TCR Ideal TV commercial about slotless racing

TCR Total Control Racing from Ideal (Arxon)
1/60 or 1/64 scaled racing cars,stockcars,gt cars,tv cars,vans,trucks,sidecars etc.etc.
They are slotless, so they can change lanes. There are two cars to control and several jam-cars on the track.
The jam cars are set up for keeping there lane and drive along on a lower speed. In the commercial you can see the zigzag Corvette Jam car, this one changes lanes by it's self. There is also a jam-truck with a ramp on it's trailer, you can overhaul or jump this one, so cool.
I believe they made them from 1977 till 1981.
Super racetrack system. Similar to Matchbox,Tyco,etc. or bigger scale like Carrera Servo
To bad that there is no market for it, anymore.........or is there?
I race mostly with the MK3 and MK4 chassis, they are much better than the MK1 and MK2, more speed and better handling.
You still can get them 2nd hand from eBay in French, Germany,UK,Canada and USA..........but I live in the Netherlands, and I think I am the only TCR racer overhere ;-(

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[glasjanus]

@paulpanch: You're talking about a different but simelar system. Ideal TCR never had the center guide in the corners, that must have been a different brand like Tyco.

But then again the mark 1 cars from Ideal had the same issue of not running great on a straight track. They fixed that with the later release of the mark 3 and mark 4 cars in the 80's, they work great!

I'm sorry that you were misled by a commercial, that's live.

[michaelmohrmann]

Aww man! It's a blumin' shame they don't make race sets like that anymore! Or does someone else make them now?

[MrVeesworld]

Damn, I had one of these things. they were the most awesome toy to have around 1978.

[TheKasanth]

I remember getting a TCR set for christmas like 1980, '81. Problem was my cars wore out and it was impossible to find anything for it in my area. After the cars stopped working, the track became a great hotwheels dragstrip.

[Hot80s]

Total

(70s) Christmas

Ruined

[StargateMunky]

@wiseguy430 cunt

[wiseguy430]

REDDIT

[fredintheshed1]

I had one of these back in the 80's and the ability to change lanes was awsome. However the car on the same track as the jam car seemed to always run slower. My jam car burned out after a couple of weeks. Pity, but still good fun. Still got it somewhere.

[phillipc773]

Sure beats the hell out of my Stretch armstrong.

[Tec12welve]

Once I got "Power Passers" by TYCO...TCR was a distant memory.

[gamewizard]

My dad bought me a set of these when they first came out but it didn't work after we set it up. He took it back to the store and it turned out every set they sold came back as defective. A huge piece of crap.

[skinpounder666]

I have this track & 2 other ideal tracks & about 18 cars one of them being that zig zag corvette jam car and man that thing can piss you off sometimes, but all in all lots of fun

[jimbobsports]

TCR stood for totaly crummy raceset