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It seems that TBG doesn't make it.
These bodies are now impossible to find, I believe.
The best looking body for the big wheels trucks imho.

<img src="https://i.ibb.co/pjPFJX3/Wild-Dagger.jpg" alt="Wild-Dagger" border="0" />

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2 minutes ago, kontemax said:

It seems that TBG doesn't make it.
These bodies are now impossible to find, I believe.
The best looking body for the big wheels trucks imho.

Wild-Dagger.jpg


Post Scriptum: I don't remember how to attach the image preview, sorry.

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I looked for one of these bodies a few years back and had no luck either unfortunately. I think the Tamiya Sand Shaker used the same body, but its discontinued too.

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1 hour ago, Saito2 said:

I looked for one of these bodies a few years back and had no luck either unfortunately. I think the Tamiya Sand Shaker used the same body, but its discontinued too.

Sand Shaker and the Mighty Bull RTR if I remember well.
There was also a Nitro truck that used it.
Shame there are no more spare parts already.

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I correct myself, mighty Bull have the Twin Detonator body.
Any other model that uses Wild Dagger body?
Or Twin Dtonator Body that could be a good replacement?
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12 hours ago, kontemax said:

 

Haha that's mine in the Picture ;) - but I came to the thread too to see where I might be able to get another body as mine is looking a little tatty these days.... 

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24 minutes ago, gizard said:

Haha that's mine in the Picture ;) - but I came to the thread too to see where I might be able to get another body as mine is looking a little tatty these days.... 

Common problem, I can imagine.

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Message Tony’s Tamiya on eBay. He sold a brand new one on 21 July so might be able to source another. 

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Tamico have 2 according to their website but not sure what the massive costs are bringing it into the UK these days - I assume in Italy you might be okay?

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I have a Sandshaker body I’d be happy to do a deal on. It’s got 4 holes in the rear bed as it had a rack on it. It has no cracks in the shell but would need the paint stripped if yo don’t like the scheme. PM me if your interested.

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Sorry to side track, but are Wild Daggers considered a collectors car by chance?  I have a like new one my son bought off me for super cheap done in box art (by me)  a while back and it's been in storage.. should I buy back from the kid and display in my pretend RC shop next year post expansion?  :huh:

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28 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

Sorry to side track, but are Wild Daggers considered a collectors car by chance?

Tough to say. The Wild Dagger was the first of the WR01 chassis variants  introduced in '99. It was unique at the time for being a small twin motor truck in an era when twin motor usually meant "Clod Buster" size. The gearbox would be used later that year on the WR02 platform I'm sure you're familiar with ;). Later the 2wd version of that chassis would appear as the WT01. The chassis concept was kinda cool and unique at the time and there was a large enough fanbase to start a forum devoted to it, RCDaggerweb, I believe. Not long after the Wild Dagger appeared, did another twin motor truck steal the spotlight... the Emaxx. Many early Dagger builds seemed to be aimed at making the little WR01 a competitor to the Emaxx. While the truck did feature what was commonly referred to as "bombproof" gearboxes, it was in no way capable of taking on the Emaxx, no matter how big a tire was mounted on it. 

The big strike against collectability (beside being out of the first 100 "golden era" of Tamiya) is Tamiya rebodied the platform and beat it into the ground for many years. The Twin Detonator, Double Blaze and Dual Hunter were all basically the same truck and that was just the 4wd variants. If going by rarity, I'd say the Double Blaze was the poorest seller, but going by historical significance, then Wild Dagger it is. 

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1 hour ago, Busdriver said:

I have a Sandshaker body I’d be happy to do a deal on. It’s got 4 holes in the rear bed as it had a rack on it. It has no cracks in the shell but would need the paint stripped if yo don’t like the scheme. PM me if your interested.

Well I would probably want a bare shell tbh and I wasn't actively looking for one and only replied to this thread because my actual car is pictured! but thanks for the offer.  

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I bought mine new circa '99 (had not had an RC since mid eighties when I had my Grasshopper / Hornet). SInce had higher shock towers and bigger tyres (as pictured) but I also have recently bought a WT-01 front 'fake gearbox' for it and will probably put a Bettle shell on it so it can be used by my boys along with a Monster beetle I am yet to build.

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29 minutes ago, Saito2 said:

Tough to say. The Wild Dagger was the first of the WR01 chassis variants  introduced in '99. It was unique at the time for being a small twin motor truck in an era when twin motor usually meant "Clod Buster" size. The gearbox would be used later that year on the WR02 platform I'm sure you're familiar with ;). Later the 2wd version of that chassis would appear as the WT01. The chassis concept was kinda cool and unique at the time and there was a large enough fanbase to start a forum devoted to it, RCDaggerweb, I believe. Not long after the Wild Dagger appeared, did another twin motor truck steal the spotlight... the Emaxx. Many early Dagger builds seemed to be aimed at making the little WR01 a competitor to the Emaxx. While the truck did feature what was commonly referred to as "bombproof" gearboxes, it was in no way capable of taking on the Emaxx, no matter how big a tire was mounted on it. 

The big strike against collectability (beside being out of the first 100 "golden era" of Tamiya) is Tamiya rebodied the platform and beat it into the ground for many years. The Twin Detonator, Double Blaze and Dual Hunter were all basically the same truck and that was just the 4wd variants. If going by rarity, I'd say the Double Blaze was the poorest seller, but going by historical significance, then Wild Dagger it is. 

Thanks for the history lesson!  I think I'll let the Wild Dagger sleep in the basement until my kid moves out.  If he still remembers he can take it with him.. otherwise it may magically appear in the pretend RC shop one day.  ;)

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That body debuted originally on Stadium Raider TL01. 

Ironically that shell & TL01 got cloned by China maker HBX, think they called it Bonzer. 

At one stage there was a glut of leftover HBX spareparts and we could buy those clone shells by the carton :o but they were vacformed from PET not lexan so they didn’t last long in use. 

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9 hours ago, gizard said:

Well I would probably want a bare shell tbh and I wasn't actively looking for one and only replied to this thread because my actual car is pictured! but thanks for the offer.  

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On 10/9/2022 at 9:32 PM, WillyChang said:

That body debuted originally on Stadium Raider TL01. 

Chronological order of the releases tends to differ a little from country to country, but officially (and in my native country), the order was like this:

58231 Wild Dagger , officially released 24.02.1999

58246 Stadium Raider, officially released 27.10.1999

44025 Mad Bison, officially released 30.11.1999

58608 Sandshaker, officially released 28.02.2015

Considering that the Stadium Raider was officially released 8 months after the Wild Dagger, it seems a bit unlikely that it was released before the Wild Dagger in any market. However, the Stadium Raider is really the  cancelled Schlesser Megane Buggy with the Megane body replaced with the Wild Dagger body, and the Megane was first announced at the Nuremberg fair in February 1999, if I recall correctly.

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If the stadium blitzer shell fits, then the blitzer beetle shell would also fit, apologies if you want originality but I'd put a monster beetle body on it.

Edit, am I confusing the stadium blitzer and stadium raider?. Totally different shells?

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On 10/12/2022 at 3:24 PM, wolfdogstinkus said:

If the stadium blitzer shell fits, then the blitzer beetle shell would also fit, apologies if you want originality but I'd put a monster beetle body on it.

Edit, am I confusing the stadium blitzer and stadium raider?. Totally different shells?

The Monster Beetle fit if you want but I have several Wild Dagger an would like to preserve their bodies for future restorations.
I own 4 of them.
One is 2WD converted and the front Mad Bull fake diff case would be a good option for it, due the better front end.
I'm out of the hobby, no time, no room, no money but I never forget it and sometime some of my models pop up between my feet.
Currently the 2WD converted Wild Dagger.

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