Record Racer
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Zoom through turns, dodge obstacles, and put the pedal to the metal with a mechanical racing game you engineer yourself! Construct a spinning, circular racetrack — complete with a potentiometer that lets you control the spinning speed. Steer your car across the spinning track using a linkage mechanism and magnets. Add obstacles to create custom race courses, so you can make your game as easy or as hard as you’d like. Ready to discover a need for speed — and a love of STEM?
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Auntie
Mar 15 2023
My nephew assembled it (9yrs), and has taken it everywhere to challenge everyone to beat his record. Great project.
Stevie J
Feb 24 2023
Our classroom is really enjoying Record Racer. My Special Ed students are attempting different speeds with various obstacles. However, the speed differentiator is very precarious. One must turn the dial about 1/3 of the way on before it starts going, and then the race "jumps" into high speed. We're learning how to work with it and compensate. It actually adds another level of difficulty for my students, and that's not all bad!
DR
Dec 29 2022
This is one of the best KiwiCo products we have purchased. Our grandsons love KiwiCo kits and have spent liked this one the best. It's one of the sturdier kits, it works extremely well, and is great fun to play with when completed. The boys 11 and 13 built them mostly themselves. The 13 year old built his all by himself. He had to tear down and rebuild several sections because he didn't read the instructions, but eventually got it working correctly in about an hour or two. The 11 year old, likewise, didn't read the instructions, but got everything right except the steering mechanism. I had to fix that for him. They have played with them for hours.
Diana Proost de S G
Oct 13 2022
Great quality, fun project for kids that like games!
Awesome mom
Jul 6 2022
My kid loved it
Andrea
Mar 13 2022
So, I do love this toy and recommend you buy it. My 8 year old daughter built it with next to no help. My only beef is they added a “starting line” onto the wood surface but the groove of that line stops/grabs the car and knocks it off the track! So the car gets literally knocked off every single rotation as it crosses the burnt in starting line. Such a bummer and serious design flaw. My be specific to our batch that came off the line but was a very disappointing finish for an otherwise great toy idea.
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