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Adding to our constantly growing list of RC On TV, I spotted a show on the food network called Challenge. I jumped in mid way over.. but the basic premise was to build some sort of remote control vehicle out of cake. They started with various vehicles as a ‘base’ and then piled cake and frosting on top. Some people [...]
Oh what fun things we get up to accross the pond… Here’s an EPIC ad from the UK for Avios – an airmiles rewards program. These guys have taken their company slogan to a whole new level, by making everything fly. No, really, EVERYTHING. Yes, that was a flying barbeque, but just in case you didn’t believe any of that here’s some behind [...]
Ok, it’s rare that we post anything about HobbyKing, and there is a long list of reasons, but that’s for another day. Today we saw the first HobbyKing ads on television! File this under our RC On TV section. This is big news in a few ways. Out of all the RC companies out there, how many are advertising on [...]
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 [...]
Looks like Traxxas is really making the rounds in the news today! Apparently a soldier in Afghanistan was driving his Traxxas Stampede around looking for road-side bombs (it has a wireless camera mounted to it as well) when it triggered a trip-wire causing about 500 pounds of explosives to go of. Something that would of most likely destroyed the vehicle [...]
Got this from our good friends at HobbyMedia.it . I’m not sure if we can count this as a RC On TV sighting, since music channels don’t actually play music videos anymore, but I’m going to go with it. From the same awesome band (One of Cubby’s Favorites) that brought you Barbie Girl (he plays that like 10 times a [...]
Kyle Busch won today’s Camping World Truck Series race at Dover, in all the winner’s circle hubbub he gave a shout out to his primary sponsor, Traxxas, and gave the NASCAR Nation a look at the new Kyle Busch themed 1/16 scale truck. That’s a TON of exposure for Traxxas and the R/C hobby in general. Thanks to my brother, Charles, [...]
A few days ago I was watching Tru TV’s Hardcore Pawn and out of no where a guy walks in with an old Kyosho nitro. I’m not to sure exactly what model but it said Kyosho on the skid plate. Les, the owner of the shop asked the guy if it ran and if they could go run it outside, [...]
Fans of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory got to see his crew spend some wheel time with a few Traxxas Slashes. In the episode Rob decided to try his hand at racing full size short course trucks, which he described as “short track baja trucks.” To prepare for that, he picked up a bunch of Slashes for him and his friends, [...]
So we had another RC On TV sighting! This time in a Verizon commercial! The guy is got his new super smart phone hooked up and broadcasting video. He connects it to his RC Helicopter, then fly’s it over his house that has a big sign saying ‘party at 8:00, be there!’ or something like that. Once again.. very cool [...]
Yes folks, another great RC sighting On TV, but this was a two for one special! First on Ace of Cakes, our man Duff and his crew take what looks like a Traxxas 1/16th scale vehicle (the radio makes it obvious) and they build a cake around it to look like a tiny Porsche Boxster. Then they take it [...]
Today we saw our good friend Peter Vieira of Traxxas on CBS during their coverage of the AMA Supercross in Oakland California. Peter did a couple minute segment with Pro Motocross racer Nick Way. I don’t believe they mentioned what they were driving around on the track, but it looked like E-Revo’s. Keep up the great work Traxxas and Peter! [...]
Adding yet another story to our RC On TV section, Adam spotted a guy trying to sell two nitro helicopters on the TruTV show Hardcore Pawn. The guy did a little demo with some 3D flying, but wanted too much for the Pawn guys to make a jump on the deal. Always cool to see RC getting [...]
So last night while watching Mythbusters, we had another RC ON TV sighting! They were trying to cause a truck to flip similar to a scene in the Hellboy movie where something smashes the front end of a truck, and the vehicle flips end over end. Mythbusters does a lot of RC, but usually [...]
What is becoming a weekly post around here lately, we saw another RC car special on TV! This time, the show Motor City Motors on HD Theater tried to create a full size RC car. What makes this different from most full size RC cars, was they were given an electric fork lift to start out with. During [...]
