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Greetings all and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard! It’s been a crazy week for yours truly, so we’re going to keep things short and sweet today and talk about something cool I got to attend last weekend—the 50th birthday bash for Mark Twain Hobby Center! Longtime readers have probably heard me mention Mark Twain Hobby Center before. It’s one of my [...]
Greetings all, happy Friday and welcome to the Backyard! This week I wanted to write something for the prospective noob who is thinking of getting into the hobby! So, you’ve decided to dive into the RC world — congrats! You’re about to discover the joy of speed, tinkering, and breaking tiny vehicles in spectacular fashion. But before you go all-in with [...]
Just saw this over on the Horizon Hobby Facebook page. They have created a new page where people can donate money that will go towards local hobby shops. We have always pushed for the support of local shops, so this seems like a great and important message to get out there. They are selling T-shirts and Sticker sheets, where the [...]
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 [...]
Maybe you have not gotten the memo, but our industry has lost a bunch of hobby shops in the last 5 years. This is bad news, bad news for you, bad news for me, bad news for the hobby we all love so much. Now I know a lot of people hate their LHS, no doubt there are a bunch of [...]
Our industry really likes noobs, the rc hobby would not exist without them. If you are in fact a noob and reading this, thank you for giving the rc hobby a shot. However, just because you are an rc noobie doesn’t mean you have to look like one. Here is my advice on how not to stick out like a [...]
Save the weekend of March 22nd and 23rd for A-Main Speedway’s 2nd annual Spring Fling in Pueblo, CO with a special event sponsored by us here at the Big Squid RC. You can get your fill of off-road racing with classes for pretty much every type of off-road rc vehicle in existence. 1/8th scale buggy, truggy, monster truck, electric, nitro, [...]
