that was great fun watching, i must say. and even a dash cam! brings memories when i was a kid but i never had a track a fifth that size. lot more fun than bigger slot cars. hooray for the creator of this track, the racers, the camera man, etc and the uploader !!!!
how do you get the power supply to the furthest part of the track? ive got a big circuit set up, but i lose power at the furthest point from the ac supply. how did you overcome this?
Mark Slinger I have over 250'. It is a combination of 3 sets. I had to use all 3 power packs carefully located to power the whole track. Long time to set up but worth it!
Use wires to connect sections of the track near the power supply to the point farthest from the supply. Scalectrix sells a set of them. I have 70 feet myself and had a similar issue ...the wires fixed the problem immediately.
Lovely video worth the hour and 40 minutes setting it up that was funny at 3:30 I have this at home but it is a very old one getting a new one soon liked
i Say to the dislikes,you must be envious .Please enlighten us all with YOUR great video of your layout.And please comply post haste ,because I have a very short attention span for nasty people who exist to damn other's REAL efforts..just saying.
:) You brought my childhood memories back. We didn't have this kind of colossal track. Just a little bit of track and a few twists and turns but it was so much fun. Especially because the track was made out of rigid rubber you could bend it in all kinds of ways and make all kinds of cool inventions with it. Not to meantion when those cars lost grip on all 4 wheels and they were hanging just from the connector and racing way faster than they should have. :D It was so much fun.
Back in 1986 my brother, friends and myself moved all the furniture out of the living room and laid out all the Scalextric track I had around the large living room. Not as much as this but all the track from a 1966 Scalextric 6 track set (that was the biggest available back then) plus all the additional track bought during the 1970's that had sat in the loft for years. Had 3rd radius outside curves at the far ends and a 22 x section straight with twisty bits and chicanes within reach of the control area. Used a Scalextric power jump booster cable (how many people have bought one of these??) as the return run power drop at the extremes was noticable (1/2 speed). Managed to over heat and seize a motor on a JPS but it cooled down and was OK. Later used a water spray gun to simulate wet track condition. Played all day on a Saturday and well into Sunday. One friend had his wife phone at 4 AM and asked if we'd seen her husband plus 8 year old son?? After a phone nagging they had to go home. (Women never understand the important fun events in life!!) Now it's all packed back in the loft where it has sat for years since 1986.
Just 1 power base was used, but with 2 x 2.5A power supplies powering it. The speed drops off slightly when the cars are furthest from the power but only a little, and we raced 6 cars on this circuit no problem at all - Great fun!
Is this digital or analog track? also is it ppssible to make a split track with analog? like a 2 lane then still 2 lanes but with different track.. does that make sense?
Thanks - The first piece (the ragtime piano music) is called The Smiler by Percy Wenrich, and the second piece is from the album "Music for a Film" by Daniel Bautista (which you can download for free from Jamendo I think).
Tja, so ist das eben, wenn man sich jedes Jahr zu Weihnachten das Gleiche wünscht. Dann hat man irgendwann mal so irre viel Schienen, dass man gar nicht mehr weiss, wohin damit ...
Nice to have that kind of money and time on your hands! Bored with the pool table and pinball machine I guess. That room is half the size of my house, but I'm just a poor police officer.
I am not impressed by the size of the track, I am impressed that the cars stayed on the track for more than a few seconds. Every time I used to play with cars like this, the cars would always end up flying off the track.
@Mikeb1001 No jump leads used - There was a slight power drop-off at the far side of the circuit but the cars were still plenty fast enough! This was all brand new track though so I don't know whether that makes a difference - The joints on older track might lose a bit more voltage than brand new clean track. And the single lane tracks do connect to any section of sport track (not classic track though), so you can split from a double-lane section to single lanes that diverge etc.
@DatBossTV Yes you're not far off - Those bridges barely have enough space under them for a car, let alone a video camera, so you'll notice that all the in-car footage stops just before bridges! I don't think the camera fell off but it did hit the bridges quite hard a few times as it's not easy to slow down when there's a heavy video camera on top.
@trackspike64 I'm not sure but I'm guessing that the car either uses an infra-red LED or some kind of magnetic field under the car to trigger the sensor in the track that switches lanes - It's definitely not mechanically triggered, it's some kind of proximity sensor circuit that then switches the lanes electrically.
@Zoopersable Yes the layout was just designed as I went along - I had a rough idea in my mind at the start but it just evolved as I was building. Having the camera running the whole time focussed the mind! And the camera I used for the on-ride shots was just the same one I used for the rest of the footage - a Canon HF20 precariously strapped on top of a car. Very top heavy and it didn't drive well but the footage came out ok I think. A smaller camera would be much better I reckon.
@donkey456789123 The video camera was mounted on top of a car using elastic bands and insulating tape - It wasn't a complete success due to the weight of the camera slowing the car down (and the size meant it wouldn't fit under bridges), but it still produced some good footage.
I use to have one of these when i was a kid . Of course not even close to being this large. but they were fun. does anyone know if they make tractor trailers or semis for ho small size slot tracks ? maybe because they would bend to much on the turns they wouldn't work ?
@evans10j It was just mounted on top of a car and held on by insulating tape and elastic bands - The car didn't drive as fast with all that weight on top and it was a bit top heavy (hence the accident at the end of the video) but it did the job!
ohhh god, i used to play with this all day without getting out of ideas. as kids back then we had to use our imagination to create our own games, lol i even used to add green army men, action figures and animals to build this game :)
Just an ordinary HD video camera attached to the top of a car with insulating tape and elastic bands - a Canon HF20. The car struggled a bit with the extra weight and you had to be real careful on the corners!
No problem with the power - Just a single feed for the whole track. When the camera was mounted on a car for the "POV" shots the car did struggle a bit the further it was from the power feed though.
OK one ? how did u know where to start laying the track to make the layout did u have a plan or was it just in your head ..How did u lay all that track and have all the ends meet just right at the end
My wife would like a word with you !! apparently your putting idea's into my head ! i don't know what she's talking about :)))) great video ! iv'e just bought myself the mighty metro ! well i bought it for my son wink wink nudge nudge :)
@cas123321 I've only got road cars on my track (Audi TT's and Porsche Boxsters) but I'm guessing the F1 cars would be slightly faster as the car body would be smaller and lighter?
No just a normal video camera, a Canon HF20 attached to the top of a car with elastic bands and insulating tape - It made the car a bit slow and top heavy but it did the job!
Just a normal video camera (Canon HF20) attached on top of the car using insulating tape and elastic bands - It did the job but the car was very top-heavy and a bit slow.
I've checked the original video footage and construction took 1 hour 40 minutes from start to end - I'd better edit the video description as I thought it was over 2 hours!
@bumperboy It is kind of similar style but it's not the same - The Bullseye theme music was written by John Patrick. Google "Bullseye Theme Tune" and you should find it.
Me and my brother managed to build it so long that we lost power to the cars. We were disappointed when the cars slowed to a halt halfway through our track that went from end to end at our old apartment. We had to remove a meter or two to make it work.
Just one power unit but it was right on the limit - the cars slowed down a bit the further they were from the power but they were still plenty fast enough.
Just a normal camera strapped to the top of a car. You might notice the in-car footage stops just before every bridge, because the camera doesn't fit under it!
So did you just build off of imagination? Or was this track pre-designed on some computer? I've got about six - eight boxes of track total; five - seven of which are all used classic track, and very inexpensive... but a bit warped and corroded. By the way, what did you use to film on-board the cars? I've been thinking about attaching a GoPro via adhesive mount, but I'm worried about the center of gravity being messed up, and the stability get ruined.
Mostly improvised - I had a rough idea where I wanted the long main straight to be and where a couple of the bridges would cross it but apart from that I made it up as I went along. It's very satisfying when at all finally joins together!
At 1:45 how do the cars know how to choose whether to go left or right at the "Y" split? Does the 1st car that passes trip something to make the other car got the other direction?
awesome layout. not only did you need thousands for the track but a big enough room in the house!! for 200ft of track in my room it'd have to be on 3 or 4 levels. lol. Do you happen to have pictures of the layout too to get an idea of the 'plan' I'm guessing you didn't actually follow a plan as you said you had fun trying to get it to meet at the end hehe
@mtx499 Hi, great track, it kind of resembles how my addiction to Scalextric is starting to get, each week I buy more track!. Now I just wanted to ask what type of Camera did you use to mount on the Car?, I was thinking of doing this myself the other day actually, and I saw this today just by chance. Thanks.
yea, well "nerds" have way more fun. We're not inhibited by superficial definitions by the media or the mainstream entertainment industry of what's supposed to be "cool" so we can actually experiment with everything (like slot cars and RC airplanes) and actually have some real fun.
I have about this much track - but can never get it working - I dont see loads of jumper cables - how did you do it? I have a new C 7042 power base I am about to set up. But is there any other tricks. I thought to jump power all round it using RCA cables? What did you do?
OMG! I remember this from my childhood! Forgot all about Scalextric! Good times
you cannot beat scalextric. I have almost as much track as that in my bro's loft. Brilliant stuff!
Great video and amazing track! Was wondering how did you get enough power to 200 feet worth of track?
that was great fun watching, i must say. and even a dash cam! brings memories when i was a kid but i never had a track a fifth that size. lot more fun than bigger slot cars. hooray for the creator of this track, the racers, the camera man, etc and the uploader !!!!
holy cow 9 mill views on 1 vid any utuber big or small would die for that many views
awesome!
About 1 hour 40 minutes for the construction - I had the camera running the whole time so the pressure was on!
how do you get the power supply to the furthest part of the track?
ive got a big circuit set up, but i lose power at the furthest point from the ac supply.
how did you overcome this?
i think he use another ac supply or, he use more than one stage of start in the race to use more power (in points :v)
Mark Slinger I have over 250'. It is a combination of 3 sets. I had to use all 3 power packs carefully located to power the whole track. Long time to set up but worth it!
Use wires to connect sections of the track near the power supply to the point farthest from the supply.
Scalectrix sells a set of them.
I have 70 feet myself and had a similar issue ...the wires fixed the problem immediately.
Lovely video worth the hour and 40 minutes setting it up that was funny at 3:30 I have this at home but it is a very old one getting a new one soon liked
Love the car POV footage :)
Awsome track!, makes me feel like having a go.
When there is a split in the track, how does it decide which way to go?
Thanks for doing this. Now I don't have to do it myself, and retain my cool, non-nerdy social status.
And i cant get my 20 foot to run smooth..
no
I’ve just got mine from about twenty years ago up and running
I had to sign in just to like this. I don't know why you have a single dislike.
ok you're like 9 years old the ones you play with her powered by triple A batteries
i Say to the dislikes,you must be envious .Please enlighten us all with YOUR great video of your layout.And please comply post haste ,because I have a very short attention span for nasty people who exist to damn other's REAL efforts..just saying.
Ahh, the "google" pic is of my son. I'm 36 and a fan of slot cars from my youth. I raced (I believe it was called) group 20.
Def not a fan of the battery power setups. Although the commercial 12volt setup I used had a car battery off the power supply.
Aw, man! I used to have an awesome track like this! I don't anymore, but the memories just roll in.
I had something like this as a kid; 1:32 scale. Only had about 30 feet of track though. Great video!
:) You brought my childhood memories back. We didn't have this kind of colossal track. Just a little bit of track and a few twists and turns but it was so much fun. Especially because the track was made out of rigid rubber you could bend it in all kinds of ways and make all kinds of cool inventions with it. Not to meantion when those cars lost grip on all 4 wheels and they were hanging just from the connector and racing way faster than they should have. :D It was so much fun.
sweet, i have to ask the cost/time ratio.....
Wow
Slot cars? Aren't those the things people who aren't good at steering do?
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Lucas Brunner nope, just another way to have fun.
Man, I loved your video!! especially the part when the car flips over at the end and the music becomes all tragic sounding.......Cool!!
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what name and size of camera on the slot car...
can send video of a camera on the slot
What's the top spead
first the music is like, WTF AARG. but then it's like.YEAH. #waitforit
I was so keen for these aha, where did the days go man!! :(
Digital - We had 6 cars running on the track at the same time one evening.
Back in 1986 my brother, friends and myself moved all the furniture out of the living room and laid out all the Scalextric track I had around the large living room. Not as much as this but all the track from a 1966 Scalextric 6 track set (that was the biggest available back then) plus all the additional track bought during the 1970's that had sat in the loft for years.
Had 3rd radius outside curves at the far ends and a 22 x section straight with twisty bits and chicanes within reach of the control area. Used a Scalextric power jump booster cable (how many people have bought one of these??) as the return run power drop at the extremes was noticable (1/2 speed).
Managed to over heat and seize a motor on a JPS but it cooled down and was OK.
Later used a water spray gun to simulate wet track condition.
Played all day on a Saturday and well into Sunday. One friend had his wife phone at 4 AM and asked if we'd seen her husband plus 8 year old son?? After a phone nagging they had to go home. (Women never understand the important fun events in life!!)
Now it's all packed back in the loft where it has sat for years since 1986.
very end of 2 hour construction wife walks in the room *its time for me to vacuum*
Just 1 power base was used, but with 2 x 2.5A power supplies powering it. The speed drops off slightly when the cars are furthest from the power but only a little, and we raced 6 cars on this circuit no problem at all - Great fun!
nice video
Nice video
Is this digital or analog track? also is it ppssible to make a split track with analog?
like a 2 lane then still 2 lanes but with different track.. does that make sense?
that was off da chain. i miss having the tyco racing tracks. great video!!!
this took so long to make
so cool! :)
Impressive layout! What's even more impressive, is that you managed to set it all up without stepping on any of the track!! LOL
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Yes it's Scalextric Digital, and you can run up to 6 cars on the track at once - Great fun.
Thanks - The first piece (the ragtime piano music) is called The Smiler by Percy Wenrich, and the second piece is from the album "Music for a Film" by Daniel Bautista (which you can download for free from Jamendo I think).
I ve bought my son one of these for Christmas,hes just opened it,will you come and set it up for him,I"ll pay your taxi.
lol
A mini-pool table, a pinball machine, AND a giant slot car track. That's a fun room! :)
Tja, so ist das eben, wenn man sich jedes Jahr zu Weihnachten das Gleiche wünscht. Dann hat man irgendwann mal so irre viel Schienen, dass man gar nicht mehr weiss, wohin damit ...
Nothing better than a nice clean basement with a pool table and pinball machines and lots of room to build something crazy like this! Cool!
English: As I cost you scalextric toy tracks, so I can get them
Español: cuanto te costo las vías del juguete scalextric, para yo poder obtenerlas
man I had these things growing up and man I remembered they always fucked up
This track looks really cool!
On carpet yeah? doesn't fill everything up with lint? Cool track though. Try with a Mercedes CLK.
whats that i think i hear my childhood calling me =O
Olá bom dia crianças, vocês são felizes e bonitas. Beijo.
Guau espectacular!!!quiero armar una igual, donde la consigo? soy de Mendoza ARgentina
put the kettle on im coming over with my fly cars!!!!
Nice to have that kind of money and time on your hands! Bored with the pool table and pinball machine I guess. That room is half the size of my house, but I'm just a poor police officer.
Quick, I'm still only 12yrs old, I need a huge room and a lot of money right at this second
Attic, sell your siblings
I am not impressed by the size of the track, I am impressed that the cars stayed on the track for more than a few seconds. Every time I used to play with cars like this, the cars would always end up flying off the track.
This cropped up in my 'Recommended Viewing' email today from UA-cam - Great to see this has 10 million views now! Best wishes, David.
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@Mikeb1001 No jump leads used - There was a slight power drop-off at the far side of the circuit but the cars were still plenty fast enough! This was all brand new track though so I don't know whether that makes a difference - The joints on older track might lose a bit more voltage than brand new clean track. And the single lane tracks do connect to any section of sport track (not classic track though), so you can split from a double-lane section to single lanes that diverge etc.
How much did that cost?
@DatBossTV Yes you're not far off - Those bridges barely have enough space under them for a car, let alone a video camera, so you'll notice that all the in-car footage stops just before bridges! I don't think the camera fell off but it did hit the bridges quite hard a few times as it's not easy to slow down when there's a heavy video camera on top.
@trackspike64 I'm not sure but I'm guessing that the car either uses an infra-red LED or some kind of magnetic field under the car to trigger the sensor in the track that switches lanes - It's definitely not mechanically triggered, it's some kind of proximity sensor circuit that then switches the lanes electrically.
Awesome track! Cool onboard cam! But please drop the awful crappy music...
holy shit thats alot of track
@Zoopersable Yes the layout was just designed as I went along - I had a rough idea in my mind at the start but it just evolved as I was building. Having the camera running the whole time focussed the mind! And the camera I used for the on-ride shots was just the same one I used for the rest of the footage - a Canon HF20 precariously strapped on top of a car. Very top heavy and it didn't drive well but the footage came out ok I think. A smaller camera would be much better I reckon.
@donkey456789123 The video camera was mounted on top of a car using elastic bands and insulating tape - It wasn't a complete success due to the weight of the camera slowing the car down (and the size meant it wouldn't fit under bridges), but it still produced some good footage.
Every winter my brother and I would go in the attic and set up the track.We loved it but it was never as elaborate as yours.Can I come over some day?
Wow! Clearly you're not one to brag because this would have taken a normal person a week to build! Awesome video!
I use to have one of these when i was a kid . Of course not even close to being this large. but they were fun. does anyone know if they make tractor trailers or semis for ho small size slot tracks ? maybe because they would bend to much on the turns they wouldn't work ?
@evans10j It was just mounted on top of a car and held on by insulating tape and elastic bands - The car didn't drive as fast with all that weight on top and it was a bit top heavy (hence the accident at the end of the video) but it did the job!
ohhh god, i used to play with this all day without getting out of ideas. as kids back then we had to use our imagination to create our own games, lol i even used to add green army men, action figures and animals to build this game :)
Just an ordinary HD video camera attached to the top of a car with insulating tape and elastic bands - a Canon HF20. The car struggled a bit with the extra weight and you had to be real careful on the corners!
No problem with the power - Just a single feed for the whole track. When the camera was mounted on a car for the "POV" shots the car did struggle a bit the further it was from the power feed though.
OK one ? how did u know where to start laying the track to make the layout did u have a plan or was it just in your head ..How did u lay all that track and have all the ends meet just right at the end
My wife would like a word with you !! apparently your putting idea's into my head ! i don't know what she's talking about :))))
great video ! iv'e just bought myself the mighty metro ! well i bought it for my son wink wink nudge nudge :)
@cas123321 I've only got road cars on my track (Audi TT's and Porsche Boxsters) but I'm guessing the F1 cars would be slightly faster as the car body would be smaller and lighter?
looks great how did you manage the on board camera? that looks awesome!
are these sets expensive? they look like very high quality.
I had these but on the box it says it comes with cars but they robbed it and my house caught fire then lost my. Childhood is ruined ;-(
No just a normal video camera, a Canon HF20 attached to the top of a car with elastic bands and insulating tape - It made the car a bit slow and top heavy but it did the job!
Just a normal video camera (Canon HF20) attached on top of the car using insulating tape and elastic bands - It did the job but the car was very top-heavy and a bit slow.
I've checked the original video footage and construction took 1 hour 40 minutes from start to end - I'd better edit the video description as I thought it was over 2 hours!
@bumperboy It is kind of similar style but it's not the same - The Bullseye theme music was written by John Patrick. Google "Bullseye Theme Tune" and you should find it.
Pretty cool though when i saw the red car i was thinking is there a race then it came right it was a race after all.
Me and my brother managed to build it so long that we lost power to the cars. We were disappointed when the cars slowed to a halt halfway through our track that went from end to end at our old apartment.
We had to remove a meter or two to make it work.
Just one power unit but it was right on the limit - the cars slowed down a bit the further they were from the power but they were still plenty fast enough.
Just a normal camera strapped to the top of a car. You might notice the in-car footage stops just before every bridge, because the camera doesn't fit under it!
Please just excuse my ignorance here..how did he know how to set the track up? Was it all in his head?
That's fake because he need some walls in the side of the tracks
It's just a normal video camera strapped to the top of a car with elastic bands and insulating tape - Not an elegant solution but it worked!
How many hours did you take?
FANTASTIC TRACK! GOOD!!
1 hour 40 minutes of construction compressed into 2 minutes i would guess
Awesome video! How did you get those POV shots?
How to the cars keep getting in the same lane? Are they jumping track from too sharp of a turn somewhere or something?
No, just a normal HD video camera strapped on top of a car - hence the crash at the end due to the car being very top-heavy and unbalanced.
How many powersupplys did you use?
Im gonna set up 70 meters (230 ft) tracks, do i need more than 2x 16volts 13 amphere powersupplys?
So did you just build off of imagination? Or was this track pre-designed on some computer?
I've got about six - eight boxes of track total; five - seven of which are all used classic track, and very inexpensive... but a bit warped and corroded.
By the way, what did you use to film on-board the cars? I've been thinking about attaching a GoPro via adhesive mount, but I'm worried about the center of gravity being messed up, and the stability get ruined.
Just showed this to my (6 year old) son he said "it's the biggest track in the world"
Mostly improvised - I had a rough idea where I wanted the long main straight to be and where a couple of the bridges would cross it but apart from that I made it up as I went along. It's very satisfying when at all finally joins together!
At 1:45 how do the cars know how to choose whether to go left or right at the "Y" split? Does the 1st car that passes trip something to make the other car got the other direction?
awesome layout. not only did you need thousands for the track but a big enough room in the house!! for 200ft of track in my room it'd have to be on 3 or 4 levels. lol. Do you happen to have pictures of the layout too to get an idea of the 'plan' I'm guessing you didn't actually follow a plan as you said you had fun trying to get it to meet at the end hehe
@mtx499 Hi, great track, it kind of resembles how my addiction to Scalextric is starting to get, each week I buy more track!. Now I just wanted to ask what type of Camera did you use to mount on the Car?, I was thinking of doing this myself the other day actually, and I saw this today just by chance. Thanks.
Let me ask you something: what is the appeal of slot car racing where steering is taken out of the picture ?
Cool vid though.
are the switches electric how do u switch lanes I have the new scx digital and the car drops a pin down and the track switches
yea, well "nerds" have way more fun. We're not inhibited by superficial definitions by the media or the mainstream entertainment industry of what's supposed to be "cool" so we can actually experiment with everything (like slot cars and RC airplanes) and actually have some real fun.
I have about this much track - but can never get it working - I dont see loads of jumper cables - how did you do it? I have a new C 7042 power base I am about to set up. But is there any other tricks. I thought to jump power all round it using RCA cables? What did you do?