[davekp]

I take it that means we are too choosy and expect too much for our hard earned money
And to be a valued customer you need to lower your expectations and just accept what you are given
even if the excuses aren't always fully self explanatory

 

[Wankel Ickx]

Yup.

 

[Dopamine]

QUOTE (davekp @ 17 Oct 2011, 22:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>And to be a valued customer you need to lower your expectations and just accept what you are given
even if the excuses aren't always fully self explanatory
Probably the only way we'll ever become a valued customer is by becoming an ex-customer. Buy Carrera, or SCX, or any of the other brands competing with (and in the view of many, now beating) Scalextric, and we might achieve a small improvement. I doubt it, but it's worth a try.

 

[wayne69x]

Having read the excuses I don't buy any of them

Licence owners fault - Can't be because other manufactures get it right. Static models are usually blob on with shape, colour and decals
Tooling constraints. - If you know you are making a number of a product you tool up to suit. Several thousand molded parts do not need mass production tools capable of 50,000 shots. Make fitness for purpose tooling.

Other things that I think hold scaley back is that almost every model has bespoke parts. The floor pans of these cars are all different. Take a leaf from Avant slot or MSC and make a universal chassis. It totally simplifies the whole process and then its one less thing to design on every model.

At the end of the day Scalextric are a high profile company tying to make one model suit an 8 year old and a collector alike. It ain't going to work.
A collector has the desire and the budget to obtain the finest model and an 8 year old wants something to fire off the track at the family cat.

Personally I would rather have the option of both. Basically I love the high detail but hate cats

 

[MartinT]

Scaley makes great awesome models, and a few years ago they set the (nowadays for all manufacturers) very high standard. Of that I am very grateful, and I enjoy their great cars.
But I think it's still a shame they can get it so very wrong sometimes. It's almost like there are two totally different groups in the company, one group is putting out cars that one simply can't stop to be amazed about, and the other group, well... they bring out models of which one thinks, "man how could they do that". (like the very UNdetailed helmets, and in the case of the McLaren the not even resembling 2011 car...

Of course during the season some elements of an F1 car will change, so I do not expect the latest front- or rearwing correctly modelled, but the things you could at least demand for to be correct are a nose (should be straight high and not curved down in this case), and sidepot intakes (L shaped instead of last years D shape...) The car they brought out has NOTHING t o do with the 2011 car...(well except for the livery that is...)

A unfortunately missed chance...

 

[Porsche Racer]

Instead of speaking my mind here about the car, I'll be speaking with my wallet instead. There are too many other great looking cars from other manufacturers to spend my money on.

 

[sacesta]

I'd rather purchase an accurate model of last year's car than an inaccurate model of the current year.