New Micro and improved Motorworks

[Azimov]

Hey, have you seen the new micro at Wally World? It's a true 1/64 scale car exactly the same size as the Johnny Lightening slot cars. They are all released with bodies from F&F. They come in little nitrous bottles. Power is unreal, but traction is terrible. Although, a tire and rim mod from a true HO scale slot car would be a snap. The controller has a turbo function and the increase in power is amazing. The cars have a hardwired pager motor and an enclosed gearbox, and I hate the charger pad being inside the nitrous bottle. It's a real hassle taking the car on and off the charger base. But, over all, I think these things are really nice.
Also, I've noticed some improvements to the MotorWorks cars. First, they had the bullet shaped case and the Bit clone type cars. Then, they were put in a more squarish case and the cars were given switchable hubcaps and better performance. Now, I see new cars in the square case. Longer wheel bases and the same size wheels front and back. They seem like a total mirror image of Zips now. They even have some great truck bodies that I think will just pop right on a Zip chassis. Rat Shack better watch it's back, the clones are getting better.

One final thing. The new F&F true HO scale cars have a bit of deceptive marketing goin on with the packaging. The package says, "steering wheel controller". That really means the controller is round, not that the controller has a wheel on it. It uses the same button layout as most clones. And, there is a blurb on the package about a 5 min. charge giving a 20 min. run time. But, the instructions inside show an average charge of less than a minute and a 5 min. runtime.