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Aquacraft Rescue 17 Fireboat
Scale RC is the hot thing right now, and it’s not just for cars and trucks. Aquacraft has just released the Rescue 17 Fireboat. It comes ready-to-run and just screams scale looks. The water cannon can rotate 120 degrees and shoots water up to 10 feet! How cool is that? It has a 17 LED lighting system that runs [...]
Tower Hobbies F6F Hellcat
New from Tower Hobbies comes the F6F Hellcat. The F6F Hellcat was designed after the success of the F4F Wildcat during WWII. The Tower Hobbies plane is a easy, glue-free assembly model that comes with brushless motor, esc and 4 micro servos. Since it’s a Rx-R (receiver ready), all you need to supply is the radio, receiver and battery. It [...]
Lucas Oil Catamaran from Aquacraft.
New from Aquacraft is the Lucas Oil Brushless FE Catamaran. It features a watercooled 60 amp esc, 6-pole 1800kV Brushless motor, and the GrimRacer 2535 hardware package. It comes with a 2.4Ghz Radio, or you can get a version that you supply the radio for. It’s almost 30 inches (750mm) long and weights in at 4lbs. You’ll need to supply 2 [...]
- 2/2/2013
- 9:28 am
- AquaCraft
New Products - By: Brian
Flyzone Hadron Vectored Thrust Flying Wing
The folks from Flyzone have recently announced the Hadron Flying Wing. The Vectored Thrust wing is built for insane aerobatics with it’s large fin, it’s engineered to fly knife edge, and the ability to actually redirect the thrust puts this thing over the top! It comes in RTF and Tx-R versions. Construction is AeroCell foam with ABS and carbon [...]
Heli-Max Blackhawk Scale Heli
In the RC world, scale is hot. It’s finally not just about performance, but looks as well. Heli Max RC has just announced the new Blackhawk Scale Heli. This RTF was based on the Sikorsky Blackhawk with detail down to the landing gear. It has LED lighting, 4-blade collective pitch head, and uses the TAGS (Thress Axis Gyro system). It [...]
Tactic TTX850 – 8-Channel Air and Heli Radio
Check out the latest radio from TACTIC. The new Tactic TTX850 is a 8 Channel Air and Heli system with a huge graphing LCD screen. Other details include Digital Trims, Dual Rates, 2.4GHZ, easy menu navigation. The highlight that caught our eye was they said it will be RC’s most affordable 8-Channel radio! There wasn’t a price listed yet though. [...]
Big Squid RC LIVE – Show #10
The live show is now over, but you can catch the replay here on our Youtube page: We covered all sorts of stuff tonight, from the Nuremberg Toy Fair to the new Horizon Vaterra line, and everything in between. Thanks to everyone who showed up tonight and joined us in the live chat with your questions. See you [...]
- 1/30/2013
- 9:29 pm
- Big Squid RC Live
- By: Brian
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ARRMA RC – Brushless Versions, Hop Ups and a New Controller?
The folks from ARRMA have finally announced the new brushless versions of their line of vehicles. We have been waiting on this for a while! Their new line has BLX attached to the name. So the ARRMA Granite BLX will be the brushless version. The new versions promise TONS of improvements over the previous models as well like waterproof ESCs [...]
- 1/30/2013
- 12:36 pm
- ARRMA RC
New Products - By: Brian
Futaba 4PL Earns Basher Approved Status
It’s time to hand out another Basher Approved Award. This time up we have the Futaba 4PL! We have had a 4PL around the office for a while now, and it’s been great. It’s taken a beating in and out of pit boxes, been dropped on the floor a half a dozen times, sometimes on purpose, and it just [...]
Splinter Cell Blacklist Collector’s Edition with RC Plane!
Wow! When we started seeing games ship with RC cars, I thought that was pretty wild, but anyone can ‘drive’ a rc car. Now Ubisoft has announced the Splinter Cell Blacklist Collector’s Edition is going to come with a 3-Channel Custom RC Plane! This one blows our mind because we know not ‘anyone’ can fly a plane. It’s a dual [...]
- 1/25/2013
- 11:55 pm
- New Products
Video Game - By: Brian
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Ken Block and Hoonigan Racing with Less Green
These are not RC vehicles… yet. Ken Block and the Hoonigan Racing Team has changed things up for 2013! He’s got a new garage/building, and some new wraps on his rides. Long gone is the recognizable green and white, and now the dominant colors are blue, grey, and purple. Fingers crossed for HPI to come up with a alternate body [...]
- 1/25/2013
- 12:00 am
- HPI Racing
- By: Brian
Horizon Hobby Creating a New Adventure Driven Product Line
The folks from Horizon Hobby have started to tease us with a completely brand new product line! They posted a short teaser video, with the text “Adventure Driven” next to a pile of rocks that makes up some sort of logo. There is also a date 1-30-2013, which coincides with the German Toy show in Nuremberg. And yes, we will [...]
Big Squid RC Live – Show 9
[Update: Live show is over, but check out the replay above.] Hey everyone, we are getting ready for Big Squid RC Live! We start at 9pm CST 10pm cst. Join us won’t you? It’s Big Squid RC Live #9! We take questions from our fans live in the chat box, discuss that hottest RC news of the moment, and all sorts of [...]
Big Squid RC Store Updated!
Have you checked out the Big Squid RC Shop lately? We have updated it with the newest shirts, hats and stickers! The new character shirts are very limited because we recently did a few events where we sold a bunch of them! We have shirts in Large, X-Large and 3XL! We only have a couple 3XL’s so if you need [...]
Reedy Announces – There Will Be Girls There
Something about the latest press release from Reedy caught my eye. They announced that at the upcoming Reedy Race, Mercedes Terrell (Miss Reedy Race 2012) and her fellow “Monster Girl” Summer Daniels will be at the 2013 Off Road Event. We all like to see the occasional pretty girl, and they tend to stick out at a RC race, but [...]
