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Subject: What was the name of this toy?!?
In the early 80's there was a programable toy tank/car. There was a keypad on the top where you enter in the commands like having it go straight for such a distance then turning or spin or something. The commercial showed the vehicle delivering water to a dad and had a dog in it to (I think) It was grey/orange and looked like a futuristic vehicle. I CAN"T REMEMBER THE NAME AND ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY. I think it had some numbers in the name. Not sure.
Subject: Re: What was the name of this toy?!?
: In the early 80's there was a programable toy
: tank/car. There was a keypad on the top
: where you enter in the commands like having
: it go straight for such a distance then
: turning or spin or something. The commercial
: showed the vehicle delivering water to a dad
: and had a dog in it to (I think) It was
: grey/orange and looked like a futuristic
: vehicle. I CAN"T REMEMBER THE NAME AND
: ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY. I think it had some
: numbers in the name. Not sure.
Actually, there were at least 2 different versions of this toy. The original, IIRC, was called Big Trax... I used to have it many years ago... in addition to going forward, backward, and turning, it could be programmed to spin, fire it's laser, and activate a dumper (a dumptruck like add-on, sold seperately).
Jack