IWhen I was a kid there was a slot car track in my hometown. there was a bunch of kids that raced cars and I would build cars using old model cars and beer cans. They were metal and I shaped chassis from them. I would buy motors and electric brush systems, and shaped them into cars that could compete with the expensive cars the rich White kids raced. The management of the place loved my cars as I did things like staggered tires, offset drives, and if i crashed I would fix the cars and race them again. Some of the rich kids would give me their old stuff and i would use it. I amassed a large collection of parts like this. I didn't win much but I just liked racing. Eventually I outgrew slot cars and became a worker but I never forgot what I learned in those days and I am a racing fan to this day.
Sounds great Edward! Thank you for sharing your stories. I think you would love the digital direction that the modern slot cars went. You can change lanes, alter your brake settings, alter the car speed, set the cars to run out of gas and a lot more. We would love to have you race with us, there's a lot to learn from experience!
Edward, great story. I've been into hobbies like slot cars and r/c stuff my whole life and I'm 67 now. Still flying. When I was about 12 years old a place opened near me with a huge slot car track. I would ride over on my bike and race there. The only thing I take exception to in your comment was about the rich white kids. I am white ( I still long for the day when all of us do not identify ourselves by our skin color, kinda like what I heard when I listened to Dr. Martin Luther King's great speach ) but I was by no means rich. Many of the other racers were white too, but not rich kids. I worked at various jobs like mowing lawns, etc. to make money for my hobbies as a kid, as did the others there. God Bless you sir, but most white people are not rich. Most live day to day, paycheck to paycheck. Bottom line though is your story is great. brought back nice memories. And I, like you, always liked to make my own, or improve on existing cars. Hope you are doing well.
Another great reason to move to Canada. This would be awesome as a two lane 6 car layout. 52 years after I thought the hobby died ( i had a Ford GT 1/24 with mag chassis and Hemi motor I re-wound in 1964) I recently found it still lives. Now I need some space!
@@Pro1er Well, we had to close our store from lack of rent money in Covid times, but I am looking to re-open once debts are paid off or down. Who knows where I'll end up next!
Moro Craft Hobbies in Edmonton had an enormous slot car installation in the late sixties. I think it had 8 lanes and may have had more than 100' of lane length. I rented cars there a few times but I was rather hopeless. It was more entertaining to watch the skilled operators with their own cars. Several were capable of lapping the field in 3 laps and 100 consecutive crash free fast laps. I kind of forgot about it until I saw the video. Curious that you should also be in Edmonton. I'm glad people are still doing this cool hobby involving actual, real, non-digital objects.
Glad you liked the video and thank you for the memories. Actually, we are in High River, Alberta, which is south of Edmonton, south of Calgary, but north of Lethbridge. And this slot car track is digital...but I know what you mean when you say "digital"...you're talking kids on iPhones. :D
I have a tip to share. If you want to rent the track to one person take my advise. Prepare 3 track cars. The track cars are like bot cars that drive themself. How to prepare them is you need 3 donor cars. Each car will be fit with a rear track guide. This will prevent them from spin outs and prevent them from coming off the track. Then you need 3 controllers with tape on the throttle so they drive themself. Each care can be set at a challenging speed! It’s a TON OF FUN for one person to enjoy!
i had an Aurora AFX Set when I was 9 years old , it was a ball. I don't have track any more but still have 4 or 5 cars from back in the day, along with some late 1960 early 1970's hotwheels cars. Fun Stuff
Great setup. You brought back memories of when I built this track in HO scale and raced for hours in my basement. I had no lights down there so I I ran an extension cord down there from the first floor and plugged in a lamp and the track. My mom thought I was smoking pot and she laughed when she realized after I got off work after school I would run down there and race all my new cars on a slot car track and was not some crazy teenage pothead. She was like your just like your dad lol I remember in order to create this track to match the batman episodes one I had to custom make some track areas out of tin foil, foil tape and in laying a slotted line in the wood. Took me months to figure out lane changes and I also used a digital hotwheels track counter to determine speed and laps. All I know was it was no easy task and I had years of fun. Thanks. Im currently getting back into slot cars HO and 1:24 scale :D
As a kid growing up in the '60s, there were at least 4 excellent tracks in my hometown. My brother and I had 1/24th scale cars, dad didn't have much money but what he did have he made sure my brother and I had fun. Often times he'd take us to a hobby shop that specialized in Lionel trains, but in the 'back room' had this AWESOME slot car track, and the shop owner would let us race on the track for next to nothing, knowing the financial situation my dad was in. I still have my first car, in fact.Great times, good memories.
I remember what those electric motors smelled like when we ran them hard in the 60s, also the lights in our 1940s home would dim a little whe had both cars wide open...good times❤
I have a Carrera analog figure 8 set for sale at the store up here in Canada, but apart from that, check the Carrera Website for a dealer near you or try Ebay.
Amazing.. I had an "Eldon" Slotcar Track back in 1965. I was 10 years old. Amazing how things advance over the years. I'm 62 now and you have computer chips in the cars? Back then it was just "DC" current. If you wanted a faster car, you had to rewind the motors with silver wire instead of copper wire. The size of the wire and the number of wraps made the difference.
This is very cool. When I was young my brothers and I had a small track, maybe 3 feet long. I would love to have a track build this size for all of my hot wheels. That would be sooo boss.
When I was a kid, I got a slot car track for Christmas. It was a figure 8 set up. It was a lot of fun. A class mate of mine had a larger track with long straights & banked curves. It was a Great past time in the Winter months.
Great video, and I sure appreciate your engineering & careful recreation of the Batman track. (Note: in the photo it's actually Millionaire Bruce Wayne... with todaY'S INF;LATION I SUPPOSE HE'D BE A BILLIONAIRE). (SORRY FOR ALL CAPS, MY LAPTOP IS IN THE SHOP). THREE CHEERS FOR ADAM WEST. HE PASSED AWAY ON THE FULL MOON, JUNE 9, 2017. I WAS FORTUNATE TO HAVE WORKED WITH ADAM IN 1987-88, WHEN I PRODUCED A MOVIE HE CO-STARRED IN. IT WAS A BOX OFFICE FAIL, BUT STILL GREAT TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM.
Mr Blue Simon, hopefully you'll see this. There are plenty of slot car clubs in Britain, ranging from the 1/64th scale up to 1/24th scale, from shop bought cars to home built cars, from scratch built to kits, ranging between approximately £20 to £400 a car. And I've raced at various clubs through the whole range up to national level. Try searching for BSCRA (British Slot Car Racing Association). They are also on Facebook. They are mainly for the expensive kit type cars, but they do list some clubs that use shop bought cars, but not all of them.
Wow. People still do this. I thought this died out in the '70s'. I was really into this in the '60s. In the USAF when I was in Thailand at Udorn RTAFB the hobby shop had a big 4 lane track and a store. I spent a lot of time scratch building, racing and staying out of the bars(mostly).
That scene towards the end of The Batman show amazed me to this day. I'm glad you recreated this racing set that the show at that time set up. I later had many racing sets battery operated to HO SCALE AFX & TYCO slot car racing sets. Awesome video. I wonder for years what scale this racing set is? 🤔
Thank you very much! Yes, this is a fun track. One day I will get the missing pieces I need to get that one section right.Thank you for watching. Please check out my latest slot Car racing videos. They are so much better! :D
Man at one point the track near us put in a drag strip. I used a coat hanger cut the motor plate portion off a stocker then built a 1/24 scale top fuel dragster which fit well and with the kit motor cut in half looked down right real. Ha it was not the fastest but everyone wanted it. These were always fun.
Wow...what an awesome layout...the time and effort and cost must have been tremendous..i can also relate to many about the past...its Arlington Va..for me back in the mid '60's...pool hall on one side and a huge 8 lane track on the other.... So which do you like better...Carerra or scalextric..
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I d sure love it, I once had quite a large Tyco racetrack, no videogame experience compares, I really miss it sometimes. thanks!
madcapromanian yes can't wait to start this. I'll probably build it on the ground tho. I don't have that table but I was going to go ahead and have other things around indeed model like a railway Railway and another pavement pattern for other vehicles to be pushed by Hot Wheels and maybe like a mountain scenery to make it look like you're going to Gotham City but I'll definitely post some pictures and video for you to see it
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore But I Haven't Seen Him In 50+ Years. But I Know I'd Love To See It. I Never Got To Play With A 1/32 Slot Car. I Only Ever Had An Aurora Track & Still Have It But Haven't Run It In 40 Years. I Bet The Tires Are Shot . . .
Beautiful track..., I wish you guys were in Dallas TX, all they here are those super-fast ugly and unrealistic cars. God have mercy, I hate those damn things....
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore yea I've actually bought a few sets at rummage sales also,the same brand name,when all the track is set up I have a ten foot straight away and five levels high twists and turns ,literally over 300 feet of track,we use booster power supply on the other side as it's alot of track for the original power supply, buddy set up the power source ,I think it's actually from a train set lol,but yea it's a blast from the past,I also had a few bigger sets like yours but lost track of them through the years,,we live in the woods up north so it's alot of fun at Xmas time when we are stuck inside
Incredible build! So how many lanes could one make we these tracks. Not necessarily the batman track for a track build is there a limit to number of cars on the track? if 4 lanes only 4 cars?
Carrera makes curves which allow you to extend out to 8 lanes. With analog, you are limited to 1 car per lane, but with Digital, cars can change lanes, so it doesn't matter where the cars are..2 cars can share 1 lane. However, the Digital unit can only support 6 cars.
Michael not sure what the name was back then. I guess as kid didn’t care much about the name as much as I want to play. But the place was awesome, I sure wish we have more of them now! I would love to try to open one out here.
Check this out, they could be coming back. www.imfromdenver.com/brand-new-celebrity-sports-center-coming-to-colorado/ I use to go there with my dad when I was a kid. My dad built pools and worked on theirs and I would wonder around and remembered the giant slot car track they had there. We had a hobby shop in Longmont that had slot car track on the ground floor and an HO track upstairs, Bob's Toy Chest.
The speech you gave at 14:40 ish is what i try to tell my kids, competing with a real car with real people, something you can touch, smell (the car not the racers)
I had a pretty big set up in my basement circa 1974 and when I ran the cars it would make my parents television picture go crazy with lines then my mom made me stop playing
a few years back there was a store with a careers track and we had friday night races , it started out fun and there was about 6 or 7 of us who found different ways to make the cars go faster and handle better with aftermarket tires , motors and correct placement of magnets , it became an obsession with DiFalco controllers and all kinds of stuff . We tried to set rules to make it fair but guys found ways to cheat including myself because I knew they were cheating . The owner of the store which was Bud's H.O. cars but we were running cararra 1/32 cars on a 1/24 track , I think we were years ahead of anyone else but the store ended up going outta business . Good times though
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore ....your welcome.... just curious to how long it took to set everything up? I actually remember this from the old Batman show.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I've been searching the internet and all I've found is that in the 60's there were heaps of slot car brands but the giveaway for correct identification is the colour of the track because most were black
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I'd pretty much guarantee that it isn't Revell track, it's the right colour but it doesn't appear to have the round securing lugs to screw the track down on the track in the show. I found a video of the entire scene and zoomed in and can't see them
We had "Tom Thumb" in the 60"s in Chicago. Goofy name for a slot car establishment but it was pretty big (for about 2 years and then it died). Do those cars still have brushes to get the power to the car ??
I am not sure on that, but there were a few companies making slot car sectional track at the time. Revell, Kal-Kar, Strombecker, Scalextric and Carrera were all available at the time.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I knew about Revell, Strombecker, my first set was by IDEAL the Route 66 Corvette set in 1962 from the Popular TV Show!!! I've been Slotcar Racing since then and I'm amazed at how Digital has taken Slotcar Racing to another level of Realism!!! What Next?!!
Thank you! you should see the updated track build here : th-cam.com/video/iznzaqRWBGw/w-d-xo.html And our other race on that track here : th-cam.com/video/VZpwnOT8He0/w-d-xo.html
Your reply tells me and everyone reading these post just how professional and business like people can be!!!! If you didn't know or couldn't remember, just a simple professional reply would be acceptable other than big!!
@@randy1203 Sorry Randy. I never really calculated the track in length per foot, per lane. When I said "big", it was meant, in part, as a joke. The whole track rests on a 8' x 16' table and has multi-levels. I'm not a mathematician that can figure out how long the curve sections are once you straighten them out and add that length to the already existing straight sections to tell you that one lane is a scale 300 miles while the other is a scale 310 miles. I just never took this so seriously to figure that out.
I was smiling like an idiot the whole time you guys were running! I may have missed it, but how many hours did it take you to set this up, and if someone wanted to recreate it, what would the approx cost be? Thanks!!
It takes me about 2 hours to set up this track as it is a big one. Price will differ from country to country, but it is @ $2000 - $4000 Canadian to buy all the track pieces needed.
Heck of a lot of work. Well done. Really liked the reply to the "person" (Insert adjective where applicable) who has nothing to contribute down below. Being in Florida, I'm afraid I'm too far to visit, though I'm hoping to see Canada someday. Did you meet your goal of 12 racers? When I was a kid back in the 60's and early 70's, we had a number of racing facilities down here. But you touched on one of the main reasons the hobby died in these parts. As video games started to become more available to the average consumer, the want for actual human contact waned until it became what it is today. I miss those days and still have some of my 40 plus year old slot cars, the H.O. scale ones, spare parts and all. I remember those Batman episodes, but being a kid, I hated to be in suspense for a whole week. So I would miss one week, and then they would recap anyway, but I just couldn't live for A WHOLE WEEK in suspense. Kind of silly now, but back then, A WHOLE WEEK. XD. Thank you so much and God Bless from Florida.
You are welcome. The biggest league we had was 13 people. It was fun, but a little claustrophobic. :D I do try and put the "adventure" back into racing though. the fact that I change the track up each week helps keep the interest going.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore No, It got stolen from Moms House By Sis or cousins who would stay there from time to time...Wish I still had it, would play with it if I had the Room to set it up in.
Hello I have an old track from my youth. Looking to rebuild it for my son. Looks just like the size of this track. 3 questions. What the scale of this? Whats a pair of cheap cars that would work for it? I'm also looking for a GT 40 1966, 68 69, style model. Would your store sell them? Thanks for this video. Enjoyed it and has inspired me to build my old track
Well, to answer the 3 questions : 1.) This is Carrera Digital Slot Car Track. It can handle both 1/32 and 1/24 scale. 2.) The cars, because they are Digitally Equipped, are going for about the same price as a PS4 game. 3.) Carrera brought out a model of the recent Ford GT 40 from 2016, but there is nothing in the 1960's version. Below is a link to my available Carrera Digital Slot Car stock. www.monster-hobbies.ca/Hobby_Products/c22-carrera-digital-132/
Thanks so much for getting back to me. Shows what kind of a helpful company you are. :) I'll have to call your company soon. What we have is just power to the slot and not a digital unit.
It's basically a copy of the points system used in vintage auto racing from the real world 1960's Formula 1 points system. From memory, the first place winner gets something like 15 points for coming in first, second place is 10 points, third place is 7 points...and reducing as you go along until the last place driver gets 1 point. Since we usually did 8 races in a night on the same track, I tallied up all the driver's points for each of the 8 races and then ranked the drivers scores on the final chart of the night. So if you were a really good driver and you came in first in all 8 races for the night, you would get 120 points. If you had a "Mixed Night, you could get between 9 - 119 points in a night, and if you totally messed up the entire night, you would get 8 points. Secondly, we would race between 8 or 9 races over the 2 months of the league (every Thursday night) and the points from each night of racing would get added up across the board. Therefore, the guy finishing first over the 8 racing nights (2 months) would end up with 960 points for the league while the worst driver would get 64 points. Once all these league points were added up at the end of the league season, I could announce the league winners.
It would be really awesome if you could figure out a way to mount a mini camera to one of those cars to get a cool virtual slot car drivers perspective.
Nice of you to mention. i just bought a little vivitar camera similar to a Go-Pro. I am going to test it out and see how it goes for that kind of thing. Look for it in my upcoming races!
What if you put a magnet strip fence around the corners and an opposing magnet in the back of the cars so when the back slides to far it gets closer to the magnet and pushes it back on track. Closer to the fence stronger the push?
Would the cars that PM hobby sells work on your track? I don't know if they are digital or not. I guess if they are not digital then they are analogue? Still learning this but temped to buy a car they have for $53 and bring it down.
We run Carrera Digital track, and the digital cars are in the "Blue" Carrera cases. These are the ones with the blue bottoms. Scalextric, which is the rival company from England and also come in "Blue" cases will not work. You can modify them (With some hard work) to run on Carrera Digital by buying a Carrera Digital Chip, rewiring your Scalextric car, drilling a hole in the floorpan for the "Electric Eye" and hacking up the interior so the chip fits in. We did thin in one league and it was a nightmare. If you do buy a Carrera in a Black Box, it is analog, but you can get a Carrera chip and install it easily. Hope this helps and look forward to seeing you in our upcoming league!
Thanks very much. I see a car on your site worth $70 cdn I'm interested in. How much is the chip for an Analogue? Also... do I need to buy a controller also? You have none on the site and I'm thinking each car is paired to a controller yes?
If you are buying a car to race in our league, we usually code the cars to the controllers here. If you want one for home, I suggest buying a digital set to maximize your dollar as it comes with everything included. Cars on the site might be sold out as the physical store "Moves" faster than the online store...but I can still order and I will do my best to get things in...current economy and all. :D
Hi thanks for your reply mate i will have to get my hands on a one thay are digital ones i don't know much about them just getting back in to slot racing cheers
toooooooo many curves - nascar goes in a super simple circle but everyone knows who's winning - no one knows who's winning on these +++ curved tracks - GodBless simplicity.
Actually, the lap counter is letting us know who's winning. Curves require skill. If you can't handle the curves, how are you going to be the next Sterling Moss?
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore Thats a good idea as well but you could also just velcro on a camera with video transmitter for a tiny whoop style quadcopter on the roof camera and antenna only of course with a 1S battery.
I'm telling ya if you offer this as a package to sell in your store you will be rolling in it with the help of youtube video's to help. Ive searched and could not find many, there's a few, slot car fpv cam video.
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IWhen I was a kid there was a slot car track in my hometown. there was a bunch of kids that raced cars and I would build cars using old model cars and beer cans. They were metal and I shaped chassis from them. I would buy motors and electric brush systems, and shaped them into cars that could compete with the expensive cars the rich White kids raced. The management of the place loved my cars as I did things like staggered tires, offset drives, and if i crashed I would fix the cars and race them again. Some of the rich kids would give me their old stuff and i would use it. I amassed a large collection of parts like this. I didn't win much but I just liked racing. Eventually I outgrew slot cars and became a worker but I never forgot what I learned in those days and I am a racing fan to this day.
Sounds great Edward! Thank you for sharing your stories. I think you would love the digital direction that the modern slot cars went. You can change lanes, alter your brake settings, alter the car speed, set the cars to run out of gas and a lot more. We would love to have you race with us, there's a lot to learn from experience!
Edward Skaggs it's sad that the hobbies is dying
I never did outgrow it
Very cool story thanks.
Edward, great story. I've been into hobbies like slot cars and r/c stuff my whole life and I'm 67 now. Still flying. When I was about 12 years old a place opened near me with a huge slot car track. I would ride over on my bike and race there. The only thing I take exception to in your comment was about the rich white kids. I am white ( I still long for the day when all of us do not identify ourselves by our skin color, kinda like what I heard when I listened to Dr. Martin Luther King's great speach ) but I was by no means rich. Many of the other racers were white too, but not rich kids. I worked at various jobs like mowing lawns, etc. to make money for my hobbies as a kid, as did the others there. God Bless you sir, but most white people are not rich. Most live day to day, paycheck to paycheck.
Bottom line though is your story is great. brought back nice memories. And I, like you, always liked to make my own, or improve on existing cars. Hope you are doing well.
Another great reason to move to Canada. This would be awesome as a two lane 6 car layout. 52 years after I thought the hobby died ( i had a Ford GT 1/24 with mag chassis and Hemi motor I re-wound in 1964) I recently found it still lives. Now I need some space!
For sure! If you are ever interested in building tracks, I have all my track videos on my Patreon account. www.patreon.com/Monster_Hobbies
I just saw that show and saved it just so I could see the layout of the track.
Thanks for the great video
You are welcome!
Awesome! This slot car raceway, Aunt Harriet, it’s the coolest!
We agree! I hope you can check out my video on how to build it as well as my other track videos.
Man you guys are living the dream!
Were...this is from a few years ago. I had to shut my store down due to Covid. I still operate online, but the brick and mortar is long gone.
Excellent job! I used to race slot cars back in the Batman days and would have died for a track like that.
Thank you. It's a great track, especially with the digital set-up.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore Seriously, great job. If you were near Windsor I'd come over and play...er, race. 😆
@@Pro1er Well, we had to close our store from lack of rent money in Covid times, but I am looking to re-open once debts are paid off or down. Who knows where I'll end up next!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore Hopefully things will be better for you soon.
@@Pro1er Thank you. I am working on it now.
Moro Craft Hobbies in Edmonton had an enormous slot car installation in the late sixties. I think it had 8 lanes and may have had more than 100' of lane length. I rented cars there a few times but I was rather hopeless. It was more entertaining to watch the skilled operators with their own cars. Several were capable of lapping the field in 3 laps and 100 consecutive crash free fast laps. I kind of forgot about it until I saw the video. Curious that you should also be in Edmonton. I'm glad people are still doing this cool hobby involving actual, real, non-digital objects.
Glad you liked the video and thank you for the memories. Actually, we are in High River, Alberta, which is south of Edmonton, south of Calgary, but north of Lethbridge. And this slot car track is digital...but I know what you mean when you say "digital"...you're talking kids on iPhones. :D
I have a tip to share. If you want to rent the track to one person take my advise. Prepare 3 track cars. The track cars are like bot cars that drive themself. How to prepare them is you need 3 donor cars. Each car will be fit with a rear track guide. This will prevent them from spin outs and prevent them from coming off the track. Then you need 3 controllers with tape on the throttle so they drive themself. Each care can be set at a challenging speed! It’s a TON OF FUN for one person to enjoy!
Good tip. With the digital system, I can actually set the cars as "Ghost Cars" and then I don't need to tape down the triggers.
i had an Aurora AFX Set when I was 9 years old , it was a ball. I don't have track any more but still have 4 or 5 cars from back in the day, along with some late 1960 early 1970's hotwheels cars. Fun Stuff
They still make AFX track. If you ever want to start that scale up again, check out Auto World's web site.
Great setup. You brought back memories of when I built this track in HO scale and raced for hours in my basement. I had no lights down there so I I ran an extension cord down there from the first floor and plugged in a lamp and the track. My mom thought I was smoking pot and she laughed when she realized after I got off work after school I would run down there and race all my new cars on a slot car track and was not some crazy teenage pothead. She was like your just like your dad lol I remember in order to create this track to match the batman episodes one I had to custom make some track areas out of tin foil, foil tape and in laying a slotted line in the wood. Took me months to figure out lane changes and I also used a digital hotwheels track counter to determine speed and laps. All I know was it was no easy task and I had years of fun. Thanks. Im currently getting back into slot cars HO and 1:24 scale :D
Glad you liked the video!
Michael, that's a great story about you and your mom. I plan to do a slot track one day.
As a kid growing up in the '60s, there were at least 4 excellent tracks in my hometown. My brother and I had 1/24th scale cars, dad didn't have much money but what he did have he made sure my brother and I had fun. Often times he'd take us to a hobby shop that specialized in Lionel trains, but in the 'back room' had this AWESOME slot car track, and the shop owner would let us race on the track for next to nothing, knowing the financial situation my dad was in. I still have my first car, in fact.Great times, good memories.
Sounds like great times at a great hobby shop!
I remember what those electric motors smelled like when we ran them hard in the 60s, also the lights in our 1940s home would dim a little whe had both cars wide open...good times❤
Thank you for your slot car history. Yes, a hot motor still smells the same! :D
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore ...do u know where I may purchase an old 2 lane set??
I have a Carrera analog figure 8 set for sale at the store up here in Canada, but apart from that, check the Carrera Website for a dealer near you or try Ebay.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore ..will doodily do friend👍
That's an awesome track. My favorite Tyco slot car was a Porsche 911 Carrera which inspired me to own a real one much later in life.
Nice!
Amazing.. I had an "Eldon" Slotcar Track back in 1965. I was 10 years old. Amazing how things advance over the years. I'm 62 now and you have computer chips in the cars? Back then it was just "DC" current. If you wanted a faster car, you had to rewind the motors with silver wire instead of copper wire. The size of the wire and the number of wraps made the difference.
It's a lot more "Off the shelf" now, but the way you drive is different, especially when people can cut you off while driving.
This is very cool. When I was young my brothers and I had a small track, maybe 3 feet long. I would love to have a track build this size for all of my hot wheels. That would be sooo boss.
You should do it and make a TH-cam video of it.
I'm sure people would love to see it!
Just like the old days.... The cars never stay on the track..
got that right...even with magnets...there's always a "Breaking Point".
When I was a kid, I got a slot car track for Christmas. It was a figure 8 set up. It was a lot of fun.
A class mate of mine had a larger track with long straights & banked curves.
It was a Great past time in the Winter months.
Always fun! Thank you for your story!
I'm Ashamed ! Thought i knew my Batman - 'a slot-car kid in those days ... Glad to see Slot Cars' revenge !
For sure. Better than ever with the Digital set-up.
Great video, and I sure appreciate your engineering & careful recreation of the Batman track. (Note: in the photo it's actually Millionaire Bruce Wayne... with todaY'S INF;LATION I SUPPOSE HE'D BE A BILLIONAIRE). (SORRY FOR ALL CAPS, MY LAPTOP IS IN THE SHOP). THREE CHEERS FOR ADAM WEST. HE PASSED AWAY ON THE FULL MOON, JUNE 9, 2017. I WAS FORTUNATE TO HAVE WORKED WITH ADAM IN 1987-88, WHEN I PRODUCED A MOVIE HE CO-STARRED IN. IT WAS A BOX OFFICE FAIL, BUT STILL GREAT TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM.
Hunter Mann Return Fire? I liked that movie
Thank you!
I will have to check that one out sometime.
What a great layout! I enjoyed this one! Good explanation of the layout and how you got the tight 4 lane full 360degree worked out.
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Nice effort! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! have you ever tried to build this track? - I have a more accurate build video on this channel. (I got more track later on)
I wish you were over here in the uk coz I would join up with you, never mind, it's a great track well done.😀
We always like new racers. thank you for watching!
Mr Blue Simon, hopefully you'll see this. There are plenty of slot car clubs in Britain, ranging from the 1/64th scale up to 1/24th scale, from shop bought cars to home built cars, from scratch built to kits, ranging between approximately £20 to £400 a car. And I've raced at various clubs through the whole range up to national level. Try searching for BSCRA (British Slot Car Racing Association). They are also on Facebook. They are mainly for the expensive kit type cars, but they do list some clubs that use shop bought cars, but not all of them.
I do wanted that when I first saw it back in the day!
It is a cool track. If you ever get the chance to build it you will have fun for sure!
Wow. People still do this. I thought this died out in the '70s'. I was really into this in the '60s. In the USAF when I was in Thailand at Udorn RTAFB the hobby shop had a big 4 lane track and a store. I spent a lot of time scratch building, racing and staying out of the bars(mostly).
Yes, it's back and now it's DIGITAL! :D
I did a lot of slot racing back in the 60s too,, loved it wish there was a track around me, no clue where to find one..
Well, if you can ever visit High River Alberta, we'd be happy to race with you!
Mark’s Model World, Slot Car Raceway..
Canton, Ohio, USA..
That scene towards the end of The Batman show amazed me to this day. I'm glad you recreated this racing set that the show at that time set up. I later had many racing sets battery operated to HO SCALE AFX & TYCO slot car racing sets. Awesome video. I wonder for years what scale this racing set is? 🤔
Glad you enjoyed it! the scale for this track is 1/32 scale. From what I researched on it, they used Revell slot car track at the time.
Romanian from NYC here. have a good one.
You too! Thank you for watching!
Im impressed with the job you did, looks like a lot of fun I miss racing slot cars...
Thank you very much! Yes, this is a fun track. One day I will get the missing pieces I need to get that one section right.Thank you for watching. Please check out my latest slot Car racing videos. They are so much better! :D
Man at one point the track near us put in a drag strip. I used a coat hanger cut the motor plate portion off a stocker then built a 1/24 scale top fuel dragster which fit well and with the kit motor cut in half looked down right real. Ha it was not the fastest but everyone wanted it. These were always fun.
Sounds like good times! Glad you liked the video.
Have a great New Year 2019!
Wow...what an awesome layout...the time and effort and cost must have been tremendous..i can also relate to many about the past...its Arlington Va..for me back in the mid '60's...pool hall on one side and a huge 8 lane track on the other....
So which do you like better...Carerra or scalextric..
Glad you liked the video. I find Carrera is far more durable than Scalextric, however, Scalextric has more cars to offer.
If not already make a video with a speed racer car it would make my day
That would be cool. I wish they had him in 1/32.
How the hell did i end up here? i love you tube, by the way nice track...thumbs up
Thank you! Happy arrival! :D
Wow I forgot how much I missed this stuff
Glad to be of help!
I d surely love this if I lived closer, nice layout!
It would be nice to have you race with us!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I d sure love it, I once had quite a large Tyco racetrack,
no videogame experience compares, I really miss it sometimes.
thanks!
You got that right! :D
Nice layout. That is how slot car clubs used to race. Meaning the speed of the cars
Yes. We are reviving the past with a modern digital future.
This is so awesome! I'm doing something like this with my son.
Glad you liked it! This a a lot of track! :D
madcapromanian yes can't wait to start this. I'll probably build it on the ground tho. I don't have that table but I was going to go ahead and have other things around indeed model like a railway Railway and another pavement pattern for other vehicles to be pushed by Hot Wheels and maybe like a mountain scenery to make it look like you're going to Gotham City but I'll definitely post some pictures and video for you to see it
I Remember A Kid Brought A Batmobile Slot Car To School. I'm Guessing Around 1967. We Were In The Third Or Fourth Grade . . .
Cool! He would love this track.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore But I Haven't Seen Him In 50+ Years. But I Know I'd Love To See It. I Never Got To Play With A 1/32 Slot Car. I Only Ever Had An Aurora Track & Still Have It But Haven't Run It In 40 Years. I Bet The Tires Are Shot . . .
@@thewatcher5271 There are companies out there that make reproduction tires for all slot cars. 1/32 scale is nice. It's a lot bigger though.
Beautiful track..., I wish you guys were in Dallas TX, all they here are those super-fast ugly and unrealistic cars. God have mercy, I hate those damn things....
Solosword
Solosword that's off loop12
on the other hand at least they have a track to race on
i would love to have a chain store down there.
Sounds like fun.
That's awesome track but need a lot of space to setup 🇬🇧👍👍
All things can change if YOU make it happen!
Thank You for watching this video and getting inspired!
The Batman track looks like a cool track to do in HO scale.
It should take up far less space too! :D
Nice indeed.
Thank you. I made a new "How to build this track" video. th-cam.com/video/LfVs3lDKMJM/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!
wish you were in Ga I could play with you guys all day Lol
Wish you were here too!
I have Scalextric track . Having trouble with the proper outside Radius to the inside radius to recreate the 4 lane batman track.
Is it just different curves?
Nice,batman rocks and so do slot cars,lol I still have my set,HO size though, from 50 years sgo
Thank you! Sounds like fun! :D
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore yea I've actually bought a few sets at rummage sales also,the same brand name,when all the track is set up I have a ten foot straight away and five levels high twists and turns ,literally over 300 feet of track,we use booster power supply on the other side as it's alot of track for the original power supply, buddy set up the power source ,I think it's actually from a train set lol,but yea it's a blast from the past,I also had a few bigger sets like yours but lost track of them through the years,,we live in the woods up north so it's alot of fun at Xmas time when we are stuck inside
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore and also I don't have a batmobile ,but I have the penguin car with umbrella lol
Stuck inside in winter with Slot cars = bets time ever! :D
Nice!
Incredible build! So how many lanes could one make we these tracks. Not necessarily the batman track for a track build is there a limit to number of cars on the track? if 4 lanes only 4 cars?
Carrera makes curves which allow you to extend out to 8 lanes. With analog, you are limited to 1 car per lane, but with Digital, cars can change lanes, so it doesn't matter where the cars are..2 cars can share 1 lane. However, the Digital unit can only support 6 cars.
Wish I could be there. Played as a kid in a slot car game store!! It was huge in Denver.
We wish you could be here too!
Celebrity Sports Center?
Michael not sure what the name was back then. I guess as kid didn’t care much about the name as much as I want to play. But the place was awesome, I sure wish we have more of them now! I would love to try to open one out here.
Check this out, they could be coming back.
www.imfromdenver.com/brand-new-celebrity-sports-center-coming-to-colorado/
I use to go there with my dad when I was a kid. My dad built pools and worked on theirs and I would wonder around and remembered the giant slot car track they had there. We had a hobby shop in Longmont that had slot car track on the ground floor and an HO track upstairs, Bob's Toy Chest.
Michael I emailed my dad to see if that was it. If they reopen I am headed to Denver for a Weekend. Thanks for the info happy new year 🎊
This is sure some fun hey Bruce !
It was great to race.
Hey luv the reproduction of the 66 track, questions what are the full track measurements, and much would it cost to build one
All of this is built on a 8'x16' table. Cost is over $3000 depending on which country you are in.
As a kid we used to go to slot car tracks all over. We had all kinds of cars and controllers. I even had the Batmobile slot car.
That must have been the original from Aurora?
The speech you gave at 14:40 ish is what i try to tell my kids, competing with a real car with real people, something you can touch, smell (the car not the racers)
Glad you liked that. Hope it helps you out!
Love the videos. Have to love my friend Matts commentary in the background lol. Sure is a character
Don't i know it! :D
Lol. He is a great person lol
Railfan Vi
I had a pretty big set up in my basement circa 1974 and when I ran the cars it would make my parents television picture go crazy with lines then my mom made me stop playing
Good times! I was born in 1974 - so good times there too! :D
Big bois with big toys.
Darn rights! :D Thank you for watching the video!
I have about a 100 or so used antique 1/32 and 1/24 slot cars from the early sixties and lots of new and used
parts that I would like to sell.
Have you considered Ebay?
Pretty neat! Wish I was in Canada. I would love to join ya''ll in a race. Love the Digital racing
You could always come for a visit.
I feel like there was probably a lot more ways to have fun in the 1960's, although slightly less wholesome
....perhaps! :D
Hehe
I kid but honestly anyone that looks at these wants to drive one
Oh yes. it is quite fun!
a few years back there was a store with a careers track and we had friday night races , it started out fun and there was about 6 or 7 of us who found different ways to make the cars go faster and handle better with aftermarket tires , motors and correct placement of magnets , it became an obsession with DiFalco controllers and all kinds of stuff .
We tried to set rules to make it fair but guys found ways to cheat including myself because I knew they were cheating .
The owner of the store which was Bud's H.O. cars but we were running cararra 1/32 cars on a 1/24 track , I think we were years ahead of anyone else but the store ended up going outta business .
Good times though
Thank you for the story.
Imagine this being a real life track
Would be cool.
my brother used to do that when we were kids every weekend he was going to the hobby shop and they had a track setup in the back of the store
It's fun stuff and I am bringing it back to life! :D
Great.. great.. great..
Glad you liked the video!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore amazing video..!
@@roopeshkrishna34 Thank you!
Meraviglioso !!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you very much!
Awesome haven't seen one of those in a long time ... really cool!👍
Thank you!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore ....your welcome.... just curious to how long it took to set everything up? I actually remember this from the old Batman show.
I'm a new subscriber to your channel. Very awesome video. The whole time watching I wanted to race😂😂
It took me 2-3 hours to set it all up. I have built the track twice....I'm getting a little faster reach time! :D
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore ....well you did a great job man.. keep up the good work. I was actually watching some of your videos now. 😁
Back in 1968 -70 I use to race 1/32 and 1/24 scale
Fun times!
you should "clip" the two sections side-by-side. Ninco makes clips. (no critisism)
I am not sure what you mean, but I did use the Carrera red track clips through the side track holes as well as back and front.
"they" hold the track and curb sections tightly together
Batman episode used a Revell 4 lane slot car Track...
Thank you for letting me know! Well, I hope you enjoyed the re-creation and race!
It’s a good thing Radiator Springs Racers doesn’t fly off the track like that!
😮😬 💥
You know, in 1/32 scale, those Cars are tough to find! :D
Thank you for watching the video.
Have you built this track before?
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I used to love building and racing slot cars, but I never built this particular one.
@@rickpontificates3406 It is fun...but it does take an entire day to build.
I wonder what brand of slot cars and track were used in the show?
Someone said in a forum somewhere they they thought it was Revell track, but it could have also been Kal-kar.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I've been searching the internet and all I've found is that in the 60's there were heaps of slot car brands but the giveaway for correct identification is the colour of the track because most were black
@@MartintheTinman Interesting.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I'd pretty much guarantee that it isn't Revell track, it's the right colour but it doesn't appear to have the round securing lugs to screw the track down on the track in the show.
I found a video of the entire scene and zoomed in and can't see them
We had "Tom Thumb" in the 60"s in Chicago. Goofy name for a slot car establishment but it was pretty big (for about 2 years and then it died). Do those cars still have brushes to get the power to the car ??
Yes...same as back in the day. they just have a Digital Chip on board.
nice layout!
Thank you!
This street racing game is exactly as I remember it...it never worked!!!
Thank you for watching the video. Sorry to hear your track doesn't work. Maybe try the power transformer?
I'm gonna buld this layout in HO Scale with Model Motoring track ad Model Motoring cars.
Nice layout. 😍
Stay tuned, Bat-fan! I'm going to be building this track again (With a better video) today!
He talks like a robot lol !
I remember the 1/24 Batman slot cars.
Polar Lights made a 1/32 Batmobile and a 1/32 Green Hornet car @6-10 years ago. Would be nice if Carrera made some (more).
Do you know what Slotcar Racing Brand was used in the Original 1966 BATMAN Slotcar Track Layout?!!
I am not sure on that, but there were a few companies making slot car sectional track at the time. Revell, Kal-Kar, Strombecker, Scalextric and Carrera were all available at the time.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I had a Strombecker Set with the Ford GT and Cobra Coupe Fastback!!!
@@DrDixonBhD Awesome! That must have been some fun races!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore I knew about Revell, Strombecker, my first set was by IDEAL the Route 66 Corvette set in 1962 from the Popular TV Show!!! I've been Slotcar Racing since then and I'm amazed at how Digital has taken Slotcar Racing to another level of Realism!!! What Next?!!
@@DrDixonBhD Slotless tracks! :D
Awesome.
Thank you! It was a challenge to create!
I'm looking to do this same sort of thing in my basement.
As long as your basement is larger than 8' x 16' you will be good! - Glad you liked the video!
cop car is cool-awesome track!
Thank you!
Amazing video!
Thank you! you should see the updated track build here : th-cam.com/video/iznzaqRWBGw/w-d-xo.html
And our other race on that track here : th-cam.com/video/VZpwnOT8He0/w-d-xo.html
I am one dash confused and two dash wishing it was mine!
It is fun for sure!
Loooooove the video.
Thank you! Please have a look at my channel and check out our more recent races with better footage and multiple camera angles.
Awesome track ! How much is that amount track worth? if a guy was to build the same thing .
I'm not 100% sure...but it is up around $3000+ Canadian.
cool...i like all your slotcar Videos...sure..:-)
Thanx for the support!
So how long is the batman racetrack?? Per lane please?
Big.
Your reply tells me and everyone reading these post just how professional and business like people can be!!!! If you didn't know or couldn't remember, just a simple professional reply would be acceptable other than big!!
@@randy1203 Sorry Randy. I never really calculated the track in length per foot, per lane. When I said "big", it was meant, in part, as a joke. The whole track rests on a 8' x 16' table and has multi-levels. I'm not a mathematician that can figure out how long the curve sections are once you straighten them out and add that length to the already existing straight sections to tell you that one lane is a scale 300 miles while the other is a scale 310 miles. I just never took this so seriously to figure that out.
I was smiling like an idiot the whole time you guys were running! I may have missed it, but how many hours did it take you to set this up, and if someone wanted to recreate it, what would the approx cost be? Thanks!!
It takes me about 2 hours to set up this track as it is a big one. Price will differ from country to country, but it is @ $2000 - $4000 Canadian to buy all the track pieces needed.
Da sind die Fahrer mal so richtig Überfordert, was meinst du.
I think we were. We had no marshals to pick up the cars. Still, it was very much fun!
Heck of a lot of work. Well done. Really liked the reply to the "person" (Insert adjective where applicable) who has nothing to contribute down below. Being in Florida, I'm afraid I'm too far to visit, though I'm hoping to see Canada someday. Did you meet your goal of 12 racers? When I was a kid back in the 60's and early 70's, we had a number of racing facilities down here. But you touched on one of the main reasons the hobby died in these parts. As video games started to become more available to the average consumer, the want for actual human contact waned until it became what it is today. I miss those days and still have some of my 40 plus year old slot cars, the H.O. scale ones, spare parts and all. I remember those Batman episodes, but being a kid, I hated to be in suspense for a whole week. So I would miss one week, and then they would recap anyway, but I just couldn't live for A WHOLE WEEK in suspense. Kind of silly now, but back then, A WHOLE WEEK. XD. Thank you so much and God Bless from Florida.
You are welcome. The biggest league we had was 13 people. It was fun, but a little claustrophobic. :D I do try and put the "adventure" back into racing though. the fact that I change the track up each week helps keep the interest going.
Raced them awesome
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Yah!
Fantastic!!!!
Thank you!
We had a Larger type Track as Kids, it was so FUN ! Forgot the Toy Brand...have any in your Head to jog my memory ???
Sure! 1/32 - KalKar, Strombecker, Revell, Scalextric
1/64 - Tyco, AFX
Glad you liked the video!
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore It was Revell in a VERY Large Box at Christmas 1975-76?
Could be. Sounds like fun. do you still have it?
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore No, It got stolen from Moms House By Sis or cousins who would stay there from time to time...Wish I still had it, would play with it if I had the Room to set it up in.
That's too bad. Well, the new Carrera cars have magnets in them, so they will stay on the track better then the older stuff did.
Hello I have an old track from my youth. Looking to rebuild it for my son. Looks just like the size of this track.
3 questions. What the scale of this? Whats a pair of cheap cars that would work for it?
I'm also looking for a GT 40 1966, 68 69, style model. Would your store sell them? Thanks for this video. Enjoyed it and has inspired me to build my old track
Well, to answer the 3 questions :
1.) This is Carrera Digital Slot Car Track. It can handle both 1/32 and 1/24 scale.
2.) The cars, because they are Digitally Equipped, are going for about the same price as a PS4 game.
3.) Carrera brought out a model of the recent Ford GT 40 from 2016, but there is nothing in the 1960's version. Below is a link to my available Carrera Digital Slot Car stock.
www.monster-hobbies.ca/Hobby_Products/c22-carrera-digital-132/
Thanks so much for getting back to me. Shows what kind of a helpful company you are. :)
I'll have to call your company soon. What we have is just power to the slot and not a digital unit.
what and how does your point system work?
It's basically a copy of the points system used in vintage auto racing from the real world 1960's Formula 1 points system.
From memory, the first place winner gets something like 15 points for coming in first, second place is 10 points, third place is 7 points...and reducing as you go along until the last place driver gets 1 point.
Since we usually did 8 races in a night on the same track, I tallied up all the driver's points for each of the 8 races and then ranked the drivers scores on the final chart of the night.
So if you were a really good driver and you came in first in all 8 races for the night, you would get 120 points. If you had a "Mixed Night, you could get between 9 - 119 points in a night, and if you totally messed up the entire night, you would get 8 points.
Secondly, we would race between 8 or 9 races over the 2 months of the league (every Thursday night) and the points from each night of racing would get added up across the board.
Therefore, the guy finishing first over the 8 racing nights (2 months) would end up with 960 points for the league while the worst driver would get 64 points.
Once all these league points were added up at the end of the league season, I could announce the league winners.
It would be really awesome if you could figure out a way to mount a mini camera to one of those cars to get a cool virtual slot car drivers perspective.
Nice of you to mention. i just bought a little vivitar camera similar to a Go-Pro. I am going to test it out and see how it goes for that kind of thing. Look for it in my upcoming races!
+madcapromanian I wanna see that video on this track!
I'll be doing Gotham City again in 2018. Stay tuned for it!
What if you put a magnet strip fence around the corners and an opposing magnet in the back of the cars so when the back slides to far it gets closer to the magnet and pushes it back on track. Closer to the fence stronger the push?
interesting concept
madcapromanian thanks
the cop car is great!
Glad you like it! Thank you for watching!
Fun Video. Thanks for posting. Question: How large is the room you have to comfortably accommodate a track layout of that size?
Anything large enough to handle a 16' x 8' rectangle!
Would the cars that PM hobby sells work on your track? I don't know if they are digital or not. I guess if they are not digital then they are analogue? Still learning this but temped to buy a car they have for $53 and bring it down.
Scott Ewing W
Marcus Strom ?
We run Carrera Digital track, and the digital cars are in the "Blue" Carrera cases. These are the ones with the blue bottoms. Scalextric, which is the rival company from England and also come in "Blue" cases will not work. You can modify them (With some hard work) to run on Carrera Digital by buying a Carrera Digital Chip, rewiring your Scalextric car, drilling a hole in the floorpan for the "Electric Eye" and hacking up the interior so the chip fits in. We did thin in one league and it was a nightmare. If you do buy a Carrera in a Black Box, it is analog, but you can get a Carrera chip and install it easily. Hope this helps and look forward to seeing you in our upcoming league!
Thanks very much. I see a car on your site worth $70 cdn I'm interested in. How much is the chip for an Analogue? Also... do I need to buy a controller also? You have none on the site and I'm thinking each car is paired to a controller yes?
If you are buying a car to race in our league, we usually code the cars to the controllers here. If you want one for home, I suggest buying a digital set to maximize your dollar as it comes with everything included. Cars on the site might be sold out as the physical store "Moves" faster than the online store...but I can still order and I will do my best to get things in...current economy and all. :D
Hi looks awesome mate i use race tcr & i have still got them but what is it you are racing love it & would like one i am from the uk 🏁👍🏁
Sounds good. This is Carrera track, but you might be able to make the same thing using Scalextric.
Hi thanks for your reply mate i will have to get my hands on a one thay are digital ones i don't know much about them just getting back in to slot racing cheers
Glad to help!
toooooooo many curves - nascar goes in a super simple circle but everyone knows who's winning - no one knows who's winning on these +++ curved tracks - GodBless simplicity.
Actually, the lap counter is letting us know who's winning. Curves require skill. If you can't handle the curves, how are you going to be the next Sterling Moss?
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore no one wants to watch a lap counter
@@randykubick You look at it at the end of the race....anyway, our racers had no problems with the track. I'm not sure why you do.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore no problem here
Cool. Check out my NASCAR slot car videos on this channel. Might be more your speed.
fpv cam with is battery needs to be a slot car thing! like quadcopter cams
I am thinking of making a little rig for my mini-cam that the slot car can push for some track view racing.
@@monsterhobbiesonlinestore Thats a good idea as well but you could also just velcro on a camera with video transmitter for a tiny whoop style quadcopter on the roof camera and antenna only of course with a 1S battery.
I'm telling ya if you offer this as a package to sell in your store you will be rolling in it with the help of youtube video's to help. Ive searched and could not find many, there's a few, slot car fpv cam video.
Velcro...only problem is the shape of some of these cars. I should try and make a proper "camera Car" for such things. :D
I need a 3D printer! :D
I would join if I lived there but I'm over in england
We would love to have you race. Perhaps on a holiday?
Sick
Thank you!