- For kids of all ages with money to burn, may we interest you with some highly detailed 1:32 scale custom slot car tracks?
- Slot Mods Racing has produced many slot car tracks inspired by the real world, but the latest one the company brings together The Blues Brothers, Animal House, Mad Magazineand other pop culture icons to the small stage.
- This customer track starts at $75,000 and comes with a handcrafted track, scenery and crowd and six cars to race.
Some people have all the fun. One of them appears to be David Beattie, founder of Slot Mods Racing, a company that builds its own bespoke 1:32 scale wooden racing tracks. We’ve featured his modified slot car tracks before, but his latest creation deserves a fresh look.
Typical—if we can use that word—Slot Racetrack Mods are designed to mimic the look and feel of real-world racetracks. The team calls this Custom Scenery Megatrack and has created the 10-foot-diameter Pebble Beach racetrack and the 9-by-15-foot Lotman Laguna Raceway, for example. Because of space limitations, the scale version of the real-world track created by Slot Mods was “built in “spirit” rather than a perfect replica,” the company said. The latest Slot Mods song can’t be modeled on anything that exists in the real world and instead takes inspiration from a deep dive into decades-old pop culture.
Dubbed Mad Cave Raceway, the new track incorporates scenes from the famous film including a parade of floats that disappear from the mayhem scene Animal House and references to The Blues Brothers along with billboards for Mad Magazine and Spy vs. Spy. Beattie posted on LinkedIn that Evil Knievel and John Belushi also made appearances. The fun of childhood is now contained in the universe of model slot cars. Some people have all the fun.
Megatrack Scenic Custom Slot Mods don’t come cheap, with custom builds 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 that starts at $50,000. If you just want to focus on slot car racing and not so much on the landscape they race on, Slot Mods offers a four-by-eight-foot flat-pack Original Series race track.
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But the real fun here is in the (admittedly expensive) customization. While standard Megatrack components include cars, scenery and buildings – 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 “exactly standard timing, structures, advertising signs and banners, Armco aluminum fences, hand-carved and painted landscaping, shrubs and trees, lap timing systems and tablet PC, car controller slot, variable power supply, LED base light, and six car slots,” according to the company’s FAQ. You can also add external LCD monitors, tablet computer controllers and in-car POV cameras.
The Mad Cave Raceway proves that the FAQ needs at least one update. The page currently says Slot Mods would like to offer custom made slot cars in the future, but we can’t help but notice that Cake Float scale car zips between Ray’s Music Exchange and a sign showing Alfred E. Neuman. Fun times.
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