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Unboxing – Thunder Tiger Bushmaster 1/8th Buggy
Thunder Tiger has become a well known name in the bashing world. Their incredible MT4 G3 series bash-mobiles caught not only our attention, but also bashers from coast to coast. For 2015 Thunder Tiger announced several new models. We tested their Kaiser eMTA a few weeks ago and recently we received the new Bushmaster. Like the Kaiser, the Bushmaster is [...]
- 7/20/2015
- 3:13 pm
- Featured Posts
Unboxing - By: Tim Mohr
Hitec at the 2015 HobbyTown USA Convention
Among our favorite booths at the HobbyTown USA Convention was from Hitec. You know Hitec as a leading producer of high quality servos and they didn’t disappoint at the show. They had a bunch of their new servos on display, plus a number of other new electronics. Some of our notes from the Hitec booth include- * Hitec is celebrating 25 [...]
THE Cub Report, Version- Get Your Fight On
Yes, I’m still in recovery mode after the HobbyTown USA National Convention in Lincoln Nebraska from last week, but here are some of my thoughts from the show- 1. Why do you even care about HTCON 2015? Well you should, with no iHobby Expo this year (next one is spring ’16), it was basically the biggest surface show in the USA [...]
Castle Creations at the 2015 HobbyTown USA Convention
There was certainly some buzz coming out of the Castle Creations room at the HobbyTown USA Convention because of their newly announced X Series speed controllers. Castle had the new X series XL controller and the Micro X on display, both of which you should start seeing in local hobby shops in the near future. Some news and notes from [...]
Scorpion Motors Now At Asiatees Hobbies
Asiatees Hobbies is running a special promotion on Scorpion products this week. While Scorpion is best known for their brushless motors, Asiatees is offering 10% off the entire line of Scorpion products that also includes their ESCs, tools, and other accessories. Their motors range in size from units that were designed to fit in Mini-Zs all the way up to [...]
- 7/20/2015
- 8:13 am
- miscellaneous
- By: Tim Mohr
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Hobbico at the 2015 HobbyTown USA Convention
Champaign Illinois powerhouse Hobbico always has a large room at the HobbyTown USA convention and 2015 was no different. What was different was the amount of quads/drones on display. A couple of years ago there might have been only one or two, last year there was a few, but this year their booth had dozens of quads at every price [...]
Everybody’s Scalin’ – DIY
For my money, one of the coolest things about the scaling genre is that even though it’s become super popular, with so many RTR’s readily available…it’s still a very Do It Yourself (DIY) type of thing. I’m not even really talking about the mass influx of kits. Yes, they are popular, but the same could be said about that in regards to [...]
Kyosho America at the HobbyTown National Convention
Another big supporter of the 2015 HobbyTown USA Convention was the friendly folks from Kyosho America. If you’ve been reading our front page lately, then you’ll already know that Kyosho has announced a bunch of new products this year and many of them were on display in their room/booth at the show. Some of the highlights were- * Our Bash Crew [...]
- 7/17/2015
- 4:13 pm
- New Products
- By: Tim Mohr
Fire Brand RC at HTCON 2015
Who is Fire Brand RC? They are the makers of some very trick/trendy rc gear for just about every form of bashing. They are perhaps best known for their drifting gear, but they also carry some very cool wraps and off-road wheels and tires. We spent a great deal of time hanging out in their booth at the HobbyTown USA Convention, [...]
HRP Distributing at the 2015 HobbyTown Convention
HRP is one of the largest hobby distributors here in the United States and they had a great arrangement of new gear on display at the HobbyTown USA Convention. If your hobby shop sells brands like Savox, Thunder Tiger, Hobbywing, Gmade, or Racer Edge, they are dealing with HRP. What was hot in the HRP Booth? * The item that was [...]
Pro-Line Racing at the HobbyTown USA Convention
We’ve been attending the HobbyTown USA Convention in Lincoln Nebraska for several years now, and every year we’ve been there, so have the ever friendly crew from Pro-Line Racing. For this year’s show P-L sent out Gerardo and John to show off their latest products and to answer any questions that show goers might have had. Some of the highlights [...]
ASK Cubby, Version- My Mailbox Exploded and This Came Out
“Losi Hi. I am trying to see if it is possible to buy the 1/8 Losi 8ight truggy (not buggy) in a brushless system not nitro Thank you, Cory N.” Cubby- Hi there Cory and thanks for the email. And guess what? Boy are you in luck. The Losi 8IGHT-T E 3.0 was announced a couple of days after I received your email. Cut [...]
Must See Video – Extreme Bashing the Pro-Line Racing PRO-MT
There is no doubt that the Pro-Line PRO-MT is a gnarly basher. I mean, it earned enough of our respect that we gave it our prestigious 2014 Bash Vehicle of the Year award. To really emphasize just how fast and how much punishment the PRO-MT can take, Pro-Line has released a new video to drive the point home. During the [...]
Horizon Hobby at the 2015 HobbyTown USA Convention
Sporting a huge room at the ’15 HobbyTown USA Convention was our friends from Horizon Hobby. Ice cold Rockstar Energy Drinks were in abundance (they have a collaboration with them) as were snacks to keep tired convention attendees going. If you haven’t already noticed, Horizon is placing a big emphasis on staying at the front edge of the latest technology. For [...]
HPI Racing at the HobbyTown USA National Convention
The good folks at HPI Racing have long been supporters of the HobbyTown USA National Convention. Over the years, we’ve not only had a geat time just hanging out with them, but we’ve also learned a lot about the industry side of things from them. At this year’s show HPI had 3 very cool new products on display to grab [...]
