looking for an old toy

[wlaukaitis]

Hey I had a Big Trak!!

It worked pretty good until I took it apart!!!

Maybe you guys can help. I had a toy set similar to an erector set but this one used plastic. There were little plastic "I" beams and plastic sheets with holes along the outside. It had a little battery operated rivet gun like tool that spun like a drill, you put these little gray plastic rivets in it and the gun would spin and melt the rivet and it would bond the plastic sheets to an "I" beam.

It also had white "spikes" they were about an inch long and these were placed in the gun and they would melt for the purpose of "welding" things together.

I remember being able to buld a racecar and other such objects. I have no idea what it was called or even where to start

 

[wagon]

It almost sounds like the "Girder and Panel" set that I had as a kid, except this was to build buildings, and it didn't have a riveter/welder. It did have plastic I beams, and plastic sheets that you pushed onto pins on the girders though. Does that sound like the right name?

 

[Nashty]

I've got a big trac in the basement WITH the optional wagon.

It is probably what started me into robotics...

I'll bet it still works, did when I put it up (I only hope I took the batteries out).

 

[QuickWrench]

God...I just had to smile.

I'll never forget getting my Big Trak, and spending hours, maybe DAYS programming all kinds of complex movement into that thing.

Mine worked great, until I made it drive out into the street. It wasn't pretty, I almost caused a 3-car pileup. Ah, the memories...

 

[Black Box]

Originally posted by wagon
It almost sounds like the "Girder and Panel" set that I had as a kid, except this was to build buildings, and it didn't have a riveter/welder. It did have plastic I beams, and plastic sheets that you pushed onto pins on the girders though. Does that sound like the right name?

Wow, does that bring back memories.

 

[BLACK6PACK]

I had a big trak too. The thing was too damn slow for my taste. I don't think it lasted too long. I had a wooden staircase in my bedroom and many a toys lost their lives to it.

 

[wlaukaitis]

Found It

Riviton

All sets recalled in 1978 and everything taken off the shelves. Some kid choked on some rivets and died.

I remember having a Battlestar Gallactica ship where the little missles shot out. About a week after I got it, some kid choked on a Star Wars X-Wing toy's missle and they made it so they couldn't come out anymore.

I see they are starting to make flying missles again, maybe the execs who thought up those "rules" are now dead?!

 

[VADER]

The black girders with the blue window plastic pieces is the Kenner Girder & panel set. Funny, I mentioned it yesterday in the other toy post

 

[Joe Cancer]

Riviton...

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