Alternative to Scalectrix
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Ballistic Banana

Original Poster:

14,706 posts

296 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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Not seen these before,Good fun for your Office LNT racing

BB

dvpeace

611 posts

269 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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Great!

I have a Formula DigiQ for office use. I could see one of these going down a storm!

steve j

3,223 posts

257 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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Saw these for sale at silverstone last summer, waste of money is my opinion. Cars cost about 5 quid each and a piece of foam!!!

the gazman

1,686 posts

249 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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I just won it, another prize for S Club Heaven raffle this year.

Hoover.

5,993 posts

271 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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I got one for XMAS.... bloomin thing didn't work...

wonder what my sis has got me in its place, I had forgotten about it.... a telephone call is in order

the gazman

1,686 posts

249 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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Cheers Steve, you know how to cheer a boy up

yellow peril

5,131 posts

301 months

Friday 17th March 2006
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Don't worry gaz.....they are okay.

I bought one for Ray at Christmas. Doesn't take up as much room as scalextric although the fencing is fiddly.

They only had it set up half an hour and they were adapting the cars to make them go faster

All good fun if you don't expect too much.

YP

pistonsleeper

563 posts

246 months

Friday 17th March 2006
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steve j said:
Saw these for sale at silverstone last summer, waste of money is my opinion. Cars cost about 5 quid each and a piece of foam!!!


Not true! I met Derek at Snetterton and I bought one for my kids! The whole package was well put together and very good value.

molehusband

231 posts

247 months

Monday 20th March 2006
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Does anyone make a set that includes two Austin 1100s and the idea idea is to park the cars safely?

teambonzer

16 posts

255 months

Tuesday 4th April 2006
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Gaz, if you have any problems with the cars drop me a line and I will sort it out derek@bonzerracing.com

If you want more info, go to www.bonzerracing.com or watch the video here


Cheers

TB

>> Edited by teambonzer on Tuesday 4th April 18:33

mack

268 posts

286 months

Tuesday 4th April 2006
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I've just bought one off ebay as well - purely for our two boys for when they're old enough you understand!!

I've not tested it as yet,but,it does seem quite good value (£14.99) at the moment - given the stated rrp

It can go up in the loft with the TVR Scalextric set for now-or should I be practicing to give myself a better chance against them in the future!!

>> Edited by mack on Tuesday 4th April 23:37

Julian64

14,325 posts

283 months

Wednesday 5th April 2006
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Only a small point but if anyone wants their money back I think this guys misselling.

I believe the cars do not have NiHi batteries in them at all but are simply discharge capacitors. The type of which were changing hands for less than a fiver after last christmas.

The problem with them is that although that track looks great I doubt the cars would make it more than once round.

Of course I could be wrong.

Marki

15,763 posts

299 months

Wednesday 5th April 2006
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mack said:

It can go up in the loft with the TVR Scalextric set for now-or should I be practicing to give myself a better chance against them in the future!!


You will need practise , you know how sneaky kids can be

teambonzer

16 posts

255 months

Thursday 6th April 2006
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Julian64 said:
Only a small point but if anyone wants their money back I think this guys misselling.

I believe the cars do not have NiHi batteries in them at all but are simply discharge capacitors. The type of which were changing hands for less than a fiver after last christmas.

The problem with them is that although that track looks great I doubt the cars would make it more than once round.

Of course I could be wrong.


Julian, you are very wrong . As it says on the box the cars have internal NiMH 1/3rd AAA rechargeable batteries. Typically the cars will run for about 5 minutes off a 1.5 minute charge. There are plenty of videos on my websites showing the cars in action.
We have displayed and raced these cars at numerous motor sport events over the last 2 years (we have even had real racing drivers having a go), and I can assure you that if you are any good you should be able to complete at least 30 laps of the competition layout from a single charge (if you want longer runtimes simply do a double charge).

I might be wrong but I guess I could have you for defamation

Cheers

TB

Julian64

14,325 posts

283 months

Friday 7th April 2006
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teambonzer said:
Julian64 said:
Only a small point but if anyone wants their money back I think this guys misselling.

I believe the cars do not have NiHi batteries in them at all but are simply discharge capacitors. The type of which were changing hands for less than a fiver after last christmas.

The problem with them is that although that track looks great I doubt the cars would make it more than once round.

Of course I could be wrong.


Julian, you are very wrong . As it says on the box the cars have internal NiMH 1/3rd AAA rechargeable batteries. Typically the cars will run for about 5 minutes off a 1.5 minute charge. There are plenty of videos on my websites showing the cars in action.
We have displayed and raced these cars at numerous motor sport events over the last 2 years (we have even had real racing drivers having a go), and I can assure you that if you are any good you should be able to complete at least 30 laps of the competition layout from a single charge (if you want longer runtimes simply do a double charge).

I might be wrong but I guess I could have you for defamation

Cheers

TB


Then I heartily appologise. However if you ever want to have me for defamation, you would have to join the back of a very long queue.