Ok when I was a kid I remember watching the bozo show and they used to advertise
Lionel trainsets all the time Frasier Thomas would talk about it it
was all very exciting I never had a Lionel Train Set I think my brother
might have had one trains didn't interest me as much but I did think it
was neat to watch his train set his might have been a Tyco I can't remember
but anyway something I found out here recently is that Lionel has changed the
game on us and no longer are they only in the train business but now they are
in the racetrack business so I have the Lionel Mega tracks to review today this
is something I found at Ollie's for $19.99 and let me tell you something
there's a lot here this thing is heavy so this box I looked at it and I saw all
the crazy things that you could do with this as far as making race tracks and I
got very very interested so today I'm going to be reviewing this Lionel mega
tracks I'm going to see if we can get this car to you know do its thing on
this track because it shows the car going and they did sell separate cars
there with the tracks at the Ollie's store so we'll make a couple of tracks
do some loop-de-loops and all that kind of thing see if it all works the way it
says it does on the box we'll see how much fun somebody can have with one of
these mega tracks I did see on the back here that it is kind of like a roller
coaster so that makes it even more exciting but you kind of need a table
top for this it looks like because this track actually comes with clamps so
you're actually clamping this to a table and then making some really crazy you
know track designs that kind of go up in the air go upside down and that sort of
thing so that looks like something different and it's also got a remote
there are the cars remote that I haven't read this box too thoroughly I just
glanced over it thought man that looks exciting and I decided to buy it and I
you know it looks like something that any kid wouldn't you know love to play
with so what I'm going to do is I'm going to box this thing and like the
grunt animal I am I'm not going to look at the directions unless I have to and
I'm going to unbox this put this thing together and see what kind of tracks I
can come up with and like I said I'll make a couple of tracks we'll watch this
thing go and I'll tell you what I think about it so get ready for the unboxing
at the Lion L mega tracks be safe so it looks like there's remote so let's
liberate this controller and this car and take a real quick look at them
they've got these suckers zip-tied in here I don't think I've ever seen that
before and the first thing we'll do is liberate the car and it's got some
wheels inside of here it looks like that you know that's probably where it sits
on the track and flies through and on the back here it's got something
sticking out of the back I'm not really sure what that is right now if it's
tethered to that or something maybe that grips some way
I'm sure yet but anyway there's the car alright so here's the controller it's
got a little trigger on it and it kind of remind you of one of those
old-fashioned kind of reminds one of those old-fashioned electric racetrack
controllers you know it's just got that trigger on it like they did and it's got
off an on switch here and I'm guessing this takes some batteries and there's a
little hatch here for batteries it's a little screw hole there wrapped it and
screw that and put some batteries in there looks like so good thing I've got
plenty of batteries okay just one more box yep that's it looks like we got some
brackets here of some kind it was three of these red brackets in here
instructions of some sort and it says Lionel mega tracks it's like
an advertisement sign up today at the mega tracks Lionel , stay in the loop
with mega tracks products and receive free bonus gift ok so if you sign up
that says you give us some kind of a free bonus gift so this might be
worthwhile to somebody a person that's you know interested in signing up if you
buy this it says mega tracks master set corkscrew chaos and it's got some stuff
in here talks about the remote and how you can hook it up to your cell phone
there and it's just got some different information here about connecting the
tracks like it's got some pretty thorough instructions here on track set
and it kind of looks like here on the picture that you don't actually have to
have a table these things also work like as a base maybe but if you think about
it if this thing has got a lot of power to it you know if it's anchored to
something that might you know work better because if it's on the floor it's
not anchored you know this thing might be a little Flopsy but I really don't
know that yes so that's just a guess that's just from you know general
looking at this comes with an awesome set of decals so we've got some really
cool decals here so that he can decorate this car if you would like and I'm sure
that you know most kids that get this or even adults probably love to cover this
thing up with their you know favorite stickers maybe even come up with some of
their own and stick them on there okay and in the box here I find another
set of some kind of brackets so we've got six of these pieces right here four
of these beauties and these are some blue brackets that are in this box got
this package here it looks like there is six of these
doodads and I'm not really sure what they are they look like they probably do
a lot of different things has something to do with the track constriction
hopefully I didn't get in something that's more complicated than I'm used to
messing with here so anyway it's a kid's toy right yeah
and this is all part of the track installation here so we've got these
little corkscrew things they've got different pieces looks like connector
pieces back hold this kind of stuff and then there's this little bag it looks
like some other types of connectors and they're tubular totally tubular I should
say cuz I am from the 80s and let's here for the eighties yeah okay we did have
the best music didn't we right all right so here is a looks like
a power chord and I'm guessing this is going to be to charge up the car came
with a few pieces of track here and it kind of feels like the old standard
racetrack quality it's about that consistency of those old plastic great
racetracks that you know our parents used to use for all kinds of different
things you know you know just good family type usage out of these tracks
here you know just do it alright this just came apart pretty easy
even though they got zip ties just split right out so it looks like we've got one
two three
- we got five pieces of this crap they're pretty long five pieces of this
long racetrack okay so I gave it a look to the instructions and it shows how to
charge this car up and it shows it's kind of like a gas pump you plug the
charger in right up here so if any of you buy one of these things you'll see
that there's a little plug hole right there up here at the top and you'll just
plug it right in there and plug it right in there to charge this up and then plug
it in we got a wall outlet right here just so just for your viewing pleasure
and we'll plug that in okay so let's put this in the charge position like it says
in the instructions I've put it the charge position and the red light comes
on so we need to let this sit until that light turns green and then that'll be
and that means that this will be charged then okay I don't know if I'm going to
be saving you a whole lot of time or not but I am gonna try to give a few tips
while I'm going through this installation so you're gonna see some
different brackets and on this part of the track you're gonna see where the
tube connects to you know another piece of track and you're gonna see some of
these silver brackets that will have a top piece to them and that means that
it's for track connection I had to research that a little bit and find out
that's what it's for so you'll plug two pieces in together by that means and
then they snap on there and then this piece snaps over top of it so these two
pieces are locked together now so that's part of the track construction okay so
here in the video you can see I've got my old card table here and I have tried
hooking this these brackets up to this car table and you can see here that they
do not want to attach to the card table I actually put these decks of cards on
here to create stability this card table has a little bit of padding I thought
maybe that was the problem I don't think that's the problem now I just think this
thing's kind of made a little bit janky maybe on hardwood this might look
working better I'm not really sure but you know
my whole intentions were to use this on a card table because in the pictures
that's kind of what it looks like on the box when you see these two boys playing
with the ear it looks like they've got a card table or something like a card
table about the size of a car table I should say looks like it might be solid
wood or solid plastic I don't know but I was thinking card table okay so I want
to show you all what I've done here so I have recreated the track that's on the
box so I followed every detail to the best of my ability all right so the car
has finally charged up and it is green so I'm going to detach it from the power
outlet everybody know there's a little bit of a disappointment here I did build
the exact track that is on the box here that these two boys have built or
whoever build it anyway I built the exact track here but I realized that
these little silver pieces there's only ten of these in the box
but on the picture here there's eleven of them because they've got one down
here at the bottom for stability and I am missing that when it's supposed to be
right here and that's right there for them so that being said I just want to
warn everybody that there are not exactly enough pieces to build this
track I mean I build it with what was here so I didn't have enough to
construct the general idea but the final base piece is missing but I'm gonna try
to run this without it and you see what happens I've got the controller got a
battery in it
whoa what off the rails and I don't know that's a stability issue or what the car
itself actually just clamps on right here so all I'm doing is is just snap it
on here you'll see this piece right here pulls back a little bit and then you
just put it on here like that it just clamps down there so that's all in there
now so I'm not sure you know I'm guessing I'm doing this right it just
shows it clamped on there I'm trying to move the flow here
okay don't slow we have a little more stability Oh got hung up there so right
there is worse that stabilizer piece would be and going in this direction
maybe that's affecting this a little bit don't know but we got hung up there on
the spoiler so I'm guessing this needs to be out here just a little bit so if
that if I had this stabilizer piece that was holding this out that probably
wouldn't have just done that but you know we'll try to give it a go again
maybe I can put like a book or something on this - well then again the car will
hit the book if I put a book here so I'll try to rig something up so what
I've done here is I've got a shoestring and I've tied it up to the bottom of
that and attached it to this other bracket over here to try to hold this
back and stabilize it a little bit so that it's not clipping its spoiler
anymore so let's see what happens
so we got a full run through there
okay I'm doing my half speed right now a
little faster a little unstable there's a turn there's a button here just
unstable there was a little bit half Oh
full speed it flies off and I don't know if that's okay because you know on some
racetracks that we have they do that I don't know if this is sort of the same
you're supposed to stabilize yourself you know but anyway it goes pretty fast
it's pretty neat for what it is you know so let's do a reverse run tell my dogs
do not like this thing go in reverse mode now
don't please quick come apart losing stability there I don't know fix that
all right here we go
seems to be gone where the faster the worst Modena one more state one reverse
noted so that's kind of cool
unless it's about full speed now I think I look full-speed and this thing is
staying on reverse mode you guys have to tell you is this the point I was in the
beginning this is actually pretty cool yeah I like this thing
and in Reverse mode that's doing pretty darn good so full speed this thing is
it's pretty awesome so the Lionel mega tracks is maybe not all it says it is on
the box but it's still a pretty cool toy and I think any kid would enjoy having
this now there probably are different ways you can rig this thing to make it a
little more stable even as loosey-goosey as this setup is this thing is still
going pretty quick and it's still fun to watch so I think kids will still really
enjoy this I have to say the line Omega Trax is kind of I've kind of got mixed
emotions about it I think that it does a pretty good job as far as once the track
gets going but it doesn't feel real stable whenever you're putting this
thing together just letting you know but you know I mean actions speak louder
than words and we're going full speed here and this thing staying on now so
how much fun is that whoo and it just keeps going folks this isn't
glow-in-the-dark or anything but I just thought it would be neat to it you know
maybe see it with this just a little red LED going oh we've come unhooked again
I'm going full with you and like I said not as good forward and keep the
one-ball hinges right yeah that's full folk full speed for it doesn't work
full-speed reverse it does work alright so full-speed reverse the room oh I
think it's just that direction maybe
folks I hope you've enjoyed my video review for the Lionel Mega track I had
not so much fun putting the track together but I did have fun once I got
it together running it and I probably will give it a few run throughs after
you know the video production is done just because I didn't put so much time
and effort into it so if you enjoyed my video review today for the Lionel mega
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and find it like I said I found this at Ally's for $19.99 hopefully it's just as
cheap on Amazon so thank you so much for watching and God bless
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