Had a short play with a set while I was in NZ. They are the nuts. Don't seam to be very big in the UK.
i used to have absolutely loads when i was a child. i think they've had their day here, though. many a day was spent setting up a track that curved down the stairs at our house to a massive jump at the end, and then a well-placed bucket/my sister's head for the cars to land. happy, happy days! 🙂
not to mention the fun to be had taking the tops off and creating mutants! i even had a darda mouse, which was good but pointless as it didn't fit on the track!
Holy Moly!! I used to have these when I was a nippa (mid-80s I guess)....they were great. We had tons of track with loop the loops & all sorts.
You had to push the back of the car down & pull it back - they used to absolutely fly.
I even had a Knight Rider one. I seem to remember you could take them to bits as well so if you broke the motor from one, you just stuck in a different one.
Excellent!!
Crumbs - didn't know they were that old. It's the latest thing in NZ. Didn't realise NZ was so far behind the times.
<Takes another biscuit out of the Princess Diana variety tin.>
Didn't realise NZ was so far behind the times.
I believe they now have the "electric light" as well.
i've been through the list of cars, and definitely used to have the following, and also some others that i can't remember - the beetle was my favourite but was blue not green.
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can i also point out that thanks to this thread i looked on ebay yesterday for darda cars and then had a dream about them too. 🙂
Hi guys.
I own the [url= http://www.darda.co.uk ]darda.co.uk[/url] website.
I bought it with the intention of selling the cars in the UK - I had a whole load of darda as a kid and always wondered why you couldn't get hold of them any more.
It turns out the company that used to manufacture them in germany sold out to a company in the USA. At the moment the price of getting an order sent over is really restrictive, but i am concidering getting a small order for christmas.
Its a great toy, and if kids still love Hotwheels so much, them im sure they'd be into Darda.
Thanks
steve
