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HobbyTown USA Schaumburg IL Grand Opening, Come say hi!
A few of the Big Squid RC crew will be hanging out at the HobbyTown USA Grand Opening in Schaumburg IL. on April 28th, 2018. There are going to be giveaways, vehicle demos, and sales galore. Big Squid RC will have plenty of stickers to give away, some t-shirts, and probably doing a little bashing. If you are in [...]
Big Squid RC Podcast – Episode 2
Welcome to episode number 2 of the Big Squid RC Podcast! This episode Tim chats with Patrick del Castillo from Castle Creations and discusses all things brushless. It does not matter if you are a air guy or a surface guy, experiencing a Castle system in your model is a must do! If you are in the bashing scene, the racing [...]
March Bash-ness 2018 Round 4 – Final ROUND
Here we are, the final round! Congratulations to the ARRMA Kraton and the Axial SCX10! Both of these vehicles fought off some insanely tough competition to make it here and to be the winners of the Basher side and the crawler/scale side. Now it’s time for their final fight, is it really the Kraton vs the scX10 or is it [...]
Losi Super Baja Rey Gets Basher Approved!
We have been beating the heck out of our Losi Super Baja Rey, and not only have we been having a blast with it the truck, it has proven itself to be super durable. We continue to dish out the abuse, and the Super Baja Rey continues to ask for more! Whenever we have the space, it has been our [...]
- 3/29/2018
- 4:11 pm
- Basher Approved
- By: Brian
March Bash-ness 2018 Round 4 – Final Four
We are down to the final four! This is a VERY important round because it’s going to crown a winner for the basher side and a winner for the crawler side. It’s been very exciting watching things unfold. The leads in round three jumped back and forth several times leaving us on the edge of our seats to see who [...]
March Bash-ness 2018 Round 3
We are down to eight vehicles. Four on the basher side, and four on the crawler side. The last round proved pretty interesting as a few upsets broke more than a few of the Big Squid RC crew brackets. There are several vehicles in the top 8 nobody expected to get this far. Again, every year we are surprised by [...]
March Bash-ness 2018 Round 2 – With a Twist
Welcome to Round 2 of the March Bash-ness 2018 brackets! We warned you that we had planned a twist, and as you can see it’s a good one! We took all the winners from the sweet 16 bracket in round one, and put them on the left side. On the right side, we have added 8 scale/crawler vehicles! We had a [...]
- 3/22/2018
- 9:59 am
- Big Squid RC
March Bash-ness - By: Brian
March Bash-ness 2018 – Sweet 16
Welcome to the 2018 March Bash-ness Sweet 16! As always, we’d like to thank all of our readers around the world for posting to social media, sending in emails, leaving comments on what vehicles you think need to be in the bracket. As we have hinted to recently, there is going to be a little twist this year. What’s the [...]
March Bash-ness 2018 Starts Soon!
We know you guys are dying to start getting those votes in! Wanted to give you a heads up on the time frames. The brackets and voting will start tomorrow, but because we are who we are, we have added a new twist! You’ll need to come back and see what that is, but we think a lot of people [...]
Big Squid RC Podcast – Episode 1
Holy cow we have a podcast! We are excited that our first guest is Derek Wagner from Horizon Hobby! Derek offered some great info and insight with us and our readers / listeners covering all sorts of Horizon brands from ECX and Losi to Vaterra plus everything in between! Tim Gluth did a great job of putting the podcast together, [...]
Unboxing the Traxxas TRX-4 Kit Video
Time to unbox the Traxxas TRX-4 Chassis Kit. Because we are still recovering from the flood here at the office (it’s still a mess) Wrench stepped up and shot the video over at his place. We are really looking forward to building the kit, and will let everyone know how it goes. We aren’t expecting any gotcha’s, but you [...]
Traxxas TRX-4 Bronco Info and details with video!
Traxxas has finally released all the details and a video we have been waiting for since the first time they mentioned the TRX-4 Bronco kit a while back. We are happy to see there will be a RTR version of the Ford Bronco Ranger XLT truck with a retail price of $479.99 I have a feeling we are going to [...]
- 2/15/2018
- 9:55 pm
- New Products
- By: Brian
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Cross RC Demon SG4 Scale Truck Review
The Demon SG4 scale truck from Cross RC came out of nowhere, and instantly had a ton of interest and people questioning everything about it. How do they get one? Who is Cross RC? What sort of quality is the kit going to be? It’s has been a while since we got our hands on a true kit, so lets [...]
- 2/9/2018
- 4:31 pm
- Car & Truck Reviews
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Official New Traxxas E-Revo 2.0 with Video
We have been posting blurbs about the new E-Revo for a week or so now, but the official news and specs are finally available. The E-Revo became a dominant force in the rc monster truck realm, and the latest version is looking like it may continue that streak. We were originally calling it the Traxxas E-Revo 2.0 but it looks [...]
Unboxing the Cross RC Demon SG4 with Video
We got our hands on the Cross RC Demon SG4 scale crawler that has been blowing up the rc internet lately. This truck really looks good, and our first impressions of the kit are very positive. We are looking forward to getting this thing built! We have the Demon SG4C edition of the truck that has a few more aluminum [...]
