Guy builds extreme Hot Wheels racetrack in his backyard:

[tblue37]

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[Bristlecone]

1. I wonder how the cars get through the water w/o a push

Those intermittent car accelerator wheels are electric I had thought.

Fun regardless.

[TheRealNorth]

2. I was wondering the same thing.

After a few days, my matchbox cars wouldn't have straight enough wheels to stay on that track.

[tblue37]

3. I wondered that, too.

[Auggie]

4. The accelerator wheels I had as a kid were battery powered

[Bristlecone]

5. Actually, I did also now that you mention it. It's still electric though.

I didn’t see any in the water as the car went through though. 2 sections. Maybe I just missed them.

[Auggie]

6. It's a mystery

I didn't see them either. Water would be very resistance to a toy car of that size.

[forgotmylogin]

7. Fun video, but obviously staged and edited.

First, I don't think I ever had a Matchbox or Hot Wheels car that would support *any* camera, even the tiniest one, without being top-heavy. I thought at first they might have built a special camera rig which would have to be heavier to maintain momentum, but after so many inertia-killing curves and straightaways - and then it dove into the water and kept going - I realized the video was an extended special-effects shot. No rolling object is going to make it out the other end of a pool fueled only by gravity and underwater side-friction boosters. It would be like trying to drive a real car across the bottom of the Mississippi River. No amount of speed would overcome buoyancy and the inherent density of submersion in a body of water.

Great fantasy course though! I expect it was filmed at low speed using a camera guided over the track supported by something like a selfie stick and then speed-adjusted and edited with sound effects.

[Bristlecone]

8. Ha! You Yuck'ed everybody's Yum.

Love it.

I agree. I wondered about what size camera could fit on a car.

[haele]

9. Magnets? Those blue dots in the track along with the blue bricks seem

The blue bricks appear to provide some sort of acceleration.

I think the car might be fitted with a diode sized camera (similar to the ones on a phone) or a video transmitter run off a watch or hearing aid battery.

Interesting video.

Haele