Hornby actually own this brand and if you did not know what Scalextric is then it is a form of the once popular slot car racing hobby and it was introduced back in the late 1950s, interesting stuff. The majority of all of the Scalextric products are 1:32 scale but other scales have been introduced, you will find that most of the time you cannot merge the scales together in any way at all.
When this hobby was really popular you found that hardly anyone on the street your age did not have some Scalextric and the best thing about it was getting everyone together to make a big track. The problem with it nowadays is that there are just so many things out there that can compete with it very easily indeed. Video games and other things like this have really contributed to the downfall of things like this and it is a shame.
Although the great thing is that not all hope is lost when it comes to things like this as the company is looking to get these people back by allowing a program to be downloaded for free that lets it users actually design a track online for their hobby, they can then build the thing in reality if they have the parts for it, this is a great idea as so many times people get frustrated when they get things wrong when it comes to this. This is not dissimilar to the thing that Lego has done.
Die Hard Fans
There are still many fans out there that buy all of the new releases when it comes to things like this and I personally feel that it is this that is keeping the hobby alive at the moment. People seem far more interested in RC helicopter than Scalextric sets which I feel is a great shame because they really are worth playing around with just to have a laugh.
If you have never used one of these plastic model kits I would really recommend actually trying it out.
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