Here are some new Fan Pictures for the Big Squid RC Contest! Thanks to everyone who keeps sending in your pictures to show your support! These are some sweet pics! I saw that slash in person, and the lights were very cool! The crawler pic is a great shot with the water coming down!
Please make sure, when you send them in, you tell us where you are from.
Remember, the sooner you enter, the more chances you have to win!
This weekend, August 2nd and 3rd is the Big Squid RC – Break Neck Bash, at the Lynwood Drag Way! Mark your calendars!
For all the details and information, check out the official Midwest RC Drag Racing forums Right Here!
Is it time for a hair cut? Parma has just released the 1/10th scale 190mm Mohawk 2 Sedan Body. The new Mohawk 2 meets the new GBS (Global Body Spec) Guidelines and is ROAR approved! Click the image to get the full spec sheet.
Good evening, good morning, hello, hello- welcome to yet another edition of the loathed Cub-Report.
So you like to go fast eh? Well, everybody does, that’s why we are in this sport. Word went public this week about this years big high speed run event. Nic Case, current pwn’er of all things high speed, worked with Castle Creations and RC Driver magazine to get an event put together out east this October. I know there are a ton of BigSquidRC readers that do rc drag racing, so what about giving some high speed running a shot? Gear up, go huge, and just see what kind of top speed number you can bust out!
Of interest is the change of support from RCCA to RC Driver this year for the high speed event. Knowing how the guys at Driver handle things, I think we can expect for this years high speed event to totally blow away the RCCA backed events in every way. Expect much larger attendance, better competition, and a much better organized show this year.
Midwesterner Taylor James pwn’ed the boyz at the 8th scale buggy “World’s Warm Up” race out at The Farm 2. The 8th scale buggy IFMAR world championship is the most prestigious racing event in all of r/c racing. Insiders and outsiders are speculating just who is going to take home the world championship this year. Some have their money on the warm up winner and Jammin factory shoe James, others are placing their bets on ThunderTiger/AE hotshoe Ryan Maifield. Personally, my money is on either Kortz or Pavidis. Both of those gentlemen always rise to the occasion for IFMAR worlds, while most of the other top American’s flounder. This year will most likely be different, as the race is being held on a typical American track, where the boyz from Team USA will feel very much at home, while all the Euro’s will bewondering where all the gravel and brick sections are at!
Also of note for the IFMAR’s, Billy “Most Versatile Racer On the Planet” Fischer is ready and stoked to go huge. Billy is easily the nicest guy in the pits, and he has climbed to the top of the 8th scale pile in quite a hurry. If the Fishman is “on” at the IFMAR race, goodness help the rest of the world.
Jeremy Kortz, as I mentioned earlier, is one of my favs for the 08′ world title. What I’ve always wondered about him is this- he looks like the perfect pitch man for outside the industry sponsors, so why hasn’t Red Bull/Monster/Rockstar/Etnies/DC/Spy/Kicker picked him up yet?? Jeremy is all tatt’ed up, sporting a killer left coast look and easy going attitude. Plus, he’s perhaps the most naturally talented racer to come from the USA. Potential sponsors, if you are out there, I’m telling you Kortz can help you sell a s#!tload of product and get your name in the door of the r/c world on the best possible foot.
Anybody else notice LIVE CORR racing on NBC today? That sport has come a long ways, and todays live coverage is more proof of that. Unfortunately for my boy, and 7 time AMA Supercross champion, Jeremy “The King” McGrath, a flat tire ruined his day. Nice to see another ex-motocrosser Rick “Too Hip” Johnson carry the torch at the front of the pack.
The good guys are Schumacher released info on their new touring car, the Mission 3.5 last week. Now, the old Mission 3 was one of the best “elite” TC’s out there, so what could they possibly improve? The retail price, that’s what! Rumored retail of the new scoot is supposed to be right around $299, which looks mighty inviting considering all the other overly priced elite tourers from X-Ray, AE, ect. Props to Robin and SP at Schu for keeping their prices reasonable during these rough economic times.
What was the biggest “release” of the week? No, it didn’t come from BigSquidRC’s editor-in-chief Brian after watching some free internet pr0n. It came instead from Horizon/Losi in the form of new information regarding their all new 10th scale Slider! Now, I didn’t get the memo saying “dirt oval is the hot new thing”, so I doubt dirt oval is just gonna bust off the chains because of this new car. But, with the hot trend being “realistic” looking r/c cars, Horizon/Losi will move a lot of these off dealer shelves.
Btw- Horizon/Losi also announced a new body for nitro 8th scale oval! In some parts of our country, that is actually a pretty hot class. Just take an 8th scale buggy, put some funky body on it, run some crazy camber angles, and go out and throw some insane roost. With Losi’s release of this body, you can only expect for them to produce a Losi 8 inspired oval car at some point in the near future.
Almost forgot, rumor is that Horizon/Losi’s 10th scale crawler isn’t that far off, so all you guys that got your panties in a bunch over them releasing an 18th scaler, should be able to un-bunch soon.
That’s it for this week r/c fans. As always, get off your butt and get down to spend some cash at your LHS, drop by your local track to either watch, help marshal, or get some laps in, and read BigSquidRC on a daily basis!
Cub
Futaba has just released a whole ton of good new servos. Too many to list all the details here, but I will post the full press release in the NEW Product Forum. The one pictured to the left is the BLS452 Brushless High-Torque Car Servo. It has dual bearings, metal gears, and is ready to be put in just about anything electric or nitro you own. They also have some super light new micro servos, as well as brushless Heli servos that are 30% faster then standard digital servos! Speed = Good. Check out the Futaba or NEW Product Forum for more details.
Check this out! Now this is something I really would of wanted as a kid! It’s a small plane made from lightweight durable foam that has a built in quick charge capacitor. So you stick it on the portable charger for about 5 to 10 seconds, then hand launch! The prop spins and carries the plane for a bit. They don’t go very far, but since you can’t really control it, you don’t want to be chasing it anyway. This would of been way more fun then the normal little wooden or styro planes that I used to play with, and they are less then $10! Check out the Revell for details.
These cool 1/24 scale tanks from VS Tank have always been pretty sweet and detailed, but these new ones look awesome! They come with a video game style controller, all wheel suspension, can climb steep inclines and the turrets can even rotate! The canon moves up and down and recoils after firing an infrared beam at opponent tanks. If hit, the tank stops for 3 seconds, and after the 6th hit it’s disabled! Pretty cool!
The new ones are, Snow Tiger 1 Tank – Winter, Russian T72 M1 Tank – Camo, and Leopard 2 A6 Tank – Camo. Head over to the VS Tank site for more details!
Aww Yea! If there is one thing that will always bring new people to the world of RC, it’s speed! Think you have the fastest RC vehicle on the planet? Time to prove it! October 4th at the Rockingham Dragway in NC! You can get all the details you need here: International R/C Speed Challenge, along with a forum to talk about it: Here!
Big Squid RC is a sponsor this year, and we will be handing out some cash money for the winners, with a twist! To get the cash, your vehicle has to have a Big Squid RC sticker on it! Easy right? Check the forum for more details!
Last week, our own cub reporter started to let the cat out of the bag talking about some Big Squid RC news in the near future. Well, this is the news he was talking about. Not only will Big Squid RC invade iHobby Expo 2008 again, bringing you all the latest and greatest in RC news, but this year we are going to have a full booth setup AND we are now the official RC track sponsor at the show!
If you have always been wanting to make your way out to one of the biggest and best RC shows in the US, this will be the year!
We will be handing out stickers at the booth that you can use for the Big Squid RC Contest by sending us your Fan Pictures! We will also have some cool prizes to give away, AND we are also working on an awesome demo for the track. More details about that later, because just like everything else great that we pull off, the paper magazines will be sure to follow a few months later. So we don’t want to let any tricks out of the bag just yet.
Anyway, head over to the official iHobby Expo 2008 web page and sign up! Also make sure to check out the floor plan, we are booth 2611! You can also see us on the official sponsor page! Hope to see you there!
Something really cool happened this week, which seems to be rare in this era of big-buck corporate rc companies. And, no, the cool thing wasn’t a hot new car, yet another piece of blue anodized bling-bling, nor a new “super dope” high voltage lithium based cell. It was simply a piece of advertising.
I’m sure many of you remember the classic old Associated ads- like the one where a gang of fans are standing on their tip-toes just to get a glimpse of Jammin Jay Halsey and his life size RC10 buggy. Or how about some of those classic ole’ Team Losi ads? Well this week, Thunder Tiger/AE released another one of those classics that won’t soon be forgotten. This is simply a statement ad- a throng of fans, a race helmet, half a CORR truck, and the words “Stop dreaming, Start driving”. At the core of every hobby rc driver, is the heart of a racer, one who dreams of being loved by a crowd of adoring fans, one who lives for competition, no matter what level it might be on.
You can thumb through the endless pages of ad, after ad, after ad, in the archaic tree eating print magazines, but only a few times every decade do you see a work of art like the new “Red Bull” Thunder Tiger/AE ad. Each month, dozens of rc companies pay between $800 to several thousand dollars a page (for a cover) to promote their products, yet most of this advertising goes unnoticed and therefore wasted. Michael Glass, the man behind the “Red Bull” ad certainly earned his paycheck this month, as that one will be seen by millions, and will be remembered for decades.
Now, down to the product- obviously AE is hyping a CORR type truck. Myself, like most people, would like to see it be a 4wd. Why? Because 4wd is simply easier to drive, making it more friendly to the masses. No matter if it’s an electric or a nitro, 4wd just makes for a much easier to drive vehicle. And if it does indeed turn out to be electric, here’s hoping that it comes with a BL/Li-po “friendly” drive-line (ie- lots of metal gears!), one that can live through the enormous torque that a 3S Lithium system can dish out. Now days, it just doesn’t make any sense to release any new product unless it was designed from day one with BL/Li-po in mind.
That’s it for this week rc fans, as always, support your sport! Buy some new gear! Buy it from your local hobby shop! Put some laps in at your local tracks, and as always, check BigSquidRC.com on a daily basis!
Cubby
Just a reminder, that Saturday, July 19th, there will be some RC Drag Racying Action at the Lynwood Drag Way.
The Event is going to be a Leisure Hours Hobbies special! It’s great to see Leisure Hours starting to get into the RC Drag Scene!
Now if I could only convince them to pave that area behind their track to put in a drag strip!
Hope to see ya there!
Now this is hardcore drifting action! It’s one thing when companies license rims and bodies, but HPI Racing has licensed the Falken Azenis RT615 T-Drift tire patter! Wow. RC Drifters can now go from clocks to treaded tires to fine tune their rides for different track conditions. They are made from an extremely hard compound for long life and easy to break traction. Someone start a RC Drifting scene in the Chicago area!
It’s wheels like this that make me want to start doing more on-road action! HPI Racing has these new Work XSA 02 C wheels. The are Chrome and Gold, and come in 3mm, 6mm, and 9mm offset! They are standard 26mm touring car wheels, and are officially licensed from Work.
Here is a BIG ride for ya! HPI Racing has introduced the Chrysler 300C SRT8 200mm clear body! It comes with vinyl decals for window frames and lights, and is a pretty sharp looking body! If you are a fan of the bigger car look, this one is for you.
Now available from HPI Racing is the new pre-painted DSX-2 body for the E-Firestorm, Flux, and MT2. It comes in a few different colors, pre-drilled body post holes, and pre-trimmed! Just but it and stick it on your ride! Retail is about $55, but it’s probably cheaper in the shops.
HPI Blitz
Tactic 2.4Ghz Radio
HPI Savage Flux
Novak HP Pro Brushless Conversion
Tekin RS Pro Redline
Team Overdose Car Stand
RC Lights - LED Combo
Traxxas Slash 4x4
Team Associated - SC18
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