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Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard. Another week, another huge release! This week, the Traxxas Pro Scale X-Series Sand Car was announced- a large scale sand rail that’s around the same size as their vaunted X-Maxx. The announcement has generated a lot of buzz and discussion. I’ve seen some full scale motorsports news media outlets discuss the rig, which [...]
Greetings all and a Happy Friday to you! Welcome to The Backyard. I really appreciate running this post every Friday, because Thursday is the day that the hobby industry drops most of its news. And this week did not disappoint! Out of nowhere, the Losi 22S Sprint Car was announced! Losi 22S Sprint Car was announced! This is both a surprising announcement but [...]
Hey everyone, Happy Friday! I have finished my Vanquish H10 Optic kit build! At some point I’ll share some detailed post-run impressions after its had a few trail runs under its belt, but in the meantime I wanted to talk about my build experience. The kit is top notch. This is my first experience with a Vanquish rig, and its made a [...]
Greetings everyone and happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard, my little slice of the Internet. Off-road Retro Re-Releases are mega hot right now, as many of the hobbyists today have the disposable income to happily sling at the vehicles they either owned as a youngster, or wanted to own but didn’t quite have the money for. I’ve really enjoyed seeing all [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Well, out of nowhere last week I decided to do a thing- I ordered a Vanquish H10 Optic kit. I have been eying one of these rock buggies since they were announced as an RTR last year. Late in 2024 a kit version was announced, and since then the rig has been receiving rave reviews online. [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Several big bits of r/c news dropped this week to help break through the monotony of winter! The 1/8 Axial AXP8 Gilamon 2.2 4×4 RTR Brushed Trail Buggy was announced yesterday after several days of being teased. This is a totally new Axial release featuring all new parts/moldings and the big feature of which is the new ASD [...]
Greetings all and happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard, my little slice of nonsense on the Internet. If there is one thing that absolutely grinds my winter r/c projects to a halt, it’s needing to lay down a paint job when the weather is frigid. I currently have 3 projects totally backlogged because of this- a modified 4×4 pulling truck, a mini [...]
Happy Friday all and welcome to The Backyard. Lots of news this week, as various companies, most notably Tamiya and Kyosho, announced their 2025 releases at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair in Germany. Sadly for me, another year without a Juggernaut 2 re-release. Fans of on-road cars and buggies are probably happier though! Tamiya has the BMW license again, and they appear [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard. A little surprise followed me home last week from the local hobby shop. I didn’t intend on buying anything, but they had a “20% off everything in the store” sale, and I couldn’t resist grabbing the Tamiya BBX 2WD Off-Road Buggy Kit (BB-01) that they had on the shelf. I have been eyeing [...]
Happy Friday all and welcome to my little slice of the Internet, The Backyard. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been looking at returning to what originally got me into the hobby 30 years ago, off-road racing. It’s been awhile since I’ve been in to it. I spent the last 10 years seriously racing solid axle monster trucks, and before that [...]
Greetings all and Happy Friday. Welcome to The (very snowy) Backyard! Before I get going here- good vibes to all of you in the western US dealing with the wildfires. I hope you all stay safe! We’ve had over a foot of snow the last week here in St. Louis, with more coming down now as I write this, so yeah, [...]
Hello all, and Happy Friday! Welcome to the first Backyard of 2025. Today, I’m going to make some predictions for some things that we are gonna see in world of r/c in 2025, and then this upcoming December we’ll review how well I did! For the sport of it, these are indeed actual predictions and not things that I know of [...]
Hey all and Happy Friday! Welcome to a holiday time-vortex edition of The Backyard! Well, it’s my last post of the year. With that, time to take a look back at my predictions and see what I got right or wrong. Then, next week I’ll take out the crystal ball and make some educated guesses as to what we will see [...]
Greetings all and Happy Friday! Christmas is next week, so I hope ya’ll got your shopping done….I know I haven’t! Apologies for the Taylor Swift pun in the title here, but I couldn’t resist. Hey, so yesterday Cubby decided to take a break from retirement to drop a Cub Report, and it was a good one. I would suggest you read it, [...]
Hello everyone, a happy Friday to you! As we hit mid-December, a time when business and news traditionally dies down as everyone collectively goes on a break until the New Year, the r/c world had some interesting news/releases drop. The HPI Venture18 1985 Toyota Hilux SR5 crawler was announced, and a day later the Redcat Ascent-18 International Scout II – 1/18 Scale [...]
