Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Race of the Champion

"I got a racetrack from the thrift store. It is really fun. My sister makes the two cars go at the same time. If you don't have enough of those orange medium things, you can use one of those clear things to hold the track together. You can make a few tracks or just one huge track. All people do you want to know how it works? Yes. It works by pulling the car back and if it doesn't go, you push a tire to one side." --by Emmett Axel Sanders
What better use of 5 dollars, I just love the thrift store. I actually enjoy building different tracks, whereas with Legos I tend to always want to color coordinate the building blocks and then get frustrated. There is a real goal with this toy: how crazy can we make the track within the limits of the physics involved. Personally, I never took a class in physics, but I can only imagine the forces at work! Thank you to whoever decided to donate this to charity!