Tamiya reissue classic 'The Hornet' RC Car.

[iGav]

It's Christmas... that means toys so I've just discovered that Tamiya have reissued the classic 'The Hornet' RC Car from '84

Now any guy worth their salt in their mid/late 20's should recognise this bad boy from their youth, if you didn't own one, then you likely knew someone who did.

It's pretty much as the original was, but Tamiya have seen fit to replace the old 3 Step Mechanical Speed Controller with an electronic one. But considering that Tamiya still produce cars with the old mechanical one, if you wanted it as per the original, I reckon it'd be an easy mod.

If this is a sucess I wonder if Tamiya will reissue other classics from the same period??

Frog
Grasshopper
Boomerang
Hotshot I and II
Lunch Box
Monster Beetle
Porsche 959
Supershot

and the list quite literally goes on and on...

The Hornet

and

For other classic Tamiya cars

 

[jackieonasses]

I remember a couple of years ago, I was soo addicted to RC cars. I had a T-Maxx, and i thought i was king. I wish they would bring back more retro vehicles, and i think the super beetle has already been brought back.

kyle

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Kick-***, I had one and loved it. A friend of mine graduated to gas-powered RC cars, but the Hornet was my first and only.

1984...good God, has it been THAT long?

 

[edesignuk]

I had a Grasshopper! It was great!

 

[evoluzione]

always wanted an RC car, never had one

heck it was only last year i bought my first Scalextric!!!!

the kid across the street from me had a Hornet (maybe it was the grasshopper) and I was dead jealous, but then he also got things like the Hornby Zero One and a Muddy Fox bike, wanker.



that is very cool though, maybe i'll finally get an RC car

 

[WinterMute]

I never had a RC car, used to fly planes for a while, then got a helicopter with my dad. It was a complete bastard to fly though, and needed re-building on many occasions.

At least losing it with a car only results in chipped paint....

I think it finally died about 10 years ago after a particularly nasty power-dive into the 14th on the local golf course, we had to dig it out of the turf.

 

[wdlove]

I never had an RC car. I was of the generation that had Tonka trucks, made of metal. They were very well built, nothing real fancy though.

 

[obeygiant]

i had the fox(2wd) and the supershot(4wd).
I loved those things. I was like the envy of all my buddies.
I upgraded both engines with reedy modifieds, which was
supposed to be a 'fast' engine. Anyway, i still have them somewhere.
I'd have to update the batteries to get them running no doubt.

 

[alywa]

Cool!!

I had a Grasshopper, too. I remeber building it with my dad in 1985. Increadibly, I still think it's in my old closet at my folks house. Wonder if it would still work (with new batteries)?

 

[OutThere]

I made a Rover Mini Cooper last fall...pretty cool little machine — with a few 'select' modifications I have it cranking out about 30mph. Seen here pre-paint on some particularly horrid indoor-outdoor carpet.

 

[timnosenzo]

Wow, that's awesome! I had a Monster Beetle in my younger years--I would definitely buy one if they released it again.

 

[zoetropeuk]

I had the Hornet, then Frog, then the Hotshot II. I actually bought an expensive petrol RC/car about two years ago but nothing is a fun as it was when you were a kid

 

[OutThere]

...and the current paint iteration — sans indoor outdoor carpet :

 

[gammamonk]

Real life videogames! This thread brought back memories.

Back at my parent's house I have a Radio Shack "White Tiger Turbo Buggie" that I played with endlessly as a kid. My friend had this Speed Tank thing that was awesome. But they both used 27.4Mhz or whatever. So we couldn't use them together.

If I have kids someday, they're gonna have some sweet RC cars. And I'm gonna make them beat all my old Super Nintendo games before I'll buy them a Playstation 4.

 

[jmoore1247]

RC Hornet

I wonder if this is still active. I had one of these cars back in 1985 and seem to have lost it in a move or something.