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For the past few summers, hobbyists from across the globe have come to Monticello, Illinois for Horizon Hobby’s RC Fest. RC Fest has always been a celebration of the remote control community, and this year for 2019, it was definitely larger and better than ever before. For the 2019 edition of RC Fest, Horizon Hobby added more hands-on activities, plus another [...]
Over the weekend of May 5th, 1/5th scale drag racers from across the country converged on St. Louis, Missouri, for the STL RC Drag Racing Club No Prep 1/5 Baja Drag Racing Championships. Whether it be full sized, or 1/5th scaled, drag racing can be serious business. That’s why dozens of our country’s premier large scale drag racers met up [...]
Coming up about a month from now is the Horizon Hobby RC Fest. RC Fest is set in beautiful Monticello, Illinois and is a weekend filled with rc fun for the entire family. The BigSquidRC Bash Crew has been going to RC Fest since the very beginning, but can’t wait for this year’s event as it will be even bigger [...]
Can you believe that 2019 marks the 4th year for Pro-Line’s By The Fire scale adventure crawling event? That’s right, By The Fire is ready for year number 4, and the 2019 event is planned to be bigger and better than eveer! How is that possible? By The Fire 2019 has a special 80’s retro theme that is extremely popular [...]
Coming to Hazelwood, Missouri on May 5th is the STL RC Drag Racing Club 1/5 Baja Championships. This spring the STL RC Drag Racing Club will host 1/5th scale drag racers from across the country to see who is the quickest down the scale quarter mile. All the fastest 1/5 Baja racers from around the country will be driving to [...]
To wrap up our coverage of the 2018 Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo, we are posting one final picture gallery. The giant gallery below shows off numerous booths and gatherings around the show. As you scan the pictures you’ll see the rc drifting demonstration, as well as several Lego based booths, along with more railroad coverage. Some of the displays at the [...]
As the BigSquidRC Bash Crew walked the Rocky Mountain Hobby Show over the weekend, we took a whole lot of pictures. The Rocky Mountain Show used up a lot of floor space to cover all the different products that you would find in a local hobby shop. Of course there was a lot of surface rc, but there was also [...]
Another one of the big names at this year’s Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo was Tower Hobbies. Tower has long been known as America’s premier mail order/on-line business for the rc hobby and we were stoked to check out their large booth. Inside the Tower booth we found loads of goodies for today’s hobbyist. From entry level ARRMA bash trucks, to [...]
Last weekend at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo, we got a chance to visit with the folks from Hobby Recreation Products inside their booth. The HRP crew had been planning their booth for months and it looked great at the show. HRP went big for the Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo this year. Part of “going big” included sponsoring a small [...]
Bringing remote control excitement to the 2018 Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo was the crew from Traxxas. Traxxas did not have a traditional style booth at the Denver show, instead they brought a giant inflatable try-me-track to give consumers a chance to drive their products first hand. The Traxxas try-me area was a great way for people that did not know [...]
Over the weekend the BigSquidRC Bash Crew traveled to beautiful Denver, Colorado for the 2018 edition of the Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo. Coming out to support the event was the crew from Horizon Hobby. The Horizon crew had one of the largest booths at the show, thus giving them plenty of room to show off their extensive line of rc [...]
Greetings, o ye of the monster truck faith! This weeks Monster Truck Madness is a day early and a tad different, as I have an event report for you versus the standard blog post. The JConcepts King of the Monster Trucks event was held this past weekend at Vinyl Images in Fenton, MO (just outside St. Louis) and wow, what a [...]
The good folks over at Pro-Line have announced that Monster Truck Palooza has changed to the Monster Truck Pit Party at the AMA Expo West. The AMA Expo takes place on November 2-4 and You Are Invited To Participate! Come on out for three days of insane monster truck racing, as well as freestyle and other monster truck activities. To get [...]
Last weekend, the Jet Power 2018 Event took place in Donauwörth-Genderkingen, Germany. Yes, that is the same place where Horizon Hobby had its Airmeet / Racemeet a couple of weeks ago. Seems like this place is becoming the European RC Mecca. Anyway, JetPower was basically all about jet powered planes. It was so awesome to see, hear and feel the [...]
If you are in the Midwest, and you are into RC cars or Full Scale cars, have we got an event for you! September 9th, 2018 we will be at the Cruisin’ For Awareness event. This is an RC event along side a full size car show event. Come drool over all the awesome show cars, and then watch all [...]
