Big Trak

namuk · 04-08-2009, 10:56 PM

who remembers this , i could never get it to go the right way but i was young and stupid

YouTube - Big Trak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDGIO...eature=related

Slackadder · 05-08-2009, 5:34 AM

I had one!!!

Scared the dog witless.........

Takes me back... aaahhh.

I also remember Hopper, Pacman and Technical Lego.... oh and old skool Scalectrix!

Anthony

Razor · 05-08-2009, 9:01 AM

I always wanted one but I was never lucky enough to get one.

w3dal · 05-08-2009, 11:06 AM

i had one and the trailer, but like most of the version 1's they didnt work properly and were sent back to MB

Dal

dpgwhiteley · 06-08-2009, 3:52 PM

We actually have one of these in the loft and as far as I know it's still working!

Awesome things

Joe Pineapples · 06-08-2009, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Razor

I always wanted one but I was never lucky enough to get one.

Me too - i guess my parents couldnt afford it, or maybe i was slightly too old for one (cant remember) - they were expensive if i remember right. I remember the trailer attachment on the advert, carrying an apple i think.

Tfish · 08-08-2009, 12:38 PM

oh m god where is mine, maybe in the loft at dads. made a great APC for my storm troopers

thelurch · 21-08-2009, 8:34 PM

Get it out of the loft!...these have been going for silly money on ebay!

namuk · 21-08-2009, 8:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Pineapples

I remember the trailer attachment on the advert, carrying an apple i think.

This one

, the trailer Became a sort after item and was Dam dear

YouTube - Big Trak by Milton Bradley tv commercial 1979-80

Slackadder · 23-08-2009, 10:01 AM

Happy days!!

I remember I had both the bigtrak and the trailer..... many hours of fun. The dogs and cats in the house were scared silly of it!

Not sure where they are now - in some loft somewhere???????

Anthony

flat spot · 23-08-2009, 6:20 PM

I had one and they are useless. Clever technology for the time but program it to turn 90 degrees and it just generally went in that direction depending on the surface it was on.
After the 2nd turn it was off wherever it wanted. It didn't take long before mine was where it looked like it meant to go. The sand in the back garden.

Unfortunately they don't like sand and it died a death at the mercy of my screwdriver set.

jfsebastian · 28-08-2009, 11:49 AM

Wow, that's a blast from the past! I really wanted a Big Trak along with Tin Can Alley and Evel Kneivel. Although my wishes never came true I was the proud owner of an Action Man Assault Tower with zip line lol.

krusty · 29-08-2009, 10:20 AM

yep i remember this..although i can remember getting those louis marx daleks for xmas...plus matchbox motorway..something called jonny explorer which looked like a giant hairdryer that you used to power a balloon with a little basket

on the subject of yesteryear who remembers those catalogues where you paid weekly for things..especially the ones that sold shotguns

: i think john england was the catalogue

krusty · 29-08-2009, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by jfsebastian

Wow, that's a blast from the past! I really wanted a Big Trak along with Tin Can Alley and Evel Kneivel. Although my wishes never came true I was the proud owner of an Action Man Assault Tower with zip line lol.

i got a action man deserter one christmas

basicaly i opened the box and it was empty

jfsebastian · 29-08-2009, 11:16 AM

That joke was a blast from the past too lol, but the old 'uns are the best.

techn0god · 08-10-2009, 6:00 AM

Jeez i had one of these too.... did anyone have the tipper bit as well?

BISHI · 09-10-2009, 11:34 AM

I always wanted this-
Google Image Result for http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd3.jpg

But apparently it was rubbish..

mrmcdean · 09-10-2009, 1:31 PM

My Big Trak is still at my parents. Bought some batteries for it not long ago as my son spotted it while he was staying over. Batteries still cost a fortune and it sort of did what it wanted (from memory that means its working just as well as it did back in the day

).

Also had a trailer but the connection that fitted into the back of the Big Trak snapped off so thats probably in land fill now.

I was also lucky enough to get Tin Can Alley one year.....

Happy days.

justdoit · 23-10-2009, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BISHI

I always wanted this-
Google Image Result for http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd3.jpg

But apparently it was rubbish..

I had one and yep it was!

flat spot · 23-10-2009, 11:47 AM

So did I and yes it was.

BISHI · 23-10-2009, 1:52 PM

Well I'm glad I got action man instead then........

Fmrl · 14-12-2009, 3:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flat spot

So did I and yes it was.

Me too (the original blue one) and yes it was rubbish.

I'm sure the instructions said you should tie the far end of it to a door handle... so when your big sister/brother walked in the room it would break instantly.

I always wanted a Star Bird (not one of those topless ladies from the daily paper - but one of those would have been nice too)...

Toys You Had Presents Star Bird

TEKNICOLOURFOX · 15-12-2009, 9:33 PM

ive still got mine!!! though the stickers are all coming off and its pretty poorly...

I do also have the trailer that came as an extra, that was also pretty cool

they dont make em like they used to!!!

oh i might have to get some batteries and see if i can get her going

tonyadamson · 16-12-2009, 2:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slackadder

Happy days!!

I remember I had both the bigtrak and the trailer..... many hours of fun. The dogs and cats in the house were scared silly of it!

Not sure where they are now - in some loft somewhere???????

Anthony

Your pets are in the loft?

VoodooChild410 · 27-01-2010, 1:52 PM

Love the Big Trak.

I've a mate who sampled all the noises and turned it into a pretty good Dance Track.

Nick.

steverae · 22-02-2010, 6:29 AM

Wow - i remember this, the first one i had didn't work but i was young and thought it was still cool.

Had the airfix thing as well, it was pants.....

Hears another one for you... Do you remember starbird ?

YouTube - Starbird MB

hehe, makes me want to go and look around on youtube for all my old toys from when i was a kid....

MSI · 22-02-2010, 9:12 PM

MY GOD!!!!!

I wanted one of them so so much when I was a kid.

Never got one, and my mate who got everything he wanted got one.

He had the trailer also with is.

Was so gutted, he wouldnt even let us have a go, used to have to look through his window as it took out his mums living room!

Feels like only yesterday, blast from the past!

Who made it?

Does anyone ever remember Evil Knievel?

Was like a red base with a handle and you put evil and his bike on the stand, then wound the handle till it picked up speed and his bike would fly off!

Always wanted one of them too but never got one :-(

namuk · 23-02-2010, 1:20 AM

Starbird now your taking it back

the Evil Knievel , i had the Rocket No way would that Jump Canyons

Now i fell Old

*digyerownhole* · 23-03-2010, 2:48 PM

Had an Evel Knievel, but my sister decided his last ever stunt would be to drive along the top of the 1" wooden bannisters along the upstairs hallway

My Action Man Zip Tower got turn in to an Action Man Base Camp, complete with scrim netting my Dad brought home - it was truly awesome, had a little garage for his jeep too.

As for BigTrak, well I never had one. But I do recall my freind's one... when I was in my early 20s, we used it to send the ashtray back and forth across the room while we were... err... eating mars bars and feeling generally lethargic

ukprometheus · 23-04-2010, 9:07 PM

i had big track and i hear it making a come back