60 years of Scalextric, the total toy

Miniature electric cars, popularly known as slot cars, allow you to enjoy exciting days of gaming at home.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
21 December 2023 Thursday 09:30
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60 years of Scalextric, the total toy

Miniature electric cars, popularly known as slot cars, allow you to enjoy exciting days of gaming at home. Scalextric, the pioneering brand in the manufacture of car models, circuits, accessories and electric car racing, proposes its essentials for this Christmas. This flagship of fun, which has celebrated 60 years since its launch, is much more than a toy. Slot circuits have been, and continue to be, witnesses of the excitement and fun shared between parents, children and grandparents.

Scalextric, made for family audiences, is also an educational game that helps develop psychomotor skills, reflexes, speed of movement, hand-eye coordination and spatial organization. Likewise, it enhances the capacity for attention and concentration and stimulates symbolic play, while children integrate solid values ​​such as patience, discipline, order and teamwork.

The multiple possibilities it offers have allowed children's play to also be a hobby for adults in the form of competition, model making, automobile history or even collecting.

All Scalextric lines are fully modular: they can be expanded, change cars to race, go through loops and compete non-stop. There are circuits of different sizes that adapt to the space available for your enjoyment. Furthermore, for those who want to get started in this activity, the Compact Line has a smaller scale, 1:43, which has been designed and intended for children from 4 years old.

The Scalextric Club currently brings together more than 8,000 members who, in exchange for an annual subscription, receive three magazines a year, a car and a surprise gift. In addition, they enjoy other exclusive advantages, such as raffles, promotions and discounts on their purchases. On its website (Scalextric.es), you can find a wide variety of circuits, accessories and all types of spare parts online. And, of course, also a wide range of rally and circuit competition cars that are updated every season