A hard watch, but let’s face it this is what we all did back in the day. My Boomerang had a pretty hard life but, apart from the battery door, survived pretty well. What it does highlight is that, with a little care, these can be fixed. Thanks for another video Gavin, BTW this is my first ever CZcams comment!
Is it wrong of me to be smiling so much?😂😂😂 I thoroughly enjoyed that. The Grasshopper bashing was like watching the Terminator keep coming back for more! Great video
Tamiya buggies are about irreplaceable memories and emotions.. if you had one back in the 80's you'll understand. My brother and I saved for our Frog by collecting bottles and cans to recycle at 5 cents each . My parents wouldn't buy it for us but my father made a trailer out of an old Coke crate and law mower wheels to tow behind my brother's bike to help collect bigger loads..( that's what i call real parenting, we weren't spoiled and i appreciate it more now I'm older ).. Anyway for a few years we had the cleanest town and our little dog loved going for a ride in the trailer as well.. the Frog is still at my parents home somewhere but unfortunately the little trailer is long gone and i wish we still had it because it's the foundation for some great memories.
As soon as i saw the thumbnail and title I winced straight away, having a Dark Impact myself i know exactly how fragile they can be when taking a reasonable impact.
Tamiyas are just not made for high impact tumbles on concrete⚠️ I learnt that the first time I took my original 1980s Super Sabre to the local park and took it over a jump! It tumbled and landed awkwardly on it's rear, thankfully the gearbox protectors took the impact and cracked one, nothing a drop of superglue couldn't sort but I learned my lesson. On grass or a loose dirt/mud surface no such issues at all.😊
I always liked that you didn't bash your cars, but after this I think its good that you do as I think it will help your channel grow. And you bash with such care that it was kind of nice to watch. The compassion shown to the poor Grasshopper warmed my heart Gav. I'll watch your channel however you drive your cars it's all good for me 🙂
I race a Tamiya Falcon at a yearly vintage festival. See Castle Hill Vintage Festival on youtube. Front arm exploded taking a small jump at a slight angle on the warm up lap for the 1st final this year.. The thing about Tamiya car is that they're recognisable. My daughter could not tell my jrx2 and my b44 apart- both were called 'the Losi'. Falcons and foxes were no issues however. The Falcon only holds toghever thanks to a growing number of AMPRO parts if you were wondering.
Funnily enough, the Hornet/Grasshopper is the only chassis I would consider doing this to. It's about the toughest thing Tamiya ever made. It had to be to survive me as a teenager. Interesting vid.
Thanks for the video! Reminds me of the Top Gear Hi-Lux episode lol. Mind you Tamiya seem to me to be the RC Toyota. Not to bring up yesterday's news but please tell me you kept the good upgrades you put on that cheap truck you threw in the bin the other day. They might make music with the wrecked Grasshopper!
The strongest Tamiya in my opinion is the TT02. I have ran my rally TT02 on a 3s brushless system in dirt and gravel brutally for the past few years and nothing has broken, though some parts have worn out. It has hit things at 30+mph and It even got ran over by a Fiat 500 at one point but kept on! 😆
I think some people just have the wrong idea what a scale model RC car is or not is. I think a overpowered basher car is something completely different, which simply didn’t exist in the past. These things are made to be abused, to have lots of power and speed, not to look and behave like a scaled down version of a real car. Real cars don’t jump 20 meters vertically into the air and come back down without issues, or are driven off a cliff at ridiculous speeds and expected to take all that without any real damage. It’s a bit like building a scale model Titanic with all details and lights and stuff and then expect it to jump out of the water when accelerating or throw it out the window and expect it to not break.
Finally Gav you have answered the ultimate question that you definitely shouldn’t take a Tamiya to a skatepark! I’m sure there will be loads of comments now saying you chose the wrong Tamiya cars 🤦♂️ everything breaks at a concrete skatepark, but if you use a Tamiya you are going home early 😂
Total mad man but fair play I say best place should be a vintage/ new car run, I own a original Ranger and will not run it in case body breaks should be on a shelf not in a box in my garage should be time to find a good home, should have seen what the Hornet can do
I get the purpose of Tamyia products. But better plastics and better designed parts would drastically improve over all quality. I do not expect any brand to survive skate parks but it is fun to watch someone else😂.
I’d probably pick a Hornet over the grasshopper for this because of the lexan body but overall the platform didn’t disappoint and probably did better than expected i remember doing similar stuff but on dirt with my FX10 and it not immediately exploding (it did but I at least got 2+ batteries out of it before it did 😂 The Dark Impact didn’t fail to disappoint my expectations were pretty low on its survival in these circumstances.
Don't get the point of Bashing 🤷♂️ I'm more of track, crawl and builder guy. But purposely destroying something is just not for me. But that just me. That poor Grasshopper man...
Actually driving an RC at a skatepark is a load of fun I must say, but you can't expect "normal" RC cars to be able to do such things. You need to own a real quality basher product but still, you can't expect to max it out 24/7 and not snap something.
I get that it's fun riding the slopes and doing some flips. (If the car is made for it) My problem is launching the cars into the stratosphere for no reason. I guess there're 2 different ways of bashing.
Ouch¡ this is why I preferred to race my hornet dirt oval back in 85_86. Some kid was always going home in tears on off road nights. My hornet is still intact and recently restored to the way I raced it.
That was painful to watch! Tamiya's have their place but a skate park is not it. All the effort that gets put into building it, why destroy it? Thanks for the video! Enjoy your content! 🚗 🎮
Really enjoyed this vid been waiting for ages for it gav, I agree was sad to see the poor tamiyas that where so nice being destroyed. I went to a skatepark this morning took my typhon and a mate with his kids 2wd truggy thing 1/10 nearly toy grade and it got flattened one jump on it roof then second landed on rear motor and that packed up too. I didn’t even wanna do any jumps with the typhon as that’s not a real basher either, keep up the good work 😊
I can only hope, Tamiya upgrades their plastics. One of the oldest brands, that has made plastic RC vehicles, for decades. I like a skatepark capable Tamiya, so I wouldn’t have to rely on other brands 😅😂
Even though I gave this video a thumbs up, watching this hurt so much. You deserved a like just for bringing the cars there despite knowing the outcome.
You ought to upgrade that GrassHopper with aluminum parts. I built one with an aluminum trans/gears. aluminum chassis, aluminum front A-arms, oil filled aluminum shocks, aluminum bumper, and aluminum sidebars. It is now a basher.
@@RCKickschannel Oh, I dont beleive so. The aluminum is way stronger than any input I could give it. The car weighs less than the aluminums ability to bend. I would have to be going 100MPH to bend it or break it.
Hello Gavin, I bought for my kids a Tamiya Hornet and also Grasshopper. Why? I knew my kids would thrash on these cars and if something does break, parts are easy to get. I think the Hornet would better at the skate park because it has a polycarbonate body. The Grasshopper has a plastic body which would break and did in your thrash testing. I do have a thrashing car or truck. I have a Traxxas 2wd slash. This is my thrashing R/C. Notice that I did not say 4wd. Why? 4wd is more complicated and more things can go wrong with it. You actually proved in your video 4wd is not good for thrashing. I did modify my Traxxas truck. I got Proline shocks and a Castle brushless system. That is the only modifications that I did. Thoughts?
lol. Yep, nothing but shelf queen's. My two boys and I took those Martini Porsche's to the parking lot to race and parts were falling off left and right. No jumps, just a parking lot Tarmac).
Skate parks are brutal on cars 😂 even ones that are ment for bashing brake . Used to beat hell out my boomerang as a kid but hard landings like that would of killed it for sure . The dark impact isnt too bad round a track though , seen a few running at Robin hood
Love it. I've adored Tamiya since my Super Sabre in 87 but hot damn are they meant to pootle opposed to bashing. The Grasshopper destruction reminded me of my old GH being obliterated under a car haha. Back then it was stuff like Nikko that we laughed at for not being robust, now poor old Tamiya gets beaten in the toughness stakes by a £50 HPX lol. Still love my Tamiya, mind. Along with the whole gamut of cheap to expensive bashers out there too.
This like taking your Sports car to a destruction derby to see what breaks, with the answer being just about everything on first Impact (guess thats why you went with the Dark Impact, a RC that tends to break almost every time to lands a jump on a RC car track from what I am told). The funny part is I don't think twice about taking my 2WD drive Tamiya buggies to the beach and blasting them around on the sand (As what else is the beach in Scotland for as its generally to cold to go in the water). Then afterwards cleaning them under the shower head and the using attacking them with a hair driver to clean them out. As I have a Grasshopper and a Racing fighter both built with the minimum amount of metal hop-ups to try and not just add more stuff that will rust in salt water. I also attach any surface rust with WD40 after they dry out and so far I am probably about 8 beach trips in without actually killing anything. So I have purchased and Build a Sands Scorcher for the same treatment but I am expecting cleanup on that one to more or less be a complete take the whole car apart and clean after every run as it has way to much metal parts for Beach use to be a good idea. So I expect I will only do that a couple of times then swap out the locked diff for a ball diff and get some different tires for grass use.
me i modded a 124008 i made a custo chassis that i screw under the stock one with some spring into the screws so it can absord massives hits from bottom and the weith its 100g more working perfectly fine except 5mm lower so i had to regulate the shocks and that thing is absolutly undestrctible especially with the metal kit for all suspension too
how dare you!! 😂
It’s all your fault! Kevin made me do it everyone!
kevin as mr talbot ..lol@@RCKickschannel
Did you know there are Tamiya compatible chassis kits made by RcAidong that are infinitely stronger than the original chassis?
How VERY dare you.! 😉
@sauliluolajan-mikkola620😂 😂 😂 😂 true.!
Oooooof, that is heart-wrenching to watch! The grasshopper and rc10 were my first cars wayyyyy back in the day.
Forget tarmac, the garden and the skatepark - Tamiya buggies are best on a nice flat sandy beach!
Especially if you have the plastic bushes installed
That was fun to watch.
And painful... 😢
I'm impressed at how well the grasshopper coped mechanically. (lol at the graffiti at 03:00).
i noticed the graffiti instantly and was bout to write this comment
It was going 3 mph.
A hard watch, but let’s face it this is what we all did back in the day. My Boomerang had a pretty hard life but, apart from the battery door, survived pretty well. What it does highlight is that, with a little care, these can be fixed. Thanks for another video Gavin, BTW this is my first ever CZcams comment!
There was some real "I didn't hear no bell" energy the wat that Grasshopper kept struggling through the smashes.
Tamiya’s are not for bashing. 🤷🏻♂️👍💯
Love that you did the repair in the video as well…. Was more intent watching that than the skatepark bit. Good job mate!
Is it wrong of me to be smiling so much?😂😂😂 I thoroughly enjoyed that.
The Grasshopper bashing was like watching the Terminator keep coming back for more!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Tamiya buggies are about irreplaceable memories and emotions.. if you had one back in the 80's you'll understand.
My brother and I saved for our Frog by collecting bottles and cans to recycle at 5 cents each . My parents wouldn't buy it for us but my father made a trailer out of an old Coke crate and law mower wheels to tow behind my brother's bike to help collect bigger loads..( that's what i call real parenting, we weren't spoiled and i appreciate it more now I'm older )..
Anyway for a few years we had the cleanest town and our little dog loved going for a ride in the trailer as well.. the Frog is still at my parents home somewhere but unfortunately the little trailer is long gone and i wish we still had it because it's the foundation for some great memories.
You could have fun with the monster beetle in a skate park though, do that next! I love this series.
Nice job Kevin. 😮
Get the Crazy Glue Gavin 👨🔧
As soon as i saw the thumbnail and title I winced straight away, having a Dark Impact myself i know exactly how fragile they can be when taking a reasonable impact.
I fear to look, yet I cannot turn away.
LOL :)
You probably should have done a tt02b instead of the dark impact. I’ve beaten mine up quite a bit, though mostly on dirt roads.
Tamiyas are just not made for high impact tumbles on concrete⚠️
I learnt that the first time I took my original 1980s Super Sabre to the local park and took it over a jump!
It tumbled and landed awkwardly on it's rear, thankfully the gearbox protectors took the impact and cracked one, nothing a drop of superglue couldn't sort but I learned my lesson.
On grass or a loose dirt/mud surface no such issues at all.😊
BMX tracks is more suitable for Tamiya cars.
Really painfull to watch, but we need a second Video. What about the DT-03(T) and TT-02? Maybe they endure longer with a powerfull brushless set-up? 😜
Straight onto Santa's naughty list for that Grasshopper treatment....
I always liked that you didn't bash your cars, but after this I think its good that you do as I think it will help your channel grow. And you bash with such care that it was kind of nice to watch. The compassion shown to the poor Grasshopper warmed my heart Gav. I'll watch your channel however you drive your cars it's all good for me 🙂
The BBX holds up okayish 😂 I stopped and bought a Slash when I realised I was grinding down the tops off the rear shock towers 😅
I put a 7.5 T brushless in my carbon 'Dark Impact'... balistic fun. Full build and skatepark video coming soon.
I race a Tamiya Falcon at a yearly vintage festival. See Castle Hill Vintage Festival on youtube. Front arm exploded taking a small jump at a slight angle on the warm up lap for the 1st final this year.. The thing about Tamiya car is that they're recognisable. My daughter could not tell my jrx2 and my b44 apart- both were called 'the Losi'. Falcons and foxes were no issues however. The Falcon only holds toghever thanks to a growing number of AMPRO parts if you were wondering.
Coming back to the hobby after 30+ years. I immediately grabbed a sand viper, because tamiya is all that I knew. Within 2 months i had a 4s outcast
Brutal to watch
Don’t fret about destroying the cars…
…be happy that you have fresh spare parts!😊
I actually really enjoyed this video.
Jumping Tamiya its like Jumping Lego cars
Funnily enough, the Hornet/Grasshopper is the only chassis I would consider doing this to. It's about the toughest thing Tamiya ever made. It had to be to survive me as a teenager.
Interesting vid.
Do i see a colab with Kev Talbot who can build the toughest tamiya kit for skate parks
Thanks for the video! Reminds me of the Top Gear Hi-Lux episode lol. Mind you Tamiya seem to me to be the RC Toyota. Not to bring up yesterday's news but please tell me you kept the good upgrades you put on that cheap truck you threw in the bin the other day. They might make music with the wrecked Grasshopper!
The strongest Tamiya in my opinion is the TT02. I have ran my rally TT02 on a 3s brushless system in dirt and gravel brutally for the past few years and nothing has broken, though some parts have worn out. It has hit things at 30+mph and It even got ran over by a Fiat 500 at one point but kept on! 😆
The things you do to please your viewers hahaha🎉😂
I know LOL
I know it's probably not a popular opinion but most Tamiya cars are toy grade. Very good toy grade, but toy grade none-the-less.
Maybe Tamiya needs to up their game? How about some better plastics, bearings and brushless.
"but I'm not going to replace it" he says through gritted teeth :)
I look forward to reading the dossier on this, over at Tamiya Club. 😂
And those poor cars my belly was bracing 😢😢😂
I think some people just have the wrong idea what a scale model RC car is or not is. I think a overpowered basher car is something completely different, which simply didn’t exist in the past. These things are made to be abused, to have lots of power and speed, not to look and behave like a scaled down version of a real car. Real cars don’t jump 20 meters vertically into the air and come back down without issues, or are driven off a cliff at ridiculous speeds and expected to take all that without any real damage. It’s a bit like building a scale model Titanic with all details and lights and stuff and then expect it to jump out of the water when accelerating or throw it out the window and expect it to not break.
A missed opportunity to install a brushless, a 3s and to send it to the moon,
LOL
Tamiya are model RC cars IMO. They look stunning but aren't meant for bashing. That being said I thought they took more of a beating than I expected.
I've thrashed my tt02b at the skate park no issues whatsoever. Big jumps aswell 😂
Finally Gav you have answered the ultimate question that you definitely shouldn’t take a Tamiya to a skatepark! I’m sure there will be loads of comments now saying you chose the wrong Tamiya cars 🤦♂️ everything breaks at a concrete skatepark, but if you use a Tamiya you are going home early 😂
LOL "wrong Tamiya cars" So true
Alright now we know.. how bout you do the same with some kyosho cars?!
Sure www.patreon.com/RCKicks
Loved it! That was awesome! We all knew what would happen, but seeing it was very entertaining.
the tamiya truck last long enough on the skatepark as long you keep them on the asfalt :)
Total mad man but fair play I say best place should be a vintage/ new car run, I own a original Ranger and will not run it in case body breaks should be on a shelf not in a box in my garage should be time to find a good home, should have seen what the Hornet can do
Nope, Tamiya are not meant for bashing in the skate park, but i do like the repairing portion. :)
I just couldn't leave it like that.
I’m not going to lie, but every time a chassis slapped the floor I cringed 🤣🤣
I get the purpose of Tamyia products. But better plastics and better designed parts would drastically improve over all quality. I do not expect any brand to survive skate parks but it is fun to watch someone else😂.
Im with you....that was painful to watch....hope the masses are happy now....😎👍
That poor grasshopper. Fighting for its little life. Shame on you all Syd Phillips (Toy Story??) for asking for this.
Brilliant!
Those are classics! What are u doing??😮😂
I’d probably pick a Hornet over the grasshopper for this because of the lexan body but overall the platform didn’t disappoint and probably did better than expected i remember doing similar stuff but on dirt with my FX10 and it not immediately exploding (it did but I at least got 2+ batteries out of it before it did 😂 The Dark Impact didn’t fail to disappoint my expectations were pretty low on its survival in these circumstances.
Don't get the point of Bashing 🤷♂️
I'm more of track, crawl and builder guy. But purposely destroying something is just not for me. But that just me. That poor Grasshopper man...
Actually driving an RC at a skatepark is a load of fun I must say, but you can't expect "normal" RC cars to be able to do such things. You need to own a real quality basher product but still, you can't expect to max it out 24/7 and not snap something.
I get that it's fun riding the slopes and doing some flips. (If the car is made for it) My problem is launching the cars into the stratosphere for no reason. I guess there're 2 different ways of bashing.
If we want to see stuff broken, we'll just watch that "other guy". lol
Fun video!
Tamiya tough baby 😂😂
Ouch¡ this is why I preferred to race my hornet dirt oval back in 85_86. Some kid was always going home in tears on off road nights. My hornet is still intact and recently restored to the way I raced it.
That was painful to watch! Tamiya's have their place but a skate park is not it. All the effort that gets put into building it, why destroy it?
Thanks for the video! Enjoy your content! 🚗 🎮
Really enjoyed this vid been waiting for ages for it gav, I agree was sad to see the poor tamiyas that where so nice being destroyed. I went to a skatepark this morning took my typhon and a mate with his kids 2wd truggy thing 1/10 nearly toy grade and it got flattened one jump on it roof then second landed on rear motor and that packed up too. I didn’t even wanna do any jumps with the typhon as that’s not a real basher either, keep up the good work 😊
Nicely done. You definitely don't see many Tamiya at the park .lol
You got that right!
I can only hope, Tamiya upgrades their plastics. One of the oldest brands, that has made plastic RC vehicles, for decades. I like a skatepark capable Tamiya, so I wouldn’t have to rely on other brands 😅😂
Even though I gave this video a thumbs up, watching this hurt so much. You deserved a like just for bringing the cars there despite knowing the outcome.
You can bash a Tamiya at a skatepark, but they probably won’t last long, their plastics are not designed to “bash”
im with you gavin could not do that at all !!👍
Gavin committed a cardinal sin, but very quickly atoned for it!
To be honest the dark impact is the last thing I’d take to a skate park! 🤣 now a gf01 is a different story!
😂
You ought to upgrade that GrassHopper with aluminum parts. I built one with an aluminum trans/gears. aluminum chassis, aluminum front A-arms, oil filled aluminum shocks, aluminum bumper, and aluminum sidebars. It is now a basher.
Unfortunately it would just be a expensive bent RC
@@RCKickschannel Oh, I dont beleive so. The aluminum is way stronger than any input I could give it. The car weighs less than the aluminums ability to bend. I would have to be going 100MPH to bend it or break it.
I don't go to the skatepark when it's cold. The plastic breaks much easier, not only with Tamiyas.
Thats most of the year in the UK
I really thought the Dark Impact would last a little longer. I have a Dark Impact. Made me crindge too. 😮
He's not the Messiah he's a very naughty boy 😂
Grasshoppers need 540 conversions
That was like watching two baby seals being clubbed to death 😢
Lunchbox vs skatepark bet the lunchbox holds up
A sad video with a happy ending. The cars are simply in good hands 😊
when will we see the video of the race cars ( cougar etc ) taking on the skate park ? will they last longer than the tamiya ??
Hay Gav…….for the next video, can you show how well a stock Hyundai I10 does on the Paris - Dhaka rally 👍 😬
If people keep asking to see it.
Hello Gavin, I bought for my kids a Tamiya Hornet and also Grasshopper. Why? I knew my kids would thrash on these cars and if something does break, parts are easy to get. I think the Hornet would better at the skate park because it has a polycarbonate body. The Grasshopper has a plastic body which would break and did in your thrash testing. I do have a thrashing car or truck. I have a Traxxas 2wd slash. This is my thrashing R/C. Notice that I did not say 4wd. Why? 4wd is more complicated and more things can go wrong with it. You actually proved in your video 4wd is not good for thrashing. I did modify my Traxxas truck. I got Proline shocks and a Castle brushless system. That is the only modifications that I did. Thoughts?
Love Tamiya but I wish they made them stronger 😮
All plastic junk this company makes lmao
I took my TT02b MS with 3S LiPo and it went so high it didn't survive contact ..... with the ground
What sort of model would be more suitable for this?
I think if u wanna have a basher tamiya, the tt02b is prolly ur best bet, since they have the hardened plastic chassis snd flexible shock towers
Yep the TT02B is a bit better for sure but still I would never class it as a basher.
I think a Tamiya Mad Bull would be a better bet as the big tyres and simple design might help but the hard body will be gone in only a few mins.
I had a Dark Impact and the DF03 is a nightmare for rear end repairs, the way everything is built on to the gear box
For all the work it took to fix this one part, it had better generate a ton of views.
Tamiya cars can barely make it around a race track in one piece let alone a skatepark
lol. Yep, nothing but shelf queen's. My two boys and I took those Martini Porsche's to the parking lot to race and parts were falling off left and right. No jumps, just a parking lot Tarmac).
Skate parks are brutal on cars 😂 even ones that are ment for bashing brake .
Used to beat hell out my boomerang as a kid but hard landings like that would of killed it for sure .
The dark impact isnt too bad round a track though , seen a few running at Robin hood
Love it. I've adored Tamiya since my Super Sabre in 87 but hot damn are they meant to pootle opposed to bashing. The Grasshopper destruction reminded me of my old GH being obliterated under a car haha. Back then it was stuff like Nikko that we laughed at for not being robust, now poor old Tamiya gets beaten in the toughness stakes by a £50 HPX lol. Still love my Tamiya, mind. Along with the whole gamut of cheap to expensive bashers out there too.
You MONSTER
Dear Lord Gav, what are you playing at!!! Was the positioning of your Tx next to the meat and two veg intentional? if so, genius!
This like taking your Sports car to a destruction derby to see what breaks, with the answer being just about everything on first Impact (guess thats why you went with the Dark Impact, a RC that tends to break almost every time to lands a jump on a RC car track from what I am told).
The funny part is I don't think twice about taking my 2WD drive Tamiya buggies to the beach and blasting them around on the sand (As what else is the beach in Scotland for as its generally to cold to go in the water). Then afterwards cleaning them under the shower head and the using attacking them with a hair driver to clean them out.
As I have a Grasshopper and a Racing fighter both built with the minimum amount of metal hop-ups to try and not just add more stuff that will rust in salt water. I also attach any surface rust with WD40 after they dry out and so far I am probably about 8 beach trips in without actually killing anything.
So I have purchased and Build a Sands Scorcher for the same treatment but I am expecting cleanup on that one to more or less be a complete take the whole car apart and clean after every run as it has way to much metal parts for Beach use to be a good idea. So I expect I will only do that a couple of times then swap out the locked diff for a ball diff and get some different tires for grass use.
now get the dark impact to a race track.
I wonder how well a BBX would do?
I did it for the my avante for a video and the internet hated it
me i modded a 124008 i made a custo chassis that i screw under the stock one with some spring into the screws so it can absord massives hits from bottom and the weith its 100g more working perfectly fine except 5mm lower so i had to regulate the shocks and that thing is absolutly undestrctible especially with the metal kit for all suspension too
Gavin Talbot, what were you thinking.
Try a tamiya dt01. I use mine on my local skate park. Last time it ended up in a tree.
You should never Talbot a tamiya