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I'm wondering if it'll go the way of the Kyosho Maxxum FF (you know that front wheel drive thing). I remember Great Planes was knocking those prices way down and the hobby store I worked at they were going for $79. There were a couple dozen in stock the owner had ordered. Now I wished I had kept one NIB. :)

We had a nickname for the FF part, (fatally f$#@$ed).

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1 hour ago, Sogogi said:

Why did i see this :0… and what caused that huge discount… new td4 or something coming?

They've been heavily discounted in the UK for a while, around the £250 mark.  I picked up one which will be my runner for £212 a couple of months back which was the cheapest I've seen over here.

I think places are getting rid of them due to their lack of popularity as they're taking up shelf space.  They're clearly going to be a short lived model, especially as the official Tamiya website doesn't show the model.  The TD2 is there though, so maybe that's been more popular.

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On 2/1/2024 at 9:29 AM, tamiya_1971 said:

I'm wondering if it'll go the way of the Kyosho Maxxum FF (you know that front wheel drive thing). I remember Great Planes was knocking those prices way down and the hobby store I worked at they were going for $79.

I very distinctly remember that as well as well as the $79 price tag. I begged my mom to order it for my birthday. She wouldn't, until the week before my birthday. I remember the phone call to Tower was sadly brief. She hung up the old rotary dial phone the hung on the kitchen wall with a clang, turned to me and flatly uttered the words "out of stock and discontinued" before returning to making dinner. It was the first time I heard that word "discontinued", a word I learned to hate. I wound up getting the only other buggy in that price range, the freshly introduced Tamiya Grasshopper 2 Super G, which my folks later threw out while I was in college. I don't think they liked my hobby, lol. To this day my mother complains my hobby room would be better if if got rid of "all those toy cars" and made it a spare bedroom. You know, for all the spare people that don't sleep at my house. Ever. Sigh.

On 2/1/2024 at 4:27 PM, Twinfan said:

They're clearly going to be a short lived model, especially as the official Tamiya website doesn't show the model.  The TD2 is there though, so maybe that's been more popular.

I was thinking along those lines too but someone mentioned the TD4 is on the Japanese Tamiya site. I'm thinking perhaps it is popular in its home market and may hang out there quietly for years, drifting slightly abroad here and there at times much like the Dark Impact

I'm getting one. I think several years debating back and forth is enough. I don't make any sense but when has this hobby, taken to our extremes made much sense, lol. Besides I remember this:

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Not that I think the Super Avante will reach such later levels of collectability, but a good deal is a good deal.

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@Saito2. Your mom and my mom would have gotten along well. "Why are you buying toys when you need to save more for a real car". Now she sees them in my garage and I get the "you sure have a lot of those cars". I respond with, well mom, I make money now, i have two great kids, a great wife, a good job and this is how I relax.

I remember the Avante selling at the hobby store. It was a big dang deal at the time. Very expensive. Racers that had bought them weren't too excited about them after parts broke and they just weren't as good as Optimas, Yokomos, and Race Preps that were winning. I remember them being cheap, but we had a couple in store that never sold and sat on the wall for the non-99 price for a couple years. That sweet $99 price would have made me want one too. I did save for an Egress and did purchase that with my 20% discount, but I never raced it, ran it, or anything. It was too nice. i had a buddy paint it a pearl purple with airbrushed flames. Ended up selling it. 

The price is still making me want to get one. I don't race, and getting to the battery isn't an issue to me, I'm in no hurry and generally don't get annoyed with my rc's. I'm still kicking it around.

As for collectibility, anything is possible, that or a lawsuit brought on by Traxxas because the shock set up looks kinda like a Revo. :) 

You didn't miss anything with the Maxxum FF. I had one due to the low price, but wasn't really impressed. I DO wish I had one NIB!!  One of my friends bought two of them and used both gear boxes for a 2 motor 4wd. It was pretty sweet. He still wishes he hadn't sold it. 

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Blast from the past @tamiya_1971. Here's another shop that was blowing out Maxxum FFs, the same that was selling those Avante's cheap....

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1 hour ago, urban warrior said:

but I still cannot get over the crude battery-changing-procedure. If the original Avante was quite overengineered ... this car seems to exponentiate that even more.

True, but the original Avante was no picnic when it came to battery removal/install. I think for much of the crying we hear about Tamiya "daring" to use the Avante name on the TD4, the buggy does share the same spirit of weirdness the original had, albeit without the pretty materials of yesteryear. 

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