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enpi099
06-24-2009, 04:20 AM
Hi all,
what a vintage rerelease after 30 years !
http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=58441

Now waiting for Sand Scorcher !
Jason MaxAmps
06-24-2009, 09:47 AM
I'm all for bringing back the old classic's but I have to question the use of Die cast parts. Seems that these days they could have gone a stronger more dependable route. Also when is Tamiya gonna get with the times and start to offer brushless systems in their cars. So many of the classics would be that much better on brushless and Li-Po's. I still wish I had my Tamiya Fox that I had when I was a kid that thing was great back then.

-J
pasan
06-24-2009, 10:02 AM
Tamiya already have a brushless system, but it appears to be pretty expensive.

Edit: Just saw the price of the kit. $513? Really? If I'm going to pay that much for a re-release, they should be a numbered limited run with a display case and stand, and a gold plated plaque stating its a 30th anniversary re-release and the sequence.
Troy Lyman
06-24-2009, 10:48 AM
That's MSRP. MSRP on the Grasshopper is $152...when was the last time you saw a Grasshopper kit in the stores sell for $152? :) Still, I see a price tag around $250 which is still a bit much for this kit IMHO...but then again look at how much metal is in that thing! :) Plastic is always cheaper. :)
rccardude04
06-24-2009, 11:19 AM
I'm all for bringing back the old classic's but I have to question the use of Die cast parts. Seems that these days they could have gone a stronger more dependable route. Also when is Tamiya gonna get with the times and start to offer brushless systems in their cars. So many of the classics would be that much better on brushless and Li-Po's. I still wish I had my Tamiya Fox that I had when I was a kid that thing was great back then.

-J


Then again, everyone I know was cranky when the new Hi Lifts didn't have the metal frame and overly complex transmission straight out of a Bruiser.

The point of these reissues is to let some of us who were really little and wanted these really bad when we were young, to actually have a shot at owning one now.

Leave it die cast! If they were plastic, I wouldn't have even looked at more than one or two of the pictures.

Tamiya has modern cars that they can shove brushless systems into. Leave the re-issues like the old ones were. That's the point!

-Eric