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Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s been a busy couple of weeks around here! Outdoor racing season kicked off, I got my hands on the new Traxxas TRX-4MT Monster Truck, and, last weekend, I got married! I’m catching up from the whirlwind that’s been the last few days, and thus don’t have much new r/c stuff to discuss. However, I do have something [...]
Hey all, Happy Thursday! This week, let’s talk about the new Traxxas TRX-4MT Monster Truck release! If you missed it, here’s a link to the announcement along with our unboxing and running footage videos. What Traxxas has done here is created an “out-of-the-box” solution for those wanting to turn their High Trail TRX-4M’s into monster trucks that resemble those of the earliest [...]
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 [...]
Happy Thursday all! In case you missed it, last week I posted my thoughts on the Losi Mini LMT. I liked it quite a lot. As a lifelong, card carrying BIGFOOT fan, that Grave Digger body wasn’t gonna work for me though. I’m only half serious here- I’m someone who HAS to put their own style of body on an r/c truck, [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! Today, it’s time for my “mini” review of the Losi Mini LMT Monster Truck. The truck has been out several months now, but it’s taken a moment for me to get one in my hands. Let me talk about why that is. I’ll be straight with ya’ll, I have been pretty soured on “mini monster trucks” after [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! I was hoping to discuss my new Losi Mini LMT this week, but it won’t arrive until after this posts. As the great Tom Petty said, “The waiting is the hardest part.” I suppose the good news is that it’ll give me a full week to drive mine and get a feel for it, so barring some [...]
Greetings all and Happy Thursday! It only took 4 months of dragging my feet to get it done, but my Tamiya Konghead 6×6 G6-01 is now finished! This truck isn’t exactly going to be a shelf Queen, as I intend to take it out to r/c monster truck events to play around with it….but it will indeed spend most of its life [...]
Greetings all and Happy Thursday! This week I had planned to talk about my Tamiya Konghead build, as the truck is finished save for the paint job. However, with Primal R/C announcing the V4 version of their 1/5 Monster Truck, I figured I’d turn my attention to that big fella. For those that are unaware, the V4 is the fourth revision (duh) [...]
Hello everyone and a hearty “Happy Thursday” to you! Last week I celebrated my 40th birthday, and the main gift that my fiancee got me was a new roll around toolbox/workstation for my r/c and scale modeling! In Rotten Apple colors, no less!It’s really nice because whereas I had one dedicated work bench for my hobby stuff before, now it’s expanded [...]
Hey folks, happy Thursday to you! This week we are heading into the monster mailbag as I got a good one involving the Losi LMT. Hey Doug, Recently I was watching some Trigger King races, is there a reason you guys don’t have a LMT spec class anymore? Not really a fair race when stock LMT’s are up against a modded out clod. What about a shock on [...]
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, Happy Thursday! I have finally begun building my Tamiya Konghead 6×6, and thus far it’s been a fun and relatively simple build. The photo above is that of the gearbox, right before mating both sides of the chassis together. It’s a pretty wild design in that the entire driveline is gears! The entire chassis IS the gearbox. There is a [...]
Hey everyone, Happy Thursday! Another week almost over, another week closer to winter being over and being able to get outside. Funny how every year seems to work the same for me. After monster truck racing season ends in October I need a bit to recover. I usually don’t have a ton of desire to work on r/c projects until we [...]
Hey all, Happy Thursday! I received a good e-mail from a reader the other day in reference to my 2024 prediction column. I figured it would be a good basis for discussion this week. Hi Doug. Big fan of your articles. Reading the most recent prediction one, I noticed something about the lack of a revival of the Juggernaut occurring being the only [...]
