Entertaining Little Boys

[gargamel]

Beofre anyone starts .... Behave !

I am by nature a cheap skate, so I am after all the best links around the web for downloading to make a dvd for my two year old son.

Especially - and this is where you come in

Cars - louder the better
Trains - faster - or more like thomas TTE the better
Planes (he really liked the Vulcan Bombers vids)
Heavy machinery (diggers, cranes etc)
Motorbikes

You get the idea

Thanks for any all the links - please no real bad crashes though...he is only little.

Gargamel

[Muncher]

www.torrentspy.com

[Rob_F]

Make him sit through hours of in-car Nurburgring footage, you'll have yourself a ringmeister on yer hands in no time.

Rob.

[iansull]

I've got an in car lap of the nurburgring being driven very very fast by an M3 GTR if your interested. Can E-Mail it to you if needed?

[NiceCupOfTea]

www.pistonheads.tv

job done

[jas xjr]

try to find a major construction site nearby, i worked on some big sites and was amazed at the number of little kids at the gates with parents / grandparents looking at the machinery, some of the younger ones would ask me my name , i told them it was bob,which made their day.and its free,shame but we cant let them on for a closer look, hse etc

[love machine]

Find your local motorsport event, like hillclimbs and take him along, maybe 2 is a bit young, give him some ear defenders in case it's too loud.

Real Cars Crashing = Great (in my book)

My mates daughter was allowed to sit in most of the cars, which was great of the owners.

[trevorw]

I see you are in london, ever been on the Croydon Tramlink?

My two year old boy loves it, he would just sit in his push chair all day and watch them go by at the platform if we would let him.

He also has a little ELC Motor bike, so when the MotoGP is on Eurosport he pretends he is in the race, he even leans into the corners

[JMGS4]

Not forgetting steam engines etc....Dibnah on TV is also good for entertaining/educating todays brats
(as they seem to think that a sparky is an engineer for some reason!!!)

[Raffles]

Fantastic website:
www.fastdrive.org

There are loads of in-car ring videos (inc. the M3 mentioned above) with loads of other diffent vids. Worth a try, you can download them easily and quickly.

[planetdave]

Stuff the DVD - get him a chainsaw....hours of fun for the entire family

[speedy_thrills]

Try these if you haven’t got them already: www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/pub/index.php
I strongly recommend the Pikes peak run and the 300km/h on a motorcycle but be careful because some of that is in there may be too violent.

Pascal riding through traffic at up to 250km/h: www.honda-blackbird.dk/film/Specielle/pascal.mpg

I assume this site is owned by a PHer: www.sleepy-fish.com/video_page.htm

Honda Super blackbird accelerates at an amazing rate and goes on to a very high top speed: www.mcsiden.com/filer/Honda_CBR_1100XX_300K_on_Autobahn.mpeg

M5 takes the ring (If he can rattle off all the turns after watching the video once I owe him a pint ): www.itsfun.nu/one_lap_on_the_ring_m5.avi

Loads of Top Gear stuff if you use an engine like www.dogpile.com .

Porsche: http://cars.niello.com/2004052012555205A.wmv, http://porsche.niello.com/video/2005boxsterlaunch512kbps.wmv, http://cars.niello.com/2003100114502338A.wmv and http://cars.niello.com/2003052809002707A.wmv

I found road re-surfacing very interesting when I was young.

[gargamel]

Thanks for all the tips so far.

Its not like I never take him anywhere - I am in Haslemere so we go to portsmouth to look at the boats and we go to the Watercress line for the steam trains - including thomas the tank engine days.

But the internet has so many great clips of tains and planes I thought you chaps would be the people to ask

Keep em coming

cheers

[NiceCupOfTea]

trevorw said:

He also has a little ELC Motor bike

That is very cool - would have thought the powers that be would have banned things like that and replaced with ELC lentil-powered push bike

[trevorw]

NiceCupOfTea said:

trevorw said: He also has a little ELC Motor bike That is very cool - would have thought the powers that be would have banned things like that and replaced with ELC lentil-powered push bike

Yeah he likes it, but i think you may be a little dissapointed when you see it..



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