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Week 1 Day 2. If you have not heard, we are giving away a Dozen Mystery Vehicles! One a Week for the next 12 weeks! The vehicles may by nitro or electric and are from the following companies: ARRMA RC, Team Durango, Duratrax, and Thunder Tiger! This contest is going to rock! Please read the OFFICIAL RULES, so you don’t get [...]
Futaba website The folks from Futaba have sent word that they now have a Stainless Steel Futaba Sports Bottle. It holds 26 ounces of your favorite drink (I want to see Cubby bring 26 ounces of DOM to the track!) and has a leak proof twist off top. You are going to own/carry one of these around with you anyway, [...]
A bunch of our Canadian readers have sent this one in. Thanks guys! It looks like Traxxas vehicles can now be ordered online at Best Buy Canada Online as well as Future Shop Canada Online. I’m guessing Future Shop is some sort of Best Buy clone? Either way, the online stores look to be carrying about 60 different Traxxas sku’s [...]
If you have not heard, we are giving away a Dozen Mystery Vehicles! One a Week for the next we weeks! The vehicles may by nitro or electric and are from the following companies: ARRMA RC, Team Durango, Duratrax, and Thunder Tiger! This contest is going to rock! Please read the OFFICIAL RULES, so you don’t get disqualified. Enter a [...]
So it was time to step things up and do something major for the readers. We know what readers want, FREE VEHICLES right? So we have hooked up with a few companies to give a bunch away. We will be giving away vehicles from ARRMA RC, Team Durango, Duratrax, and Thunder Tiger! We are going to give away one vehicle a [...]
Ok, here’s one for the rumor mill category. We just got a picture of a Traxxas Slash chassis with a pretty cool looking new truck body on top. We are not sure if this is a 3rd party body, but we were told it was actually created by Traxxas! Anyone care to guess? We scaled up the picture, (click the image [...]
It’s hard to believe, but there are some people who actually don’t see our news page every day. I know right? Well last week was a bit insane as we did a new review EVERY DAY! So we just wanted to let you know that the REVIEW SECTION has been updated, so you can just click the one link and [...]
Every year Big Squid RC puts on some pretty huge demos at the iHobby Expo trade show. It’s a great way for us to get to meet a ton of our fans at once, answer questions, and give away a bunch of cool prizes while wow’ing the crowds. This year’s show is moving to Cleveland Ohio. It’s normally in [...]
We had a post recently in our rumor mill category about Team Durango coming out with some RTR editions, well that rumor has been confirmed with some details today! First up is the DEX210 ‘Race Ready’ RTR 2WD Buggy. It comes complete with a Speed Passion ESC and brushless 13.5 sensored motor! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: [...]
Last week we mentioned the Mike Jenkins TORC Pro 4×4 Slash was available, well this week Traxxas has followed up that news with the Mike Jenkins Slash 4×4 Ultimate. The Ultimate comes with the TQi Radio and docking base for your iPhone, Big Bore Aluminum shocks, 7-Cell 4200 battery, aluminum hubs, center diff, and front and rear swaybars. Basically it’s [...]
If your a Porsche fan, or a Falken tire Fan, it looks like HPI Racing has you covered! They just announced a little teaser that they have a HPI Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT RSR in KIT and RTR coming soon. The kit will come with a clear body, and all the stickers you need to complete the look, [...]
So there’s this sport thing going on called the Olympics, you may of heard of it or seen it. Well, if you haven’t it’s on TV, and it’s kinda cool. The reason we mention it is that the Olympics allowed us to add yet another post to our RC On TV section. Several people have sent this one in, thanks [...]
This video is pretty cool. Team Orion just posted a video showing how their Lipo batteries are made. Sort of a mini tour of the factory, the production process, stuff like that. Check out the video below.Looking for more Team Orion news? Hit the link.
New from RPM is a front bumper for the Losi Mini 8ight 2.0 . This will be a huge item for us basher guys as the Mini 8ight does not have much at all to protect it from head on collisions. The RPM bumper is designed to be flexible to absorb impacts and save the rest of the vehicle. Thanks [...]
THE Axial EXO RTR Terra Buggy ReviewRecently we posted a detailed review of the kit Axial EXO , so when the RTR version was released, it seemed like we should treat it a little differently. We did a little more bashing this time around. You already got all the technical stuff, now you need to make the decision RTR or [...]