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Holy cow we have a podcast! We are excited that our first guest is Derek Wagner from Horizon Hobby! Derek offered some great info and insight with us and our readers / listeners covering all sorts of Horizon brands from ECX and Losi to Vaterra plus everything in between! Tim Gluth did a great job of putting the podcast together, [...]
When ECX announced the Barrage Doomsday from Horizon Hobby our mouths dropped! We had never seen a vehicle quite like it before. Part monster truck, part crawler, and sporting a hefty dose of Mad Max, the Doomsday is one of the most unique looking trucks to hit the market in a long time. Over the last few months we’ve been beating [...]
Perfectly in time for the approaching holiday season, Horizon Hobby has announced their Scale And Save event. The scale and save event can save you up to $30 on a new Horizon Hobby crawler. Some of the Losi trucks that are in the event include the Night Crawler 2.0, Rock Rey, and Baja Rey. For ECX they include the Barrage [...]
To open up our coverage of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo we dropped by the Horizon Hobby booth. The Horizon crew was located right next to our booth and was filled with all the latest and greatest in hobby gear. In addition to a normal style booth, Horizon also had a pretty trick try-me area. The try-me area was set-up [...]
New and hot from ECX is the 1/24th sized Barrage Scale Crawler. With a wheelbase of just 4.8 inches, the Barrage can be driven just about anywhere, indoors or out. The Barrage is also loaded with scale realism like fully licensed Falken Wildpeak MT 1.0″ tires and LED lighting. Here are some of its other highlights- * Stamped aluminum chassis * Realistic [...]
For all you ECX Barrage owners out there, ScalerFab has a new Comp-Style Front Bumper. Their bumper is hand welded from steel and uses the existing mounting holes for an easy install. A trail bar comes standard and should come in handy in those tougher rock sections. Better still, you can get the bumper unpainted, in flat black, or coated [...]
Coming soon from ECX is the Kit Version of the 1.9 Barrage. The kit does come with its differential, shocks, and wheels pre-assembled, but the rest is up to you. The kit also comes with a clear body so you can paint it any color you wish, plus it comes with all the tools and electronics needed to get it [...]
New and hot from ECX is the Barrage Doomsday monster truck. The Doomsday sports a gnarly post apocalyptic look which is ready to take over your local bashing area. Labeled as 1/12th scale in size, the Doomsday rides on 1.9″ wheels and monster truck tires which ready to go anywhere you dare to venture. Here are some of its highlights- * [...]
Last weekend the BigSquidRC Bash Crew had the pleasure of attending the 2017 Horizon Hobby RC Fest. Modeled after Horizon’s drone event that was held in Florida last year, RC Fest took place in Monticello Illinois and was used to showcase all of Horizon’s different product lines. Consumers, dealers, and media, flocked to Eli Field to see all of Horizon’s new [...]
For all you folks buried in snow, T-Bone Racing has announced two new colors for their popular Snow Skis. Now you can get TBR snow skis in blue or red to help make your truck stand out in a crowd. TBR makes snow skis for popular vehicles like a multitude of Traxxas trucks, the ARRMA Granite monster truck, the ECX [...]
Have you ever wanted to check out the offices at Horizon Hobby? Well, now you can with the Mannequin Challenge Video posted below. The crew at Horizon Hobby filmed many of their staffers while frozen in “mannequin” style poses to show you what it looks like at their headquarters in Champaign Illinois. Enjoy the video below and you can hit [...]
A few weeks ago ECX announced that they would be including genuine LiPo Batteries in the latest editions of their 1/10th 2wd line-up. Today we are posting up pictures of the LiPo equipped 2WD Ruckus Monster Truck. The Ruckus remains mostly the same as the previous version, but does include a different Spektrum transmitter, new livery, a charger, and of [...]
I’ve been running hot around here the for the last month or so and just realized that I had never discussed the 1/12 ECX Barrage 1.9 RTR Crawler. The Barrage, scheduled to be released early November according to our friends at A-Main Hobbies, is interesting to me as it’s trying to appeal to the budget crawler crowd with a small platform, just [...]
One of the first upgrades that we do to most RTRs is to ditch the stock NiMH battery and pop in a LiPo. This typically gives any vehicle more power from a dead stop along with a higher top speed. On that same note, the folks over at ECX have an updated edition of the 1/10 2wd Ruckus and Torment that [...]
Getting ready to hit the extremely popular scale crawling scene is the ECX Barrage. The Barrage is a 1.9 sized crawler with a scale style chassis and body. The Barrage rides on fully licensed Falken AT3W all terrain tires and is powered by a 370 sized brushed motor. Some of its other details include- * Locked diffs * Multi-link suspension * Waterproof electronics * [...]
