Slow news week in the biz, everyone seems to be busy working their butts off keeping food on the table. Seemingly, it gets harder every week in this industry.
Previously, I had touched on the issue of a “hobby grade” rc company truly getting their foot in the door of a big boxer like Wally World [...]

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What has been the single most hyped car release of 2008? Arguably, the mysterious Losi Crawler. On the product side of things, Losi already had tires, bodies and other crawling accessories out for some time, so it’s obvious they support the genre. On the marketing side- Losi put out more new age “internet buzz” on [...]

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Do what you are good at, leave the other crap ALONE. Does Ferrari make motorcycles?
Does Krispy Kreme sell pizza?
This week two speedo companies made announcements showing just how far they will sink to try and make a buck. First off is LRP, with news of their totally non-awaited S8 TX nitro truggy. It [...]

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Least not forget, those that have died for our freedom, and our right to take brand new $800 rc cars and jump them off the side of a house. Memorial weekend is not only one of the most important holidays (honoring our military men, woman, and those that gave their lives for us), but also [...]

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Another week, another Cub Report- here’s all you really need to know about what went down in the rc universe last week.
It’s been years since the revolutionary Traxxas T-Maxx came out. Since then, most companies have jumped on the bandwagon and produced their versions of the platform. The HPI Savage was the first, and probably [...]

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Great week to do some more ROAR bashing don’t you agree?
With that in mind, the rocket scientists at our beloved sanctioning body ROAR, have called it quits to nitro 10th scale stadium truck and “production” monster truck. These two classes will no longer be held at the national level.
Well I say why stop there? Geeezus, [...]

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In a week that featured the #22 of Chad Reed winning his second AMA Supercross title, and the beautiful filly Eight Belles giving her life for the run to the roses, it’s been awfully dead in the rc world.
Some news was made last week when Trinity announced that Ed Bridges of the famed EB Mods [...]

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Let’s get right on down to the nitty gritty here.
For you crawler fans, XTM looks to be the second manufacture with a full on competition chassis right out of the box, the XTM X-Crawler. It seems every week the crawling segment gets more support, and the new XTM “super class” crawler is just more evidence [...]

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Trade shows in general are so 1980’s. Back then they were heavily attended, with huge manufacture, dealer, and consumer support. Manufactures would debut oceans of hot new products and offer large incentives to dealers. Dealers couldn’t wait to get away from their stores in middle-of-nowhere America to reap the deep discounts and to party [...]

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Weed. So just why is it that many outdoor (and some indoor) tracks across the country have such a large proportion of racers that insist on smoking weed during races?
Certainly rc racing is not set up for youth racers, as it caters more to the 30-something age set. But, rc racing should always [...]

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Brian, the head cheese and uber editor of BigSquidRC.com suspended me last week. I never thought he would have been personally offended at what I had last turned in, but I guess he wasn’t impressed with my last Cub Report that contained more curse words than a typical rap song. This week, I’ll try [...]

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Not much news this week. The biggest news was that Trinity is releasing a new brushed stock motor- it seems they didn’t get the memo that nobody gives a crap about brushed motors anymore. At this point, putting out a new brushed motor is like coming out with a new set of horse shoes [...]

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Let’s dig right in.
Trinity announced a new engine line-up this week. Or should they have said “we will be importing a new engine line-up”? For years and years the Big T has done a great job of convincing the general public they actually make something. At least in their latest press release they state up [...]

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As I sit here watching “Giant Squid: Caught on Camera” on the Discovery Hi-Def channel, I can’t help but to reflect on just how far BigSquidRC has come in the last 12 months. This site has come from a little known basher site, to one that now gets more hits than most of the mainstream [...]

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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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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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Greeting’s from Florida! With a little help from Brian back in Chicago (hey buddy.. how’s the weather! Muhaha..) I’m going to try and bring some updates and pictures from the Snowbird Nationals. I’m beyond tired, so I’m going to keep this one short. There are 750 entries from 38 states and [...]

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It’s Friday, which means one thing in the rc industry, no press releases on new products over the weekend! So let me dive right into the highlights of new releases this week.
The biggest news this week- the Novak 1/8th scale conversion kits. It’s quite obvious that the next big thing in rc racing will be [...]

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Yes, even the best opinion writer in rc can miss a deadline. After the constant hate text messages from the men in black suits at BigSquidRC, I decided it was in my best interest to get my Week 3 review in their inbox.
First, before I start ranting, BigSquidRC is breaking out the big money and [...]

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Week two in 08′ has flown by.
Product wise, MaxAmps, trying to make good on their vow to dominate in 08′,
introduced another product- some hard case saddle pack li-po’s. The jury is still
out on encasing li-po’s in a hard pack. On one hand, protecting them is very
important. On the other, li-po’s don’t like being contained [...]

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Here we are, kick’n off 2008 with a (soft) bang in the rc world.
On the product side- MaxAmps, who promised to make huge strides in 08, has already fired the first shot. Early on in the week, a press release was sent out about their exclusive 4700 mah sub-c ni-mh’s. That’s pretty ho-hum in itself, [...]

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As part of our efforts to be bigger and better in 2008, we are starting to add more news, more writers, more everything! Our newest writer is going to turn up the heat a little in the RC world. He has been in the RC industry for years; now and then likes to vent [...]

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