Cooey's Toy Box

Part of my birthday haul. Thanks, everyone! Mwahahahahahaha!

Micro racing at the parents' over the weekend! Sandie, Gani, Tatin, Mark, tito Boy and Tibong burn rubber on the newly inaugurated Elias Joaquin Circuit. Aforenamed Joaquin spent the afternoon though watching cartoons:) Click the pictures for bigger versions. 

Presenting another Narra Toy Weekend event: The 2nd Narra Q-Steer Grand Prix! Gani, Sandie, Tats, Joeyn, Mark, Tito Boy and Tibong -- with myself included-- rev up the engines on Gani's new tabletop track amidst a veritable fiesta of food! Plus, around thirty spectators cheered the drivers on. Actually, those people were from my parents' weekend social gathering and we had to share the covered garage and the open areas. I would've wanted to take a dip in the pool but my shyness took over -- what with a veritable crowd of strangers in our backyard:) More pix to come!

This just in! My brother-in-law's Q-Steer Race Track just got delivered today! His brother had the track made and I guess Gani's itchin' to burn rubber on it! Get a load of this: More to come soon!

This time around, we take a look at my brother-in-law's growing collection of Q-steer RC cars as well as the tabletop race course he made. Q-Steer is a line of remote-controlled toy cars manufactured by Takara Tomy, based on the popular Choro-Q pullback line. First released in late 2006, Q-Steer incorporates micro infrared technology as opposed to the traditional radio control used by other micro R/C brands. It also uses the 40 mm long S-Tech chassis, which is an evolution of Tomy's Bit Char-G chassis. Much like their Choro-Q contemporaries, Q-Steer cars have a slot at the rear, where users can insert a coin to change the cars' handling characteristics, such as doing a wheelie. The slot also identifies the car model and the available frequencies. The car and the remote weigh 16 grams. Each Q-Steer car can be set to one of two IR channels, which contist of A-B and C-D bands, and up to four cars can race simultaneously. The controller is white with grey buttons and features...