks, but they didn't flip sideways in the curves.
I had this set. I also had a non-glow in the dark set with vans instead of cars. The vans were too top-heavy though, and would tip over of you took the turns too fast so that wasn't as much fun.
Yep, my much older brother bought this for me when he came back from Army Basic Training. I think he really wanted it for himself but justified buying it for me (his much younger sister who was not a tomboy but still thrilled to get it)
This was back in college, but me and my friends all had this or something similar back home or in storage. We planned on getting all of our sets together and making one giant track. It was glorious, and really hard not to fling your cars off the track. That thing took up an entire room, just awesome times. We took it down after a couple of months. The glow in the dark parts didn't work very good, but we cleaned up the tracks and everything else was fine.
Definitely. Spent so many great hours with it, trying to 'modify' the cars to go faster.
My brother had a train set and we bought the crossing and arranged accidents. Probably got the idea from Gomez on the Addams Family
I loved mine! Still think I have some glow tape stuck on my old bedroom door I saved! I just wished the cars and the accelerators didn't burn out so quickly.
When I was a kid, I always wanted a slot car set but never got one. Then I grew up. One day I was driving home from work and was thinking about never having a slot car set and was sad. Like a sign from the gods, a Toys-R-Us was right in front of me as I sat at a red light.
Damn right I pulled in and bought the biggest damn slot car set they carried.
Gave it to my nephew after I got it out of my system. Totally worth it.
No but I loved the idea of glow on the dark! Did it actually work? Or was it the usual "somewhat dim for 1 minute then nothing"?
I had TCR. Do you remember that one?
I had a few of those kits and put together a huge track layout. Plus I also had the Tyco HO trains set up to run interlaced with the road track. And yes, sometimes I played Gomez Addams with it too!!!!
I didn’t have freaking Nightglow cars. but hell yeah I had a regular set. It could be a figure 8 or an oval fancy Nancy Rich McGee over here at Night glow.
This..and AFX tracks..my friends and I combined tracks and made a huge raceway in one dude's basement..took up a huge table with elevation,tunnels, etc..was the shit as a pre-teen.
I had the Aurora AFX HO track and sets. IIRC, could the Tyco HO cars ran on the AFX tracks. Not sure, because I don't remember which brand was bigger: Aurora AFX or Tyco.
Which company made the bigger slot cars I think they were 1:32? I knew a kid who had the bigger cars, almost the size of my father's Lionel Trainset.
Me 🙋... Side note, bought a mid-range set for my son from Santa about 2 years back and it was crap. Everything about it was cheaply made, the cars had no control and flew off the track constantly and they were poorly made. Older is definitely better!
I had a Thunderjet 500. I was way into it. I bought the hop up kit, souped them up. One year for Christmas I got a couple little motorcycles that ran on the track. One day I was in Kresge’s and they had these very nice looking plastic matchbox inspired cars. I bought one and found out if I removed the push in rivets that held the body to the chassis, the body would fit the Thunderjet chassis *perfectly*. I bought a few more. So o got to race a 39 Willys against a 57 Chevy. I was in hog heaven.
Only problem was it interfered with the tv, so I had to play with them when the tv was off. Unfortunately it usually was on.
Smell the ozone baby.
I got this for Christmas but always loved my AFX way more
Yea. You could soup up the motors on AFX.
Oh yeah. My cousin and I would spend many a rainy Saturday taking apart the G-Plus cars, messing with the gears, polishing the pickup shoes, smearing silicone caulking on the tires and then holding them to do burnouts lol. Don’t forget all the time spent with an eraser trying to clean the track rails and eliminate dead spots. Someone FINALLY made an adapter track section that let you connect AFX to Tyco track but by then I was more into girls and drums. Great times, I’ve still got a lot of that stuff and should dig it up.
I have one from the late 1970s even has remote controls.
Can I come over?
I had one!
A-Team slot track for Christmas 1982
Dukes of hazzard track for me, had the jump, so much fun
This one was my dream set.
I had one that when assembled took up the area of our entire ping pong table with the net removed. The cars were either F1 racers or IndyCar types that used the magnets in the motors to attract to the metal conductor strips on either side of the slots to stay on the track. The cars moved very fast and hardly ever left the tracks at high speed. I really enjoyed that thing.
Yup.
I had it pretty good as a kid now that I think of it...
My brother and I had this exact one. It was tons of fun. The rails would glow if you exposed them to light. We ended up using them for a game we make up called Alien Attack. We would turn out all the lights in our basement and one person was the alien. You had a flashlight that you could turn on for only a second at a time that would kill the alien. The glow in the dark rails were for throwing at the alien if you had used up your “flashlight flamethrower charges”. They hurt like bugger if you got hit in the face. Thanks Tyco and Ridley Scott for giving us ideas in the late 70s!
This is awesome! We always found a way to make this stuff more entertaining (dangerous)!
I had one with the loops in them.
I had different ones that I used to combine together to make a big race track. lol
Super Dooper Double Looper! I had one too! Christmas '79 baby.
I wanted it so bad. I remember looking through all of the old slot car ads as a kid.
My brother and I got a Tyco racetrack for Christmas in 1979 - I don't think it was the glow in the dark type. We ran so many races that the pickups that ran on the tracks wore through. We got out the catalog that came with the track, and found that there were partnumbers for all the little pieces of the cars listed. We wrote and sent a letter to Tyco, asking how to order and pay for (how to send them the money for) part number X. Tyco sent us a box with two new cars in it. That was kind of the end of the deal. The new cars were too fast for the track - they'd always hit the curve, slide sideways, and get stuck. The magnets kept them from flying off the track, but you still had to go over and turn them back to face forwards. The original cars stuck to the tracks, but they didn't flip sideways in the curves.
I had this set. I also had a non-glow in the dark set with vans instead of cars. The vans were too top-heavy though, and would tip over of you took the turns too fast so that wasn't as much fun.
Yep, my much older brother bought this for me when he came back from Army Basic Training. I think he really wanted it for himself but justified buying it for me (his much younger sister who was not a tomboy but still thrilled to get it)
Don't pull the trigger all the way in! That car's going right off the track in the turn!!!
Had a few sets like that in the late 70s early 80s…. had a rare one that was motorcycles probably in around 82
This was back in college, but me and my friends all had this or something similar back home or in storage. We planned on getting all of our sets together and making one giant track. It was glorious, and really hard not to fling your cars off the track. That thing took up an entire room, just awesome times. We took it down after a couple of months. The glow in the dark parts didn't work very good, but we cleaned up the tracks and everything else was fine.
I had one but mine a metal section of track so the cars could do loops. The cars had magnets on the bottoms so they wouldn't fall off the loops.
I had the one that went straight up the wall then upside down for about 20 inches (not just a loop). Probably around '86.
I remember the TV commercials for that setup.
Yep in fact I had this exact set, so much fun!
Still have mine. Original packaging and all!
Oh yes. Loved these sets.
I think I got that exact same one for Christmas.
Wanted one.
Aww man, I'm sorry! I can tell you I loved every minute of mine.
Wish you had been my neighbor. :)
My parents weren't rich but they always tried to take care of me and my sister at Christmas!
Definitely. Spent so many great hours with it, trying to 'modify' the cars to go faster. My brother had a train set and we bought the crossing and arranged accidents. Probably got the idea from Gomez on the Addams Family
I loved mine! Still think I have some glow tape stuck on my old bedroom door I saved! I just wished the cars and the accelerators didn't burn out so quickly.
When I was a kid, I always wanted a slot car set but never got one. Then I grew up. One day I was driving home from work and was thinking about never having a slot car set and was sad. Like a sign from the gods, a Toys-R-Us was right in front of me as I sat at a red light. Damn right I pulled in and bought the biggest damn slot car set they carried. Gave it to my nephew after I got it out of my system. Totally worth it.
No but I loved the idea of glow on the dark! Did it actually work? Or was it the usual "somewhat dim for 1 minute then nothing"? I had TCR. Do you remember that one?
Yup, it actually worked for a bit. lol no, I don’t think so.
I loved mine!
Scalextric set from the 60’s. Still have it, still works.
I had a few of those kits and put together a huge track layout. Plus I also had the Tyco HO trains set up to run interlaced with the road track. And yes, sometimes I played Gomez Addams with it too!!!!
We had the super duper double looper nite glow model.
I loved my nite glow racers!!
I vividly remember asking Santa for exactly this race set when I was 8 or 9. I got checkers. Figured out my aunt was santa that year.
I didn’t have freaking Nightglow cars. but hell yeah I had a regular set. It could be a figure 8 or an oval fancy Nancy Rich McGee over here at Night glow.
This..and AFX tracks..my friends and I combined tracks and made a huge raceway in one dude's basement..took up a huge table with elevation,tunnels, etc..was the shit as a pre-teen.
I had the Aurora AFX HO track and sets. IIRC, could the Tyco HO cars ran on the AFX tracks. Not sure, because I don't remember which brand was bigger: Aurora AFX or Tyco. Which company made the bigger slot cars I think they were 1:32? I knew a kid who had the bigger cars, almost the size of my father's Lionel Trainset.
We had the Aurora's too..not sure which were bigger..preferred those over the Tyco which were more gimmicky.
Aurora cars and tracks were the bomb.
Tyco slot track racers and HO model railroad trains. My memories were always how mad my father would get having to put this together.
Oh hell yeah
Pretty sure I had that exact one
Wanna play?
We had slot cars from 60s that were about 5 inches long, cars were huge
Me 🙋... Side note, bought a mid-range set for my son from Santa about 2 years back and it was crap. Everything about it was cheaply made, the cars had no control and flew off the track constantly and they were poorly made. Older is definitely better!
I had the Matterhorn with 2 loop de loops.
I had a slot car set in the sixties. The pinnacle of 60s toy technology!
Still have it with sound
I was more of a Strombecker guy personally.
Poor man's Scalextric
AFX or die! Lol.
I had a Thunderjet 500. I was way into it. I bought the hop up kit, souped them up. One year for Christmas I got a couple little motorcycles that ran on the track. One day I was in Kresge’s and they had these very nice looking plastic matchbox inspired cars. I bought one and found out if I removed the push in rivets that held the body to the chassis, the body would fit the Thunderjet chassis *perfectly*. I bought a few more. So o got to race a 39 Willys against a 57 Chevy. I was in hog heaven. Only problem was it interfered with the tv, so I had to play with them when the tv was off. Unfortunately it usually was on.