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So another one of my christmas gifts was a Gmade R1 Rock Buggy chassis. It came all the way from South Korea and took about 25 days to get here! The chassis kit included a ton of extra nuts and bolts that were perfect if you were going to use it to build a custom truck. I went ahead and took [...]
As a few of you probably know, we are finally getting our share of snow here in the Midwest! As I started digging out the driveway I figure it would be time to measure.. we got exactly 2 HPI monster trucks and 1 Slash worth of snow! 🙂 Snow bashing tomorrow! WOOOO HOOOO! I know Adam the Intern has a snow [...]
A big Happy Anniversary to Tower Hobbies who celebrates 40 years of bringing hobbies to people all over the world! To celebrate they are giving away a Tower Hobbies Gift Certificate worth up to $1000! All you need to do is head over to the Tower Hobbies website and subscribe to their email newsletter for a chance to win! They [...]
Sunday was a good day for bashing. I had a family gathering and decided to take a couple r/c trucks along for the fun. My choices were my Losi Highroller and DuraTrax Evader DT. My brother brought his Traxxas Stampede as well. It was a great time of curb hopping, burnouts, bootlegger turns, and donuts. I was having so much [...]
So I had to make a trip to our local Fry’s Electronics store, AKA Geektopia, when I had a pretty big surprise. When you walk in the door, the very first thing, was two huge pallets of RC Vehicles! One pallet was a bunch of licensed monster truck vehicles, the other pallet was a bunch of on-road vehicles. Passing [...]
Tonight Bill and I braved the arctic snow to head over to Adam G’s birthday bash at the Leisure Hours Raceway! Adam has been a good friend of Big Squid RC’s for years now, and we were excited to get the invite to his private bash! There were tons of friends and family all having a great [...]
A week or so ago we mentioned the Trackseekers Flowood Indoor RC Track in Flowood, MS. They recently let us know that their official ribbon cutting is Thursday December 9th, 2010 and their Grand Opening Toy’s for Tots race is Saturday December 11th, 2010! The place sounds amazing, and the pics on the site look good. If [...]
A Main has WAY too many Black Friday specials going on to list here. There are killer deals on a ton of great stuff going on today, AND – They are rotating in extra special goodies throughout the day as well. Make sure you keep an eye on what’s happening over there today, you never know what’s going to show [...]
It is with great sadness that we make this announcement. According to the RC Car Magazine Blog, they have closed their doors. Their last issue will be the February 2011 Issue. As you know we give the magazines a hard time around here, especially Cubby. But it makes us sad to see the end of RC Car. [...]
What do you say ROAR? How about sanctioning these bad boys? It might get me into racing. Ah, who am I kidding? I’d just use mine to break stuff. Check out all the other awesome R/C bot platforms that Inspector Bots makes. Christmas is just around the corner and I’d like one of each please. They take PayPal! h/t to [...]
So we picked up the new Activision Call of Duty BLACK OPS Prestige Edition with the RC-XD Vehicle today, and thought we’d share the unboxing photo’s. At first glance I was pretty worried it was going to turn out like the Gears of War Centaur Tank fiasco, [...]
Presenting the Metal Grudge. An amalgamation of three awesome things: The Metal Slug video game series, Legos, and R/C. Peer Kreuger, the creator of this fantastic contraption, is also offering up the Lego Digital Designer file so you can see all the parts and ideas that went into it. Be sure to hit up his Flickr account for more [...]
Do you have a decent list of accomplishments on the track? Have you ever dreamed of getting all kinds of free stuff? Here’s a tip to help you out: start a web site and tell everybody how awesome you are and how you get a ton of readers send a resume to Agama USA, they’re expanding their racing team [...]
Ok, I know it’s not at all RC related, but as a lot of our readers know, I’m a bit of a video game nut, so when I found this awesome Pac-Man Halloween inflatable, I knew I had to get it and share! The night picture didn’t turn out so great, sorry! It’s about 4 feet tall, [...]
Just a quick RC industry news blurb. Hobbico has gained exclusive rights to distribute the Thunder Tiger brand in the USA. The first product available will be the Titan X50 Helicopter, and I’m sure we will start to see some new motors and maybe even some vehicles to follow!
