Remember last week when we were talking about slot car racing at hyper speed? Well, how about light speed to a galaxy far, far away? That’s what Scalextric is doing – announcing interesting new slot car racers based on Star Wars.
There are two track sets that will be available in the UK later this year – The Death Star Attack and the Battle of Endor. The Death Star Attack has highly detailed X-Wing and Vader’s TIE fighter which race along a figure 8 track that uses the box as a tunnel and has poster style figures painted on the track infield of Luke and Lord Vader. The fighters are raised off the actual “business end” of the racer and they slide around dog fight style. And what’s really cool is that the fighters glow in the dark, so you can turn off the lights and they look like they’re really flying around in space battling each other. And because the fighters are a bit too big for the track, catching up from behind enables knocking the other off the track – thereby shooting them down.
The Battle of Endor set has speeders which go along a T-shaped track that winds it’s way through a cardboard forest from the Moon of Endor, with ATATs and Chicken Walkers looking from above and rebel Ewoks ready to reign down doom in their unbelievably low-tech fashion.
Ages 5 and up. Should be out by fall.
Hat Tip – Pocket Lint