Big Trak £38.99 @ Play.com (Due for release on 30/06/2010))

thatguy1

RRP: £39.99 | You save: £1.00 (2%) < LOL!

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/14398006/Big-Trak/Product.html

Big Trak is back enabling parents of today to buy one of the most memorable toys from their past and bring it back to life for their own children to enjoy and of course for those who simply wish to have the toy they were never lucky enough to own as a child.

It was the subject of a massive craze in the 1980s and the toy you simply had to have! A simply brand new retro experience!

Easy enough for kids to learn, but so much fun, even adults won't be able to resist.
Boasting all the features of the original model, including 23 button keypad, front-mounted blue photon beam headlamp and the ability to store up to 16 preset programmes.

With a 23-button keypad on its back, you can programme the plastic tank to trundle forward, then turn, then trundle some more... You get the picture. It also had 16 presets to perform predefined sequences of movements. It is like magic.

The revived Big Trak is an authentic reproduction that will boast all the features of the original, including the ubiquitous '80s go-faster stripes and blue headlamp.

The centre wheels are driven by two motors to allow change of direction. Use the 23-button keypad to enter instructions for Big Trak.
Where do I want Big Trak to go?
In what direction?
How many units will it take to reach my goal?
When do I want Big Trak to fire?
Do I want Big Trak to return to me along a different course?

With a 16 command memory, Big Trak will execute 16 commands in one sequence, e.g. 'go forward 5 lengths', 'pause', 'turn 30 degrees right', 'fire phaser' and so on. There is a 'repeat' instruction allowing simple loops.

Keypad Commands:-
Forward/Backward, Left/Right, P - Pause, Photon Symbol - Fire, CM (Clear Memory), CE (Clear Last Step) x2 (Repeat Steps), Test, Tick (Check Last Instruction), Out, Go.

Command Samples:-
1 - Go forward 5 lengths, Pause, Turn 30 degrees right, Fire phaser, X2
2 - Turn left 90 degrees, Go backwards 3 lengths, Fire phaser, Go forward 6 lengths, Pause, Fire phaser, Turn right 180 degrees.

blue_haddock

well i was a kid in the 80's and i dont remember this.

Slats

I REALLY wanted this when I was a kid!!

jameshutchison

I had one of these as a boy in the 80's. It is soooo cool. You would tell the unit to go forward, left right and back using numbers as a distance e.g. Forward 4, turn left, forward 3, turn right, back 3.

It was perfect for delivering important items such as toys and drinks across the room to my brother on the other sofa. Haha.

I want one !!!!:)

Jog your memory by watching the advert from the 80's here:

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/2313/

eklynne

Spending too much of my limited amounts of dosh on pieces of junk like this was one of the reasons I joined MSE in the first place!!
£40 for a piece of nostalgia is hardly money saving is it?
'Do you need it?' - No. Therefore it's not a bargain regardless of how cheap it is!

(I am a child of the 80s with 2 brothers and I have no recollection of this thing either!)

jon_ll

They were NEVER £38.99 good... even back then!

Sid_Harper

Well I remember these and we had them at school... and they are brilliant. And used to cost a lot more than £38.99 then - bargin! :T Gonna get one for not-so-baby harper

MrsBartolozzi

Well we had these at school, and I don't remember then being either "good" or "brilliant". They went forward, backwards, turned etc, but in a slow, clunky manner and iirc kept breaking down/forgetting what it had been told to do which would just get them laughed out of a classroom nowadays.

jammin_2

How do you tell it what to do, do you shout at it like?

thatguy1

jammin wrote: »

How do you tell it what to do, do you shout at it like?

There's buttons

flowmeter

A £1 saving ??? Also, I believe the RRP should be £29.99 ?

Alas i think this is only a mini version compaired to the original.

http://www.bigtrakisback.com/index.htm