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February 3, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – AKA

Joel Johnson from AKA showed us around the new releases from the American company, with a focus on updating the truggy line of tires. Making its debut here is the all new Impact pattern for truggy, a popular tire for them in buggy, they expect this to be the go to tire in the truck class. The iBeam, Cityblock and Gridiron truggy tires all have been updated with the thread being more compressed onto the running surface making for smaller but more densely packed pins, giving them the Evo title. The idea is to decrease the wear and the update will also make the car more lively to drive.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Team C

Team C Racing are making a big push into to the market with new European and American distributors and on their stand they were showing off their new product lines. First up is the new TC02 Evo 2wd rear motor buggy, which features a 8mm longer chassis than its predecessor and comes with a neat look cab forward body shell. The car is not yet finished is fitted with a prototype rear drive train.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – HobbyTech

HobbyTech have introduced the latest version of their Spirit buggy, the 2.0. Mostly a option upgrade, it comes as standard with machined aluminium shock towers in place of the original carbon ones for extra strength. There is new bladders for inside the shock absorbers which are reinforced and less likely to leak and there are also new shock pistons with 5×1.3mm holes and blank versions to allow you to create your own. There is also improved plastics and new front (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 & 2.6mm) and rear (2.3mm, 2.4mm, 2.5mm, 2.6mm & 2.7mm) anti-roll bars. Finally the car comes with a new cab forward body shell.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Mugen

Mugen have on their stand the parts for the MBX-6 EU Spec. The parts include a new chassis plate which sees all the elements moved 2mm more to the back than on the MBX-6R and comes with the longer front centre drive shaft. Also to be included in the Europe only kit is an updated rear carbon shock tower that sports new holes to enable you to make the camber links shorter. The final piece of the puzzle is a ring (42T) and pinion (12T) set that gives the wheels more drive for better traction and engine run time.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Agama

Daniel Vega is once again manning the Agama stand, which is part of their German distributors BSR. On show is the Agama A8 truggy, which is based of the A8 Evo buggy and which is your usual truggy conversions with longer chassis and longer arms. As with the buggy the truggy’s wishbones are able to be used on both the left and right side and on all the new cars the right front and the left rear wishbones feature reverse threads where the lower shock absorber ball is mounted to the wishbone so that the screw will no longer come loose.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Xray

Xray have only some small updates to their gas on road cars which is new here at the fair. The NT1 2012 spec car features a new revised radio plate with a different front to help give more flex and in turn give more steering. The other update is to the chassis plate which has been machined below the engine blocks and engine to lower the engine to help improve the car’s centre of gravity.

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February 2, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Kyosho

Kyosho have given updates to a lot of their competition line up adding option parts as standard to all their high end electric cars. The RB5 SP2 WC 2wd buggy is based on the car used by the team in Finland and comes supplied with big bore shocks, X-gear springs, a new large slipper system and new updated plastics. Other improvements include the one piece front wheel axle/hex and an updated bodyshell and wing called the Trident. The 4wd Lazer ZX-5 FS2 SP gets the same treatment with improved plastics, big bore shocks and X-gear springs and also has chassis modified to better accept LiPo packs. The Ultima SCR SP is another car to get the same shock and springs, slipper and improved plastics.

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February 1, 2012

Toy Fair 2012 – Team Orion

Team Orion have a range of completely new .21 buggy engines, comprising of 3 motors, as well as a fourth for truggy. The new line all use the CRF technology and are available in one standard and two factory versions. All include the new crankcase which has been designed to improve strength with all the internals improved upon. The piston and liner have been updated with the piston having been machined from a different material to improve the quality, which together with the updated crankshaft timing help to improve the fuel mileage of the engine. The standard line is noticeable by the silver crankcase and will come in a 3 port version, while the 2 tuned engines have a black crankcase and come in 3 and 5 port versions and include ceramic bearings and hand finished internals. All the improvements to the manufacturing process have improved the cost of the engine which is being passed onto the customer. Finally in the engine line the .12 will get a new aluminium carburetor and we were told that the .21 on road engine will finally become available this year as a 7 port motor.

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