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February 9, 2008

Josh Cyrul joins Motonica

We heard this mentioned at the fair on the Motonica booth but thought the announcement was still a time away, but today we have gotten confirmation from Motonica USA that Josh Cyrul will race their car for this season. Cyrul is a former IFMAR World’s TQ, and multiple national and international race winner and he brings with him many years of racing knowledge and engineering experience. His debut with the Motonica P8.0R 08 will be at the upcoming Winternats held in Ft. Myers, Florida and joining Josh will be sedan racing ace Ron Atomic and one of the best 1/8th on road drivers in the US, Scotty Barrera. This is the second announcement regarding Josh this week, having been confirmed as a TOP team driver on Thursday.

Source: Motonica USA [motonica-usa.com]

February 9, 2008

AKA World Class Products

An interesting rumour that we heard floating around the fair was the impending release of a new brand selling competition based products. There was little or no further information to be found regarding what type of products they are, other than it was something to do with Kyosho and it was called AKA. We’ll let you know more information when we get it. Remember you heard it here first.

February 9, 2008

Toy Fair – Tamiya & Carson

Tamiya DT-02 MS

On one of the biggest stands at the fair, Tamiya and Carson, had their latest and greatest products on show. On the Tamiya side of the booth, the Japanese company was focussing on its DB01 off road chassis, which is the basis for the Durga buggy, while also very much in focus was the Limited Edition DT-02MS 2wd buggy. Given a very large section of their own was the TamTech range of mini retro 2wd buggies, but the highlight of the stand was the display of a full size Porsche 911GT3 racing car. This was present due to the release of a RC replica of the car, based on the RTR TT-01 Type E 4wd chassis and which comes with built in lights for that realistic effect.

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February 9, 2008

Toy Fair – Xceed RC Products

Xceed Electronic Equipment

On the Serpent stand this year was some products from Xceed RC which include some already released parts such as the tools, fuel gun and LiPo receiver packs. New on display was a pre production prototype of their new range of electronic equipment which comprises of 3 seperate items, a power supply, a charger and a touring car tire warmer. Only just received at the show, these first samples will be changed quite a bit before release but will be modular and of a high quality. Other items included new regulaters for LiPo packs, competition hard cased LiPo’s for touring cars and a new aluminium honeycomb carbon fibre setup board.

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February 9, 2008

Toy Fair – TGR 1/28th scale racer

TGR 1/28th scale

One of the smaller companys at the fair is the Turkish mini car specialist TGR, whose products we have featured previously. Attempting to bring new levels of competitiveness to the mini scale market they had the new 1/28th scale on display at the stand. Replacing the company’s Sinister, this car sports a floating front end and so does away with steering kingpin suspesion, had adjustable ride height, adjustable wheel base and has an all new differential which is driving by a ‘belt’ from the motor pinion to the rear axle. TGR also had a number of other items on their stand including the Sinister, some new bodyshells, setup boards and a neat little discharger for AAA cells that has adjustable discharge rate and final voltage.

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February 8, 2008

Toy Fair – LRP Electronics

LRP Quantum Speedos

LRP walked us through their new bits on their large stand and there are lots of new things on display. First up is a new line of Quantam speed controllers, these are aimed at the entry level market and are all supplied with reverse and come in 3 different versions, Super, Pro and Bullet. For cooling your LRP motor, they have released a range of aluminium plates for the rear and front of the motor, with the front versions available in 2 thicknesses for adjusting the centreline weight of your car.

Toy Fair – Serpent S500 First pics

Serpent S500

Here are the first pictures of the new Serpent S500 4wd buggy. Shown today for the first time it retains the Durango feel while at the same time being completely new. The car has an anodised aluminium chassis with detachable sides and has some really nice details all over, especially the rear battery brace and quick release rear driveshaft for removing the batteries. It uses a dual pivot steering system and the servo is mounted betwen the posts and it was a revised geometry compared the the Durango.

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February 8, 2008

Toy Fair – Team Corally

Corally 10X

Dutch company Team Corally have a large booth at the show and are displaying, among other things, the company’s new 10X and New Generation F1. Very simple cars, the rollng chassis on both are extremely lightweight, similar to the company’s SP12X, which is also on display. The RDX Phi is also present in its carpet foam guise and is sporting thick carbon and lightweight front and rear axles.