What happened to MONSTER trucks?

[Andrew the man]

Anyone besides me starting to think this maxx crap has gone.. too far???

you guys see the new pro-line stuff...basically turns the Tmaxx and Emaxx into a stadium truck...geez enough is enough. the dang thing is a monster truck with racing for fun. now its starting to become a moronic racing fad

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[The JANG]

I'm with ya. Here's a copy of a post I made on another board:

Some of y'all have heard me itch & moan about this before. I don't like what is happening to the racing end of the R/C monster world. We're turning our monsters into ultralow 4WD stadium trucks! Heck, I'm a prime guilty party.

Well, I finally decided to do something about it! For the track I race at, I created a 4'x6' car crushing obstacle bed as a test and had folks try it out last weekend. Everybody loved it! I'll be making a second, larger, more challenging one when I get some time.

For now, though, here's a video showing how it worked out:

www.ultimatetraxxas.com/deltarc/videos/011117-monsters_crush.avi (http://www.ultimatetraxxas.com/deltarc/videos/011117-monsters_crush.avi)

The bed is a 1/2" particle board covered with durable flat black spray with caution tape around the margins, and old (but not ruined), fully masked & painted 1/10th scale bodies filled with expanding foam and pressed onto angle brackets that are nailed to the base. I made a rule that each truck had to stop in a marked zone before the box so that they couldn't get much run-up. I don't want these folks hitting this thing at 15-20mph and flattening the cars.

Like I said, the next box will be larger and more challenging (requiring more articulation). The next thing I want to do is put some pipes across a different section of the track, or cones for a slalom.

Whatchathink?

[speedydave]

Sweeeeeeeet.:)

[JDrey2003]

sounds like uve found the event for the Valkrie!

[RacinRustler]

Hey Jang you should film your Valkrye tearin up one of those car crush boards.

[The JANG]

Unfortunately the Valkyrie is in pieces right now, waiting to be rebuilt with new super heavy-duty bulkheads, its titanium cvd's, and 24 cells of power.

[RacinRustler]

Pieces?!? Thats so sad. A fallen hero...

[The JANG]

No, a sleeping giant ;)

[RacinRustler]

Ah, much better put.

[billithy]

lol..sleeping giant.. :) Jang you need to post some pics of the valk in action! Im itching to see it churnin' and flingin' mud!