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Old 08-12-2013, 01:27 PM   #17
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When I was a young'un, me and the neighbour kids all bought models from Radio Shack. They definitely weren't the cream of the crop but they were pretty good for just playing around on the street. My nephews bought a couple of cars from The Source a few weeks ago, and they bought the biggest pieces of junk ever known to the RC world. Very disappointing.

So, is it possible to get something for the kids who just want to zip the cars around on the driveway/street/sidewalk that won't be a hunk of junk without spending hundreds of dollars?
It should be. The price of the technology behind this stuff has really dropped lately. I remember when I was a kid, I ended up with one of those huge piece of crap ones from RadioShack. It had a range of about 20 feet, was really slow, and ate batteries like nothing else....
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