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Happy Friday and welcome to The Backyard! A couple weeks back I stopped by a swap meet hosted by my local hobby shop, Mark Twain Hobby Center in St. Charles, Missouri. This wasn’t just a couple folding tables with old junk on them, either. It was a well-organized event where vendors reserved tables and brought everything from vintage R/C kits and [...]
Hey everyone, welcome to The Backyard! ICYMI, last week Team Associated publicly called out Horizon Hobby for alleged “unauthorized price reductions” of their vehicles. These kinds of disputes usually stay behind closed doors, so it was eyebrow-raising to see Associated frustrated enough to air it publicly. And funny enough, a big hobby shop near me is having a major in-store sale right [...]
Greetings all and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard! We started off 2025 with a freakin’ insane amount of releases. Nearly every week we had a big r/c kit announcement! Since early April though, it’s been a bit of a ghost town. Part of this is no doubt because a lot of stuff had just been announced by a lot of companies, [...]
Greetings all and Happy Friday, welcome to (a particularly cheerful) The Backyard! For those that follow the hobby industry, this week had some grim news – Horizon Hobby cancelled this year’s Horizon Hobby RC Fest, which was to be held June 6 and 7 near their hometown of Champaign, IL (Monticello, IL was the actual event site), was cancelled for budgetary [...]
Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of Everybody’s Scalin’ lately. Over the last 6 months me and my wife have been working on something very special. That’s right, I’m giving up everything and becoming Amish. Ok so, that’s definitely not it, could you imagine me trying to raise a barn, or turning some butter? I can, and it’s not pretty. [...]
So if you are reading this post, odds are good that you are already supporting a hobby or two. Thank you! The goal of National Hobby Month for us is to help introduce some more people to hobbies and maybe go visit that local hobby shop you haven’t been inside of for a while. We know you guys get a [...]
To mix things up a little this week I’ve decided to make THE Cub Report about some of my favorite hobby shops. I travel a lot for my “work”, so each year I am lucky enough to hit dozens of shops coast to coast. After all my traveling these are my top 3 hobby shops, the ones that if you [...]
