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RC Rock Crawling pictures from the new Hobbytown Orland cour…
Today I met with Bill(firesprink281) and Jeff(jetboat) at the HobbyTown USA – Orland Park store to check out their new RC rock crawling course and help get it ready for the event coming up. We met with Steve, the owner, to discuss the event as well as lay out some plans and ideas for the course. It’s [...]
Great Planes brings Muchmore Racing to North America.
Great Planes announced today that they will be bringing the Muchmore Racing product line to North America. The Muchmore products are mostly electronics like charger/dis-chargers, tire warmers, motor accessories, stuff like that. Cub reporter, who is down at the Snowbird Nationals, sent in this picture of a banner that was put up for the official announcement. [...]
Venom Strikes the Scorpion!
Today the Venom Group did a good job of filling my mail box with Venom Press Release goodness! Check all this stuff out! First up is the Venom Heat Sink Motor Plate for the Axial Scorpion. It’s is CNC Machined from 6061 aluminum and finned for optimum motor cooling! Next up [...]
Duratrax brings a new 1/8th scale Nitro Truck!
We just got a press release from Duratrax that talks about their new 1/8th scale racing truck called the Duratrax RT-X 27. This is the only picture I have, nothing with the lid off yet. It’s hard to tell if it’s based on anything like the Warhead or the Raze. From the sounds of the [...]
Schumacher USA Brings Us Power
Hot on the heels of their new brushless systems Schumacher USA has announced some new LiPo packs. The CORE RC 3250mah 7.4v now has a smaller form to fit those harder to fit areas. It has a impact resistant hard case with ‘cell shapes’ molded into the bottom that can key into those chassis that [...]
Big Brushless news from Team Novak!
In what I would pretty much consider a “Stop The Presses!” moment today, Team Novak dropped me a press release with talks of conversion kits for many popular NITRO buggies to convert them to brushless! Now I know what you are thinking… ok.. so they probably made a kit for one OFNA, the one that came [...]
Holy Cow! Another RC Rock Crawler Course!!!
If you are into the new and hot RC Rock Crawling scene, and happen to be in the Chicago area, you are in luck! Today I went to visit the RC Hobbies – Naperville store to check out their new RC Rock Crawling course! It’s a sweet setup of rocks and tree-limbs that can provide a [...]
RPM helps bullet-proof the Traxxas T/E Maxx
We just received a press release from RPM about their new Traxxas T/E-Maxx True-Track Rear A-arm conversion. The new new kit eliminates the rear toe link and locks in the angle at a negative 1.5 degrees per side. The arms are also a little beefier and they even have oversized bearings! They will come in the usual [...]
iHobby Expo Invasion – XXXMain
When it comes to people you admire, at least in the RC world, everyone always has some top pro drivers that they worship, and just think are the greatest people ever. When it comes to who bashers worship, it’s XXXMain. Well.. maybe BigSquidRC, then XXXMain.. (Just kidding!) Seriously though.. these guys have been hardcore bashers forever, and [...]
Team Check Point checks in!
Information on two new items from Team Check Point has just come in. The Pro Car LiPo Balancer, balances individual cell voltages during charge/discharge and automatically checks for poor quality cells. It can be used alone or with a separate charger such as the TC-1030. It’s designed to work with 2 to 3 cell packs assembled [...]
Venom Product Attack!
The good people over at Venom were on a mission today to fill my mailbox with loads of new product press releases! Up first is the new Multi-Function Pro Charger, and it looks like it comes with everything you could ever need! Besides every plug possible, it comes with or without a power supply(nice) LiPO Balancer, [...]
Playing News Catch Up
While still playing catch up after our big computer meltdown, I’m finding news we missed posting in backup emails. I posted a few new press releases in the NEW Product Forum. One of them being for the Futaba 4PK 4-Channel 2.4ghz computer system. We talked a little about it back during our coverage during iHobby, and it [...]
Rumor Mill: ROAR to legalize Li-Po’s very soon!
Just wanted to post a rumor I have been hearing that the ROAR organization is just a few days away from legalizing Li-Po’s in their races with the requirement that the packs be sealed in some sort of hard case. So for all you die-hard racing nuts, it looks like you might finally get to experience what [...]
iHobby Expo Invasion Video – Team Tekin
This video was with everyone’s favorite RC tech guy, ‘Scooter’ from Team Tekin! This one had a pretty funny blooper, as another company at the show kept running some electric turbine jet thing at full throttle every few minutes. It was loud and annoying, and had good timing. 🙂 Enjoy.High Res version here: Big Squid RC iHobby 07 – [...]
