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So I had to make a trip to our local Fry’s Electronics store, AKA Geektopia, when I had a pretty big surprise. When you walk in the door, the very first thing, was two huge pallets of RC Vehicles! One pallet was a bunch of licensed monster truck vehicles, the other pallet was a bunch of on-road vehicles. Passing [...]
Adding yet another story to our RC On TV section, Adam spotted a guy trying to sell two nitro helicopters on the TruTV show Hardcore Pawn. The guy did a little demo with some 3D flying, but wanted too much for the Pawn guys to make a jump on the deal. Always cool to see RC getting [...]
What is becoming a weekly post around here lately, we saw another RC car special on TV! This time, the show Motor City Motors on HD Theater tried to create a full size RC car. What makes this different from most full size RC cars, was they were given an electric fork lift to start out with. During [...]
A week or so ago we mentioned the Trackseekers Flowood Indoor RC Track in Flowood, MS. They recently let us know that their official ribbon cutting is Thursday December 9th, 2010 and their Grand Opening Toy’s for Tots race is Saturday December 11th, 2010! The place sounds amazing, and the pics on the site look good. If [...]
If your are car nut, you already know that Top Gear out of the UK is one of the greatest car shows on TV. Well tonight the USA gets their own version on the History Channel! I don’t think anyone expects the show to be as good as it’s UK big brother, but fingers are crossed it does [...]
It is with great sadness that we make this announcement. According to the RC Car Magazine Blog, they have closed their doors. Their last issue will be the February 2011 Issue. As you know we give the magazines a hard time around here, especially Cubby. But it makes us sad to see the end of RC Car. [...]
As what is starting to be a regularly updated section, we ad another post to our RC ON TV section! This time on an episode of Auction Kings Paul and his team get a huge custom RC tugboat! The thing is about 6 feet long, and weighs over 90lbs! It had some great detail, [...]
Just a quick RC industry news blurb. Hobbico has gained exclusive rights to distribute the Thunder Tiger brand in the USA. The first product available will be the Titan X50 Helicopter, and I’m sure we will start to see some new motors and maybe even some vehicles to follow!
