5$ clones at biglots = ruling

custombitbodys · Post by **custombitbodys** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:29 am

ahh yes the thunder charger clones.... i remember i posted a while ago. i must say these are the best quality cars that i have seen so far (steering and range). i got one with a sucky motor, and one with an awesome motor...

heres some pics again. i dont remember if i posted them before.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:41 am

yupp. thats it. i got the blue truck. mine came with another great pink clone motor.

i just transferred the red wheels onto a bit. the rears are a few mms wider than tomy ones and the tires are nice and flat. im not happy with the putty job i did to secure it in so i got work to do tonight but these wheels are pretty darn nice.

also i sort of ripped off their antenna idea and used a piece of solid wire instead of the crap wire for the antenna on my zipzap and cut it so it just barely sticks out of the antenna hole and now i get 15foot+ range around corners. thats with 4cells powering the tx tho.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:03 am

Those are freakin' cool, and for $5, damn. I'm going to be checking every day for that Big Lots to open.

Those tires do look flat and wide, and the 6-spoke rims are cool.

Not that it matters at this point, but what does the controller look like?

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:11 am

its like the tomy controller but redesigned slightly. floppy antenna and the charger is on top instead of the side. buttons feel kinda sloppy but other than that its pretty nice.

also 110mah cell inside. drive is smooth as a mofo for a clone.

and as cbb said great range.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 11:57 am

LOL
I love that antenna, reminds me of the old huge antenna's they'd put on houses to get better TV reception.

custombitbodys · Post by **custombitbodys** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 1:57 pm

yea it steers better than my bitchar-g's and my microsizers....

bdebde · Post by **bdebde** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:14 pm

Damn, no Big Lots around here!

noxorc · Post by **noxorc** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:34 pm

same here...no biglots... never heard of it before.

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:46 pm

I made a trip up to the biglots (bout 20min drive) and didn't see any clones.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:41 am

sessiz wrote:I made a trip up to the biglots (bout 20min drive) and didn't see any clones.

Nearest BigLots to me is about a 45 min drive. That's why I'm waiting for the one up the road to open. It looked ready last night, Why are they torturing me? Just open it already.

kwikbb · Post by **kwikbb** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:46 am

crazydave wrote:
sessiz wrote:I made a trip up to the biglots (bout 20min drive) and didn't see any clones.
Nearest BigLots to me is about a 45 min drive. That's why I'm waiting for the one up the road to open. It looked ready last night, Why are they torturing me? Just open it already.

I got a big parking lot

Gfunk · Post by **Gfunk** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 4:40 pm

crazydave wrote:The dollar store across the street from here has a couple Panthers in the claw machine. I know, not quite, but it is tempting sometimes.

Maybe you should just go up to the lady in the store and be like "I will pay you $5 if you open that machine up and give me one of the things"

There is a big lots in the nearest "city", so I might want to check that out. It is right next to hobby lobby, too, where I need to get some puddy.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:45 pm

noxorc wrote:I smell a beanie baby trend.

Nox...

Ain't that the truth!!

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:20 am

i bought another one of those today here in da burgh(got the other one in ohio) and it is just as good. 49mhz = 15foot range with no adjustments. no antenna sticking out of the car. goes straight turns even both ways and is way faster than a stock bit. hobbico is dropping the ball hard.

the only thing microsizers beat them out on is quality of the bodies but these aint that bad.

Gfunk · Post by **Gfunk** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:34 am

hogjowlz wrote:i bought another one of those today here in da burgh(got the other one in ohio) and it is just as good. 49mhz = 15foot range with no adjustments. no antenna sticking out of the car. goes straight turns even both ways and is way faster than a stock bit. hobbico is dropping the ball hard.

the only thing microsizers beat them out on is quality of the bodies but these aint that bad.

And will a standard 'sizer body fit on one of these puppy's? I would think it would.

Also Havok, you live in the middle of a cornfield too? What state?