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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?

That was your 219th post viperdonut.

I've never had a problem with Tower.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Yeah Mini777, Halfeight, same thing.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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....