RC Bashers and racers find themselves in many different types of places while bashing. It can be the backyard, a parking lot, a school, wherever. When you are out there with an electric vehicle, you don’t always have enough charged batteries to last you the whole time you want to bash, [...]

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Once again, our Pro Driver, Tim “Hollywood” Mohr has made Big Squid RC proud! He won 2wd Pro AND 4wd Pro last weekend at the 18th Scale Dirt Nationals! Way to go Tim!! You Rock! Also, Congrats to good friend of Big Squid RC, Wesley Dennis for placing well also.
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We just got word about the HPI/Hot Bodies Off-Road Challenge Series! The event will be on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at Hemet Race Park, in California. If you are in the area, make sure to check it out!

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I’ll get right down to the most important thing that happened this week in rc. Brian, CEO/CFO/C-Everything-O at BigSquidRC showed that not only does he have mad skillz on an rc drag track, but showed mad crawling skillz as well by winning his
first crawling event over the weekend. Crawling world watch out!! Brian likes to [...]

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Today was event #2 of 4 in the Suburban Chicago Rock Crawlers point series. Todays RC Rock Crawling event was held at HobbyTown USA - Orland Park. There was a lot of talk about this course early on since nobody had really run on it… ever. Nobody really [...]

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File this under the ‘better late then never’ category, Duratrax now has a hop-up suspension conversion kit for the 1/18th scale Vendetta. I’m a big fan of the Durratrax Vendetta, and an even bigger fan of the Vendetta ST. (Check our reviews) I’m glad to see them supporting the vehicles. [...]

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The folks over at AquaCraft have sent a press release on the new AquaCraft Mini Rio Offshore EP RTR Boat! If you are a newbie looking to test the waters in RC Boating (haha.. get it..), the Mini Rio is the perfect place to start. It is preassembled and [...]

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Duratrax has announced the new Piranha 2000mAh 8.4v NiMH Packs. They are a 7 cell setup that comes in stick or hump configurations. Long run times, with a lot of voltage is a good thing! Power = Speed!

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New from RPM RC comes the Traxxas Revo True-Track Rear A-Arm Conversion. This conversion eliminates some of the bigger headaches with the Traxxas Revo A-Arm system and locks the rear toe-in angle at 1.5 Degrees. The kits are available in black or the standard RPM Blue. Besides being stronger, they [...]

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This Saturday, February 23rd, there is a RC Rock Crawling Competition at the HobbyTown USA - Orland Park store. Sign in starts at noon, competition starts at 1pm. If you are in the area, stop by! For more information, check out the Suburban Chicago Rock Crawlers Forum.

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While this probably isn’t the top Venom news story of the day, I think it’s a good one. Venom has just announced this RC Transmitter Bag with detachable cooler! At first though.. you are probably thinking.. WHAT THE?! But thinking about it a little more, I own a expensive transmitter that [...]

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This is one of the coolest RC Rock Crawling bodies I have seen. This is the new Helios from Pro-Line Racing. It fits the Axial Scorpion as well as the HPI Wheely King. It looks a little like a vehicle from a Halo video game. It meets the minimum dimensions [...]

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After popping a fresh bottle of Dom Perignon 99′, I sat down to realize that few things in life are appreciated as much as they should be. I appreciate that in the last few weeks there were actually some really cool products introduced to the rc world, because this week nothing of real note was [...]

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Aww yea! Here is the flyer for the NO LIMIT R/C 2008 Monster Truck World Finals! This event is May 23-25 2008, and is located in North Carolina. This event gets bigger and better every year, and this year I will be doing my best to attend. Hopefully I can participate [...]

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It is finally here! The full 2008 Midwest RC Drag Racing Schedule! Check out the official Midwest RC Drag Racing Forum HERE for all the discussions, videos and pictures! Looks like it is going to be a good year with some great events!

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I have pretty much zero information on the new Castle Creations Sidewinder Micro 1/18th Scale Sport Brushless Power System, but I did find a picture. I have heard that the system has been in limited testing, but nothing besides that, so the picture has to do for now. Looking forward [...]

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Whoa! It’s like HPI Racing can read my mind! I swear I was just thinking that it has been a while since they have announced a new truck for us to drool over.. and poof they give us the HPI Savage XL!
The Savage XL is 55mm longer and 25mm wider with [...]

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Welcome to month two in 08′, and like always, the rc world did not fail to deliver the goods.
The most news came out of the Nuremberg Toy Fair. When it comes to terms of “cool”, Nuremberg often bests the American shows when it comes to new products.
But first, I must address a huge beef [...]

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Schumacher USA has announced a new engine called the Schumacher X28. This is the new engine that comes with the Fusion 28 which can hit 80mph! I saw this engine at the iHobby show and it looked really cool! The head on it was sweet. I’m willing to bet [...]

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I would just like to take a moment to welcome our newest advertiser to the Big Squid RC family, RC-Hobbies - Naperville

They have a pretty cool shop here in Illinois, they have an indoor rc rock crawling course, and they keep lots of good stuff in stock! If you are in the area, stop in [...]

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Today I met with Bill(firesprink281) and Jeff(jetboat) at the HobbyTown USA - Orland Park store to check out their new RC rock crawling course and help get it ready for the event coming up. We met with Steve, the owner, to discuss the event as well as lay out some plans and [...]

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I’m still down here at the Snowbird Nationals ,my cell phone keeps going off every 3.259 minutes.It must be BigSquid calling, urging me to get out of this wonderfully heated outdoor pool and submit my daily report.
I must admit- the reasons are few [...]

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Cub Reporter here with a bunch of pics from the Snowbird NationalsI do not know who some of the people or who all the cars belong to, but I do know that the first picture is Pro Driver Tim Mohr’s car, and that the second car is Pro Driver Wesley Dennis’s car! Notice the [...]

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Great Planes announced today that they will be bringing the Muchmore Racing product line to North America. The Muchmore products are mostly electronics like charger/dis-chargers, tire warmers, motor accessories, stuff like that.
Cub reporter, who is down at the Snowbird Nationals, sent in this picture of a banner that was put [...]

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