These guys have been slot car racing since the sixties and seventies. Even though they look older, there's still a kid inside still enjoying what we enjoyed doing over forty+ years ago. Keep racing boys - it will keep you young.
@bondgabebond4907
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, they look just like me. I played with slot cars in the late 60s. Love it. We may be old, but we still are kids at heart and a little bigger belly.
@timshooter8033
2 жыл бұрын
Oooh the memories...I need to get back into this hobby, I loved it !!!
@jacquesjtheripper5922
2 жыл бұрын
Cool but what really is the challenge? Better play sims it seems. Good old simple fun ofc
@Has7DCT
2 жыл бұрын
I'm so in love with this comment
@1AXMRDR
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that these were still around. Back in the 60s we spent hours racing slot cars. These seem to corner much better than the ones back then. Thanks for the memory bump.
@edwardhope5759
2 жыл бұрын
You never grow up, just get older. This bought back so many great memories. Universal hobbies, 441 in fl.
@mostrosticator
2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of myself and my father in the early to mid 80's. We never did anything like what you see in this video but we had a decent sized Tyco track. Only two slots but you could redesign the track layout and I even believe at one point we had the track literally go vertical up the wall and turn back down again. And the loops. I loved smelling the little bit of ozone oder coming from those tiny electric motors. Good times... 🥲
@kexcz8276
2 жыл бұрын
Yea. Even tho I was born way longer than you, we had racing set from Carrera with Chevrolet Camaro as an police car and Lamborghiny Aventador. And when we drove too fast, the rear shifted as an drift. Yea, those were good days.... Bet yours too 😉
@SilentKnight43
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the ozone smell also coming from the power transformer as it heated up. We melted down a few transformers back in the day.
@felixlaing2520
2 жыл бұрын
Same i love that smell
@magnusatheos7301
2 жыл бұрын
Me too. I had the AFX set with this cool flex track you could bend in whatever configuration you wanted. HOURS of fun with my dad and with friends. Had a catalogue of all the different cars you could get and there were some very cool cars available. Funny cars where the body would lift when you accelerated them, cops cars with flashing lights, various muscle and sports cars like roadrunners and porsches. And yeah, I can still remember the smell you're talking about.
@TheBuckshot44
2 жыл бұрын
Thank God for dads.
@bluenetmarketing
2 жыл бұрын
That brings back a lot of memories from the 60s and 70s when we'd spend hours racing slot cars. The cars in this video are about twice as fast.
@mortensen1961
Жыл бұрын
Today's wing cars are even faster. . .
@bbcala9719
2 жыл бұрын
O my God, we did this back in the 70's, this was very big. Customizing your cars and tires and engines. Loved this fantastic. Thanks for posting this vid
@gladegoodrich2297
2 жыл бұрын
Lots of fun!
@jeffb1886
2 жыл бұрын
I did it back in the 60s as a 10yr old!!! Fun indeed!!
@bzzi
2 жыл бұрын
Loved it myself too! But all that fun customization is still here with RC cars, that became super cheap now. I’m hooked into small rock crawlers 1/24 scale. So much fun, and no tracks to disassemble after playing! ;)
@scarey2me
2 жыл бұрын
Back then it was $0.20 per half hour running time. When you did repairs you could turn the timer off. So easy to fill my Saturday mornings at the slot track. Loved my FT36D Chaparral 2.
@threwthelookingglass7194
2 жыл бұрын
😭miss you dad .. ust to do this all the time in the late 90s and early 2000
@TheBrookian
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a fan of the Blue King tracks. My cousins and I raced for years. In my last few years of racing I was competing with Parma Flexi-cars and JK chassis cars with unlimited motors. Fun Fun Fun.
@alandunlap4106
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the 60s, I was really into it. I had a motor with an armature wound with silver wire that hit over 30k rpm. The frames were soldered brass tubing... It's all coming back to me now... Hadn't crossed my mind in decades. Thanks for the memories!
@johnmarble6071
2 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of 1968. I didn't know that tracks even existed any more. Otherwise, I would retire and start a new business and do this. They had clubs, that you joined, and an adult had to be accompanied by a child! Miss those days. My dad and I each built our own. And, when his didn't do well, he would steal my car and win with it (I was just lucky...I managed to get a very competitive motor...luck of the draw out of a box.)
@grandwaha
2 жыл бұрын
It's still around gotta do a search to find a good place. People are very competitive don't see alot of kids anymore. I take my nieces & my neighbor takes his son. Nothing competitive it's too expensive.
@dougtinsley1320
2 жыл бұрын
Brings back a lot of memories from almost 60 years ago. Us kids saved our quarters hoping to by a Globe.
@BBBoy990
2 жыл бұрын
Brought back some good memories, one of the few activities I did with my dad. He was an electrician and would constantly rebuild our cars, rewinding the motors making his own hand controls, it could get really expensive with all the parts and the car caddies. We had the Tom Thumb franchises in Hawaii back in the late 60's. Really miss those times. It was a lot more innocent back then.
@otisjenkinsjr.3556
2 жыл бұрын
No it wasn't dude.
@BBBoy990
2 жыл бұрын
@@otisjenkinsjr.3556 Maybe not for you...but it was the best of times for me. Sorry you had a sad childhood.
@otisjenkinsjr.3556
2 жыл бұрын
@@BBBoy990 lolol bruh I grew up in the 90s wayyy better than the 60s
@otisjenkinsjr.3556
2 жыл бұрын
@@BBBoy990 my point is, it wasn't innocent back then.
@robc.5745
2 жыл бұрын
We had a real decent slot car place by us when I was a teenager, That place would be packed on the weekends , This brings back old memories, Thanks for posting.
@taylorh.3484
2 жыл бұрын
These were roller rinks. They were everywhere in the 90s! I remember the dragster tracks and the advanced tracks like the ones in this video. Miss those times!
@davidedwards4088
2 жыл бұрын
Let's go!!!! My older brother,, never I mean never let me win back in the early 70's. Then my dad saw this and bought me this new magnetized race slot car. 🤣 I didn't know why my brother stoped racing me? My father just smiled and said "looks like you're winning some races now?" This brings back memories 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@drewm9660
2 жыл бұрын
Man,.. takes me back to my AFX racing days
@wordreet
2 жыл бұрын
I can recall in '65, timing the slot cars down the 40ft straight on our plywood built club track, and we reckoned our 1/32 scale brass chassis cars were doing 700mph scale speed just before the big banked corner!!!!! 😎🏆
@PegAsi_
2 жыл бұрын
Yakuza brought me here and I regret nothing. This was awesome!
@DennisJohnsonDrummer
2 жыл бұрын
This is so cool. I can remember seeing places where you go and do this as a child. Today kids are sitting on the couch playing video games and talking and playing on their phones. I miss the 60's and 70's.
@KeithGolfs
2 жыл бұрын
Slot car racing.... This brings me WAY back
@billtoal7740
2 жыл бұрын
I remember doing this in mid 60s with my dad, brings back memories, just showed my dad your video he's 87 and lives with us . thanks for walk down memory lane, dad liked also
@leodegas7731
2 жыл бұрын
It was great watching it. The only sad part was, that I didn't see any you racers. I hope it never stops. ✌️🦁
@UncleSam-bu9gz
2 жыл бұрын
My dad and I used to go to a great place just like this in Pasadena, Ca back in '68!
@VintageRandom
3 жыл бұрын
I remember TCR slot cars as a kid. Freaking loved it.
@JBofBrisbane
2 жыл бұрын
TCR wasn't slot cars - it was slotless lane-changing, but no skill. Just hold the trigger down, and if you did change lanes, it lost you a car length.
@Moondoggy1941
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, back in the 60 and 70's they had a track at Hobby City in Buena Park, Ca, it was a big track but how big I cannot remember, I always wanted to run a car there but NO money.
@mattyb1030
2 жыл бұрын
Used to love slot car tracks when I was young. I have all rc cars and trucks now but still awsome
@raythackston1960
2 жыл бұрын
I love the older high banked tracks. Raced on and worked at a raceway in Douglasville Georgia that had the last Revell track in the USA (that we know of). It was originally over 300 feet in length and had a high banked curve over 6 foot tall. Had a drop down and a rise on the other side...It was a paper clip shaped track. It has sadly passed away and was destroyed when it was lost due to no storage fees being payed. It was pulled out and no one bought the track so it was cut up and trashed. I had some great times on that track. We also had an original American Black track that was also high banked similar to the one in this video. It was sold and resurfaced and has since been sold and nobody knows where it went. It was resurfaced at some point and the high bank was no more. I would love to have a small 4 or 6 lane high bank from the 1906-70's for my basement. I can dream can't I ?
@avarayvelat8438
2 жыл бұрын
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@jasonsabourin2275
2 жыл бұрын
Yes you can dream....... And You Can Have It! WHY NOT? Were Not Getting Any Younger....
@nilla003
2 жыл бұрын
Georgia Slot Car? Raced plastic model kit Stock Cars there in the '80's.
@raythackston1960
2 жыл бұрын
@@nilla003 No, It was The Slot machine and then sold and changed the name to Slot Car World. Located on Hyw 92 in Douglasville...West of Atlanta. Georgia Slot Car sounds familiar...do you remember where it was ??
@nilla003
2 жыл бұрын
@@raythackston1960 mid-late '80's.
@EL34XYZ
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, all of a sudden slot car videos are popping up in my feed. I had no idea this was still going on. It's cool to see this again. I raced quite a bit in the late 80 and early 90's. The two classes I raced were hand built cars using plastic Nascar model bodies. We built the chassis from scratch using brass and steel wire. The other class was Flexi with off the shelf parts and no major modifications allowed to those parts. I wish there was a a track near me, I would jump back into this hobby.
@RageAgainstTheMachine.
Жыл бұрын
wow fantastic. i remember tracks back then had steep sides and the coloured track slots. hell yeah the steep banks on the corners were awesome, they were the best days ever.
@RANDALLOLOGY
2 жыл бұрын
That brings back memories. I still have my controller and GTO that used a counter weight that would lock down the axel for breaking. It was old school. That was 50 years ago.
@rollyourownvideo
2 жыл бұрын
This track was originally located at Playland at the Beach, in San Francisco, CA.
@johnpitts9836
2 жыл бұрын
Did alot of slot car racing in the 60s & 70s. I race on a track in my garage now. Miss going to the hobby shops and race.
@randyrogers8568
2 жыл бұрын
They are a hell of a lot faster than they were in the 60's when I was racing.
@bangurhead4027
2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah they are fricking way, way faster than even slot cars from the '90's even. I think you'd be hitting 100 mph safely, regular scale speed, but, actual 1 to 1 speed would equate to 500 mph!!! Killer video, come out to Cali and open a sister store, I can run it for you guys!!!!!🤜🤛
@eliyarni3983
2 жыл бұрын
Help
@timelessperspective
2 жыл бұрын
Since when? Since they started using nuclear powered motors? These things are lightning fast.
@straycat2253
3 жыл бұрын
We need more of this kind of fun !
@timshooter8033
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more!
@garymcaleer6112
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful track! As a kid in the 60's I had the super fast Garvic. But I never liked the steering wheel tracks. I wish a duplicate track like this one could be made with a smooth surface for RC racing with precise throttle and steering.
@edwinhermanson8842
3 жыл бұрын
Love slot racing ! So much fun
@TheThumbsUpChannel
2 жыл бұрын
No man can ignore this in his KZitem recommendation page
@vitale6633
2 ай бұрын
If I was super rich, I'd have a room dedicated to such a fantastic track :) Bowling Alley, HUGE slot car track and massive big screen TV, super cold beer keg - Now that's a Game Room :)
@blakjack3053
3 жыл бұрын
I seen those wing cars race and you can't even see them they're so frickin fast!
@unionrdr
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Group 15 was much like that. Mylar wings on the back & sides. I think I still have it in my big pit box. And stacks of cars and vintage bodies. Like a stack of McLaren MK20's.
@radioactive9861
2 жыл бұрын
Racing for kids before there were video games....such fun...
@rederickrederick1513
3 жыл бұрын
As a kid I loved slots at 'Merri Five' hobby shop, 50 years ago, glad to see they still exist ! great times, these look a little faster !!
@barrykrajeski5598
3 жыл бұрын
Same here exactly 50 years ago I was 13 and back in Cleveland Oh. on Biddulph rd.used to go and have a blast.I wanna find a piace now somewhere in Arizona maybe.
I use to do this up in Hampton Beach NH in the 80s. I’m going to bring my son to this very track in the next couple of weeks.
@antarcticorb9197
2 жыл бұрын
I had an Aurora set when I was a kid, and would spend many hours playing with it...loved it to death!
@austonboston4361
2 жыл бұрын
I spent my youngest years in Aurora Ont. Canada. At a small plaza, couple doors down from the variety store we called the gyp joint 😂 there was a slot car enthusiasts shop. Had a really amazing track set up inside, high banks, maybe 6 lanes wide, it was huge. Amazing place. Would stop in occasionally after we went to the gyp joint to spend our quarter. Times have changed! So fun. HI John. Hi Stephen 🖐
@vitale6633
2 ай бұрын
This is so AWESOME!!! What a great track.
@donjoseph73
2 жыл бұрын
Yep I was a huge nut in the 70’s with my tyco tracks. Now that I’ve sold off my real drag car 68 firebird. and my show car and crazier 1971 Dodge challenger. I’m coming back to this!! At 50 I’m going to give it a go!! It’s gotten so scary technical wow !
@michaelmoss5476
2 жыл бұрын
I loved this as a kid back in the 70's. A brand new one opened in my town in SoCal in about 2017 or 2018, it ended up closing probably within 6 months. I guess these old classics just cannot compete with the likes of Xbox, Playstation or Netflix.
@MxAxRxK
2 жыл бұрын
There’s a couple new tracks in SoCal right now. one in Whittier and one in El Segundo
@michaelmoss5476
2 жыл бұрын
@@MxAxRxK Thanks, I hope they fare better than the Santa Clarita one did.
@TheGiantsWillWake
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather had a couple of these cars, and around 15' to 20' of track to run them on. So much fun! :)
@joeleyendecker5346
2 жыл бұрын
I still have all of my Cars, Parts, Tires and Wheels, Extra Chassis, Controllers and stuff. All in my Special Box that I built myself when I started racing them. We had a Big Store with 2 Road Courses, a Huge Oval and a Drag Strip within Biking Distance of my house as a kid... I was about 12 years old then I think. That was 53 years ago. I started with 1 Car and a Crappy Controller.. Now the Box is pretty full of stuff that I've acquired over the years....lol. Every now and again I'll see a Track somewhere and I'll tune a couple Cars up and run them. It's like Riding a Bicycle. You fall a few times but eventually you get the hang of it again. Only as time goes on my reflexes aren't as good and I'll sail one off the Track into a wall and screw it up pretty good...so it's back to the box to rebuild it to race once again. I haven't seen any Tracks in awhile though. Surprised that they aren't much different now than they were back in my day... And I'm surprised that I still know a few tricks...lol.
@5ivestring
3 жыл бұрын
Will that brought back some memories. There was one store in a strip mall that had a huge track set up. Our cars were a little larger than those here. From the looks of those guys here, it's the same 15 year old group, just older now. Now to go check Amazon for race sets.
@rrrrkoop2776
3 жыл бұрын
I needed an idea for a booth at a contractor trade show next week, the theme is "off to the races". my wife said, why don't you do race cars, that's what we called them 50 years ago, race cars. Ho scale then consumed me for about 4 years. so i went online and bought two sets of Carrera 1/32 I think with 1/24 track and I bought two extra 1/43 cars. The size of this stuff blew me away, each track is a triangle just under 9 foot per corner. This is so cool, got one up and running and I can see this is going to go over huge at the trade show but also with my grandchildren when i get back. I am amazed at how smooth these cars are and you can actually race them. HO scale got so stupid fast that you can't even keep them on the track, no fun anymore in my opinion, but this, wow.
@alamak66
3 жыл бұрын
I used to compete tamiya 4x4 in my childhood. I even keep my champion car till now. But I never see this toys before. It is even faster than tamiya 4x4.
@crazytrain7114
3 жыл бұрын
and these arent the fast ones!
@buzzyduder3531
3 жыл бұрын
wow cool! this video poped up in my feed and i clicked it. looked alot like a place a i took my nephews a few times. turns out its the same exact place.
@orwellknew9112
2 жыл бұрын
I just remember the wintergreen smell of that stuff they used to make their tires Uber sticky.
@jblo6822
2 жыл бұрын
We used to race our slot cars at friend's tracks in the '60s and we also went to a large indoor track in Joliet, Il.
@RisingSun0203
2 жыл бұрын
Had a great place with 4 tracks a mile from the house as a kid. 60 years ago. Great fun.
@joesmith4222
2 жыл бұрын
We use to go to the slot car tracks in the early 70's a lot like this one. It was 5 cents a minute for track time. You could bring your own car or rent one of theirs. Ours were 1/32 scale.
@rayskocaj8499
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I still had my afx cars and track still man I loved those cars
@xtlm
2 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s there were about 3 places near me to race these kinds of cars. It was fun! I still have my car. Now there is only one track that is pretty far + a toll road away...and it's expensive.
@looloo6322
3 жыл бұрын
Wow brings back memories, even though the tracks closed, I kept the car and controller I had for a very long time afterwards.
@SSmith-fm9kg
3 жыл бұрын
Jeez, I raced in 1966, but no cars were this fast back then.
@andresbaztian2598
3 жыл бұрын
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@gabkae8067
2 жыл бұрын
Great KZitem Diamond Creator Award Movie. Greetings from switzerland
@starguard4122
2 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of an old AFX Race car set that I've had for ages that's still locked away in my closet
@joseamgarcia7512
3 жыл бұрын
the difference between a child and an adult is the price of their toys
@matatiarfilm7288
3 жыл бұрын
True. Wkwk
@gokulraj2861
3 жыл бұрын
This is what I am waiting
@Husky1run
3 жыл бұрын
I still have my slot cars that me and my dad built
@sledge57a
3 жыл бұрын
@@Husky1run Remember you don't quit playing because you're getting old, you get old because you quit playing...
@planetrob555
3 жыл бұрын
The difference is the run-on sloppy title to this video.
@charlemagne1162
2 жыл бұрын
Looks like fun. I want one
@shanemacintyre3200
2 жыл бұрын
Good fun! Bought one for my 2 year old granddaughter for Christmas, turns out me an my son we’re the only ones who liked it .lol
@francesnieznay6623
2 жыл бұрын
hassy nelson,used to run GP 12 15 27"s op3ns an d hot rod 12"s,loved the memories state c can can willer. THANKS
@terencem8795
2 жыл бұрын
The Christmas present that I always wanted and finally got, a slot car set.
@steveosterberg4191
2 жыл бұрын
My brother had a car back in the early 70' s.....very cool....
@SilentKnight43
2 жыл бұрын
Kind've reminds me of the one and only time we drove go-karts on a banked oval track at Atlantic Speedway in Nova Scotia back in the 70s. Every kart track I'd been on prior was flat, so having the banks was rather unique and more exciting.
@MikeWood
2 жыл бұрын
There was a place in Toronto in the late 70s/early 80s called the Purple Mile. What a trip seeing this. :)
@GManKeepsltReal
2 жыл бұрын
When I was about 7 yrs old my Mom bought my older brother (8yrs old) and me a slot car race set. On our first few races I kept winning but my brother’s car flew off the track because he didn’t slow down for the turns. He got mad and grabbed my car and through it against the wall and broke it, then calmly continued to race his car and never losing a race again. I’ve been mad my whole life…lol. My brother passed away a few days ago, if he was still here, I’d send him this video and ask him if it reminded him of anything. He probably would laugh and say “yes and then say I’m little brother.”
@talon1706
2 жыл бұрын
I miss my Eldon slot cars. Great video.
@bandu2512
2 жыл бұрын
I came to know about this from one of the episodes of Batman 1966 tv series. Adam West and Burt ward were shown playing one of this. We never had these in India but I can still enjoy this from the video.
@JimBobDewayne
2 жыл бұрын
Scotty and Sulu both there. Time travel is real.
@moisebeugre1857
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, these toys became super fast since the time I last saw one. Damn!
Fun memories i remember entering the toys r us in Brooklyn NY and the first thing I saw was Tyco racing cars they were on the wall.
@david_sdiego
2 жыл бұрын
Greatest hobby as a kid. Sadly, high rent has closed down these tracks in Cali just like drive-ins and bowling alleys. Mine was a "Riggen" slot car.
@BLOVECU
3 жыл бұрын
awesome track and perfect speed. boy, wish i had a track like this nearby.
@FunkyDucc
3 жыл бұрын
as a 15 year old these are fun as hell the best is watching a viper destroy all of our afx cars
@robbieschlerf8998
3 жыл бұрын
Still awesome to this day
@Krawberry
2 жыл бұрын
Had a slot car track next to our dirt track, in my hometown, where you could rent and buy slot cars. My dad bought the craziest one they had, and told them to keep it until he came back. He came back with his buddy to race the rental slot cars, and the guy gave my dad his. Needless to say, but he whooped that ass lol
@alfredmckinney6316
2 жыл бұрын
OMG how do I miss racing my batmoblie on Saturday and Sunday
@ab9957
3 жыл бұрын
did this as a kid....I always enjoy watching the first 3 minutes of the Indy 500.
@MACTEPHOUSE
2 жыл бұрын
👏 Взрослые это подросшие дети!
@flowrepins6663
2 жыл бұрын
it goes around the world!
@MountainMetal
2 жыл бұрын
My dad made my slot cars half a century ago, even the chassis. Controller, hand-built. Box to take it all to the boy's club, adapted from a wooden Jim Beam box. Never would the adults be the ones doing the driving. It was strictly fun for us kids. Not a single kid here. Something wrong with that, IMHO.
@brucedryden7207
2 жыл бұрын
Those kids all grown up.
@agrimahardikasf3192
2 жыл бұрын
Success for your Channel 👍👍👍
@virginia7125
2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Continental Hobby Center back in the day. I used an orange picker motor. I remember painting the bodies on the inside. They were clear. Then we would use tiger milk on the tires. I think I had a 5 ohm controller with heavier wires than came with it. I had to race in the minimum novice class. Not allowed in amateur.
@texasrockshillcountry6574
2 жыл бұрын
Nice to see slot cars haven't totally went out!
@ogmakefirefiregood
2 жыл бұрын
Neat! My kitty would love this place also.
@tomgates316
2 жыл бұрын
Remember an 8-lane track setup that was built in about 5 space of an old strip mall. Not sure how many 100's of feet long the track was. But HUGE. Added magnets to bottom of the cars so they 'stuck' to the track. Had 1/32 and HO race tracks as a kid. What fun!!!
@jamesminor9890
3 жыл бұрын
Miss racing slot cars undid it from time I was 7 or 8 to about 14 before all the tracks closed up 2
@slyfoxx2973
2 жыл бұрын
That's some serious kit!
@bobcatly7703
5 жыл бұрын
That's how I remember it. You can actually see the cars!
@difigiano3939
Жыл бұрын
nightmare blunt rotation, ngl
@ferdinanlay7
2 жыл бұрын
Good 👍 For your friends simply animazing
@wacobob56dad
3 жыл бұрын
We had 2 tracks in my town back in the 60’s. They charged a penny a minute. In perspective candy bars were a nickel. Comics 12 cents.
@davidlightfoot348
3 жыл бұрын
Lots of fun. I went to around 6 tracks in my area. Too bad they all shut down, I still have my cars and controller.
@wmwardwell
2 жыл бұрын
My partner,Guy, and I built a 210 running feet 4 lane timed/lapcounted HO raceway with plastic track sections rail joined,buss fed 24 volt race track in his basement. 1978.
@EdgyNumber1
2 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine if that model of the 'fan car' actually had a live working fan, with ground effects aero on it? I wonder if it could stick to the track on the corners there.
@OmarM42
2 жыл бұрын
Giant toy race track and not one kid in the building. Damn shame!
@gordondaniels96
2 жыл бұрын
we used to use tiger milk on the tyres used to make the tyres stick like shti to a blanket
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