Oh man, I swear though my body may be in it’s 30′s my brain will forever be one of a child’s. It’s the only explanation for how excited I got when I saw that R/C powerhouse Traxxas was going to be making a line of licensed monster trucks. These aren’t the shitty R/C cars you see in Toys ‘R Us or Target mind you, Traxxas makes the real-deal Holyfield cars.
So if you’re a fan of Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Monster Mutt (complete with dog ears hanging off the side), or the Grinder then you too can live out your fantasies of crushing cars while knowing you bought a vehicle that isn’t going to break after a day of wear and tear.
It was around this time last year that I started wanting a no-shit R/C car and after doing some research (and socking some fun money away) picked up a Traxxas Bandit. Over the past year I’ve found that I wish I had gone more truck and less buggy, since to be perfectly honest the Bandit is too damn fast to drive without a ton of room, something I need to travel to find. Had I to do it again I’d go monster truck, something slower but can handle more terrain. I’m considering selling mine to finance one of these puppies, but haven’t pulled the trigger yet.
If you actually are interested in buying, I’d recommend Tower Hobbies, they have some damn good deals and I’ve always been super pleased with their service and quality in the past.
I’m trying to put my finger on why this show ran so long, since our range of topics was actually shorter than usual. It’s nothing bad mind you, just one of those “huh, weird” moments when you stop recording and look at the total running time. Not that I minded, it was great catching up with our friend and east coast Shacknews.com editor Xav De Matos. Seems like only yesterday I was his editor and was fielding cease and desist calls from international lawyers (true story). Ahh, memories.
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This is from close to a year ago, yet somehow I just never saw or read anything about it. It’s simply to crazy to not at least draw some attention to. At Tokyo Toy Fair 2010 the company Epoch announced they were released a board game style thing in Japan based on Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Kart.
The Mario Bros. game is single player and has you moving through a tilting maze Labyrinth style while Super Mario Kart is a racing game for two players covering some strange obstacle course. Both feature sounds from the video games and a shit ton of plastic and moving parts. It really does remind me of Mousetrap on steroids. You can see a video of them both in action here.
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We are about to start another season of Dungeons and Dragons Encounters. This season is “March of the Phantom Brigade” and, at the risk of sounding cliché, promises to give players much more of a chance to role play and not just roll play.
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At this point Fluxx may be a familiar term to you if you’ve been in the board/card game scene for a bit. Looney Labs has released a bunch of different versions of the game focusing on everything from Monty Python to Zombies. They’re all based around the same basic rules but each brings a new wrinkle to the table. They’re similar enough that you can actually combine decks at your whim and they mesh together perfectly, but each one offers enough variety to stand on it’s own.
After Zombie and Martian versions of the game I suppose it’s not a huge shock that they decided to go with Pirates next. So, what’s Fluxx and what makes this edition the best version yet? Read on!
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