Big Trak - Who had one?

[Steamer]

Yes I had one - was awesome at the time.. the dog hated it!

...however unless its a darn sight faster, has a real laser and uses less than 2Kg of huge batteries, I'll give it a miss this time round.

Did anyone have a grey one back in the day?

Also, wasnt there some kind of jack plug or spare button on the key pad that led you to believe it could be upgraded in some way?

[sicarumba]

I had one of those! I seem to remember it had the same processor as the Exocet missile or something.

[sanguinary]

Steamer said:

Also, wasnt there some kind of jack plug or spare button on the key pad that led you to believe it could be upgraded in some way?

Had one too.. great fun for an 8 year old to send it around the house terrorising the sister...


The jack plug was where the trailer attached. It controlled the tipping function.

[Hedders]

NeMiSiS said:

£40 was a fortune then.

It was, but now all the kids get £300 game consoles and each game costs £40..

[TheEnd]

Yes but without a trailer, so dad had to get his own apples.

[BigBen]

A couple of friends had them and I was always envious. I also remember they too loads of D size batteries which did not last long so they were the kids toy equivalent of a V12!

[sneijder]

Few of my rich friends had them, I just got Inferno when I asked for Optimus Prime.

FML.

[5678]

I had one and loved it. In fact, I think its still in the loft of my patents house. Will go and investigate this weekend!

[bob1179]

My cousin had one and I was jealous as hell.

I'm amazed they have reintroduced them though, might have to go and buy one!

[blindswelledrat]

I cannot believe that someone moved this from the lounge to 'scale models'.
Utterly incredible.

Anyway- BigTrak was my favourite ever toy as a kid.
I also have a new one sitting wrapped for christmas in my wardrobe at home

[andrewrob]

We used to have one of these at school!
What age are they meant to be for? My son is 5 in February, am I pushing it a bit?

Of course I will be on hand to help him

[blindswelledrat]

andrewrob said:

We used to have one of these at school!
What age are they meant to be for? My son is 5 in February, am I pushing it a bit?

Of course I will be on hand to help him

Both I reckon. At that age you don't really understand things like angles and distance multiples thus programming it is not easy/possible.
But I had one at that age and loved it regardless. You just play about a bit and hope for hte best.

[y2blade]

blindswelledrat said:

andrewrob said:

We used to have one of these at school!
What age are they meant to be for? My son is 5 in February, am I pushing it a bit?

Of course I will be on hand to help him

Both I reckon. At that age you don't really understand things like angles and distance multiples thus programming it is not easy/possible.
But I had one at that age and loved it regardless. You just play about a bit and hope for hte best.

it will help him...he'll learn that 5 goes further than 2 and left from right etc

go for it

the 5 year old will gain from it aswell

[5678]

y2blade said:

blindswelledrat said:

andrewrob said:

We used to have one of these at school!
What age are they meant to be for? My son is 5 in February, am I pushing it a bit?

Of course I will be on hand to help him

Both I reckon. At that age you don't really understand things like angles and distance multiples thus programming it is not easy/possible.
But I had one at that age and loved it regardless. You just play about a bit and hope for hte best.

it will help him...he'll learn that 5 goes further than 2 and left from right etc

go for it

the 5 year old will gain from it aswell

I can't wait for my son to be of an age where I can buy toys for me under the pretence of them being for him!

[Hedders]

5678 said:

I can't wait for my son to be of an age where I can buy toys for me under the pretence of them being for him!

As a non parent, nothing annoys me more than trying to play with a toy with some child reaching for the controller constantly. It's my go, can i have a go, me, me , me. Get your own bloody toys..

[dr_gn]

5678 said:

y2blade said:

blindswelledrat said:

andrewrob said:

We used to have one of these at school!
What age are they meant to be for? My son is 5 in February, am I pushing it a bit?

Of course I will be on hand to help him

Both I reckon. At that age you don't really understand things like angles and distance multiples thus programming it is not easy/possible.
But I had one at that age and loved it regardless. You just play about a bit and hope for hte best.

it will help him...he'll learn that 5 goes further than 2 and left from right etc

go for it

the 5 year old will gain from it aswell

I can't wait for my son to be of an age where I can buy toys for me under the pretence of them being for him!

My son's three and he's already got a Myford lathe and a radio controlled helicopter

A colleauge brought his son round a couple of years ago and the kid spotted my collection of Lego Technical sets (1980's vintage). He went to open a box and I only just managed to stop myself saying "those aren't toys", after realising the irony of the situation.

Edited by dr_gn on Wednesday 10th November 15:29

[kelk]

toxgobbler said:

Paul_M3 said:

I had one with a trailer too.

I can clearly remember sitting there, programming it to do different things. I loved it.

Basic by modern standards, but at the time I thought it was awesome.

+1

+0.5

I was a tot at the time and couldn't get it to do what I theorised i.e. what I thought it should be, it ought to.

Never seemed to manage to get anything right. However IIRC the TV advert showed the trailer tipping to deliver 'dad' and apple, th eblue laser canon firing at the dog and everyone in the household seeing Bigtrac as an obvious solution to a problem that didn't exist.

[bexVN]

I bought one of there for hubby couple months ago. He'd talked about having one as a kid. He had no idea so it was great fun watching him open it

There are far fewer batteries needed now.

[PeetBee]

I had one of these with trailer as did one of my friends. Seem to remember building a course for them to go around and then having 'races' to see who's bigtrak could deliver a trailerful of whatever to the end of it and back again in the shortest time.

Now I've admitted that, it does seem a bit geeky and not as much fun as it was back then

Edited by PeetBee on Friday 12th November 12:26