Cardboard racetrack 3.0
This is one of my very most favorite projects I have ever worked on. It's every bit as personal to me as the short film I made with Veronica. This is my and Omri's "cardboard racetrack."
It's really more of a parking ramp than a racetrack (the name was carried over from an earlier version that included a long spiraling track). Throwing that old one into the recycling bin was heartbreaking for me. We had had so much fun building it, that we made the decision to start over on a new one.
We spent many Saturday mornings and evenings after dinner having some "analog time," spinning records and putting this thing together. It is true that I did most of the cutting and gluing while Omri mostly played alongside me, but he was always willing to discuss the plans with me and hold things in place. He also built the part of the structure known as "Omri's apartment" by himself.
The sad part is that the structure is not complete. We sort of stopped working on it two years ago when Omri became less interested in playing with cars and when we realized it was inevitable that we wouldn't be able to keep this one forever either. As much as we enjoyed the construction process, we didn't want to put more time into something that was inevitably going to need to be dismantled or given away.
The whole thing sits over the Hot Wheels Criss-Cross Crash racetrack. We always meant to integrate the two pieces, so that you could drive from the ramp onto the track, but that section was going to take up even more space, so we never got around to it.
We were very proud of our real working elevator that could take a car from the top level to the bottom level in 4.5 turns of a crank:
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Bird's eye view:
We are looking for a new home for this extremely fun playset. Let me know if anybody out there is interested. We can offer some recommendations for new enhancements/extensions too.
