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The largest surface rc booth at iHobby 2012 was from Horizon Hobby. Horizon is one of our hobby’s largest distributors featuring product lines like Losi, ECX, Spektrum, Pro Boat, and Dynamite. Inside the spacious Horizon booth was a netted area for flying helicopters and a decent sized dirt off road track. Consumers could test drive some of the latest Horizon products [...]
Horizon Hobby has done well with their ECX line-up of affordable and user friendly vehicles. Last week ECX announced two new 8th scale buggies, the electric Revenge Type E and the nitro powered Type N. The two new Horizon ECX buggies are huge news in the bashing world so we got with Lee Morrison, lead developer on the Revenge buggy [...]
If you have been in the rc scene for any time at all, then you already know who Kevin Hetmanski is from all his work over at RC Car Action. The entire BigSquidRC crew are stoked to hear that Kevin is now the Product Developer for Horizon’s Pro Boat line. Congrats Kevin, can’t wait to see what trick new stuff you [...]
Bashers often times mount up bodies that were never intended to go on their trucks. For example, one of the members of our BigSquidRC Bash Crew is known for running car bodies on his Savage to get a custom look. Dynamite has introduced a product that makes it easy to mark body holes for those custom installs. The Dynamite EZ [...]
Here’s something you don’t see or hear about often. Off road RC and Planes at the same event! This year Horizon Hobby is having their Off-Road Showdown during the US Air Meet 2012 in Sanford, Maine USA. The dates are September 6-9 and the event will include multiple layouts for 1/8th scale nitro and 1/10th scale electric racing. Our buddy [...]
The guys over at Team Losi Racing have recently introduced their new Nitro TEN-SCT 4wd RTR. We have been big fans of Losi’s electric version, the TEN-SCTE, since it was introduced over a year ago. The new nitro version features an on-board remote starting system, 3.4 nitro engine, waterproof electronics, and 2.4GHz Spektrum radio system. The trucks aren’t available yet, [...]
All the big hitters were at the HobbyTown USA Convention including Horizon Hobby. In the picture above you can see Horizon rep Andy Miller (also an old college buddy of mine) showing off some of their Blade helicopters. The Horizon crew had a nice set-up in their suite with lots of product and even better, lots of food to munch [...]
Pro Driver, good friend of Big Squid RC, and all around nice guy, Scott Hughes has recently checked in! Scott let us know he has just hooked up with Horizon Hobby, and sounds really excited to do so! He didn’t share too many details, but it sounds like he will be working with the some surface brands. We have also heard [...]
THE Dynamite Passport Ultra Battery Charger ReviewWalking around the pits at the local track or bash spot I started seeing a lot of people using the Dynamite Passport Ultra. What in the world? Since when does Dynamite have a popular charger? What makes it so popular? When one dropped in my lap for review I was pretty stoked to [...]
Everybody likes free stuff! Losi has a pretty sweet deal going on right now. From now until October 31st, if you purchase a Mini Desert Buggy you get a free light kit! Good stuff. The Mini Desert Buggy is a pretty sweet little vehicle with a killer look. Make sure you check it out if [...]
It looks like we have part two of Horizon Top Secret Video series is up. Hit the jump to check it out. What do you guys think this thing is?!
So Horizon Hobby is the latest company to jump onto the uber big marketing promo with their new “SECRET TAPE” campaign. Apparently someone “walked in” on some secret stuff. More videos are promised leading up to iHobby, so we’ll have to stay tuned. Check out the video after the jump!
Are you a dad? Are you a dad that has kids that don’t listen to you? It’s because you don’t hit them enough. Then you probably didn’t get what you wanted for Father’s Day. Well Horizon Hobby is to the rescue with their “What You Didn’t Get For Father’s Day” giveaway. They are giving three lucky dads the chance to [...]
For those of you that don’t subscribe to the theory that the iPhone/iPad was created by the devil himself (Brian and I both fall into the “iOS rocks!” crowd) Spektrum will be releasing the new TR1000 STi Telemetry Interface speficially for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. The TR1000 STi allows you to monitor all the telemetry data [...]
Holla rc fans, you’ve come across yet another fantastically satirical edition of THE Cub Report, the column that makes people with a sense of humor giggle, and those without, well.. they have epic meltdowns. 🙂 Australia + 3 days, 20 hours, 14 minutes and 56 seconds = Formula 1!!!! Speaking of epic meltdowns, while I was in Jacksonville Florida last weekend [...]
