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Greetings podcast listeners! Everyone in the industry has had questions about the Horizon Hobby buyout of Hobbico, and I mean EVERYONE. Hobby shop owners, manufacturers, even your average basher, wants to know what’s happening to some of their favorite brands. We recently had the honor of being invited to sit down with Joe Ambrose, the CEO and President of Horizon [...]
Episode 5 is here! This episode features Matt Wallace from Pro-Line Racing. We have known Matt for quite a while now, and it’s always great to chat with him and get his view of how things are going in the hobby. Matt has been with Pro-Line for about as long as we can remember, and he has always been a huge [...]
Episode 4 is ready to enter your eardrums, and we are glad you are here! This show features Joshua Barker, PR and Marketing Manager of MaxAmps, arguably one of the best known LiPO battery companies in the world. Joshua and Tim discuss all sorts of LiPO and battery myths, future tech, and general MaxAmps info. If you are curious about [...]
Welcome to episode 3 of the Big Squid RC Podcast! This time around we have the pleasure of talking with Tom Allen, the vice president of RC4WD. RC4WD has been crushing it for years, and when it comes to the scale scene, there isn’t really anyone doing it better. Tom gives some insight into the company, the products, and hopefully [...]
You asked for a scale adventure and that’s exactly what we gave you with Mud, Rocks, and Tears 2018. That’s right, last Saturday 65 people took to the incredibly unique MRT course to challenge not just their trucks, but also themselves. You see, the MRT trail loop was challenging for both people and trucks with its demanding climbs and descents. [...]
Welcome to episode number 2 of the Big Squid RC Podcast! This episode Tim chats with Patrick del Castillo from Castle Creations and discusses all things brushless. It does not matter if you are a air guy or a surface guy, experiencing a Castle system in your model is a must do! If you are in the bashing scene, the racing [...]
Here we are, the final round! Congratulations to the ARRMA Kraton and the Axial SCX10! Both of these vehicles fought off some insanely tough competition to make it here and to be the winners of the Basher side and the crawler/scale side. Now it’s time for their final fight, is it really the Kraton vs the scX10 or is it [...]
We are down to the final four! This is a VERY important round because it’s going to crown a winner for the basher side and a winner for the crawler side. It’s been very exciting watching things unfold. The leads in round three jumped back and forth several times leaving us on the edge of our seats to see who [...]
We are down to eight vehicles. Four on the basher side, and four on the crawler side. The last round proved pretty interesting as a few upsets broke more than a few of the Big Squid RC crew brackets. There are several vehicles in the top 8 nobody expected to get this far. Again, every year we are surprised by [...]
Welcome to Round 2 of the March Bash-ness 2018 brackets! We warned you that we had planned a twist, and as you can see it’s a good one! We took all the winners from the sweet 16 bracket in round one, and put them on the left side. On the right side, we have added 8 scale/crawler vehicles! We had a [...]
Welcome to the 2018 March Bash-ness Sweet 16! As always, we’d like to thank all of our readers around the world for posting to social media, sending in emails, leaving comments on what vehicles you think need to be in the bracket. As we have hinted to recently, there is going to be a little twist this year. What’s the [...]
Holy cow we have a podcast! We are excited that our first guest is Derek Wagner from Horizon Hobby! Derek offered some great info and insight with us and our readers / listeners covering all sorts of Horizon brands from ECX and Losi to Vaterra plus everything in between! Tim Gluth did a great job of putting the podcast together, [...]
That’s right folks, BigSquidRC is getting a podcast! BigSquidRC is teaming up with RC Newb’s Tim Gluth to bring you a series of in-depth podcasts with various industry insiders. Tim Gluth has what we consider to be the best podcast in rc. You can sample some of his previous episodes By Clicking This Link. Gluth is up to 50 episodes over [...]
Finally, it’s the end of the year, and we get to announce the winner of our Bash Vehicle of the Year Award. Every single year the Big Squid RC crew takes a step back and discusses possible winner. We take the top 5 that we all agree could of been at the top, and then argue for a while over [...]
We are down to the final two. If you missed the rest of the top 5, you can click the Bash Vehicle of the Year Award link to see what the previous vehicles for this year and previous years were. While there can only be one winner, the number two vehicle can easily have been swapped with number one because [...]
