A new slot car scale

Now, we have four different scales. The one that used to be the most important in USA (HO) 1/64 with companies as Auto World, 1/32 the most popular in Europe and the one with more cars and sets (and companies like SCX, Scalextric, Ninco or Carrera), the 1/24 with huge cars and tracks (Carrera) and the affordable and every time more competitive 1/43 one (with Jiada, Artin, SCX - Compact and Carrera - Go). And now, the company, that maybe is the one with the best quality, Ninco announces a new scale and a new brand, the scale, a surprising 1/28 (not 1/24, maybe they do not want to share anything with Carrera or make the life easier to the fan) and the name Xlot (I suppose from XL or extra large). You can find more information in their official homepage http://www.ninco.com/ . Surprising move when its Spanish rival, SCX had moved to 1/43. Do you think it is an intelligent move, will they succeed? At least there are many things moving in the slot world...But the new scale is only for cars, it means you will be able to use it in your "1/32" Ninco track... The first ones in the second quarter of 2009 and they will be the Ferrari 340 and the Porsche 997. Price, less than 100 Euros...

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tony said…

Hey , have you try to play with slot cars .I bought my slot car set from http://www.slotmotors.com they are cheap

April 8, 2009 at 2:58 AM

JJ Slot Cars

I was surfing the net when I found this interesting slot cars producer, a chinese company named Jin Jun toys . If we check some of their slot cars sets the boxes are amazingly close to ??? Yes, maybe they built them in China for the Euroepean company and now they are using the know-how. Has anybody tried them? how do they work? I´ll try to get a set and post about it. From their webpage:" Taking Quality and Innovation as the best marketing means, we strive to supply to all clients with hot-selling products. Jinjun Toys Factory established in 1996, specialised in manufacturing B/O toys and R/C toys. Since year 2000, we have been focused on the Slot Racing Car items. So far we have developed a wide range of Slot Racing items covering scale 1:32, 1:43, 1:64, with almost all kinds of vehicles such as Rally Car, F1 Car, Motorbike , Quad Bike, Kart, Truck, Off-road Car, City Car, Police Car."

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In 1962, the English company Lines Bros Ltd, owner of the trademark Scalextric , signed a contract with the Spanish company Exin . This Spanish company would sell the Scalextric products in Spain and Portugal, manufacturing everything but the cars in Spain. After some time, even the cars would be done in Spain. Exin created soon their own line of models, being the first one the famous Seat 600 in 1966. In 1971 Lines Bros Ltd, as a result of its financial problems, sold the Scalextric line of products to Dunbee , Combex and Marx. Exin went on being a subsidiary of Scalextric and selling their products in Spain. And they got more independence from the mother company. At this time Scalextric decided to sell more quantity with less quality and Exin decided the opposite. These were the golden years of Spanish Scalextric . Every child in Spain wished to have one…In 1980 Scalextric was sold again, this time to Hornby Hobbies. It seemed Exin would have no financial problems, they e...

SCX, Scalextric in Spain

SCX, Scalextric in Spain has had a long history, and a lot of problems. Its beginnings, and the curiosity of the shared name with the British company Scalextric, Superslots in Spain, is explained in one of my first posts Spanish Scalextric or SCX in the rest of the world . After Tecnitoys, the brand belonged to fabrica de juguetes Fabrica de juguetes from 2012 to 2016. After many problems and keeping a toy line called WRC WRC , the brand Scalextric/SCX belongs from 2017 to Scale Competition Xtreme, SL. (SCX, SL.) Scalextric . This new company has started focusing on the 1/43 line, will they work as a toy company or will they be back in the hobby field? Please share your thoughts. And Merry Christmas! A video, in Spanish, from the company Video

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