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Greetings all and Happy Friday! With the announcement and release of the JConcepts Reactor, I’ve found myself going back and forth… and then back again… on what exactly I want to do with mine. When I first learned about the Reactor, I had a pretty straightforward plan. I was going to build it as a standard Retro monster truck racer—Clod Buster-sized, 10.75” [...]
Happy Friday and welcome to The Backyard! Settle in, all ye monster truck faithful, because this week I want to spend some time talking about one of the most interesting announcements we’ve seen in a while — the newly revealed JConcepts Reactor Retro Stage II Monster Truck. After years of releasing aftermarket accessories for the solid-axle r/c monster truck world, the folks [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s time for an announcement! This week is going to be my last regular weekly Monster Truck Madness post. Please note that I said “last regular” and not “last”! 10 years ago I was one of a group of friends that started up the Trigger King R/C Monster Truck Racing Series in St. Louis, MO. We started [...]
Happy Thursday all! We are just over two weeks away from one of my favorite events of the year- the BIGFOOT 4×4 Open House! Taking place on Saturday, June 15th from 10AM to 3PM, this free event is hosted by the BIGFOOT team at their shop in Pacific, MO. Modern and classic monster trucks will be on display and performing, with the [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! As we head into the upcoming Memorial Weekend here in the States, I’ve got no coherent singular topic to focus on, but I do have a good deal of random things to discuss! First off, shout out to my friends and fellow monster truck racers Isaac Ankrom and Josh Rhodes for kicking ass at the R/C Monster [...]
Hey everyone, happy Thursday! The picture above is a group shot from the kick-off event of the 2024 Trigger King R/C Monster Truck Racing Series that was held last weekend in Waterloo, IL- we had a blast! It was great seeing a bunch of old hands and newbies alike. Seeing a fresh crop of monster truck racing noobs along with the forthcoming [...]
Greetings everyone and Happy Thursday! This picture above of my messy workspace is that of someone preparing to race monster trucks for the first time in 2024 this upcoming weekend! The Trigger King R/C season kicks off this Sunday in Waterloo, IL, and I’ve got 5 trucks (almost) ready to go. My LMT’s are being run as they were last year- no [...]
Hello everyone and a Happy Thursday to ya! We’ve been working on the schedule for the upcoming Trigger King R/C monster truck racing season and here it is! This year Trigger King turns 10 years old. We’ve come a long way from our first event back in 2014, and we hope you’ll come out and race with us sometime this year! We race [...]
Hey everyone, hope you’re in the middle of some very happy holidays! It’s time for one of my favorite blogs of the year- looking back at my predictions for the r/c monster truck space for the now-previous year and seeing what I got right and what I got wrong. I’ll go over my four main bullets below, but you can read [...]
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! This week marks 10 years of writing for Big Squid, which is pretty crazy to me. Back in 2013, I remember reading the site and seeing they were looking for someone to write a weekly blog on the world of Scale RC, which at the time was starting to REALLY boom. I was running a new [...]
Hey all and Happy Thursday! This past weekend, in Waterloo, IL, we just finished our 9th outdoor Summer season of Trigger King R/C monster truck racing. It’s crazy that just the other day it felt like I was preparing my trucks for the first event of 2023. Even crazier than that, it feels like it wasn’t too long ago that we [...]
You know, I’ve been running the Rotten Apple name on my r/c monster trucks for a long time now. Back in 2016 when the Axial SMT10 came out, I wanted to ditch the Grave Digger RTR body because I much preferred coming up with my own identities. Given the truck had a neon green chassis, I tried to figure out something [...]
Hey everybody, major apologies for being brief this week but I am in the middle of moving houses. After a couple years of renting, I finally bought a house and it has ample room for a workshop (including painting area). Hooray! As such, I’m running around this week with not much time. I did want to make a post though because [...]
Hello folks, you’ve made it to Thursday and another Monster Truck Madness! The Trigger King monster truck club that I race with recently held their second outdoor race of the season, and I was able to get even more trigger time in with my TLR tuned Losi LMT. Not only that, but several of the trucks were in competition across various [...]
Hey gang, happy Thursday to ya’ll! I know a few hardcore monster truck fans who read this blog, and I want to say “have a great time!” to those who are attending the Monster Jam World Finals in Orlando, FL this weekend. It’s the biggest show in professional monster truck racing, and there will be some cool r/c stuff going down as [...]
