Road Rockin' Rides (Scratch It)

## Description

Road Rockin' Rides (Scratch It) is a Road Rippers series that consisted of 6 vehicles as listed below. The series ran from 2007 to present day - 2023. These vehicles are in a chibi style and have a unique feature to where you can remix the songs by turning the Scratch It Disk on them. Unfortunately in 2014 they changed them so the later ones (from 2014 to 2023) cannot remix music nor do they play popular licensed music instead they play instrumental songs and when the Scratch It Disk is turned the music only speeds up, nobody knows why they chose to do this for them. If you look on Ebay and other online sites many of the listings have "1997" in their titles, this is due to the fact that these vehicles use old molds/toolings of battery case covers from the 90s back when they used to make holiday items then they continued using the old covers throughout the early 2000's without updating the years on them hence why they have the incorrect "1997" date on them (same case for other RR vehicles with +the old incorrect dates on their battery case covers example: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997). That was until Nikko Toys (the company that owns Road Rippers now) started making the Road Rockin' Rides so they now have re-molded/re-tooled battery case covers with updated years but now since they're made by Nikko they will have the Nikko Toys logo and the current year on them. The previous Road Rockin' Rides that were made by Toy State (pre 5th gen, Nikko Era) do have the years on them in TS Date Codes, it is easy to decode the Date from those codes as seen in the Trivia section (Let's hope Ebay sellers see this and realize they do not have a 30+ year old item...)

## Vehicles

* Scratch It Sports Car
* Scratch It Mc Jammer Muscle Car
* Scratch It DJ Driver Diesel Pickup Truck
* Scratch It Minivan
* Whammy Bar SUV
* Drum Runner SUV

## Songs

* "Funky Town"
* “Who Let The Dogs Out"
* “Get Ready For This”
* "Pump Up The Jam"
* "Black Betty"
* "Eye Of The Tiger"
* "Hot Pursuit"
* "Digging Deeper"
* Unknown
* Unknown

## Essential Information

* Square: Music
* Triangle: Driving SFX
* Circle: Horn
* Scratch It Disk: Remix Music
* Batteries Required: 2AA

## Trivia

1. The 2007 versions of Road Rockin' Rides have 3 circle buttons this was later changed the next year so they have Square, Triangle and Circle buttons.
2. To read the date code you will see a code that says "TS-Serial-DAY-MONTH-YEAR". TS means Toy State, the Serial has no real significance, then there's the actual date code itself and you will see '00-00-00' the first set of numbers is the DAY the vehicle was made, the second set of numbers is the MONTH and the third set of numbers is the YEAR. For Example "TS 0000-15 05 17" which means "15th of May 2017". (Warning: Nikko Road Rippers Vehicles will not have this date code system nor will any RRs made before 2008.
3. All Road Rockin' Rides use D'Vinci Blade II rims (exept for both SUVs) which suites the style of them very well.
4. The later Road Rockin Rides that play instrumental music use a different flash pattern to where both lights around the Scratch It Disk alternate back and fourth to cause an effect like the disk is spinning at a very high speed unlike the earlier versions that play popular licensed music that just have both lights flash together.
5. Later Road Rockin' Rides flash their lights when the horn is activated.
6. The Drum Runner SUV is the only Road Rockin' Rides Vehicle to to have different SFX for the driving and horn.
7. Some box variations for Road Rockin' Rides say Road Rockers, not to be confused with the knockoff brand by Kid Galaxy...Road Rockers..
8. There is a knockoff Road Rockin' Rides Vehicle that is motorized, it stole the mold/tooling from the Scratch It Mc Jammer Muscle Car and there are also free wheeling versions as well.
9. The later Street Poundin' Sound from 2007 share the same Scratch It feature as these Road Rockin' Rides vehicles