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Considering what they are pricing the rereleases at, $380 seems more fair than I would have expected. Even if it is just a remade Apex 2. I can’t decide if I love this or hate this honestly. But I find myself curious if a 1/14 semi body would fit????? Only one way to find out I guess.

I ended up preordering the red one. Don’t need the battery but it was just too good looking to pass up!

That’s about it currently. There are plenty of older motors that would have fit but the only solution for those currently is eBay or any other reseller. I always had luck with O.S. But even used I wasn’t finding any great deals, and plus a used nitro with questionable current parts support makes me nervous. In the end I preordered the AE motor and wait patiently for that.

You can buy a non pull start backplate for that motor if it doesn’t fit. Traxxas #4012. Also it looks like preorders are back open on the associated site for their engine. https://60years.associatedelectrics.com/15s-engine-w-rotary-carb-and-side-exhaust/

If you go TT-02B, how about the TT-02BR? Price seems reasonable for all the hop-ups (bearings, aluminum shocks, upgraded driveshaft, universals, etc.). May be just slightly more than DF03 however you shouldn’t need to do anything to add a brushless to it.

Both the RC10 4WD and the Gold edition are showing as sold out on the Associated website. Assuming the 4WD will reopen at some point and maybe the gold was a 1 time thing? Or maybe multiple editions of the 4WD to follow? Not really sure what to expect I guess, but a bit surprised for it to sell out so quickly.

This release is certainly proving to be controversial. It’s a shame too as it is a cool design and Associated could have done so much better of a job of working with/acknowledged those companies efforts that very obviously heavily influenced this design. Having said that, I have an unbuilt Ten 4.1 (which is currently discontinued, not sure if that happened before or after this announcement) and an unbuilt Team car that (combined) have cost me over $700 and that is just the cost of the two kits. What we have here is a factory supported, fully molded (no 3d printed parts) solution for $300 less. One last point of interest to me, rumor has been that MIP is working on releasing a modern 4-10 kit (supposedly in March). If it came out as a beefed up 4-10, would that have made the Ten4 kit controversial considering the Ten4 is a modernization of the 4-10?

I’ll be honest my hype was really taken down a notch when I saw the comparisons to the FW car. But isn’t that design itself similar to the MIP 4-10 kit? All 3 designs seem to be very similar overall (single belt off the Left of the car, passing through the bulkhead and over the battery to a miniature transmission in the front). I would love to see somebody recreate something closer to the actual Halsey car, although I am not sure it would do much more than look good on a shelf.

WOW!!!!! Been a lot of complaints about AE milking the green and gold editions, this certainly is not that. I’m really blown away by this effort.

All the best for a speedy recovery!

Wow! This is a big one in my eyes. Did not expect something like this to be in the cards. I’m going to need a second mortgage here!

Monster Beetle for me. Not particularly wonderful on or off road but proven to be fairly reliable with its MIP ball diff. This one always puts a smile on my face when I have it out.

I am not normally a metallic special type of guy but I have to say the body is nicely done and the decals are nice on this one. Would be nice to know if the body comes finished or not. At this point I am thinking the plan is smaller batches of “special” editions to continue to move units? I don’t believe there have been additional batches of the 40th, Halsey, or Green cars put out.

I was sweating it out for sure! Glad we are back up!

Who makes those hubs? Certainly are nice looking. How well is the fit? In regards to the suspension pins, probably OK but Tamiya do a 3mm spacer set you could use to take up the slack, #53539.