Big Trak

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[kryptosmaster]

I always wanted that but I think it was an expensive toy if I remember right? It looked really neat on the commercial.

Rich

[Mikey]

It kind of resembles the Landmaster

[sauce]

I just recently bought this again and had a blast with it! It is so darned cool!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

It always reminded me of the land rams from Battlestar Galactica. It was to high of a ticket item for my house back in the day. Would have loved to have one then.

[Drain]

I had the trak and trailer back in the day. My grandma bought them for me. Trak was fun to play with but I bugged the living hell out of my parents with it, to the point they would take the batteries out of it. You see you could program the trak to take up to 16 commands/button pushes and I would program it to fire it laser 99 times in a row, that took 3 commands and I would repeat that 5 times. So the laser would fire 99*5=495 times in a row. My trailer never work right. You were suppose to program it to lift and shut but, mine would just do that continuely when plugged into the trak.
I still have the trailer buy lost the trak in a move back in 84. My grandma bought me a lots of good stuff when I was little. She was the one that UPS thought she shipped a bomb because she bought me a Simon memory game. She put batteries in it before she packaged it to ship, but forgot to turn it off. So, all the way from MT to OR the toy's let on warning would beep every some offen. It just scared the hell out of the drivers. They found out which package it was after it reached the UPS depo outside Roseburg, OR in Green District. My parents had to go pick it up after the Oregon State Police bomb squad had inspected the package and found out what it was. I think, I still have the news clipping of the story pack away.

[kryptosmaster]

She was the one that UPS thought she shipped a bomb because she bought me a Simon memory game. She put batteries in it before she packaged to ship, but forgot to turn it off. So, all the way from MT to OR the toy's let on warning would beep every some offen. I just it scared the hell out of the drivers. They found out which package it was after it reached the UPS depo outside Roseburg, OR in Green District. My parents had to go pick it up after the Oregon State Police bomb squad had inspected the package and found out what it was. I think, I still have the news clipping of the story pack away.

That's a hilarious story. Yeah, you gotta dig up that clipping and post it.
Rich

[kennermike]

Big Trak

A friend of mine had one we used run over cobra soldiers with it fun times

[toys2cool]

that would've been awesome for Joes

[Jason73]

I got Big Track and the trailer for Christmas 1980.

[Earth 2 Chris]

That looks similar to the Pocket Heroes programable Batman and Spidey vehciles.

Chris

[littlewink]

Had this toy as well, did not last even the day! I programmed it a few times to move in different directions and it worked fine. I tried it again but to fire the maximum amout of times and it fried it.......brought it back and never got another. That is my story of this toy, I would like to get another someday, if I do I will not have it fire that many times again....LOL

[Drain]

That looks similar to the Pocket Heroes programable Batman and Spidey vehciles.

Chris

I was thinking the same thing. What Company made the Batman and Spidey Vehicles.