- For kids of all ages with cash to burn, might we interest you in some incredibly detailed 1:32 scale custom slot car tracks?
- Slot Mods Racing has produced many slot car tracks inspired by the real world, but the company’s latest brings together The Blues Brothers, Animal House, Mad Magazineand other pop culture icons on the small stage.
- These customer tracks start at $75,000 and include hand-built tracks, scenery and people, and six cars to race.
Some people have all the fun. One such person appears to be David Beattie, the founder of Slot Mods Racing, a company that hand-builds 1:32 scale wooden tracks. We’ve featured his modded slot car tracks before, but his latest creation deserves a fresh look.
Normal, if we may use the word, the tracks in Slot Mods Raceways are designed to mimic the look and feel of real world race tracks. The team calls these Custom Scenic Megatracks and has created a 10-foot-diameter Pebble Beach track and a 9-by-15-foot Lotman Laguna Raceway track, for example. Due to space limitations, the scaled versions of real-world tracks that Slot Mods creates “are built to the ‘spirit’ rather than a perfect replica,” the company said. Slot Mods’ newest track can’t be modeled on anything that exists in the real world, and is instead inspired by a deep dive into decades-old pop culture.
Called Mad Cave Raceway, this new track combines scenes from famous movies, such as the float parade scene that has been discouraged from House of the animals and references to The Blues Brothers next to billboards for Mad Magazine and Spy vs. Spy. Beattie posted on LinkedIn that Evil Knievel and John Belushi also make appearances. The enjoyment of a childhood is now contained in a universe of slot cars. Some people have all the fun.
Slot Mods’ custom scenic Megatracks don’t come cheap, with custom versions starting at $75,000. The final price is based on size, complexity and scenic elements, and if that’s too rich for your blood, the company offers a basic six-by-12-foot Standard Scenic Raceway offering that starts at 50,000 dollars If you just want to focus on the slot car racing and not so much on the scenery they race on, Slot Mods offers a four-by-eight-foot Origins Series race track.
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But the real fun here is in the (admittedly expensive) customization. While standard Megatrack components including cars, scenery and buildings are built to 1:32 scale, 1:24 scale cars can also be used. Each Megatrack comes standard with hand-painted wooden tracks, as well as “correct grandstands, structures, advertising signs and banners, aluminum Armco railing, hand-carved and painted landscaping, shrubs and trees, lap timing system and tablet PC, slot. car controllers, variable power supply, LED base lighting and six slot cars,” according to the company’s FAQ. You can also add external LCD monitors, tablet controllers and POV cameras to the car.
The Mad Cave Raceway proves that the FAQ needs at least an update. The page currently says that Slot Mods would like to be able to offer custom slot cars in the future, but we can’t help but notice the scale Cake Float car that runs between Ray’s Music Exchange and signs showing Alfred E. Neuman. fun times
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