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Exclusive: Horizon Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car in our hands
We at Big Squid are the very first r/c media group to get some wheel time with the Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies (not to be confused with Horizon Hobbies) H-Cell 2.0 hydrogen fuel cell powered r/c car (see the original product announcement here). One of the things we’ve learned is that the car is not directly powered by the fuel [...]
- 10/24/2010
- 12:26 am
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Fuel Cell
ihobby 2010 - By: Jeff
Second winners of our Traxxas Give-aways
I think we turned that frown upside-down with this one. Who says being a fan doesn’t pay off? These were the winners of our 1/10 scale Traxxas Slash Give-away. You can have your chance too, just be at the IHobby Show on Sunday for our Bashing Demos. The first one is at 11:00 am and we will be giving away [...]
- 10/23/2010
- 11:49 pm
- Big Squid RC
ihobby 2010 - By: Jeff
More pics of the Traxxas Spartan
We got a request for more pictures of the Traxxas Spartan (formerly the Titan), so here’s a gallery for y’all. Click the little ones for the big ones. Traxxas Spartan gallery
- 10/23/2010
- 11:24 pm
- ihobby 2010
Traxxas - By: Jeff
Inside the Traxxas Hauler
The Traxxas Short Course Hauler isn’t open to the public, but Big Squid got a tour. The Traxxas gang is using it at the IHobby show for a staging and work area for their demo vehicles. The pictures are more interesting than any words I can come up with, so click through after the break for more.
- 10/23/2010
- 10:51 pm
- ihobby 2010
Traxxas - By: Jeff
NR/CTPA Tractor Pulls Demo
Here’s some photos from the Truck and Tractor Pull portion of the NR/CTPA demos. Some of these smaller tractors are being powered by Castle Creations brushless systems, but the larger ones are powered by chainsaw engines (multiple in some cases) and they are extremely loud, echoing throughout the entire convention center. See this previous post for demo times tomorrow. For [...]
- 10/23/2010
- 10:25 pm
- ihobby 2010
- By: Jeff
NR/CTPA IHobby Demos
The NR/CTPA is out here putting on a great show at the ThunderTech Racing Monster Truck Track. I took a bunch of pictures of the action and there’s a bunch more after the break. If you make it out here tomorrow be sure to check out some of their demos, here’s a list of the times and events.10:45 am Truck and [...]
- 10/23/2010
- 4:46 pm
- ihobby 2010
- By: Jeff
Random Pic From IHobby
The boy was a little bummed cause he didn’t win the new Traxxas Mini Slash. But he’s got a chance to win a big Slash at 3:00pm, and so do you if you’re here.
- 10/23/2010
- 11:55 am
- Big Squid RC
ihobby 2010 - By: Jeff
First winners of our Traxxas Give-aways
Here’s our first winners of our Traxxas Slash giveaways. These kids took home a brand new, ready to run Traxxas Mini Slash. Our next giveaway is during our 3:00pm demo today, you gotta be at our track for the demo to win though! So hurry on over!
- 10/23/2010
- 11:45 am
- Big Squid RC
ihobby 2010 - By: Jeff
Mamba XL 1/5 Scale brushless conversion
Here’s some BIG news from Castle Creations. Pictured above is their new massive (about 3 pounds!) Mamba XL motor (bottom, obviously). Along with the motor is a whole new beefy Mamba XL ESC that’s built to handle 8S LiPos and all the amp draw that’s going to pass through it. Not only that, Castle is releasing a complete conversion kit [...]
- 10/23/2010
- 10:41 am
- Castle Creations
ihobby 2010 - By: Jeff
Attend our Demos at IHobby and win stuff!
Today and Sunday we’ll be running Bashing Demos on the Big Squid RC Track at IHobby. If you’re in the crowd you have a chance to win a Traxxas Slash or Mini Slash, plus t-shirts, and other swag. Our demo times are 11:00 am and 3:00 pm both days. We’ll be giving away the Mini Slashes at the 11:00 am [...]
Speed Passion Ananta 2SC short course truck
Speed Passion has this prototype short course truck on display at IHobby, it’s a really unique vehicle at this point, only two of them exist in the world right now. Other than the name, Ananta 2SC, there really wasn’t much info available at this time but you can see it’s a mid-motor layout similar to the X-Factory SCX-60 or Venom [...]
Booth Babes get some Wheel Time
The booth babes got a chance to get some wheel time in the Horizon/Electrix demo area. They managed to tear the place up pretty good, knocking down walls, and hitting people in the shins. Be sure to stop by our booth this weekend to get your pics with the ladies and check out all the bashing stuff we’ll be doing.
Thunder Tiger Mini Kart
This is something cool at IHobby from Thunder Tiger, being distributed by the fine folks at Great Planes. I totally forgot to write down the info on this thing, but some of the stuff I can recall from the images is that it’s a relatively small, slight larger than a 1/18 scale car or truck. It’s also going to be [...]
- 10/22/2010
- 10:36 pm
- Great Planes
ihobby 2010
Thunder Tiger - By: Jeff
Front wheel hex for SC10
Pro-Line has a new hex adapter for the front axles of the SC10, opening up all kinds of new wheel options for the truck. The units they are showing at IHobby are still the prototype, so price and ship date are still undetermined. When that info gets finalized we’ll pass it on to you.
