Playing with a stunt park concept

jlane Wednesday, 7/24/2024

As much as I'd love a big race track, I'm an apartment dweller so ultimately space is at a premium. I picked up a couple Tech Deck partial sets and these neon crates from LOL Surprise playsets at some thrift stores around here over the past couple months and I've been playing with a stunt park concept instead, inspired by diecast monster truck courses and Junkyard Joust. 

The cars are launched through a Triple Loop to mitigate some of the speed; coming from a launcher to track into the park made the cars come in way too hot, and the 6-Lane Speedway alone didn't get them fast enough, so the triple loop is a decent compromise. 

I'm putting together a scoring format and will shoot a test competition after to see if it's interesting, but for now here are 3 minutes of stunts and crashes including one very satisfying grind at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrm4sbr_7xs


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alva1370 7/24/24

Excellent, thank you. This gives me monster truck ideas.


might be better if the back wall was close to the front section pushing cars back onto the stunts instead of dropping out of sight... good luck with it and have fun!


  • yeah, I'm rethinking things today and might do it as a series of obstacles/events so each car hits the same jump at roughly the same angle. build one intended launch path and then a bunch of boxes/rails that are flush against the crates so you can see where the car ends up. thanks for the feedback! — jlane
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dr_dodge 7/24/24

interesting idea

dr


Looks like fun!


  • I'm enjoying playing with my toys :-) — jlane
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