Scalextric thought about everything. Awesome. All of those will sell out fast. Its fundamental to pre-order. In the future I am hoping they do current WRC cars.
It depends how much space you have. Carrera track has a larger footprint. Both have good cars. Carrera also do very good 1/24 scale cars. Scalextric cars are a good entry point and probably more tunable than their heavier Carrera equivalents. Scalextric cars will run on Carrera track but Carrera cars need a guide-blade change if they are to run on Scalextric track.
Hi, I’m finally retired and I’m looking to build a large carrera 124 digital track.....I think?! Any suggestions and guidance from Dave or his subscribers would be very helpful and appreciated. Are the carrera wireless controllers any better than the wired ones or should I use wired aftermarket? Where can I purchase the latest 124 complete set? Help !! Thanks Dennis
Some "stunners" but will any or all be great "runners"? The unanswered question of every Scalextric release is not whether there will be a good variety of cars but how they match up against brands like Slot-IT and Policar, NSR, Thunderslot, Sideways and Revoslot. Yes, the focus of the Scalextric marketing department is different to (say) Slot-IT and Policar. But in some cases, the price points are not. For racers, Slot-IT and Policar models are far better value for money than most Scalextric offerings. Scalextric cars are ready to run. Other brands are ready to race. (There are a few exceptions such as the Scalextric BTCC models.) What is missing from the Scalextric range is a premium brand that can "slot-in" out of the box alongside their smaller and seemingly more agile competitors. Better screws, softer braid, less body weight, rubber mirrors, spare urethane tyres or tyres with better rubber, and even slower motors, would not add much to the cost of a standard Scalextric model. But they would make them much more competition-ready while improving driving experience for beginners too. But thanks, Dave. An excellent quick survey. The Aston Martin DB5 looks promising too. And (necessarily) very belated thanks for your hand in the SCX Cuda.
@@johnd8892 Thanks John. Another one for me to put to one side! Another thing that irks me about Scalextric is that more often than not - I started with a Scalextric set in 1961/2 - their cars are less raceable than the Spanish equivalents. Ninco managed from almost year 1 to bring out cars that could run well even without traction magnets or with very light bar magnets. SCX/Superslot cars were invariably more realistic, more tunable etc than their Scalextric equivalent. There's an old saying that "good design is no more expensive than bad design". The problems that I've listed could be easily fixed. This would help racers but it would new entrants to the hobby too. Hornby have managed it with their trains, slot cars seem to be less of a priority.
@@johnd8892 Yes. The ones that first came to mind for me were the SCX F1 Ferrari 641 etc cars - that have recently been re-done by NSR - and their Scalextric equivalents. Same goes for the Ligier JS 11, Braham BT86, Tyrell 002 etc that SCX did in the early 1980s.
I want a couple of Formula E's a couple of modern day Touring cars and the new release Porsche not asking for much just chasing the dragon spending money I don't have 😌
@@SlotCarNewsOfficial Wow, that's news to me - the Challenger and Cuda? I thought only the front and back ends were different - but same chassis, and I thought 4 corners were the same as well --??? Different hoods but some tops and trunk but hey, you learn every day!!!
@@SlotCarNewsOfficial Sorry -- to my knowledge - not deep, admittedly, the those Chrysler products were designed from Day 1 to share a number of common components -which I thought included the main body panels, although the grills and hoods had differences in some areas -- so if you have a model of the Challenger - which Scaley does, why would the body (extant hood, grills, front and back) be any different for the new Cuda??? That's all I was getting at - and I guess, not very well, LOL
I like slot cars but there are to many old race cars from the 60's and so on, That's a turn off for me, I'll come back to the hobby when there are more up to date models.
@@andrebrooks1961 Nascar isn't really interested in doing slot cars. Their requirements for doing licensing isn't workable for slot companies. I've dealt with them over many years working for several companies now... it's not going to happen. The IMSA cars are there.
