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We have our next winner in the Daily WIN iHobby Expo Tickets contest! Congrats to: Erwin Jonson! You are the latest winner! Email (Brian) us a address, and we’ll have the tickets in the mail ASAP! Want to be the next winner? Remember we will have winners every day! Head over to our contest page for details on how [...]
We have our first winner in the Daily WIN iHobby Expo Tickets contest! Congrats to: Jon Acton! We put all the names in a database, and that’s who the random number picker picked! Email us a address, and we’ll have the tickets in the mail ASAP! Remember we will have winners every day! Head over to our contest [...]
We have had a ton of awesome contests around here lately, and this one is going to be up there with the best of them. We want to help our fans make their way to iHobby Expo 2011 to yell and scream during our demos, enjoy all the cool new RC products, and stop by the booth and say hello! [...]
I want to take a moment to thank everyone that entered the Design a T-Shirt contest! We got some good entries, and some serious creativity. The Big Squid RC crew will be discussing all the entries and will try and choose a winner. It’s not going to be easy. Thanks again! We will let you know in a few days [...]
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Recently we broke the news about the HPI Racing Mini Recon. We now have a ton more pictures and info. It’s a 4WD Monster TRuck with a 370-size motor. It’s RTR with a 2.4GHz radio, battery, charger and even the AA’s for the transmitter. It comes with the RSC-18 ESC and RM-18 motor, oil filled shocks, and a composite tub [...]
Now this is something I think is cool! HPI Racing is releasing their 1/8th scale buggy in nitro and electric form, and finally bringing them to the US! The Trophy 3.5 (nitro) and Trophy FLUX will come ready to run. They both come with a 2.4GHz radio and aluminum chassis and shock towers. The FLUX version is 4S capable [...]
Another update from HPI Racing is the RTR BULLET MT FLUX. The BULLET MT is a 1/10th scale 4wd monster truck with some similar features to the BULLET ST Version. It will be waterproof, comes with a 2.4GHz radio, aluminum chassis, 2 shocks per wheel, a waterproof receiver/battery box and can handle a 3S Lipo. Just in time [...]
Looks like HPI Racing has a few new update of a few vehicles coming out in the near future. First up is the RTR BULLET ST FLUX. This is a 4WD 1/10th scale stadium truck, powered by the HPI Flux Brushless system featuring waterproof electronics making it ready to handle all sorts of bashing. This will be a fun [...]
For those that were watching the Traxxas TORC series on SPEED TV the other night, if you were watching closely you can see Wrench (Bill) and myself hanging out watching the pro TORC drivers race around on the rc track. It was 13 minutes of racing action.. apparently bring able to drive a full size TORC truck does not [...]
Crawler fans, Pro-Line has a new JEEP Comanche Full Bed 12.3″ body for you! The one-piece body is for 1:10 scale rock crawlers with a 12.3″ wheel base. No more having to mess with multiple body pieces and mounting them up. #gallery-11 { margin: auto; } #gallery-11 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-11 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-11 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() [...]
I know a lot of people have been waiting for Pro-Line to release their Badlands for short course vehicles.. well wait no more! The new Badlands SC 2.2″/3.0″ for Slash, SC10, Ultima SC and Blitz in M2 (medium) are now available. These tires were a big hit in the 1/8th scale market, and now they are available for the short [...]
New from PROTOform, the Tornado RallyCross body. This body is for the 1/16th scale Traxxas RallyCross vehicles. It’s made to be used with the Traxxas Black Wing (#7317) to finish off the awesome racer look. If you have a 1/16th scale RallyCross, and you bash it like it’s meant to be bashed, your probably due for a new body. #gallery-15 [...]
Last night a bunch of the Big Squid RC crew was out at the Traxxas TORC Series. As soon as we get the stuff processed we will post up a bunch of pics from the event, but I wanted to post up a reminder about it this morning. If you are in/near the Chicago/Joliet area, get yourself out there for [...]
Every few months we change up t-shirt’s that we wear, sell, and give away. We have been going over a few ideas here, but decided to see if there are any Big Squid RC readers with a little art talent. We are looking for submissions for our next t-shirt design. We are giving people till Sunday September 18th, 2011 12PM [...]