Talk:Roller racer

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This is definitely not spam, I have no affiliation with the company, I just used to ride the toy in elementary school. It took me about 2 weeks to find out what it was called, and I didn't want someone else to have to look forever to find it.

This toy is completely different from any scooter, skateboard, or luge; though similar to all three. If this was just another aluminum scooter I wouldn't have bothered.

I know that the manufacturers website is the only reference, and thus of questionable notability, but it is also the only information I could find (besides catalogs).

I feel that the uniqueness of the form of propulsion itself is entry worthy by itself, but I have stopped before doing a full dynamic analysis that would just take the fun out of it.

Please discuss this with me and help find other publications that would help the notability, or otherwise I will consider the matter settled.

I am sorry there is no pictures, but I have emailed the company requesting a public domain picture.

Also if you are looking for spam try over at Razor (scooter).

Thank you, Mech Aaron (talk) 02:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to contribute to this article, but am a newbie. My interest comes from having known the inventor when I was 10 and 11 years old. My brothers and sisters and I lived in his neighborhood and he recruited us to test his invention. I don't know what that means in terms of factual evidence, but here are some things I know:

- The inventor's original name for the product was Flying Turtles. He explained to us the reason is due to the motion used to make it. He thought it looked like how turtles walk. I think he even considered it a little bit of the physics behind how it worked. - The inventor lived in Wichita, Kansas when his invention first hit the market. That was either 1969 or 1970, the years that my family lived in Wichita Kansas.

My brothers and sisters were in the first commercial they made for the flying turtles. I don't know if it was a WHAM-O product then or whether it was originally marketed as Flying Turtles or Roller Racer. For nostalgic reasons I am interested in the history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pekowski (talk • contribs) 16:11, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]