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Just found an amazing solution to an age old problem. Are you tired of just plunking down you’re RC just any old place and getting the riot act from your loved ones (be it the better half or a parental figure). Well Kling-On RC has a solution for you, check out these awesome options for storing/displaying/showing off your ride. The [...]
While doing a little track testing recently I spotted this Bucket of Doom outside. Talk about something you don’t want in your garage! LOL. Maybe they are saving them up for a good size Fourth of July show! We usually have a few puffed packs around the office, but there were some here that were completely round! Just thought I’d [...]
I know there are not a lot of moms that read Big Squid RC, but I can best most of the people reading have a mom, in some form or another. So why not bring a smile to everyone’s face today, get out there and bash, and let mom take the wheel! Seriously.. imagine her tearing up her own flower garden [...]
Over the weekend, we were hanging out at the Hobbytown in Orland IL. for the Kyosho Mini Z Motorcycle launch part (which btw are pretty fun to drive) when one of our readers (Manny) showed up with his awesome Axial EXO build that he call’s COPPERHEAD. These pictures do not do the build justice, as in person the colors and [...]
So I’m flipping through this toy catalog I got in the mail recently. It’s sort of a ‘local’ place about 20 minutes from my house. The name of the place is Oakridge Hobbies and Toys. They have moved several times over the years, but always seemed more like a FAO Schwarz wanna be. You would have no problem [...]
I just saw the video of the new Boston Dynamics jumping robot called the SandFlea. It weighs in at 11 pounds, has cameras and a onboard stability system to keep it level in the air! The selling point is that from a dead stop, it can jump almost 30 feet high! I posted the video of the jumping in action [...]
Probably the only reason to own a PS Vita is that the new MotorStorm RC game is FREE to download and play for North America folks for a short time. (Thanks to a Toyota and Scion promotion) The best thing about the game, is the included skatepark bashing that you can see at the beginning of the following video! [...]
Our good buddy Igor sent in this picture of a Traxxas Slash equipped with 4 cameras as well as a on-board processing system to allow surround view for FPV (First Person Video) driving. The car was at a Symposium on future in car systems at the Technical University in Munich. It’s designed for full size cars but shown and demo’d [...]
Just a few random pictures from our visit yesterday at the St. Louis Auto Show. The Monster Energy/Falken Tire 2011 Ford Mustang GT Drift Car was there with driver Vaughn Gittin Jr. signing autographs. If Vaughn Gittin Jr. can charge $20, I should be charging $30! The HPI version of the car was also there doing a little drifting action. I [...]
Another winner pic, this time from Dustin our day 13 of our 20 Days of Christmas Contest. The body looks good! Nice stickers! 😉 Did you win something recently from Big Squid RC? (There are a TON of you out there.. we know, we count these things… ) Want your pic on the front page? Drop us a line. Feel free [...]
Another recent winner, this time from our Onyx Charger Contest sent in this pic of their HPi Blitz with a shiny new Big Squid RC sticker on the side. We’ll file this one under readers rides. 🙂 Did you win something recently from Big Squid RC? (There are a TON of you out there.. we know, we count these things… ) [...]
We recently got this picture from Carolina our Day 19 Winner in our 20 days of Christmas contest. She was the lucky person to win the Venom Gambler. It looks like the whole family is pretty happy. Congrats guys!
We recently received an e-mail from Phil Carnithan. He is the man behind American RC Racing. He has set out on a really ambitious goal of opening a new RC track in the Chicago area. We here at Big Squid RC wish him all the luck in the world. We can never have enough RC tracks, and the fact that [...]
So there are a bunch of people at e-volo who got their brains together to make a huge multi-copter. In the video you can see the big battery packs strapped on each of the struts, and what looks like giant brushless motors on top. The thing that blew me away is that he goes and grabs a normal 2.4ghz rc [...]
So another one of my christmas gifts was a Gmade R1 Rock Buggy chassis. It came all the way from South Korea and took about 25 days to get here! The chassis kit included a ton of extra nuts and bolts that were perfect if you were going to use it to build a custom truck. I went ahead and took [...]
