Hot Wheels Sunday!!
My boy and I tried the impossible tonight. There's nothing more terrifying or maddening, than the challenge of the Hot Wheels "Double Loop"!
The large unit on the bottom left is the launcher. It actually propels cars with enough velocity to get the car around a loop made of about 4 pieces of track and two turns. However, it proved woefully inadequate to launch a car into the double loop.
Most the cars succumb to gravity at the apex of the second loop. Out of about a million cars, we had one that seemed to work.
This one car made the loop about four times. For some odd reason though, it didn't actually traverse the track on the second half of loop two. Instead, as it fell, it just happens to flip perfectly, landing back in the track and the bottom of the straight connector. Is that cheating?
We also determined that this car seems to be the best suited for the two Hot Wheels playsets we have as it is also the only one that perfectly handles the Raptor Trap and whatever the damned downhill loop thing we have is. We call this one "Daddy's Favorite". I'm letting the boy hold it only for the picture.
Jameson insisted the answer must be in the directions. Silly boy. He doesn't read Spanish.
The large unit on the bottom left is the launcher. It actually propels cars with enough velocity to get the car around a loop made of about 4 pieces of track and two turns. However, it proved woefully inadequate to launch a car into the double loop.
Most the cars succumb to gravity at the apex of the second loop. Out of about a million cars, we had one that seemed to work.
This one car made the loop about four times. For some odd reason though, it didn't actually traverse the track on the second half of loop two. Instead, as it fell, it just happens to flip perfectly, landing back in the track and the bottom of the straight connector. Is that cheating?
We also determined that this car seems to be the best suited for the two Hot Wheels playsets we have as it is also the only one that perfectly handles the Raptor Trap and whatever the damned downhill loop thing we have is. We call this one "Daddy's Favorite". I'm letting the boy hold it only for the picture.
Jameson insisted the answer must be in the directions. Silly boy. He doesn't read Spanish.
posted by Mkae at
7:37 PM
5 Comments:
LOVE the picture of the boy reading rules! Awesome! I'm jealous of you guys... that's a great time there.
By
Shocho, at 7:00 AM
It looks like the Batmobile.
By
TheGirard, at 7:17 AM
That was my thought too. Hence, it's Daddy's car. :)
By
Mkae, at 7:24 AM
Hotwheels are so cool. I am too old to remember them when they were released but am now young enough to play with them at every opportunity.
By
Trundling Grunt, at 6:40 PM
"He doesn't read Spanish."
Heh...that's classic! I miss HotWheels and such. Last time I played with them was in physics class eleven years ago. That's entirely too long.
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Unknown, at 7:28 PM
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