FUCK TOWER HOBBIES!

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:53 pm

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Just bear with me for a sec while I rant. I order my RC18T JANUARY 23RD from Tower with a 25 dollar off coupon, and proceeded to order a peak charger, motor mount and Topcad CVDs for it (charger from tower, everything else was from RC Mart). IT HAS BEEN A ONE AND A HALF MONTHS WITH NO TRUCK WHEN IT WAS DUE IN EARLY FEBRUARY. I went on the site today, AND IT IS NOW DUE IN APRIL. I've decided it's worth a 45 minute drive to my dad's house to get the damn from an awesome LHS, and tower can take my backorder along with the coupon and SHOVE IT.

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I feel better now. Anyone else have similar experiences?

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:16 am

That was your 219th post viperdonut.

I've never had a problem with Tower.

kvik369 · Post by **kvik369** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:42 am

Tower has been one of my positives. I got an Overland BMW when they had them cheap with a coupon. When I got it, the body clips were off. So they sent me a autoscale.

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:23 pm

I'm just pissed about Tower screwing off with the due date. I guess the only positive about this is I'll be supporting my local LHS...

stampede_dude · Post by **stampede_dude** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:10 pm

thats just one thing about tower man. they ship very vast IMO, but those are just the expected dates, they might as well say a year from now, because towers dates are never correct the first time.

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:44 pm

stampede_dude wrote:thats just one thing about tower man. they ship very vast IMO, but those are just the expected dates, they might as well say a year from now, because towers dates are never correct the first time.

Or the third in this case...

Mazda787b · Post by **Mazda787b** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:08 pm

Same thing happened to me. Hell, I even pre-ordered the same time as you. The RC18 RTR is back-ordered up the wazoo, you are better off paying a bit more and getting one from the LHS. I got impatient and jsut ordered a TLT instead. Expect the demand for the RC18 to go down after the mini777 comes out.

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:42 pm

Mazda787b wrote:Same thing happened to me. Hell, I even pre-ordered the same time as you. The RC18 RTR is back-ordered up the wazoo, you are better off paying a bit more and getting one from the LHS. I got impatient and jsut ordered a TLT instead. Expect the demand for the RC18 to go down after the mini777 comes out.

Mini 777?

Edit: Ohhhh, the Kyosho Half-8. Nevermind...

Mazda787b · Post by **Mazda787b** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:58 am

Yeah Mini777, Halfeight, same thing.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:49 am

In the case of backorders, it's entirely out of Towers hands. Apparently Associated wasn't prepared to meet the demand.

I saw a reader's letter in RC Car Action requesting a mini section for 1/18th and smaller, and they said they had considered it, but are waiting to see if it's just a fad. Come on RC Car Action, don't be so damned narrow minded, there is obviously strong interest in smaller scales. How the heck is a new class supposed to survive without support from the media.

Halfeight, huh? WTH is that, a fancy way of saying 1/16th?

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:58 am

crazydave wrote:In the case of backorders, it's entirely out of Towers hands. Apparently Associated wasn't prepared to meet the demand.

I saw a reader's letter in RC Car Action requesting a mini section for 1/18th and smaller, and they said they had considered it, but are waiting to see if it's just a fad. Come on RC Car Action, don't be so damned narrow minded, there is obviously strong interest in smaller scales. How the heck is a new class supposed to survive without support from the media.

Halfeight, huh? WTH is that, a fancy way of saying 1/16th?

The Half-8 is a Kyosho 1:16 scale buggy with a fake nitro head sticking out of it:

http://216.69.159.49/stuff/rc/miniinferno1.wmv

gnubee · Post by **gnubee** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:05 am

is it just me, or does the front and shocks of the half8 remind of the predator alien with his mask off, screaming?

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:32 pm

with a fake nitro head sticking out of it

Oh gawd, how corny.

Sorry, that just struke me as silly. I guess if you got all that money tied up in a 777, then you might just have to have it's little "Half-8" brother, but otherwise, I maintain my

stance.

Probably will have an inflated Kyosho price too.

stampede_dude · Post by **stampede_dude** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:27 pm

amen,dave...i just have that feeling that it wont be cheap...like the rip off hotbodies minizilla...a mini truck made for offroading...you can buy a damn 1/10 scale truck that will run it plum over off roading for that much.

Sdog · Post by **Sdog** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:14 am

I was at a local hobby shop a couple of weeks ago and they had three RC18T's in stock for around 160 bucks.

Silly crackers....