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I've never heard the word "scalextric" before. This is slot-track racing? I'll try it if you leave out the chicanes. |
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Will you suddenly hit a giant lego block somebody pushed onto the track? |
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persuade him to try it - a new experience! |
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Personaly I would feel a greater sense of loss if they had died as part of a UN force. |
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How *on earth* do you get injured by playing with slot cars? |
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They can fly of the track |
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You know, this probably sounds a lot more fun than it would actually be.
The way this stuff scales, full-size cars would have to go dangerous wicked fast (maybe someone with better math can calculate), and it would be mammoth heavy power plants instead of the cute little power boxes.
What made those little slot cars I used so much gol-darned fun was the way they whip-saw around the turns and through the chicanes, things that real race cars couldn't actually do, relative size-wise. I'm afraid the full scale version would feel horribly tame and slow, by comparison. |
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Just use go-karts, they feel really fast cos theyre really low. Also, petrol powered feel faster. The thing about slot cars is that if you go too fast you fly off the track - how would you do it with full size cars? |
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I once saw that slot cars/scalextrics go the equivalent of 280 m.p.h. I would think that half that fast would be sufficient to make this fun. That could certainly be done in a standard-sized engine compartment. + |
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What exactly constitutes *driving* besides just riding along? |
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