Wasn't even close. Camera makes it look a lot worse than it is. I've been a woodworker for over thirty years and only touched a moving blade once. That was a bandsaw and it was nothing two stitches couldn't fix.

I've seen it with these games too, but never through a plastic bag.

That's a deal. However, at some point at least one of those gears is going to crack.

Labeled by who? That's the question. Not labeled by anyone anybody should listen to. It's not like it's a law or anything.

@@RandiRain By the Sesame Street people. It plays the message on the DVDs and it's on the box. You can find them right here on youtube with the warning in place.

@@tarstarkusz So, by people no one should care about?

TOMY made a lot of those that just go up and ride down. This was a better idea. I don't know why they didn't do more of it.

I've seen this many times. It's the tubes.

@@RandiRain The bag must be permeable to whatever gas causes the degradation.

Always nice to get the first squeeze.

I got all three on ebay.

The other one I found that if you use some graphite, you can get them to work better.

I'm sure it wasn't in stored in a climate-controlled area. The nylon gets brittle over time.

As you can see when Randi replaces one, they fit pretty tightly on the metal shaft. I guess that after years of being under pressure, the plastic finally gives up and splits.

@@MusicalBox not quite, it is more to do with storage, and heat/cooling process the metal heats up, it expands, which plastic doesn't do as effiecently, and that is why it cracks.and the reason why you hardly ever see the free rolling cogs crack is because the metal bar for example isn't under tension, like a cog on say a motor which needs a tight fit.

Nylon gets brittle over time, especially with heat and dryness. Like musicbox said, they are under pressure. When they get brittle, they crack.

Nice... I guess you could use metal ones though.

@@RandiRain It might be a good idea to use metal replacement gears, at least for the small ones like the 10 tooth usually on the motor. They are extremely prone to the cracking.

Thank you. You can buy assorted gears on ebay. Search "nylon toy gear assortment".

@@RandiRain Thank you for the response. I'm excited to get this lil guy walking. My 3 year old can't wait!

Did it go slower in reverse? I have several of these from TAIYO and this is the only one that does that. Others have no stop, but forward and reverse are the same speed. I couldn't see what would be wrong with it to make it go slower. Seems intentional.

@@RandiRain I vaguely seem to recall that it did. It did not have much torque as it was. Large area, flat, concrete or otherwise smooth surfaces were what it was made to work on. I did not have many of those 😕

1970s

I have others and none of the ones I have date older than '81. Some have better controls and actually have the ability to stop. Others don't slow down when in reverse either. Plus, if it was later, it would have been more themed towards the A-Team. I'm actually thinking like '75.

@@RandiRain that is what also makes me think it is 60's/70's, my mother had a record player, and the circuitry in it was simular to the van, and she was born in 57, so that is what also makes me think it is around the 60's/70's era, rather than early 80's. not sure exactly when printed circuitboards were introduced, but definately by the mid 80's, as that was when I started pulling toys apart to see how they worked!! haha

Yes... They had other names. Run Yourself Ragged was also called SNAFU, Screwball Scramble, Tricky Ball, and Tricky Bill.

It's very clever, and you can see at the end it doesn't hinder it.

@@RandiRain Yeah, the car moves amazingly fast and the turning is almost too fast and twitchy, but only almost :D Looks like a superfun car to drive, it must be amazing on completely flat epoxy/linoleum flooring :) Doing racing with a bunch of these would probably be super fun :)

Thank you very much. It's fun.

You were drifting before anyone!!

@@RandiRain also did it with my car in the early 90's on a off ramp. Didn't know what it was other than fun. The car was a 1977 Chevy Monza 2+2 with a 305 V8.

Thank you very much.

Oh yeah... Here's another tip. You can't solder to the outside of the antenna, but you can on the inside. So, if you need to solder, solder inside at the end.

@@RandiRain I agree, been doing that for years, can't solder to chrome..but with the right flux I can even solder brass to stainless steel or just about any metal to metal

Very true. I guess that's the difference from someone actually drawing them out by hand and someone doing it on a computer. They should make a feature in the PCB software that you can add the 70s-80s flare to them.

It's called a joke, and it is racist, and if you've ever seen Avenue Q, you would know we're all a little bit racist. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKDZd2SwqKmim68si=T6CmxEpZ-mnCPkHs

@@RandiRain I just watch what you sent me. I get it. I guess I hear the word racist everyday and tired of it all. I'm white and proud. When they were making graphics like that back then it was cool but now its not? Weird. I liked it better when I could joke around with black people and they could joke around with me. I grew up in the 80's and 90's seeing all kinda of racist crap but people laughed it off and had fun. Now, its just gross out there. thanks for responding. I'll keep watching.

@@eroc1024 I would have to ask, just exactly where do you "hear this every day"? My guess would be social media and or content news. I would argue the thing you're really tired of is that. I encourage everyone to stay away from all of that and go enjoy the real world. Join a club or something. I go to three different magic clubs. Facebook, Twitter, or X, or whatever, is cancer. They intentionally pit people against each other so that they will argue. It makes them money. Same for content news.

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​@RandiRain thank you!

Thank you.