My wife said she almost got me  a flying duck as part of my birthday last month. But I think she probably decided that with the Havoc Helis and other helicopters I had enough little indoor flying machines -- no duck-hunting allowed in our living room. (Why not, I ask? She took down the ceiling fan so no danger there!) But I still have to write up my Christmas list so who knows, right?  The Duck Hunter is part of the iFly Series of toys from Interactive Toy Concepts (compare prices).  These are the same folks that brought us the Micro Mosquito and the Air Rage RC airplane line among other toys. The Duck Hunter isn't radio controlled though. Read more...

A guy just can't resist a robot that farts. OK, it has a lot of other cool features too. WowWee wowed us with remote controlled bowling Robosapiens. But Bossa Nova is bringing on the rocket-shooting primates... uh, Prime-8, that is. Read more...

In response to Are You Ready to Go Nitro, Clyde writes,

I have been hearing a lot of people saying that nitro is faster then electric and was just wondering how this rumor got started? Every electric I have owned has walked circles around my nitro. I had a E-Maxx and a T-Maxx, the e-maxx was much faster and bashed a lot better. My E-Revo will outrun any nitro 4wd truggy/buggy that I have seen, of course besides a nitro 4-tec or the like. Brushless technology is producing tons more power then nitro, at a better rpm and pulls into higher speed.

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A few months back I spotted the Jada Toys Battle Machines Laser Battle RCs in the store and wanted one (or two or all of them). I currently have three. They provide a great break from building RCs, repairing family cars, and playing Wii Sports -- all activities I've done a lot of lately (only two of which I've really enjoyed -- can you guess which ones?).

Blue Camaro Battle Machines RC
© M. James

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