The Story
I used to be into the cheap RC cars from Radio Shack and Walmart. When I graduated high school, I picked up my first hobby-grade RC — a Traxxas Bandit. It was awesome.
Fast forward about twenty years. I have a family, kids, and I'm looking for a new hobby. I found that old Traxxas and decided to head to the hobby shop to see what had changed.
Mind. Blown.
New batteries, no more crystals, new control systems — the difference between late 90s RC and 2024 RC is massive. I started looking around, but my budget was limited. I needed something RTR, not a kit.
The employees at my local hobby shop were showing off their micro crawlers — SCX24s and TRX4Ms. I went home and hit YouTube. That might have been a mistake, because suddenly there were so many choices, so many voices, so many opinions about what's best, what's new, who has the best hop-ups, which parts you need, what motors are good, brushed vs brushless.
Mind blown again. But not in a good way.
After many trips to the hobby shop and countless hours of videos, one employee gave me the best advice. He said he had a fully decked out SCX24 and a nearly stock TRX4M, and loved both. But when he just wanted to have fun, he reached for the Traxxas.
That made up my mind. The keyword was fun.
So I went with a TRX4M Bronco, and the rest is history.