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Monster Truck Madness - Watch the light boys, we're going ra…
Hey folks, it’s time to announce the 2023 Trigger King RC Monster Truck Racing Series schedule! It should be a fun summer of racing in the dirt over in Waterloo, IL at JB Graphics Raceway. There are 3 classes this year – Outlaw Retro Clod Buster, Sport Modified, and Pro Modified. Sport Mod and Pro Mod are modern style monster trucks and [...]
Monster Truck Madness - Warpath 4 Monster Truck Racing Chass…
Hey folks, Happy Thursday to you! A heads-up that next Monday February 20th I’ll be the guest on the RCMT Motorsports Pit Party Podcast where I’ll be discussing all things monster trucks. We will be live at 10 EST and you can check out their IG page right here. It’s gonna be a great time! So this week we are going to [...]
- 2/16/2023
- 4:35 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Many Minis
Hey all and Happy Thursday! Today we are gonna discuss the Traxxas TRX-4M. The TRX-4M was the hottest release in the hobby over the holiday season, and while hobby shops across the country seemingly finally have them in stock with regularity, they remain a very hot ticket. The aftermarket around the baby TRX4 has been the most interesting part of it though, [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Tundra Tires on the FMS Smasher
Hey all and Happy Thursday! One of the coolest things about the solid axle monster truck genre within the world of RC are all the small builders that are building custom products for the variety of platforms out there. The Clod, Axial SMT10 and Losi LMT hog their share of the limelight, but today I wanted to show off a small [...]
- 2/2/2023
- 6:58 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Ungluing and Re-Using Your Tires
Happy Thursday all! As we are set to hit February next week, many of us are at the height of bench racing season. New builds for warmer weather are being planned or are actively underway. All those builds need one thing regardless of whether they are a monster truck, buggy, scaler, or stadium truck….a set of tires and wheels. And when many [...]
Monster Truck Madness – SMT Upgrades and Dual Motor ESC’s
Hey gang, happy Thursday! This week we are heading to the mailbag! Hello, We just got an Axial SMT10 Grave Digger from tower hobbies. We’re planning to race against a 2WD Traxxas Stampede that has the Traxxas brushless upgrade. So, I’ve been chatting with a man from Holmes Hobbies to try to find the best brushless set up for our SMT10. My question for you is: [...]
Monster Truck Madness – A Racing Clod
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s a bit of a slow news week and I’ve been lazy with my current monster truck projects so I’m going to answer an e-mail that I received about 2 weeks ago from reader Voldemart07. Hey Doug I have been in the rc hobby for about 8 years and I want to build a race clod [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Gettin’ After It
Hello everyone and a Happy 2023 to you! I wound up spending the last two weeks at home, and given it’s been a long time since I’ve done that I had totally forgotten how time kind of just ceases to be and all days roll into one while on a long holiday break. It was nice getting back to the normal [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Predictions for 2023
Greetings gang! I hope your holidays were happy and that you find yourself surrounded by all sorts of new r/c gear! As we are preparing to flip the calendar over to 2023, I wanted to make a few predictions for the year to come. Let’s get to it.Losi LMT Sees a Refresh The Losi LMT has been out for two years [...]
- 12/29/2022
- 1:13 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Wanting a Proper Old School Monster
Hey gang and Happy Holidays! As many of us head into a work break between Christmas and New Year’s, and I wanted to do a quick follow-up on my “What is a Retro RC Monster Truck?” post. The time is right for an r/c company to release a scale old school monster truck. I’ll do my annual “predictions” column in a week [...]
Monster Truck Madness – RC SnowRunner
Hey gang and Happy Thursday to you! Every now and then in this space I’ve discussed my love of the SnowRunner / Spintires series of video games. I recently got a Tamiya Globe Liner to build into a truck for purposes such as this (more details on the build coming soon here, as I’m already modifying it!). Well, last weekend I [...]
- 12/15/2022
- 5:06 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
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Monster Truck Madness – What is a Retro RC Monster Truck?
Hey folks, Doug here and Happy Friday! Sorry this is coming out a day late, but I was on the road all of yesterday! What is a Retro RC Monster Truck? This is a subject I’ve been wanting to tackle for awhile now. It’s a very opinionated topic in the r/c monster truck world. I recorded a video on the topic and [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Stocking Stuffer Tools
Hey folks, and Happy December 1st! Those of you who are either shopping for an r/c nut or that ARE an r/c nut looking to give cheap gift ideas to friends/family, you are in luck today as I’m about to dish! And I’m not going to be talking full on trucks or kits- I’m talking tools! The often neglected part of the [...]
- 12/1/2022
- 5:28 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Happy Thanksgiving, Turkeys
Hey everyone, it’s Thanksgiving here in the States so I want to give a hearty “Happy Thanksgiving” to everyone out there! I just hit my 9 year anniversary writing weekly for Big Squid, and I wanted to say thanks to all of you for reading, many of whom I’ve become friends with. It never stops being wild to me that you [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Plans for the Max Smasher
Heya folks and Happy Friday to you! I hope ya’ll enjoyed both the written and video reviews of the FMS Max Smasher Monster Truck that were posted last week. Long story short- I enjoy the Max Smasher. I’m kind of surprised it’s taken a company this long to do a quality micro scale solid axle monster, but one now exists. And it [...]
