Archive for the ‘carrera slot car’ Category
Posted by John on
June 17, 2009
Carrera Go!!! Spider Man is the proclaimed as the Best Classic Toy for 2009 by the world’s leading expert on play, toys, and children’s products.
Stevanne Auerbach, PhD, aka Dr. Toy, crowns Carrera GO!!! Spider-Man as the undisputed classic toy for this year. Dr. Toy has 30 years of direct experience of including educationally oriented, developmental and skill building products from the best large and small companies in her four annual award programs. Many parents, teachers and toy buyers use Dr. Toy’s guidance in making selections.
The fondest memories that Carrera GO!!! Spider-Man provides is the good feeling of nostalgia and enjoyment made instrumental by toys that relives good old memories as a kid and now a kid at heart. In fact, Carrera makes toys you take delight in when you were younger are still available to the market for you to share with your children or perhaps your grandchildren.
You can be sure that these childhood classics lasts over generations to extend the joy it brings. They continue to prove their value and will now delight your child. The joy of sharing a toy with your child that you play with is a special treat for you and for your child. We applaud the longevity of classic toys and hope that many new generations of children will continue to enjoy the classic toys we have selected as best for this year.
Carrera USA Go, Spider-Man Race Car Set
Carrera racing is a complete and simple slot car set. All you need to do is set up your track layout and race! This exciting classic slot car set has the added excitement of SPIDER-MAN, scale 1:43. A Slot Car Race Set gives boys and girls, ages 8+, the chance to race custom designed Spider-Man “Webslinger 6000″ and Carnage “Parasite RS” through straights, curves, loops and flyover. Spider-Man comes with 2 cars, a transformer, straights, curves, 1 junction, 2 hand controllers, lap counter, guardrails and spare contact brushes and guide keels. The track length is 20.66 feet with a footprint of 5.74 x 4.00 feet. This set, like all Carrera products, provides thrills and skills that are fun for the whole family to enjoy together.
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Posted by John on
June 2, 2009
Carrera unveiled its new lines of slot car models and happens to precisely time their latest model because it’s the Aston Martin’s arch rival - the Chevrolet Corvette C6R.
GT cars have been getting lots of attention nowadays much so emphasized with the release of the Martin DBR9 from both SCX and Scalextric.
With much effort, I almost didn’t take out this nice model out of its box. Not just because I long to keep there to avoid any untoward damage done to it but also the screw was firmly attached to the base. It was extremely fastened done up so tight that pliers are must have to get it undone. If it wasn’t for a raised plinth in thei boxes, there would be risk of warping the chassis.
The body of Carrera’s Chevrolet Corvette C6R looks great, detail-oriented and crisp molding. New models of Carrera are manufactured with less thicker materials thus the Corvette is not so heavy than its predecessors.
Its design is covered with painting and tampo-printing rendering a clear and flaw-free appearance. There is a good deal of protection on its paintings as there also shows good coat of clear lacquer to guard from anything that might scratch it.
Minor moldings of detail parts generally look sleek. The fit and finish is of good quality including a plastic mesh front grill and photo etched rear grill. You should expect it to be almost perfect partly because of its mirrors that look chunky and disproportionate. Its side indicators should have been a “real” or proper lens as opposed to its painted finish.
Fit and finish of the detail parts is also generally good, including a plastic mesh front grill and photo-etched rear grill. Carrera instead focused their efforts into some other parts of the car such as the “glass” parts found in the side windows that comes equipped with cooling vents made complete with pipe work.
Perhaps the important parts are a nice sturdy chassis, solid axles with front and rear brass bearings, standard Mabuchi type motor with 9:27 plastic gearing.
Expect to see Carrera fit front and rear lights and a reversing switch. Four screws hold body and chassis together. The chassis is a typical, strong, and heavy chassis. You can easily adjust the down-force using the supplied shim. Carrera fit two magnet that acts as a sliding magnet in the center of the car and a bar magnet under the rear axle.
When you look in its interior, it has moderate details to please most people. The driver figure looks realistic enough. You can notice minor details found commonly in race cars such as the roll cage, extinguisher and a smattering of painted details.
Let’s move on to the general overview of its strengths. Carrera’s Chevrolet Corvette C6R does make a nicely produced model. It can fare well or better when parked beside SCX and Scalextric rivals.
That’s how my first meeting with Chevrolet went. How do you find your own new set of Carrera slot car? Let’s hear what you like and not really like about them by posting comments below.
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Posted by John on
June 1, 2009
Carrera has released an update for X-Lap for all its enthusiasts. You must first save existing databases before you uninstall X-Lap.
Click here to download your own copy of X-Lap.
Uninstall X-Lap, install update as usual. With this update the following bugs have been fixed:
• Changed Admin rights for installation. On some computers the setup could not be started although the user had all admin rights.
• When opening race setup, some of the patches for the databases where destroyed. INI file corrupt. Databases connection therefore was lost. This happened when the user put in a either in his Driver name or in his car description. If a corrupt INI file will be recognized the program will automatically reset the database to standard databases for first start.
• Setting screen for com device: All values now will be checked for valid values between com 1 and com 16. Only if the user entered valid values between 1 and 16 the new settings will be stored.
• If a driver was selected were on which no image was determined and the user click ok in the race setup form the car picture was taken into the race monitor, Although the user selected “show driver picture”.
• Changed User rights for using x-lap. On some computers the setup could be started but not x-lap.
• On some PC an error occured when you open the race setup form. Error “Cannot find installable ISAM drivers”.
• On the result screen in the fastest lap field the sequence of car description and driver name was changed.
• If you opened the race result form without having race monitor loaded and you press ok in the race result form an error 5 occurs. This only happened, when the race monitor was not loaded before.
• Corrections on start time recognition after red lights expire.
• Start time will be now added to the time of the first lap. In some cases this caused an error when a car finished the race.
Click here to download your own copy of X-Lap.
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Posted by John on
May 29, 2009
Shortmovie (~5 Minutes) about our Guinness-Slotcar-Worldrecord (longest track) 10/2006 in Bremen-Huchting.
All informations available at: www.Slotcar-Worldrecord.info.
Interested on a full Movie-DVD (120 minutes) incl. bonus material for 5 Euro? Contact: DVD@Slotcar-Worldrecord.info
Duration : 0:5:51
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Technorati Tags: Appetizer, Bremen, carrera, Guinness, Slotcar, Weltrekord, Worldrecord
Posted by John on
May 25, 2009
Slot Car Track Cleaner Carrera ProX Digital 132 124 1/24 1/32
Duration : 0:3:21
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Technorati Tags: 1/24, 1/32, Auto, car, carrera, Cleaner, digital, Motorsport, ProX, slot, track
Posted by John on
May 21, 2009
Slot car Stauseering scale 1:32 rally scx fly ninco
Duration : 0:1:27
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Technorati Tags: 1/32, Basel, car, carrera, Fly, privat, SCX, slot, track
Posted by John on
May 20, 2009
slot car snow track testdrive with subau awd 1:32 carrera tracks car by scx mäkkinen
Duration : 0:0:16
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Technorati Tags: 1/32, car, carrera, impreza, mäkkinen, rally, SCX, slot, snow, subaru, test
Posted by John on
May 19, 2009
All stock with sanded tires
Duration : 0:0:35
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Posted by John on
May 17, 2009
It’s a 2 min. Video of my “Scratchbuilded” slot car track on MDF wood. I have used CARRERA GO!! 1:43 cars, with 9 volts supply. I have used copper tape 1/4 inch for the slots.
I hope you will like the little video!
Duration : 0:1:51
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Technorati Tags: 1/43, car, carrera, cars, formula, go, one, slot, track, Wood
Posted by John on
May 16, 2009
Ahh, the excitement of Carrera Evolution slot car racing - a couple of laps on our family’s 20 meter Carrera slot car racing track, with onboard camera and special appearance of Christopher’s yellow Chevy Camaro
Duration : 0:1:19
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Technorati Tags: 1/32, Camaro, car, carrera, Carrera-Bahn, Carrerabahn, Chevy, Evo, Evolution, hobby, racing, scale, slot, Slotcar, toys, track
