Comments on: Disney Pixar CARS: Make Your Own Slot CARS http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/ When the World is a Checklist for Mattel Pixar Cars Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kdthomas http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-114027 kdthomas Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:39:02 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-114027 I traveled down to LA today and on the way down I-5 I saw a yellow Toyota with a white camper top. All it was missing was the rocket ship! Stopped at the Van Nuys Target and guess what...yup...seems like the lack of new Car's die-casts is a National Tragedy! El Segundo here I come! I traveled down to LA today and on the way down I-5 I saw a yellow Toyota with a white camper top. All it was missing was the rocket ship!

Stopped at the Van Nuys Target and guess what…yup…seems like the lack of new Car’s die-casts is a National Tragedy! El Segundo here I come!

]]> By: buckland-blowouts http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113995 buckland-blowouts Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:40:41 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113995 Awesome stuff Dude!!! Can't wait for our little guy to be old enough to play with the race track and then make custom cars too!!!! Awesome stuff Dude!!!

Can’t wait for our little guy to be old enough to play with the race track and then make custom cars too!!!!

]]> By: Stig McQueen http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113992 Stig McQueen Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:31:52 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113992 That's the one! Actually, that's one of two; my kids have that one, and I went out and got the Neon Nights Challenge. They're essentially the same, but the Desert Racing set has brown track and "dirty" CARS, and the Neon Nights has black track and "clean" CARS. The battery pack works fine for kids, but if you have a Tyco wall-wart it'll plug right into the terminal track. And of course, the cars will run on any HO slot track. That’s the one! Actually, that’s one of two; my kids have that one, and I went out and got the Neon Nights Challenge. They’re essentially the same, but the Desert Racing set has brown track and “dirty” CARS, and the Neon Nights has black track and “clean” CARS. The battery pack works fine for kids, but if you have a Tyco wall-wart it’ll plug right into the terminal track. And of course, the cars will run on any HO slot track.

]]> By: Stig McQueen http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113990 Stig McQueen Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:24:41 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113990 Thanks, but there's no talent required; anybody who's ever messed around with with slotcars as a kid can do this! In fact, it keeps getting easier; after I did all this adapting to mount the bodies, I found an eBay seller who has clip-on body mounts for the Tomy SG+ chassis that stick to the inside of the body with peel-and-stick adhesive. They're intended for vac-formed lexan bodies, but there's no reason they wouldn't work with the plastic Disney Store figurines. You can mount bodies the same way I did with Chick's, but without having to get out the hobby knives and the hot-melt glue. Give it a try! Thanks, but there’s no talent required; anybody who’s ever messed around with with slotcars as a kid can do this! In fact, it keeps getting easier; after I did all this adapting to mount the bodies, I found an eBay seller who has clip-on body mounts for the Tomy SG+ chassis that stick to the inside of the body with peel-and-stick adhesive. They’re intended for vac-formed lexan bodies, but there’s no reason they wouldn’t work with the plastic Disney Store figurines. You can mount bodies the same way I did with Chick’s, but without having to get out the hobby knives and the hot-melt glue.

Give it a try!

]]> By: indy http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113989 indy Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:18:08 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113989 Bought my pizza planet truck years ago loose I just had to add it to my extensive Toy Story collection I do not even have A slot car track to put it on,but it looks great!! My other little car that I think is very special and would lOVE to see A Cars diecast version off is MIKE WAZOWSKI'S new car from the extra's on the Monsters inc dvd!! It was offered with the dvd in A very small matchbox box!!LOOKS INCRDIBLE if they would make it,WAUW!! Keep hunting for PIZZA'S!! Bought my pizza planet truck years ago loose I just had to add it to my extensive Toy Story collection I do not even have A slot car track to put it on,but it looks great!!
My other little car that I think is very special and would lOVE to see A Cars diecast version off is MIKE WAZOWSKI’S new car from the extra’s on the Monsters inc dvd!!
It was offered with the dvd in A very small matchbox box!!LOOKS INCRDIBLE if they would make it,WAUW!!
Keep hunting for PIZZA’S!!

]]> By: Micky http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113987 Micky Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:13:17 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113987 I just looked at my inventory list and I have a "Dirt Track Racing Desert Slot Car Racing" set. I don't even remember what this looks like. It's packed away in a box. I got it several years ago when I first started collecting but never even opened it. When I feel ambitious, I'll dig out the box and take a look. I just looked at my inventory list and I have a “Dirt Track Racing Desert Slot Car Racing” set. I don’t even remember what this looks like. It’s packed away in a box. I got it several years ago when I first started collecting but never even opened it. When I feel ambitious, I’ll dig out the box and take a look.

]]> By: babychristianscars http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113971 babychristianscars Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:06:23 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113971 You are very talented. Great work. You are very talented. Great work.

]]> By: applefinatic http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113968 applefinatic Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:26:42 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113968 Love the pizza truck!! LOL Love the pizza truck!! LOL

]]> By: Stig McQueen http://www.takefiveaday.com/2010/01/31/disney-pixar-cars-make-your-own-slot-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-113964 Stig McQueen Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:53:32 +0000 http://www.takefiveaday.com/?p=16127#comment-113964 Thanks for posting, Met! I do have some videos of the cars in action around the track, but I need to do some editing before I can post. I put the CARS track, a Disney monorail and Thomas the Tank Engine around my Christmas tree every year, so I have to pull the slotcar vids out of the Christmas mix. I've also got some CARS-eye-view footage that I took with a micro-size wireless video camera mounted on an AW S'Cool Bus repop, following The King around the track, but I need to edit it into something watchable; the raw footage is somewhat motion-sickness-inducing... I do have some videos from Christmas 2007 that show LMQ and Doc racing around the tree on YouTube; if anyone's interested, here's the links: Here's Doc practicing his drifting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnXjkoygDw LMQ & Doc racing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7BGDY3uds My cat chasing Doc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHznIYy8kFc Thanks for watching! (No relation to Stig O'Hara, BTW. Some say that my left nipple is in the shape of the Nurburgring...and that if I put my mind to is, I could solve the DaVinci Code in 3.7 seconds. All anyone knows is, I'm called The Stig!) Thanks for posting, Met! I do have some videos of the cars in action around the track, but I need to do some editing before I can post. I put the CARS track, a Disney monorail and Thomas the Tank Engine around my Christmas tree every year, so I have to pull the slotcar vids out of the Christmas mix. I’ve also got some CARS-eye-view footage that I took with a micro-size wireless video camera mounted on an AW S’Cool Bus repop, following The King around the track, but I need to edit it into something watchable; the raw footage is somewhat motion-sickness-inducing…

I do have some videos from Christmas 2007 that show LMQ and Doc racing around the tree on YouTube; if anyone’s interested, here’s the links:

Here’s Doc practicing his drifting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnXjkoygDw

LMQ & Doc racing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK7BGDY3uds

My cat chasing Doc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHznIYy8kFc

Thanks for watching!

(No relation to Stig O’Hara, BTW. Some say that my left nipple is in the shape of the Nurburgring…and that if I put my mind to is, I could solve the DaVinci Code in 3.7 seconds. All anyone knows is, I’m called The Stig!)

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