The cars & tracks being manufactured here are not Scalextric, they are Carrera. Unlike Scalextric track, Carrera track is 1/24 scale, and the power rails are isolated from one another by plastic strips that run between the rails and the slot that the guide blade runs in. This feature removes the possibility of the tracks being shorted together if a screw or some other metal object falls into the slot.
Can I just say as a genuine badge-wearing paid up 1979 member of the 'Scalextric Formula one drivers club', those are not 'imitation' tyres. They are real tyres, miniature yes, but quite real. I have burned some of those out... oh I could tell you some tales, I have raced Fittipaldi and Hunt, and a Gerbil!!
Wow! I use to race 1/24 scale slot cars as a kid.I didn't even think this kinda stuff was even still around.. Lots of good memories. Thank You to the uploader!
+gnamp I think I have this figured out. Scalextric is the name of a company but, it seems that it's also used as the generic name for slot cars over there. Xerox was like that for photo copiers over here.
wallbreaker2 Yeah, I think so. I didn't even know about Carrera... Such a blatant rip off. Either way- the commentator should stop calling it Sca-lec-trix.
I’m running Artin 1/43 scale because it’s compatible with my 1/48 Lionel trains. But I love all the 1/32 and 1/24 scale slot car sets as well. Judging by the huge amount of slot cars on TH-cam it seems very popular.
I bet if that camera wasn't recording them they would be working at a high rate of speed nonstop! The moment that camera crew left the room they were probably like GET BACK TO WORK NOWWWW! I bet they make $3.00 a day.
I remember playing this game with my older brother! The red car was always faster than the black one, so I ended up switching the underneath motors. He was so surprised when I ended up choosing the black car...and winning >:)
i remember on my set, the cars had magnets underneath to help stay on the tracks, and the magnet on my car was definately stronger, allowing to go around turns faster hehe
TBH I worked in far worse conditions in the US. These places at least look clean. I worked in a plastics factory in college, and the conditions were afwul. Actually there were alot of molding and painting simliarites between the two factories, except the one in China looked like a clean operating table compared to the US factory. For reference I worked there about 13 years ago, so it wasn't that long ago.
My parents neighbors wife used to work at the Topper Toy Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was always bringing me home toys to play with. Good old " Made In The U.S.A." The toys were of good quality. I just wish I had them again. I see on eBay, some of the sellers are asking a small fortune for the toys.
The plastic IS colored! Resins (plastic granules) aren't quite as "uniform" in color as are most paints. It's a pretty safe bet that Ferrari has "licensed" the factory to produce "Ferrari Red" which is why the cars must be painted. And each car must match in color before and after each car made. Lead-Based fuel was banned in Hong Kong in 1999. Plastic and paint are both petrol or fuel-based products.
Personally I like Carrera track because it can run both 1:24 and 1:32.The older scalextric track had a tendency to bend which is why I switched. I do however like Scalectrix cars much better.
Depends on how you see shipping. Could be FOB or the other one (forgot the name). The manufacturer does not necessarily need to pay for shipping if its international (it is only required to pay for the truck to get it to the cargo ship). Sometimes the buyer pays for international shipping. Once its on waters the manufacture bears not responsibility and does not pay for anything. Everything from insurance to dmg products, lost products, etc... buyer pays for it.
You haven't even rebuttal any single arguments, an excellent way to show how much you actually know about eocnomics. By the way this conversation is over since all you can do is reply with insults, belittlement, and ignorance. I don't want to waste typing more words to a blinded fool.
So presumably, if these were still being made in Ramsgate, they would cost £50 per car instead of £30? Oh no, wait, the prices would probably be the same, but the company directors would not be able to drive around in Bentleys and Ferraris is all.
Pro slot car hobbyists race on handmade wooden tracks. like a silknitter, or a gerding king track. they call this black plastic track "throw away". If you want the thrills of the race track in your own home search king tracks.
To be clear, the announcer says "Scalextric" meaning "slot car" (a generic term in the UK). These cars are actually Carrera brand slot cars which are good cars. Carrera has a wider track profile and are very nice to have. Well detailed but not quite as robust as a Scalextric brand car IMO. Keep in mind that these cars are for "home" racing. They are not really built for a Blue King track for example.
Scalextwic is not a "genewic term in the uk" it only seems that way because people selling slot wacing cars on sites such as ebay etc are lazy and cant be bothered to look at the weal bwand name, wether it be Scalextwic, cawewwa or even auworwa. Why couldnt the pwoducews of this video get a pewson who can tawk pwopewly
Then put up your own company and offer a higher pay. It's as simple as that. Don't be a hypocrite. The whiners are usually those who can't do a damn thing.
Do you know how JD Rockefeller made the price of oil cheaper? Know not only the history of American enterprise but the history of Standard Oil as well.
yea well these slave like conditions is whats making you able to afford the shit that you buy, be grateful that you're living in a comfortable home working at a bullshit relaxing 9-5 job which requires no skills at all
Cant blame me for being born into it, our lifestyle depends on it. This regime was implemented long before me and you were even thought of when our parents had too much to drink and got frisky in their cheap imported beds manufactured from a sweat shop etc. You cant turn the monopoly onto me, the only people who would satisfy a position like that are bums on the street and no one listens to them, ironically its the greedy that has the spotlight. Cant have your cake and eat it too.
Voice over by the same bloke that does any number of shows out of the UK - the Guy Martin Speed series for instance.
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Just like every plastic kit is ‘Airfix’,all sticky tape is ‘Sellotape’.A Goblin vacuum cleaner salesman saying;”This is the best Hoover money can buy!” You think model racing and you think Scalextric.
Nobody is saying that at all .......... A plastic kit is a model kit, sticky tape is sticky tape, and a "goblin" is just a vacuum cleaner. When I think model racing, I think slot car.
their called parma cars here except their made to be modified by the owners for speed.all the way to building your own chassis out of brass and piano wire,silver soldering them together.also building your own hot rodded (modifying )motor for lightning speed.
If you're commercially successful in the year after your filing, you'll want to extend the filing to most other countries, which is likely to cost another $75,000 or so because if you don't do this a businessman from another country could take your idea and use it. Now that is just part of the many things they most do. You must have money to make money. So I'm sure the money they made were they're investments. They'd have to be VERY successful to make a profit.
Payed pounds for a couple of scalextrics years ago for my both sons.. They were not at least bit interested.. couple of months after Christmas i took them to the charity shop....
Makes you wonder, why bother. What were they interested in? I always wanted a slot car set as a kid. Had to buy my own when I was 35 to finally get one
I'm old enough to remember when Scalextrics was made in Britain.
The cars & tracks being manufactured here are not Scalextric, they are Carrera. Unlike Scalextric track, Carrera track is 1/24 scale, and the power rails are isolated from one another by plastic strips that run between the rails and the slot that the guide blade runs in. This feature removes the possibility of the tracks being shorted together if a screw or some other metal object falls into the slot.
Can I just say as a genuine badge-wearing paid up 1979 member of the 'Scalextric Formula one drivers club', those are not 'imitation' tyres. They are real tyres, miniature yes, but quite real. I have burned some of those out... oh I could tell you some tales, I have raced Fittipaldi and Hunt, and a Gerbil!!
Wow! I use to race 1/24 scale slot cars as a kid.I didn't even think this kinda stuff was even still around.. Lots of good memories. Thank You to the uploader!
very cool, thanks for uploading this one!
It looks like a clean and safe environment with some pretty skilled people working there. I'd like to work there.
More like a repetitive boring job for a bowl of rice
Lmao they called it Scalextric when it was Carrera!🤣😂
It looks like all of it was Carrera, cars and track.
The title says Scalextric the commentator kept saying Scalextric but, everything in the video is Carrera.
+wallbreaker2 actually the commentator kept calling it Scalectrix- which is what I called it when I was a little kid- but I take your point.
+gnamp are you in the UK?
wallbreaker2 yes
+gnamp I think I have this figured out. Scalextric is the name of a company but, it seems that it's also used as the generic name for slot cars over there. Xerox was like that for photo copiers over here.
wallbreaker2 Yeah, I think so. I didn't even know about Carrera... Such a blatant rip off. Either way- the commentator should stop calling it Sca-lec-trix.
This is not scalextric, it is Carrera. The track designs are Carrera slot cars and the models in their displays show the red Carrera Logo.
Those surgical mask don't do shit against paint fumes...
I love how they make it sound like a good thing that they're made in China.
i used to have a set like this! i LOVED it!
its really awesome wanna see more
Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
Interesting as always, thanks for upload. /
This is going to be very nice video :P
I didn't know I'd enjoy this video as much as I do...art major.
Sorry, I'm so late!
It's not an engine, it's an electric motor.
Lol
Scalextric factory making Carrera cars and track sets? Good video no matter which product it is associated.
perfect job
I’m running Artin 1/43 scale because it’s compatible with my 1/48 Lionel trains. But I love all the 1/32 and 1/24 scale slot car sets as well. Judging by the huge amount of slot cars on TH-cam it seems very popular.
Spot on! Everyone's happy.
Now I want one :D
I bet if that camera wasn't recording them they would be working at a high rate of speed nonstop! The moment that camera crew left the room they were probably like GET BACK TO WORK NOWWWW! I bet they make $3.00 a day.
Crikey. That detail!
Great work by a good nation. I feel burning smell here..... :p
I remember playing this game with my older brother! The red car was always faster than the black one, so I ended up switching the underneath motors. He was so surprised when I ended up choosing the black car...and winning >:)
haha I notice it too :) It is Carrera.
very good video! ThanksSaludos
And for every car completed each workers receives a single grain of rice
i remember on my set, the cars had magnets underneath to help stay on the tracks, and the magnet on my car was definately stronger, allowing to go around turns faster hehe
i forgot about this toy, brings back memories.
love how its in a carrera factory
nice video thank you .
I've seen other videos where 3D printers were used to print the entire body of toy cars. Perhaps they can be a good supplement in manufacturing.
You know you watch too much of these when you have to go out of your way to find some you haven't seen yet...
These cars and track were cool when i was 8 years old. Mow at almost 60 they are still as cool now as they were way back then.
TBH I worked in far worse conditions in the US. These places at least look clean. I worked in a plastics factory in college, and the conditions were afwul. Actually there were alot of molding and painting simliarites between the two factories, except the one in China looked like a clean operating table compared to the US factory. For reference I worked there about 13 years ago, so it wasn't that long ago.
Those workers got paid double for the day if they were in the video. An extra quarter in their pocket!
That bankrupted the company.
Woow never knew it took that much work so thats why their so dam expensive very informative vid
My parents neighbors wife used to work at the Topper Toy Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was always bringing me home toys to play with. Good old " Made In The U.S.A." The toys were of good quality. I just wish I had them again. I see on eBay, some of the sellers are asking a small fortune for the toys.
The plastic IS colored! Resins (plastic granules) aren't quite as "uniform" in color as are most paints. It's a pretty safe bet that Ferrari has "licensed" the factory to produce "Ferrari Red" which is why the cars must be painted. And each car must match in color before and after each car made. Lead-Based fuel was banned in Hong Kong in 1999. Plastic and paint are both petrol or fuel-based products.
Personally I like Carrera track because it can run both 1:24 and 1:32.The older scalextric track had a tendency to bend which is why I switched. I do however like Scalectrix cars much better.
thanks for sharing Triwood 1973
that was carrera evolution
"A technique similar to silkscreening is used"...... um, that IS silkscreen printing
Yeah true, except the screen will not be silk
it's called Tampo and involves a screen, not silk...
watch out we got a badass over here
Depends on how you see shipping. Could be FOB or the other one (forgot the name). The manufacturer does not necessarily need to pay for shipping if its international (it is only required to pay for the truck to get it to the cargo ship).
Sometimes the buyer pays for international shipping. Once its on waters the manufacture bears not responsibility and does not pay for anything. Everything from insurance to dmg products, lost products, etc... buyer pays for it.
Nothing but good quality stuff comes outa China these days. They are about the quality as much as the quantity. Good luck to those China folk
"cost effective labor" hahahahahahah
+Henry Shefflin's Stunt Double why are you laughing? douche
Stoneyburke
exactly, sadly this happens on different parts of the world :(
+starfuckerification because it's funny
Thats actually as good as working conditions get there. Theres so much worse
And its very easily possible to create improvement.
WOW! you are sooo Intelligent :O
Hi there! Carrera knows of this and made a special guide blade for their cars to make them applicable for scalextric slots. Part number is 85309
excellents toys
You haven't even rebuttal any single arguments, an excellent way to show how much you actually know about eocnomics.
By the way this conversation is over since all you can do is reply with insults, belittlement, and ignorance.
I don't want to waste typing more words to a blinded fool.
Thank you @Triwood1973 !
i'm 39 and its still my toy :)
Aelia Yousaf You can never get too old for slot cars
one way to educate the audience on labor issues... Quite subtle Nat. Geo lol
why is my brain saying sweatshop ? .,.
These are slot cars damn it!
So presumably, if these were still being made in Ramsgate, they would cost £50 per car instead of £30? Oh no, wait, the prices would probably be the same, but the company directors would not be able to drive around in Bentleys and Ferraris is all.
thanks
Scalextric??
Carrera you mean!!
How It's made: mistakes
It's not Scalextric.. it's Carrera..
Hah! You're right!!!
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Pro slot car hobbyists race on handmade wooden tracks. like a silknitter, or a gerding king track. they call this black plastic track "throw away". If you want the thrills of the race track in your own home search king tracks.
Now they just need to stick a Wing Car motor in there :)
Us brit's sometimes refer to the vehicle itself a 'motor', that's the what he was referring to rather than the engine itself.
"It wont have the raw power of a real ferrari motor.." really mr narrator, really :o
The power to weight ratio and scale speeds of the slot cars are actually 2 to 3 times greater than that of a Ferrari
I truly feel sorry for all of those workers.
Holy Manual Labour Batman!!!
Nice but you show Carrera cars, track and packaging in the video, not Scaletric?
"Well, it's Chiner, of course!"
I wonder if they use the leftover pieces to build the biggest track they can?
Here in the UK there was a recent tv prog' about how the cars were designed and made to scale - does anyone know what channel it was on? thanks!
and now we have mini-Zs, lol. man I'd love to race my Z around those tracks!
Deja vu, I've just been in this place before
4:30 AM... please youtube enough!
Just ask Google how to go to sleep
Funny...it's Carrera sets and tracks in the video...not Scalextric
They're called "slot cars" in the US.
Yup, that is what we called them when I was a kid.
wow.
So much CARS.
To be clear, the announcer says "Scalextric" meaning "slot car" (a generic term in the UK). These cars are actually Carrera brand slot cars which are good cars. Carrera has a wider track profile and are very nice to have. Well detailed but not quite as robust as a Scalextric brand car IMO. Keep in mind that these cars are for "home" racing. They are not really built for a Blue King track for example.
Scalextwic is not a "genewic term in the uk" it only seems that way because people selling slot wacing cars on sites such as ebay etc are lazy and cant be bothered to look at the weal bwand name, wether it be Scalextwic, cawewwa or even auworwa.
Why couldnt the pwoducews of this video get a pewson who can tawk pwopewly
I beg to differ. The cars are way closer to scale now, and painted instead of just moulded in the colour.
LOL i found this vid and my t-shirt is written Scalextric on it
"Cost effective production"
hahahahah, is that what slavery is called these days?
Are they being forced to work? Unless you call "business" slavery. I urge you to put up a business of your own if you can.
Then put up your own company and offer a higher pay. It's as simple as that. Don't be a hypocrite. The whiners are usually those who can't do a damn thing.
Do you know how JD Rockefeller made the price of oil cheaper? Know not only the history of American enterprise but the history of Standard Oil as well.
yea well these slave like conditions is whats making you able to afford the shit that you buy, be grateful that you're living in a comfortable home working at a bullshit relaxing 9-5 job which requires no skills at all
Cant blame me for being born into it, our lifestyle depends on it. This regime was implemented long before me and you were even thought of when our parents had too much to drink and got frisky in their cheap imported beds manufactured from a sweat shop etc. You cant turn the monopoly onto me, the only people who would satisfy a position like that are bums on the street and no one listens to them, ironically its the greedy that has the spotlight. Cant have your cake and eat it too.
0:27 It's the terminator with the red eye.....give me your clothes, your boots and your scalextric kit.
HOLY SHIT THEY USED A REAL LORRY!?!?!?!?
carrera :3
I hope the manufacturers pay their workers well.
can u give detail of which product u use for tyer
I think people are missing that this facility is in Hong Kong, not China. So these workers are making a decent wage and have a union to back them.
contractki11er hm
Voice over by the same bloke that does any number of shows out of the UK - the Guy Martin Speed series for instance.
Just like every plastic kit is ‘Airfix’,all sticky tape is ‘Sellotape’.A Goblin vacuum cleaner salesman saying;”This is the best Hoover money can buy!” You think model racing and you think Scalextric.
Nobody is saying that at all .......... A plastic kit is a model kit, sticky tape is sticky tape, and a "goblin" is just a vacuum cleaner. When I think model racing, I think slot car.
Una película del año 1968... hasta polillas salieron... (Otro mas que se agrega a la lista de los que se quedaron en el lejano pasado)
their called parma cars here except their made to be modified by the owners for speed.all the way to building your own chassis out of brass and piano wire,silver soldering them together.also building your own hot rodded (modifying )motor for lightning speed.
does anybody know more about the wheel test??? what means the output in the screen when the wheels start spinning?? gracies maquines
it means rpm or the amount of electricatity
"(O_o) Scalextric or Carrera Hmmmmmm LOL"
And then the motor, "a generator that spins the wheels".
Good video think these are Carrera slot cars. Must be hard going for the woman painting those helmets all day.
If you're commercially successful in the year after your filing, you'll want to extend the filing to most other countries, which is likely to cost another $75,000 or so because if you don't do this a businessman from another country could take your idea and use it. Now that is just part of the many things they most do. You must have money to make money. So I'm sure the money they made were they're investments. They'd have to be VERY successful to make a profit.
Payed pounds for a couple of scalextrics years ago for my both sons.. They were not at least bit interested.. couple of months after Christmas i took them to the charity shop....
Makes you wonder, why bother.
What were they interested in?
I always wanted a slot car set as a kid.
Had to buy my own when I was 35 to finally get one
That chic at :57 and 1:22 :)
Oh hell yes! And she's not the only one.