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Before this year ends.
The street price would be cheaper than their entry-level rc vehicles.
I'll update when I get more info on it.

I hope this is true, and If thats the case I'll definitely be buying one!

Why the holiday buggy when the sand rover is so much more popular

That means we should have plenty of Halsey replica tires then.

Man I better get started on the Sand Scorcher and the Buggy Champ first....falling behind on these old girls already.

it will be added to my collection.....


- Same (unpaintable body)
- tweaked stickers
- black roll cage and front bumper
- new gear protector
- 380 motor
- ESC included
- boxed in a TT01 size kit, rather than the old large size box.
- retail around 10-12000 JPY
- Release July/August.

I just got a bad news
they may replace the chassis. but they still have the original mold of the shell

for some reason i'm not excited for this one and i love tamiya's. lol

i wasn't even that excited for the srb's. i guess i like the mid 80's cars better because thats what was out when i got into rc.

now if they re-re the wild one i'd be all over it.

kaiser wrote:for some reason i'm not excited for this one and i love tamiya's. lol

i wasn't even that excited for the srb's. i guess i like the mid 80's cars better because thats what was out when i got into rc.

now if they re-re the wild one i'd be all over it.

I'm in the same boat here....(mid 80's when I first got into rc cars). The only real interest I'd have in any more Tamiya re releases would be the avante or maybe the bigwig. I know they'll probably never do it, but I can dream

I was going to pick up the buggy champ or sand scorcher, but just can't bring myself to drop $300 on one since they were older kits and don't have that much nostalgia for me. So far I've built a grasshopper, fire dragon and boomerang in their re-release forms. Boomerang went on 1 "gentle" run, and the grasshopper has been flipped several times....it's tough putting that much time into a kit and then bashing it. Of course, that's why I have tamtechs!

price updated
7800 yen

http://tamiyablog.com/
very weird that they would stray from the original.. that is part of the re-re appeal, im surprised tamiya would stray from that to be honest

59burst wrote:price updated
7800 yen

7800 yen Japanese is like $85, that seems too cheap.

well............. it looks pretty cheap. so i think the price fits.

mikedealer-- your link is a Sand Viper with a Holiday buggy body. The DT-02 goes for about $140 and I don't think Tamiya can give them away. The nostalgia bandwagon may be a way to clear out some bad inventory. Lousy re-re.... good business sense.

a01butal wrote:

59burst wrote:price updated
7800 yen

7800 yen Japanese is like $85, that seems too cheap.

the frog is 6800 - 7500y here. so 7800 is probably spot on.