TV Show Theme Race Tracks (Slot Car Racing)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Today I take a look at some TV theme race tracks, also know as Slot Car Racing sets! From The Fall Guy to Miami Vice to the Transformers and more!
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I still have my dukes of hazard one. Always wanted knightrider one too
the fall guy was to me one of the best show of the 80s. i didnt have any fall guy stuff but my little brother had the fall guy truck cause he was into cars...i cant remember who made it. but i had never seen that race track before either...thats interesting...im definitly looking into that. thanks Junkman!
Ertl made the diecast truck.
Heather Thomas had me tuning into The Fall Guy every week. Strangely enough, I wasn't into electric racing sets or even electric trains for that matter.
Her poster was a staple in many young men’s bedrooms
I had one; pink bikini in a hot tub.
@@tombowling8646 Wow! I used to sell that poster and many other pin up posters in my store called Movie Memories poster shop in Palo Alto California for about 25 years.😊
I had the Richard Petty track. Me and my brother would race for hours on end. I still have the cars.
My favorite track was a slot less track. You could change lanes to avoid a tractor trailer that went in the other direction and a ramp that had a section with no metal so you had to jump far enough to keep going
I'm sure that there were some kids that could use the trigger to perfectly regulate the speed to make the corners without jumping the track. I was not one of those kids.
Set-up to disappointment ratio was far less than the vibrating field football players game. You set up the play perfectly and when you apply power every fool goes every which way.
Although a much earlier race track set, when I was a kid I had the Captain Scarlet race car set (two Spectrum Patrol cars. One red and one yellow).
I had a track, it was smokey and the bandit. Had a police car and a big truck. It had a curve that the police car could force the truck off the road
I had the A-team set. It worked exactly as it advertised. If you gunned the cars in the curves were the yellow extensions are you could make it whip around and go the other way. Actually a lot of fun!
The boxes always made them look like the most fun thing in the entire world
We had one called the Snake Track with two jeeps. You could bend the glow-in-the-dark "snake track" into curves and hills. Worked great for a long time, but eventually the metal rails starting popping out of the bendable track.
My friends and I usta buy the TYCHO ones at yard sales in the early 90's and we made a super mega track, One of my friends dads got us a bigger power supply so it all worked.
The only toy race track I remember having was the Thundershift 500. I still have the two cars.
I have a CHiPs boardgame with that same Ideal artwork. I've never seen the racing set.
I don't think I ever saw the Star Wars racing set in any store. I think I would have loved it.
Never knew Aurora was somehow involved with Mattel.
I think that Fall Guy set was the only TV licensed AFX set they did. Aurora went under shortly after
HO is a toy scale usually referring to Trains
My dad dedicated a portion of our basement as a kid for this. We bought like 5 sets and set them all up had like a 10ft straight away on one end and some trick corners. I remember he rigged up a car battery to it or something. Would make cars go faster.
Found the A-Team Van at my mom's house over Thanksgiving and brought it home. Wish I had my other slot car's.
We called them Scalextric here in the U.K. Junkman. I had the dukes of Hazzard set. Tales of the Golden Monkey was amazing, I forgot about that show lol.
I had a Dukes of Hazzard _slotless_ racetrack... as the cars whipped around the track, they'd switch lanes as they hit the curves from the centrifugal force & keep going... very simple figure 8 track, worked well enough, but yeah, got boring pretty quickly 😄
I remember a next door kid had a DUKES HAZZARD track mounted on huge sheet slid under his bed ,he'd pull it out plug it in and was ready to play
Smart kid
I had the 2 trans am’s set and loved the cars.
“ Never as good as they thought they were” yes sir! I can apply that to many things in life. Lol
Yep I never called em slot racing either… great idea for a video and talking of ideas the thing I love about these kind of sets is trying to figure out which two vehicles 🚗 I would have in each set if I was designing it… keep up the good work…. The CHiP’s one is badass by the way.
I still have my super cliffhangers set from Christmas as a kid. It works great with the 2 corvettes. They have strong magnets.😮
Irony - when this video pops up the morning after searching for Tyco slot cars on eBay last night 🥰💕 great minds
We called em 'Slot Cars ' when i grew up in the 70,s , West Coast. there were big-ass versions in town , next to the bowling alley, at a Slot Cars place. 2 tracks. the cars were about 8" or so. & yea , no one watched Miami Vice that was under 30 yrs.
I had a Star Wars and Knight Rider race track. Always wanted that Transformers one.
I used to have the Knight Rider race set in 1984. Played it until the cars no longer worked. Most of the race sets I got as a kid didn't last long. I would throw them into the garbage can. Fastforward to 2003, I was collecting unopened race sets. I like race sets best when there are sealed in the package.
You saved the best for last. I would’ve loved having the Dukes race track. In fact I think I asked for it for Xmas one year but didn’t get it.
Dang...you never saw Miami Vice? You missed out Junkman!! Great show! Not as good as Riptide of course!! :-)
Not much is
Yeah Junkman you tell em,they don't know about riptide .That's right riptide baby!!What if they made the track blue and had SLOT BOATS??So cool to be a kid...back then of course!!
I was never into race tracks. I still enjoyed the video though.
When I was a kid,I had the Dukes of Hazzard racing car set.
I had a set, I don't think the that the cars were from any film or TV show, they were a couple of Mini's with the Union Jack on their roofs. I don't ever remember managing to get it working for more than a few minutes.
I didn’t have any TV themed ones. I had one that had tractor trailers. It was never as good as I thought it would be. The trailers always made the trucks rip off the tracks on the corners.
I had one but it must have been the TG&Y unbranded type. It was a figure 8 with two black cars and we played with it a good bit.
Must be a regional thing. We always called them slot-car tracks growing up in PA
Tv. Show theme. Race. Track slot. Car. Racing. Okay 👍
My mom bought me a used one at a garage sale, it was packed in a ratty brown paper bag an covered with dust. I think it was Tyco? Green Camaro/ Orange Camaro? Not sure, long time ago. Any way? The controllers randomly sparked at the trigger grip and shocked the hell out of you. Like a really really bad jolt, every time you used it.
I only ever wanted the glow in the dark set.
HO is the scale of the cars/track, and it's from the model railroad scales.....which has O and half of O, which is HO, and N, and G scale, and I think a few others, but those are the ones I remember off the top of my head, but HO scale is VERY close to 1/64th scale which is what most hot wheels/matchbox car is
A Team had a special circuit that cars could spin around and go the other direction
Thank you for showing this thank you
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I remember have a buzz light year glow in the dark slot race track
Good video there, JunkMan.
Not racetrack related, but do you remember there was this toy that looked somewhat like a gun, and you shot cars out of the barrel? This was back in the early to mid 70s. I very vaguely remember them.
Yes! Can’t think of the name of it but I know it
The dukes one even says slot car on the box
I still have my TransFormers train set but never had the race track.
Miami vice was up against:
Matt Houson, Me and Mom, Falconcrest
Spenser: For Hire, The Fall Guy, The Love Boat, Falconcrest
The ABC Friday Night Movie, Dallas
Max Headroom, Mr. Belvedere., Dallas
Mr. Belvedere, Just the Ten of Us, Dallas
Maybe your mom had to watch Falconcrest and Dallas and you didn't have your 13" B&W TV in the bedroom yet. :D
maybe I didnt watch tv that day :)
The only TV theme track I ever had was the Knight Rider one by Ideal.
I had the Hwy 51 construction truck track with a dump truck and tractor trailer truck it was cool
Me too. The dump features were pretty awesome
Junkman was definitely from the south.. Never heard of slot cars.. Never heard of Transformers or watched the cartoon but I will comment on it like I know something.. 😆
I like you mack 5 in the background.
Junkman. "I never watched half the TV shows" ..
Would have loved to have the fall guy track afx set.
How well they worked depended a lot on who the manufacturer was. Aurora under the AFX Branding and Tycho generally had very good sets with well made fast cars. They also both made HO scale electric trains so these were scaled to match the train sets. Back in the day you could get special crossing pieces so your trained and race track could intersect. Creating wholesale disasters for your town. The other brand that was decent and holds up better than most of you get one of their sets is Ideal Toys TCR racing. That was the "Slot-less slot cars" you could change lanes. They were merged into Tycho so the later TCR sets were Tycho. Many of the other sets such as Galoob were just shit. And the Johnny Lightning Cyclone (the tower with loops thing) was more like a HotWheels track.
Wow... You kids over there had the BEST toys! 🇬🇧🏆🇺🇲
We had scalextric in the uk ,always better in theory than reality 😂
Richard Petty the King of Stock car racing.
He eat KFC chicken with Ronald Regan.
Where's the G.I.Joe slot car set? That was the only one I had.
It alwas smiled like battery ased
I had the Tyco wall ride, sucked, I also had the Transformer, of course I did, but I thought I was the Fall Guy as a kid and knocked my teeth out by jumping off my sister's highchair. It would have been safer to get the racetrack
I had one or two racetracks in the 70's and they never worked. So disappointing!
Who is Richard Petty
Tom’s brother
There is a Star Wars train set
HO SLOT RACING!!! LMFAO!!
The best set was most likely the first set you showed because it was the only 4 Laner track! The majority of those gimmick slot car tracks all sucked. Ta really race, you had to have a large "No Gimmick" track that was made with the goddamn slot cars in MIND!! Lotsa guard rails, lap counters and tons of track! Those old "pistol-grip" controllers were mostly bunk too. Technology wasn't there to have sensitive enough speed control over the cars. You can't believe the shit they got today! It's wicked crazy! \m/
I had the A Team.
How. There was something on He never seen half of everything from the 80s.
Wow no mention of knight Rider. 😮
got to save things for a part 2 if needed ;)
Is there a Golden Girls one???
I hope not
👀
Sorry you had so much trouble with your slot set, I have great luck with mine and still do. Just stick with action figures dude...thunder cats is worth a fortune by the way....ya just can't find the set or the cars...
"Daredevil" Cliffhangers combined Super Cliffhangers with the Dukes of Hazzard Jump Cliff.
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I had some of these, train sets too. When I was in FL in 82 the Mountain Dew stock car was everywhere as far as toys. Just reminded me of catching a Richard Pryor movie about him running moonshine and becoming a famous African American stock car racer. Not sure why my 7 or 8 year old ass watched it. But it must have interested me enough to see what would happen to him in the end.
Actually I hated cartoons from the 80s..
Let's Gooooooo !!!
These race track sets were great for preparing kids for adulthood.
They are a terrific tool for teaching the lesson of “the Ideal versus the Reality!”
They were like relationships. You felt like you couldn’t live without them, then when you get them, they kind of suck.
I remember my cousin having the Dukes of Hazzard race car set. He got it in the early 80's and I remember us racing the cars on it.
I'm with you Junkman, I've never seen any episode of "Miami Vice" and I sleep just fine at night. It never appealed to me, due in large part to it being popular among kids I went to school with. There wasn't much I liked in the '80s that everyone else did.
I think I I’ve one and little bit of the movie because I worked in a cinema when it was released.
I grew up in New Jersey, and was born in 71. We called them slot car racing. Different than matchbox and hot wheels race tracks.
HO Scale is Half O scale. Model trains.
Back in the 70s we called things by their brand names, like Kleenex or Hot Wheels for example. So these were 'TYCO cars', even if they were from another company.
Well I had the super turbo train and race and chase slot car racing
Fall guy- Heather Thomas yummy
Think my brothers had pop one
HO Slot Racing???
This cool man
That HO Slot Car Racing joke was perfectly executed. Kudos.
Some tell me what he used to say?
Think about it ;)
I only have Race and Chase (Matchbox Powertrack) as that's what I had as a kid just to look at the cool artwork. I think over here they were collectively called "Scalextric"
i was a grade school kid in the mid 70's , before these specialty sets came out.I dont remember the marketing of toys based on TV shows so much back then???
Anyway i did have a Jackie Stewart Aurora set with non magnet cars and literately wore every one out because i played with it so much. I even wore out the plug in transformer , and have the scar from trying to pry it open to this day!! I actually have all my cars , some 50 years later
and in NY we only refereed to them as slot cars
My brother and I got a Tyco slot car racing track with 2 corvettes (I think) from my grandparents.back in the day.Looking at an old photo of it that track did take up alot of space.Never had any of any of the tv themed slot car tracks,but would've loved to have had that Dukes of Hazzard race set and ify on the Transformers set.
That miami vice one could be transformed into a Scarface Brian DePalma inspired slot car set. Also had the Dukes of Hazzard slot set but somehow disappeared
Summed that up well. Very attractive but .... Reminds me of a CFL vibrating board game ....maybe the NFL had one too? Very large football field 3d players on platforms that moved as the board vibrated. Wish I had it now but not a good toy.
What, no Magnum PI race track? Guess they'd have to license both the show and the car.
Did save the best for last. Did they have extra vehicles? Uncle Jesse's pick up, Daisy's Jeep, and Boss' Cadillac?
HO is the scale or size. We had one where there was a “Jam” car that just always went slower than normal and the controller had a switch that allowed you to switch tracks and pass the jam car. Problem being which ever track the jam car was on robbed you of juice and allowed the other car to easily pass both of you. It was slot-less and had three rails. Had one with off road trucks, hills and a jump. We would also used to make jumps by disconnecting a section of track and using bread ties to jump power across the “gap”.
Awesome video I Had the Days of Thunder track growing up.
You can literally see the moment when Junk realizes why they are called slot cars.
I had the super cliff hangers. It worked fine for me. Still kinda boring though. I used to like holding the cars in place with the rear tires barely touching the track to do burnouts! Loved that smell of burning rubber.
Should look at the scalextric sets in the uk. They had pretty big cars compared to the rest. Dukes of hazzard, knightrider and james bond sets spring to mind
I also referred to slot car sets as "Race Tracks" when I was a kid. I was born and raised in California, so it definitely wasn't a southern thing to call them that. By the way, that is one of the coolest tee shirts that I've ever seen!
I've always wanted to put a glow in the dark one around the whole living room..on the wall in you could put blunts on it n pass it around ..haha
I had a couple of AFX Racing sets. Cars with working head lights and such. I remember that the controller cords were always way too short.