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Early 2000s motorized road set
I'm trying to find a toy I had as a kid. I would have gotten it for Christmas sometime around **2002–2004**. Knowing my parents, it wouldn't have been overly expensive or special-ordered—it was definitely something bought right off the shelf at a standard store (like Walmart, Target, or Toys "R" Us).
Every time I search for it, I only get high-speed electric slot car sets, and this was definitely **NOT a racing set**.
**Here is exactly how it worked:**
* **The Track:** It came with a bunch of wide, plastic road pieces that were highly modular. They had realistic traffic lines painted on them and came in multiple styles (straights, curves, intersections) so you could build your own track.
* **The Grooves:** Instead of metal rails like a slot car track, the road just had two grooves in the plastic—one for each lane of traffic.
* **The Vehicles:** They were fairly large—maybe 5 or 6 inches long (roughly 1:32 scale, about the footprint of a modern smartphone). I remember there being multiple different styles of vehicles, including a semi-truck.
* **The Mechanics:** They were battery-powered (batteries went inside the cars) but NOT remote-controlled. When you switched them on, they would just move forward slowly.
* **The Guide Pin:** Underneath the cars, there was a plastic pin. You would place this pin inside the road groove, and the car would steer itself to follow the road layout.
Does anyone remember what this was called, or what store brand might have made it?
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I'm trying to find a toy I had as a kid. I would have gotten it for Christmas sometime around **2002–2004**. Knowing my parents, it wouldn't have been overly expensive or special-ordered—it was definitely something bought right off the shelf at a standard store (like Walmart, Target, or Toys "R" Us).
Every time I search for it, I only get high-speed electric slot car sets, and this was definitely **NOT a racing set**.
**Here is exactly how it worked:**
* **The Track:** It came with a bunch of wide, plastic road pieces that were highly modular. They had realistic traffic lines painted on them and came in multiple styles (straights, curves, intersections) so you could build your own track.
* **The Grooves:** Instead of metal rails like a slot car track, the road just had two grooves in the plastic—one for each lane of traffic.
* **The Vehicles:** They were fairly large—maybe 5 or 6 inches long (roughly 1:32 scale, about the footprint of a modern smartphone). I remember there being multiple different styles of vehicles, including a semi-truck.
* **The Mechanics:** They were battery-powered (batteries went inside the cars) but NOT remote-controlled. When you switched them on, they would just move forward slowly.
* **The Guide Pin:** Underneath the cars, there was a plastic pin. You would place this pin inside the road groove, and the car would steer itself to follow the road layout.
Does anyone remember what this was called, or what store brand might have made it?
#toys
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