After reading an article in a sunday newspaper regarding BIGTRACKS being valued as much as £100 plus on Ebay I decided to investigate. The last one sold for £112!

Who can remember these strange robotic useless things and who might still have one ?

What is a bigtrack??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2662&item=5958356356&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

One of the coolest toys a boy could ever want!

Yeah Big Tracks were ace! Used to spend ages programming the moves into them and getting them to do elaborate stuff......

I don't think we got rid of ours - didn't realise they were worth so much now. I guess a lot of 80's retro stuff is coming back into fashion.

General Sheffield Chat? Mooooooving! :thumbsup:

I remember automating Bigtracks via computers as part of my first job.

We used them as simple computer controlled vehicles.

Later on in that job I also got to computerise train sets and build robots. I was seriously spoiled... :)

They also had a trailer attachment so you could get it to carry things about and then tip them out, good fun if you had a dog or a cat in your house :D

Still got mine, back at the folks house somewhere, certainly not in the best nick after making it trundle into the pond among other things.

My sister had a grey robot thing on wheels, at about the same time, which was programmable too; I remember you had to press buttons on the top of its head to make it move. BigTrack was way better tho!

Did anyone ever have the 'evil' one?

http://livejournal.spodlife.org/60096.html

by the way I just got a googlewhack reminicing about these!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=bigtracks+toys&btnG=Search

Ahhhh, I had such high hopes... it sucked big time! It was so boring after the first 10 minutes when you had managed to get it from the livingroom to the kitchen without hitting anything... after that what was the point?

They might be selling for £112 now on ebay, but weren't they quite expensive when they were new? Allowing for inflation, I'd say they have devalued quite a bit... and I'm not surprised.

I never got a BigTrack becasue they were, I quote, "a waste of money". I did get a squirmal though which more than made up for it. NOT !

Originally posted by Ow-Zone
My sister had a grey robot thing on wheels, at about the same time, which was programmable too; I remember you had to press buttons on the top of its head to make it move. BigTrack was way better tho!

Seem to remember them, think the robot was called George!

Originally posted by Ow-Zone
by the way I just got a googlewhack reminicing about these!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=bigtracks+toys&btnG=Search

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It's not technically a googlewhack, as 'bigtracks' doesn't appear in any dictionary :)
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I suppose the modern day equivalent would be the RoboSapien, though that'd struggle in the "apple-to-dad delivery" arena.

Thanks BigTrak!

I loved playing with Bigtrack!! :thumbsup:

Does anyone remember Bigfoot too:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/lestatt209/Bigfoot.jpg


And who remembers showing off to their friends with these:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://website.lineone.net/~lineup/st-games/thumbs/tomy-skyfighters-back-thumb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://website.lineone.net/~lineup/st-games/tomy.html&h=206&w=400&sz=21&tbnid=9b2lBd3QiNwJ:&tbnh=61&tbnw=118&start=11&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtomy%2Bgames%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3 DG

Correct it wasn't a "good" googlewhack - I just never had one before.

I think it's quite difficult to get one even when using words that aren't in the dictionary. anyway i digress.

Indeed my sisters robot thing was called George, can't find a piccy of it anywhere on the web tho :(

Originally posted by Ow-Zone
Correct it wasn't a "good" googlewhack - I just never had one before.

I think it's quite difficult to get one even when using words that aren't in the dictionary. anyway i digress.

Indeed my sisters robot thing was called George, can't find a piccy of it anywhere on the web tho :(


Check out my last posting - click on the second link and go to the bottom - was it one of these?

'Fraid not,

It was definately called George and was a small fat little robot on wheels (3 i think); the top of its head was flat and had a bunch of buttons on, which were used to 'programme' it.

Will keep looking....

I never got my BIGTRACKS :(. I asked Santa for it but he brought me a Turbo Zero BMX and an Evil Kenievel (what a toy!).
The Evil Kenievel lasted longer than the BMX. Some thieving scroat nicked the BMX off my back garden! :suspect:

I was a proud owner. They were quite tricky to get the programming right for exactly what you wanted it to do.

Although I always wanted (and never got) a Big Trak, I recently got one of these:

http://www.8bs.com/see/turtle2.jpg

It's infra red controlled from a BBC Micro! They're also fast becoming colectors items, one fetching over £100 on Ebay recently.

never had a big track, remember having one of these tho.......

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.miniarcade.com/img/games/tomy/pacman_game2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.miniarcade.com/tomy/pacman.htm&h=207&w=275&sz=8&tbnid=JCQgBLQLAVEJ:&tbnh=82&tbnw=109&start=69&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpacman%2Bgame%26start%3D60%26hl%3Den% 26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Originally posted by alchresearch
Although I always wanted (and never got) a Big Trak, I recently got one of these:

http://www.8bs.com/see/turtle2.jpg

It's infra red controlled from a BBC Micro! They're also fast becoming colectors items, one fetching over £100 on Ebay recently.

That looks like the alien father thing which used to communicate with the child in the kids drama 'Chocky'.

went through old boxes at my house, and found 5 boxes with nothing but he-man action figures; including Skeletor, She-ra, and so on!! Gotta love the 80's!!
:clap:

I got one for Christmas when I was about 10. Absolutely loved it, even though there wasn't much you could do with it once you'd worked out how to send it from the front room, down the hallway and into the backroom, pausing only to shoot your sister's teddy on the way.

A friend of mine used to talk of getting a cine camera, and I had high hopes of filming a mini sci-fi movie, using the rubble of the demolished buildings over the road as my moonscape with BigTrack driving over it (through a couple of smoke bombs). Sadly never happened: I'm sure I'd be in Hollywood by now if I'd ever got around to it.

Looks like this era of toys could be big on ebay.
Does anyone remember this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1182&item=5168342345&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

The only childs favourite.

OK, who remembers... MICRONAUTS? The best toy of all time.