Talk:Record Breakers: World of Speed

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OK, my memories of this toyline and series are fuzzy, but I was able to cobble together enough info for what I think is a respectable stub. The Squidoo link, sadly, had to be intentionally broken (and left ugly) to work around Wikipedia's blacklist. The blacklist may serve its purpose elsewhere, but here it's a bad idea, preventing a working link to useful content.

If anyone has more information, as always jump right in. Some items the article could use:

Additional info of any sort about the TV series. Who was the other host? How many episodes? What cities and malls did they shoot in? Did they sometimes have mall events without making an episode or was every event part of the show? This was an incredibly obscure show. There is no IMDB article, but what about elsewhere? Even YouTube only had a couple commercials (though from them I learned/recalled that the toys had selectable four wheel drive.)

I kinda faked the part about scale. While most of the cars had no real life analog, others did. Some were caricatures of real-life sports cars, and at least one other was a fairly accurate Formula One and a scale could be determined from those. As for what that may be, I dunno.

Just what are those horizontal side mounted guide-wheel-roller/stabilizer thingies called?

What speed were the cars capable of? What scale speed did they run at?

What ratio were they geared at? One rotation of the motors translated to how many rotations of the wheel? I almost put in that they were direct drive, and then I recalled there being two motors and gears.

I seem to vaguely recall that there might have been different classes of cars, some with two motors, others with one, some better suited for the track, others off-road, but I could be totally wrong on this part.

What about knock-off's and competitors? Hyper Drivers was the name of one other. Klknoles (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Article Update

I did some more searching and found additional info about the Record Breakers show, the biggest of which was the clip on YouTube, now linked from the new references section. From that clip I learned that Gary Apple (The article about him is now a redirect, but viewing of the redirect page history lets you read his article as it was before blanking) was the other co-host, and from that I learned the show was by DiC, and from that I found out that there were only four episodes. (I figured it wasn't many.) There are now some solid references and I figured it better to provide both a generic link to the DiC shows at the Internet Archive as well as the last version archived. The only non-archived link referencing the number of episodes is on a Facebook page (?!) The DiC pages mistakenly refer to the cars as remote control (They didn't know what their own shows were about?) and I found some good information about Jesse Ventura's hosting (and the segment "Jesse's Crash Bash") in a wrestling book available at Google Books.

I admit, as much as I liked the toy line, the main reason I created the article was to have some info about the show on Wikipedia and I'd say I've succeeded. Too bad the IMDB still doesn't have a listing. Future YouTube clips or episodes might provide more information, and at this point it looks as if the show was simply titled "Record Breakers" and not "Record Breakers: World of Speed" like the toys. Klknoles (talk) 04:14, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Updated again. This time I decided to stop restricting the article categories to the toys and included the series like so many other toy & TV series articles. The Chicago Tribune, New York, and Time articles were quite valuable as they revealed both the approximate speed and hence scale as well as tons of other info about the show, like the existence of the "National Association of Record Breakers", which I should have known is what NARB (stated in the YouTube clip) stood for (Talk about missing something obvious...) There appears to have been considerably more of the events than just the four shown on the TV series, but as for how many, I can only speculate. The YouTube clip reveals Chicago as the city for one of the episodes, and the Chicago Tribune article states the Golf Mill Shopping Center as the location for one of the events, most likely the same one depicted in the episode. The only other location I know of must be Philadelphia because the episode I saw back in 1989 (or 1990 if they aired them later than I think) with the stop motion cartoon had the car doing a Rocky Balboa pose on the Rocky Steps. So where were the other two episodes filmed?

For the time being I have opted not to include a list of competitors and knock-offs (listed in the reference articles), but may add such a section in the future. Klknoles (talk) 06:13, 14 October 2010 (UTC)