Toys R Us have a fantastic offer on Transformers toys at the moment. If you spend £50 or more on Transformers toys you will recieve a free Cybertron Voyager.
This offer includes the Micro Transformers Scalextric Set which is currently priced at £24.99
A compilation video celebrating Scalextric’s 50th birthday last year. The video includes coverage on BBC Breakfast and evening news!
The world’s largest private collection of Scalextric cars is expected to fetch £50,000 at auction next week.
The collection comprises of 1,000 models dating back to 1957
Argos have a fantastic offer on at the moment. They have reduced the price of a there range of Scalextric along with prices for other toys including Disney Princess, Fisher-price, Bob the Builder and Power Rangers Toys.
Unfortunately these reductions are only temporary and are available until the 25th of November, so now is the perfect time to get the Christmas shopping done!
Fantastic offers listed on there site include:
Click on the banner above to visit Argos, and take note, you can get free delivery on orders over £50 if you enter the discount voucher code AFD10 in the trolley.
A third dose of old Scalextric adverts. I can’t remember this advert despite its rather catchy tune and lyrics!
The Black Capri and the white BMW shown in the advert were my first Scalextric cars, I think they were a hand down from a friend or a find at a carboot sale.
I’ve found another 1980’s Scalextric advert. The advert itself starts at 2mins through the video clip.
This advert features Metros, Formula 1 cars and Porsches.
Below is an advert for Scalextric from the 1980s that I found from trawling through youtube.
I can remember the advert from when I was growing up. I can also remember writing to Santa Claus at Christmas asking for the starting gantry!
Earlier in the year Scalextric made a “miniaturized” spoof version of BMW’s highly successful “Be water” advertising campaign.
In the original advert, it is Bruce Lee who speaks to camera in English, in Scalextric’s version his lines were spoken by a young Chinese boy. In the new spoof version the three shots of the car at first glance appear to be the same as in the original, but it is not a real BMW, but a Scalextric miniature.
Below is a video showing off the Scalextric Powerslide set. The cars in the Powerslide set are fitted with a unique pick-up system that enables full 360-degree movement. Over cook it round a corner and you are going back the way you came!
The Scalextric Street Pursuit Set also features the same pick-up system which makes for some fantastic racing action!
Whilst browsing on Youtube I found this news clip from last year which celebrates the 50th birthday of Scalextric. The clip features the former Formula One World Champion John Surtees.