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Cubby yelling at a kid while he drives our surface drone.
ARRMA Booth
ARRMA has made an appearance at IHobby, showing off all of their current and upcoming vehicles. You’ve already seen all of our exclusive news yesterday, so there’s nothing new to say about anything they have. So just look at the pictures. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see [...]
HPI’s Mini Recon in person
HPI Racing isn’t attending this year’s IHobby, but there’s still a couple of HPI’s new vehicles floating about. This is their recently announced Mini Recon, 1/18 scale, 4wd monster truck. Be sure to hit up our archives to read all about this little monster. And check out the HPI Racing website for more info. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item [...]
- 10/21/2011
- 9:17 am
- HPI Racing
- By: Jeff
Dynamite LCG conversion for Slash
Dynamite has a load of new stuff for the Traxxas Slash. The biggest new item being a LCG conversion set. But you’ll also see aluminum arms, shock towers, sway bar sets, and more. Everything is available now or will be very soon. Keep an eye on the Dynamite website for more info. #gallery-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-5 .gallery-item { float: [...]
ECX Smash in person at the Horizon Booth
The ECX Smash, 1/18 scale monster truck, is making an appearance at the Horizon Hobby booth. There isn’t any new info that hadn’t already been released last week, but it’s nice to have this thing in hand and get a good look at it. One nice tidbit is that since it’s based on the now discontinued Losi Mini-T, [...]
- 10/20/2011
- 2:30 pm
- Electrix RC
- By: Jeff
What’s new from Panther
The molding magicians at Panther have a few new products here at IHobby. The one above is a new parts mat made from super flexible silicone. They’re perfect for holding screws, shocks, bearings and other small parts that have a terrible tendency to roll away when you turn your back. The one pictured above is one of [...]
- 10/20/2011
- 1:59 pm
- New Products
- By: Jeff
ECX Hop-ups
ECX is hyping their new line of hop-ups for the super durable and basher friendly ECX vehicles. For the Ruckus monster truck and Boost buggy you’ll find metal gear sets, drive shaft rings, wheelie bars, aluminum shocks and more. All of these products are available now or will be very soon at very reasonable prices. Keep an [...]
First demo of IHobby
Just like years past we’re holding regular bashing demos on the Big Squid RC track at IHobby. In the pics Craig the Crazy Ramp Builder is shooting video for our next 3D video, our first is on display here at IHobby, and we have thousands of pairs of 3D glasses for you. Also like years past we’ll be giving [...]
- 10/20/2011
- 12:43 pm
- Uncategorized
- By: Jeff
Sunshine Systems LED strips
Sunshine Systems is back at IHobby showing off their way too cool LED strips. The strips are easily mounted in a variety of vehicles and can be custom fitted to any application. We first saw them at Bash-A-Palooza/RCX Chicago earlier this year. While Sunshine is more known for their grow lights and other LED applications, their first [...]
- 10/20/2011
- 11:40 am
- Uncategorized
- By: Jeff
Random IHobby Pic
Be sure to stop by our booth to say hey and take a photo with the booth babes. Left to right: Adrianna, Aurora and Mandi.
DuraTrax has new line of Short Course Tires
Remember a little while ago, around IHobby time, when DuraTrax announced their line of competition grade 1/8 scale buggy tires? Everybody was all like “What? DuraTrax? No way. Why are they getting into that market? What’s going on here? Where’d I put my pants?” Well, now they are expanding their competition tire line to short course competition. DuraTrax has a [...]
Reedy Competition LiPos available again, get 'em while they'…
If you’ve been shopping for some Reedy LiPos, you’ve probably had a bit of trouble finding them. Well wait no more, the gang at Reedy has just sent along a note that their 60c Competition LiPos are back in stock and shipping out as we speak. If you’ll recall, these batteries are available in all kinds of configurations, including single cell [...]
R/C Around the Web – Long climb to the top… edition
Photo of the Week:by Michael Johns Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb tomorrow, got my tickets. Will Monster Tojima or somebody else finally break the 10:00 minute barrier this year? The weather is supposed to be good so fingers are crossed. I’ll probably be up around the Devil’s Playground area with family and friends. Build Log: XR10 Tuber Good Question: Is cheap best [...]
Hitec X1 Charger
Hitec isn’t just servos and radios. They also make chargers and this one here, the X1 AC Plus Multi-charger, is their latest. The X1, as the you might guess from the name is an AC/DC charger capable of peak charging most battery chemistries, including LiPo, LiFe, NiMH, and NiCd among others. For the Nickle batteries it’s capable of charging up [...]
Hitec’s new, speedy servos
Hitec does one thing really well, release a lot of new servos. Here’s their latest, the HS-7235MH and HS-7245MH. Both of these are high voltage, coreless mini servos suitable for smaller scale cars and trucks as well as light planes and helis. At 6 volts the 7235 is rated at 50 oz-in with a transit speed of 0.09 second and [...]
