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Photo Finish

1979Reference catalog1979Not listed
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Photo Finish or The Photo Finish Race Set is a trackset that came out in 1979. The track set consisted of two launchers to which the cars would speed through a straight track, both go through a loop, and at the end of the loop race to the end were they where capture in a "photo finish". The device on the end had a mechanism that dropped the clear plastic piece once a car activated it, causing the car/s to get stuck in place like a photograph. This is extremely helpful between two cars to figure out who crossed the…

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Photo Finish or The Photo Finish Race Set is a trackset that came out in 1979. The track set consisted of two launchers to which the cars would speed through a straight track, both go through a loop, and at the end of the loop race to the end were they where capture in a "photo finish". The device on the end had a mechanism that dropped the clear plastic piece once a car activated it, causing the car/s to get stuck in place like a photograph. This is extremely helpful between two cars to figure out who crossed the…

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