When an opportunity arises to relive the youth that I wished I’d had there’s always a part of me that thinks it’s never going to be that good. Like playing with Barbies, buying the cabbage patch kid dolls on eBay or even trying to do a Rubix cube past the age of 18. Hornby’s Scalextric was one of the must-haves at Christmas in the 80s toys that I never really got to experience fully. You see we had a hand me down set of track, lots of weirdly coloured pieces from Oxfam that nearly fitted together properly and cars with wire wool for connectors. The cars either went and didn’t stop or, you guessed it, didn’t frigging work at all. As like all parents, I wanted to give Dorothy and Beth that chance to have the opportunities we never really got. Unfortunately when it came to testing the new British Touring Car Championship Battle Scalextric Set, Bethany was at the local fair which was mostly closed and Mrs P has had a terrible kidney infection and been bed bound!
So it was just me and Dottie then! YES!Unboxing the gorgeous, real to life Touring Cars, there are some amazing details in these models. A Honda Civic Type R against a BMW 1 Series. Two beasts that I’ve driven in real life and now on the track, the one with a magnetic metallic strip down the middle. [gallery size="medium" layout="slider" ids="15575,15574,15573"] Out of the box, the cars have their connectors already attached so there no need to have to build these beasts. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of spare braid plates for those that just can’t stay on the track. Something to watch out for those is before you start building your choice of layout, you need to keep an eye out for the very grubby babyzilla trying to eat the cars!
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