Is it just me or is the awesomeness of the tower hobbies catalogues and rc mags and the shops from the 90s just not the same as today. I loved the blizzard always wanted one and the Baja beetle. Maybe just because they are memories that everything rc just seemed so much more epic back in the 90s
Have had Blizzards off and on since my first Nitro back in the day. Got an FR from AMAIN a year and a half ago, and now have two Trail Kings as well. Same basic chassis, but the Character the Trail King body lends is just a FUN Can of Worms that I just can't close 😜!!! Made a bed-box Extension of Craft Wood and now drive around the yard and my neighborhood looking for all manner of things. Went to City Park yesterday and climbing hills I can't even crawl up on my hands and knees. So what if people think I'm NUTS.. maybe They should get some fresh air themselves, and try their hand at having FUN!!! ... they might even learn to laugh at all the mischief they get themselves into 🤣! I know I sure do!!! Isn't that what the Trail King is all about?!?
Thanks, AMAIN for helping me have fun again, still driving the Blizzard FR you helped me get a while back... now have two Trail Kings to boot and I feel like a kid again... only this time I don't have to drive Tonka Trucks on my knees and catch grief for the grass stains!!!
Yeah... I am polluting UA-cam and I am killing Electrons...and I am a Terrible Videographer, too🙄... I rack up about 10-20 hours a week driving them, and just want to try to help the new Blizzard and Trail King Owners get the most out of them. Last thing I want to see is someone get discouraged and turn away from an R/C Vehicle with so much Potential... Thanks for noticing, Robert Reese! Hope you All are doing okay out there with the Covid and the Fires...it must not be a lot of fun trying to stay ahead of all that!
I gotta say, I love this channel. I love your website, your information, and your reviews. On that note, I'd like to throw in my two cents about tank tracks and the vehicles that use them. As an RC fan, I started with the speedy cars. Monster trucks, short course trucks, big stupid rc trucks... Then I bought my first rc tank a bit ago, and the whole game changed. Tank tracks are tedious, and work, but once you get them dialed in, they are nearly bullet proof. They eat terrain, obstacles, other rc vehicles, it's quite simply put, my favorite rc now. Metal tracks are pretty mandatory. This and then Eachine makes the mini ripsaw-look-alike, and that has metal tracks now too, but either way, rc tank tracks are almost mandatory metal. Plastic is fine, it will work, and it's a good backup, but go metal, you wont regret it. Thanks for this video, and your others as well. This is why I buy from you all. Keep up the stellar work.
First absult must is a sabertooth duel esc. So you can house your favorite radio and lipos and trust me running with a single stick or throttle trigger is a game changer, number to is less of a must and more of a fun factor is some small traxxas cans to bump up the speed factor... 🥃cheers🍻
Ive owned and enjoyed a Blizzard SR for years. Its been highly modified. Mine runs on 2 2cell lipo's. Might have to get one of these to race them! Cheers!
Awesome piece something different for a change. A bit pricey for me though. I do see the twinkle in your eye about the van and being a former 'Vanner' I like it !!!! Great vid......
That was a great video keep up the good work that would be pretty cool you do that with the man van On the trailer king track tank keep up the good work
I bought one of these and I liked everything about it except the performance. I ended up buying an old 1999 EV model and built it to look like a 2020 Trail King. Of course it has a Castle brushless system! No more complaints now, it’s perfect! 👌
bring it to the offroad track for 1/8 scale nite. and the oscar goes to brett. did a-main put your name over the breakroom ? kyosho gotta dump the 370 motors, and at least put dual 540 mabuchi old school brushed motors installed. id buy it then. cool video brett.
I'm in two minds about this one. On the one hand it is an interesting tracked vehicle that can be used in more scenarios than a Blizzard but on the other hand it seems a bit of a mix of fairly cheap-looking engineering with an expensive price tag. I guess this machine will have its fans and it really doesn't have many competitors. It would have worked better as a Morooka style utility vehicle in my opinion.
Kyosho has some of the coolest rc cars hands down over the years between their track line and their construction heavy trucks , semi trucks and military lines but they havnt really ever intended for you to keep their electronics. Their esc motor and servos included always suck and need help. Kyosho is the rc you always dreamed or building not intended to run right out of the box
Ah remember my first rc car. A Turbo Panther from Nikko. I really loved that car. I first wished me a Bison F-10, but my parents could not afford one. Would loved to have a Bison F-10 in my collection. Back to the good old 80's
Got the metal tracks for the Blizzard and it's basically undriveable with them. Those tiny motors just don't have the power. I replace the radio with a DX6i and put a pair of brushelss Reedy micro systems in it. Now it's fast, but still a paint since the ESC's have reverse lockout. :P
Awesome vehicle I've been eyeing this but i think I'm going to get the blizzard in a month or so. Do you guy's offer a bigger push plow for it by chance? Would be cool to see it already come with the metal pinion gear spending a bit more would be fine with me if it means i don't have to tear into after a month.
You know that u MUST Mod this very cool Trail King, And if you do please record yourself doing that.... Maybe even spend the same amount that this baby cost's 300 dollars on the parts..........
Hm, too bad it's only 2x 370 size motors there, throw in a metal gear transmission & a pair of 540 size motors would probably have gotten some more interest from people along with being able too fit a decent size battery into it.
So with lipo batteries when the battery is low from using I wait for it too cool down then charge the battery. and then store it away till tomorrow when I use my truck again? I’m really confused on these lipo batteries someone help plz
Letting the battery cool before recharging is a good idea and healthy for the battery. And then doing a storage charge at the end of the day is great too; both good practices. Depending on your charger, it may allow you to do both, a balance charge and a non-balance charge (fast charge). When you balance charge, the charger will monitor each individual cell inside the LiPo, and charge them all to the same level as each other; this is cell balancing. If you don't balance charge, the charger looks at the voltage of the overall battery pack, not the cells individually. This will eventually lead to some cells being charged more than others (not balanced), and this is dangerous. Hope that explains what balancing is, and why it matters. -Brett
Great review with a common mistake: “simplistic” is a *bad* thing, and ‘simple’ is a good thing. ‘Simplistic’ is an oversimplified understanding of something.
....Ahhhh Everything's Backordered... omg I need those lazy companies to crank out my stuff. And yes I get the Pandemic situation but I need Rubber badly. Hoppyshop also out of everything I need.
I would avoid the Maxx, but the other three options are great places to start out, and cost much less than the Maxx, leaving you more money for other tires, upgrades, accessories, etc. The Rally is pretty much the Slash 4X4 that has been fitted with different tires and wheels. Whichever you choose, going with a VXL model is highly recommend for the Brushless, better differential and better TQi Transmitter; it's worth it. -Brett
AMain Hobbies Thank you Brett it’s very helpful I was kind of thinking the X max because of the reviews on how good it is when it comes to Bashan because when it comes to Myers because I really like them to be able to be beaten and not just die out
@@TestECullif you buy an RC from Arrma, Traxxas, etc... it says on the box and in the manual that it isn't a toy, and not for 14 and under ages. Most toys aren't able to (tragically and accidentally) break your bones, knock you off your feet or kill small animals. Unless you're talking about toys from the 50's and earlier.
Maybe, depending on the body. This size is a little shorter and narrower than standard 1/10 bodies. We put the Mad Van body on this in the video and it fit pretty well. -Brett
Kyosho kinda has been doing the overpriced ancient electronics thing for the last decade. Where you been ? The vehicles look nice, and people have nostalgia for Kyosho, and in Japan, nearly no other RCs sell well. Go to a hobby shop in Japan and you'll find one Traxxas \ Arrma vehicle in the back, covered in dust, with pee stains on the box. Kyosho do their own thing, and people buy them. I don't think there's good value there, but like Tamiya, people get nostalgia boners and their brain turns off. To me, brushed motors are disposable items and shouldn't exist, like NiMH batteries and Republicans.
Welcome to Japan where labor ain't cheap. LOL this is why Tamiya can sell their RC kits for less cuz it's made in the Philippines. Kyosho should do the same.
Perfect platform for a fpv vehicle build.....
Hmmmm..this seems like it should be advertised in the back of a 70's comic book. Or in the Sunday paper in a RadioShack insert
I've always loved the blizzard from the 90s as a kid i had tons of pictures of it cut out from rc magazines
i begged my folks for one back in the day!
Is it just me or is the awesomeness of the tower hobbies catalogues and rc mags and the shops from the 90s just not the same as today. I loved the blizzard always wanted one and the Baja beetle. Maybe just because they are memories that everything rc just seemed so much more epic back in the 90s
@@michaelcasella4774 it was super epic in the 90s because it was so new and all there was was those 9v toy grade trucks from toys r us
Have had Blizzards off and on since my first Nitro back in the day. Got an FR from AMAIN a year and a half ago, and now have two Trail Kings as well. Same basic chassis, but the Character the Trail King body lends is just a FUN Can of Worms that I just can't close 😜!!! Made a bed-box Extension of Craft Wood and now drive around the yard and my neighborhood looking for all manner of things. Went to City Park yesterday and climbing hills I can't even crawl up on my hands and knees.
So what if people think I'm NUTS.. maybe They should get some fresh air themselves, and try their hand at having FUN!!! ... they might even learn to laugh at all the mischief they get themselves into 🤣!
I know I sure do!!!
Isn't that what the Trail King is all about?!?
@@brunobiava4833 your mom is the dirt road trail king...no dought
Thanks, AMAIN for helping me have fun again, still driving the Blizzard FR you helped me get a while back... now have two Trail Kings to boot and I feel like a kid again... only this time I don't have to drive Tonka Trucks on my knees and catch grief for the grass stains!!!
You have several videos on UA-cam about this rig!
Yeah... I am polluting UA-cam and I am killing Electrons...and I am a Terrible Videographer, too🙄... I rack up about 10-20 hours a week driving them, and just want to try to help the new Blizzard and Trail King Owners get the most out of them. Last thing I want to see is someone get discouraged and turn away from an R/C Vehicle with so much Potential... Thanks for noticing, Robert Reese! Hope you All are doing okay out there with the Covid and the Fires...it must not be a lot of fun trying to stay ahead of all that!
I gotta say, I love this channel. I love your website, your information, and your reviews. On that note, I'd like to throw in my two cents about tank tracks and the vehicles that use them. As an RC fan, I started with the speedy cars. Monster trucks, short course trucks, big stupid rc trucks... Then I bought my first rc tank a bit ago, and the whole game changed. Tank tracks are tedious, and work, but once you get them dialed in, they are nearly bullet proof. They eat terrain, obstacles, other rc vehicles, it's quite simply put, my favorite rc now.
Metal tracks are pretty mandatory. This and then Eachine makes the mini ripsaw-look-alike, and that has metal tracks now too, but either way, rc tank tracks are almost mandatory metal. Plastic is fine, it will work, and it's a good backup, but go metal, you wont regret it.
Thanks for this video, and your others as well. This is why I buy from you all. Keep up the stellar work.
That was a nice hardy laugh, wasn't it Brett? It made me smile.
First absult must is a sabertooth duel esc. So you can house your favorite radio and lipos and trust me running with a single stick or throttle trigger is a game changer, number to is less of a must and more of a fun factor is some small traxxas cans to bump up the speed factor...
🥃cheers🍻
Any futaba t4xx or higher radio can mix two esc's
Ive owned and enjoyed a Blizzard SR for years. Its been highly modified. Mine runs on 2 2cell lipo's. Might have to get one of these to race them! Cheers!
I'd definitely do a custom Bigfoot Fastrax with this vehicle.
Me Too - Loved the Fastrax
Awesome piece something different for a change. A bit pricey for me though. I do see the twinkle in your eye about the van and being a former
'Vanner' I like it !!!! Great vid......
That was a great video keep up the good work that would be pretty cool you do that with the man van On the trailer king track tank keep up the good work
I bought one of these and I liked everything about it except the performance. I ended up buying an old 1999 EV model and built it to look like a 2020 Trail King. Of course it has a Castle brushless system! No more complaints now, it’s perfect! 👌
bring it to the offroad track for 1/8 scale nite. and the oscar goes to brett. did a-main put your name over the breakroom ? kyosho gotta dump the 370 motors, and at least put dual 540 mabuchi old school brushed motors installed. id buy it then. cool video brett.
Still waiting for a 1:5-1:6 scale Blizzard.
Be patient... It's coming. Did you see that. ua-cam.com/video/Zjprf_sEdm0/v-deo.html
I'm in two minds about this one. On the one hand it is an interesting tracked vehicle that can be used in more scenarios than a Blizzard but on the other hand it seems a bit of a mix of fairly cheap-looking engineering with an expensive price tag. I guess this machine will have its fans and it really doesn't have many competitors. It would have worked better as a Morooka style utility vehicle in my opinion.
If you put that Mad Van body on there it´s like going back to 1991 when they released the Heavy Metal monster tank.
Kyosho has some of the coolest rc cars hands down over the years between their track line and their construction heavy trucks , semi trucks and military lines but they havnt really ever intended for you to keep their electronics. Their esc motor and servos included always suck and need help. Kyosho is the rc you always dreamed or building not intended to run right out of the box
Wow, I have often wondered when something would replace the Bigfoot Fastrax RC Ford Van that was discontinued quite a few years ago.
reminds me of the Blizzard
Sob .. now I need this in my collection 👍
Wish i still had my Tyco Fast Trax
I remember that car! It would be a great one to have now.
-Brett
i had one! drove it until the trax fell off, literally. i still wish i had my Tyco Bandit and Hovercraft aslo.
AMain Hobbies Yup those and the turbo hopper and the bandit. Some fun childhood memories for me for sure.
Ah remember my first rc car. A Turbo Panther from Nikko. I really loved that car. I first wished me a Bison F-10, but my parents could not afford one. Would loved to have a Bison F-10 in my collection. Back to the good old 80's
Got the metal tracks for the Blizzard and it's basically undriveable with them. Those tiny motors just don't have the power. I replace the radio with a DX6i and put a pair of brushelss Reedy micro systems in it. Now it's fast, but still a paint since the ESC's have reverse lockout. :P
I really miss the old GP to EP version, a single 540 can and ESC is a lot easier to upgrade than two 370 sets
hi K S...
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old time kyosho blizzard EV in 1980's was the best model...
after 2005 to now is a not good and lousy design
love that 70s vibe i might have to get one
The Mad Trail King
It's simply a snow groomer without proper part.
The fun starts with 3S ha ha!
im totally getting one
I was hoping for a non continuous track ...
Love driving 20cms and putting the track back on .... it beats using logs .
Why use madvan body when they repoped heavy metal body ?
Wow amazing Car it very strong🥰🥰👍👍
I owned way too many tyco fastraxx and bandits back in the day...lol
I recommend the 1/18 new bright dune tracker. 30cad, bulletproof, pretty good off road
Toy grade
Lol ya but it still good
Brett looks like a clapped out Rodney Dangerfield ...
So down with the Madvan version..
Awesome vehicle I've been eyeing this but i think I'm going to get the blizzard in a month or so. Do you guy's offer a bigger push plow for it by chance? Would be cool to see it already come with the metal pinion gear spending a bit more would be fine with me if it means i don't have to tear into after a month.
Take my money for that madvan with traxx! :)
a rebodied blizzard..... darn thought it was something new.
That's pretty cool
I run 3s lipos on that esc..in a custom crawler ...as for lipo cutoff..,Im too lazy and they work fine..
Man I loved the blizzard. I'm glad it got a refresh. Any word on the Baja 5b? Doesn't say it's disco, but it's impossible to find :/
Not sure on the Baja 5B. AMain Hobbies no longer carries the HPI brand so I'm not sure on it's status.
-Brett
You can run it with a lipo with a lipo voltage alarm
Nice video! 👍... Can run whith Lipo?.. Thanks.
When is mad van going to be in stock?
Not sure right now. They are on backorder with Kyosho.
-Brett
You know that u MUST Mod this very cool Trail King, And if you do please record yourself doing that.... Maybe even spend the same amount that this baby cost's 300 dollars on the parts..........
hey brett could you make a video on how to get rid of suspension binding as i dont know how to get rid of it
Sure. What kind of vehicle do you have?
-Brett
@@AMain_Hobbies i have a 1/12 Ftx comet mt and its quite dirty at the moment but i am getting parts to rebuild it
Wow, to be honest, I’m a little disappointed in Kyosho for that gaggle of wiring inside the radio box - but overall, it looks like fun!
Philips head screws always put me off kyosho products :(. They make some really cool rc's though.
@white hexes are far superior to philips head screws. That why all the high end kits use them......
wait till you see the monster tank i'm coming out with... hehe...
A vtail mixer and pistol grip radio would be a great upgrade
I don't think that you can do the fast spinning even with a mixer.
What size pinion? Tooth, pitch and bore
Yo it's like 5:30 am for me rn
why not 2x 540 motors ? or 2x 550 motors ? and gian some speed
Hm, too bad it's only 2x 370 size motors there, throw in a metal gear transmission & a pair of 540 size motors would probably have gotten some more interest from people along with being able too fit a decent size battery into it.
I want a nitro one. They used to sell a nitro blizzard too.
Make a video of arrma kraton exb
So with lipo batteries when the battery is low from using I wait for it too cool down then charge the battery. and then store it away till tomorrow when I use my truck again? I’m really confused on these lipo batteries someone help plz
I’m confused on the balancing and stuff like that
Letting the battery cool before recharging is a good idea and healthy for the battery. And then doing a storage charge at the end of the day is great too; both good practices. Depending on your charger, it may allow you to do both, a balance charge and a non-balance charge (fast charge). When you balance charge, the charger will monitor each individual cell inside the LiPo, and charge them all to the same level as each other; this is cell balancing. If you don't balance charge, the charger looks at the voltage of the overall battery pack, not the cells individually. This will eventually lead to some cells being charged more than others (not balanced), and this is dangerous. Hope that explains what balancing is, and why it matters.
-Brett
AMain Hobbies is storage charging only if your going to not use it for like more than a week?
Great review with a common mistake: “simplistic” is a *bad* thing, and ‘simple’ is a good thing. ‘Simplistic’ is an oversimplified understanding of something.
What's the difference between this amd the Blizzard 2.0?
Plow, body and styling.
-Brett
The strange infatuation of a panel van from a grown man who plays with toys is awesome do you have some candy 🍬 😀 😉 LMFAO
Unmarked white van abducts small child ?
I'm staying away from your house on Halloween.
And the rest of the year.
I wonder if the Trail King body will fit my Kyosho Nitro Blizzard
Probably.
-Brett
....Ahhhh Everything's Backordered... omg I need those lazy companies to crank out my stuff. And yes I get the Pandemic situation but I need Rubber badly. Hoppyshop also out of everything I need.
pretty good but is it as good as a seton blx for 299
It's not brushless
What's the run time, with the stock battery?
Depending on the conditions, it's between 10-20 minutes.
-Brett
I had a fast traxx.
Should I start out with a slash 2 x 4 4 x 4 X max or Traxxas rally
grim reaper slash
I would avoid the Maxx, but the other three options are great places to start out, and cost much less than the Maxx, leaving you more money for other tires, upgrades, accessories, etc. The Rally is pretty much the Slash 4X4 that has been fitted with different tires and wheels. Whichever you choose, going with a VXL model is highly recommend for the Brushless, better differential and better TQi Transmitter; it's worth it.
-Brett
AMain Hobbies Thank you Brett it’s very helpful I was kind of thinking the X max because of the reviews on how good it is when it comes to Bashan because when it comes to Myers because I really like them to be able to be beaten and not just die out
Makes this 5th scale 8s plz!!!
Those gears, motors, and the wiring would not hold up to a 2 cell lipo
It's a pisten bully.
Wtf is this?? Wow 🤩
I have a question
Im not sure but i think my buddy from work could make these for about 130£ 😂
Love arrma
They could have done it 1/10 with proper gears and batteries, this is just a toy
Mo powah babe!
~James Pumphrey
All RCs are just toys.
@@TestECull Actually they're not! There is "Toy Grade" & Hobby Grade".
The hell you talking about you don't even make sense.
@@TestECullif you buy an RC from Arrma, Traxxas, etc... it says on the box and in the manual that it isn't a toy, and not for 14 and under ages.
Most toys aren't able to (tragically and accidentally) break your bones, knock you off your feet or kill small animals.
Unless you're talking about toys from the 50's and earlier.
Hi!
That's nice with the Mad Van body but, did you see the Kyosho Heavy Metal?
Vintage, but, I think you didn't invent anything new...
Nice try! :-)
When will these be available
Not exactly sure right now but hopefully Kyosho will be shipping them soon.
-Brett
@@AMain_Hobbies ok thanks
I got mine
1/10 body fit on it ?
Maybe, depending on the body. This size is a little shorter and narrower than standard 1/10 bodies. We put the Mad Van body on this in the video and it fit pretty well.
-Brett
Wow price is way up there I mite build my own 1/10 with some cheap 550's the metal gearbox sets are cheap n just get a cheap roller to build it on
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old time in before 1980's was the best kyosho blizzard than today after 2000 to now 2020 is a lousy kyosho blizzard...
i have 2 kyosho blizzards
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i have one R/C kyosho blizzard with a unimog truck and military man as driver
What unimog body? Tamiya ?
@@Oh_hell0
hi J...
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another video with model rocket and trailer...
www.dailymotion.com/video/x35p4g1
That’s a Kyosho Blizzard.
Want to get talion, outcast, Keaton and typhon
Kraton
@@themillennialreviewer2563 You can edit comments...
I still see they are using that horrid breakomatic chain drive
You need to test it on snow, not california sand :)
If we had any snow around here, we definitely would! It's been around 90°F the last few days.
-Brett
Do a search for Kyosho Blizzard. Plenty of vids. Very similar vehicle. Lots of fun!
for 300 dollars this thing looks really cheap and flimsy with ancient motors and internals. for that money they can do way better.
white got a link where i could get such a thing?
Kyosho kinda has been doing the overpriced ancient electronics thing for the last decade. Where you been ?
The vehicles look nice, and people have nostalgia for Kyosho, and in Japan, nearly no other RCs sell well. Go to a hobby shop in Japan and you'll find one Traxxas \ Arrma vehicle in the back, covered in dust, with pee stains on the box.
Kyosho do their own thing, and people buy them.
I don't think there's good value there, but like Tamiya, people get nostalgia boners and their brain turns off.
To me, brushed motors are disposable items and shouldn't exist, like NiMH batteries and Republicans.
like 10-11 hrs wtf charging NIMH
Grass or snow is probably the safest surface for these hard plastic tracks....upgrade tracks will cost more than the rtr😂
it looks like a walmart built like a cheap bangood rc and priced like a real hobby grade rc what a rip off
Welcome to Japan where labor ain't cheap. LOL this is why Tamiya can sell their RC kits for less cuz it's made in the Philippines. Kyosho should do the same.
Btw Iam being sarcastic
$300 is wayyyy to expensive for something made this cheaply, this is cool but from what I can tell it’s 90% plastic and looks like a $50 Walmart toy
$300.00 and doesn't even come with rubber tracks
Better than a Traxxas? Ehhhh, don't think so.
I have rc ripsaw tank
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