Create-a-Course Building SystemMSRP:
$109.95Age:
4 and upCategory:
Kits
Watch Video NowToyDirectory Product ID#: 17226This 150-piece game set allows kids to construct their own racing system. It includes instructions for 30 raceways as well as track, connectors, loops and two cars in a reusable storage bin with handles and a top that locks.
— Products by DARDA, including this set, are best sellers at Kazoodles in Vancouver, Wash., Co-owner Mary Sisson told
TDmonthly in early 2008.
— Racing sets were best sellers at Twirl Toystore & Playspace in Taos, N.M., in early 2009, according to Owner Molly McMullin. “They are a great example of how having a demo out to be played with makes all the difference in selling,” she told
TDmonthly. “Our salespeople all love showing people how to get the most effective run out of the pull-back cars.” 1/28/2008
Glow Loop ScorcherAge:
4 and upCategory:
Play Sets
Watch Video NowToyDirectory Product ID#: 15834The track- and car-set features a glow-in-the-dark track and a car that can complete 360 degree curls on the curved tracks and loops. 10/19/2007
Victory LaneMSRP:
$39.95Age:
4 and upCategory:
Play Sets
Watch Video NowToyDirectory Product ID#: 8800This racetrack set that comes with two cars is simple but exciting. No batteries are needed. Kids just use the pullback mechanism and watch the cars buzz around the track at high speeds. Darda is distributed by Life-Like Products, a division of Walthers.
— Jan Grimsley of Trademarks in Little Rock, Ark. said, "We have the sample track out and they see it and play it and want it."
— “Oh cool,” was the reaction Debbie Scholl, of Fundamentally Toys in Gray, Houston, got when setting out the demo in her store.
— "It is the fastest scale-model speed friction engine in the toy market, with a scale-model speed of between 500 and 600 mph," explained Peter Schell, sales specialist for Darda. 7/28/2006