Scalextric have dipped their toes into lovely movie inspired toys recently, with the likes of The Batmobile, The DeLorean and even the Only Fools and Horses Reliant Robin being toys that can either be popped on the shelf to display or put into a Scalextric race track.
If you’ve been lured back into slot car racing by the cool genre cars, you may be tempted to actually get a track to run the cars on. If you don’t know what that is; it’s a toy car you put on an electrified track and then you race it as fast as the trigger based controller will let you. Fun for all the family.
Urban Rampage is a starter set that features two ‘supercars’, a Rasio and a GT. They’re pretty accurate as far as toy slot cars though, though they don’t quite have the same attention to detail you’d get from the more specialist pieces. Instead they’re cool looking cars suitable for a starter and something that fans won’t be too upset about if they get played with many times. Still, they’re fairly robust, for toy slot cars.
There’s enough track to do a figure of 8 style configuration, as well as some equally bendy ones. There’s just enough here to have a track that can catapult the car off the track into the furniture. It’s magnetised so you do have to be going some to fling the supercars into the void, however. There’s a lap counter, in case you get so excited you forget to count. The whole thing runs off mains electricity, and it’s pretty simple to set-up. It’s also pretty easy to expand.
Scalextric is a classic toy and one that will delight car fans of all ages. If you’re looking for something both fun and retro this Christmas, Urban Rampage is a great place to start.
