I got this very same torture track for my tenth birthday in 1966 and still have it - in its original carton!

@mouchiecat1

Жыл бұрын

Same here

This brings back sweet memories when times were simpler. The innocence. Motorific, Lionel trains, Aurora slot car 🚗 racing and a host of good cartoons on Saturday morning. Those were the days.

Had them in the 60's, very cool to see this.

My brothers and I played with this set for hours!! One of the coolest toys we ever got for Xmas! I remember Dad occasionally picking and blowing dust out of the tiny motors to get max performance! Perhaps Dad had just as much fun with it as us 3 brothers! After all he was a mechanic! I remember the Xmas after we got Motorific trucks! Most of the extraneous stuff on the torture track was broke by then but we turned these trucks loose on it!!

loved these sets!

I had these! My Dad hated them, because they just ate batteries! But really fun.

Mini-motorific came out later, and was popular just before Tyco started selling the first popular H. O. scale racetracks, which were powered by a wall outlet power inverter, and used handheld rheostat "speed controllers". These did not need an internal set of batteries, but the mini-motorific vehicles could be fit with a guide pin, and run along the same track!

@zxccxz164

5 жыл бұрын

this looks like way more fun then tyco

Man, I feel so stupid for saying this, but being a HUGE Sonic the Hedgehog fan, whenever I see toys like this, I'd like to imagine that Sonic would have a full collection of them since... he loves going fast. :P

This was before Hot Wheels and Johnny Lightning.

In 1970, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals denied Ideal's request to have Motorific plastic car bodies and chassis reclassified as "parts" rather than toys. Such a reclassification would have significantly reduced the importation tariff charged to Ideal (10%-17%, versus 35%). The appeal document revealed the company's two-year sales unit figures for Motorific: in 1964, Ideal sold 935,928 chassis; 1,761,186 car bodies; and 695,805 electric motors. In 1965, they sold 3,749,561 chassis; 4,260,793 bodies; and 3,937,201 motors.--Wikipedia

I had the Jaguar XKE and the '63 Vette

it alwsys looked way better on the commercial

One accessory I never had a chance to get was the Terror Turn which was advertised as having "real crash sounds". I'd appreciate if anyone could post or point me to any information about it.

This is the commercial I recall best. Looked great but I grew bored of them quickly. Slot cars were my thing.

Do they still sell these & who & where?

Does anyone know who the boy was I always wondered that