As a grown-up, you have to act like an adult five days a week so you can afford to act like a kid for the other two. To keep the illusion of maturity, you scale your toys up– yachts, big-body benzs, big-screen TVs. But, to me, most adults are only playing at playing; willfully scratching at the surface of pure fun. The quickest way to get to the core is to drop the whole grown-up act. One quick trick: instead of scaling up, try scaling down– to, say, about 1:43, for example.

Carrera, one of the world’s patron-saint institutions of high-speed toys is inviting you to have fun like the professional fun-haver you were as a kid. The Carrera Go!!! Speed Racer slot car set comes with a Mach 5 and an Racer X Street Car and 20 feet of track. My little brother wants me to take him to see the movie, but the trailers make me dizzy, so I think I’ll buy this instead and watch the TV show instead.

Buy: $73.75