Tamiya's has a new 37-Year-Old CEO - Scale News Update 318

Dear new Tamiya CEO, Reissue a handful of vehicles, discontinue them for a number of years, Reissue a handful of them again, shatter the hearts of millions who think their o.g. tamiya vehicles are worth their weight in gold...🤠

A proper Ultra4 rig is missing. Spooled rear & centre diffs, unlocking / locking front diff and maybe a 2spd gearbox with a crawler ratio & go fast ratio.

Licensed 2.2 tires and a fully machined premium crawler.

Hey Josh! Thanks so very much for carrying on with the SNU each week! It is a wealth of information about our hobby and I am sure I am not the only person who looks forward to it each week! 🛻

Honestly, the biggest thing missing from this industry is standards: battery connectors, motor mount patterns, esc connectors. There should be standards for each scale, the same where possible. Would really improve the hobby for all the fans and the manufacturers.

Hopefully the new Tamiya CEO means we finally get a rere falcon, and blazing blazer

I would like to see more Scale transmission options. A modular axle system with various widths and offsets for front and rear. A dig unit that could be adapted to fit most current transmissions. Lastly the buggy scene overtake sorrca as the preferred competition so more companies will support buggy builds with cool new innovative parts.

Tamiya does it their way. It would be nice to see a scale crawler / trail truck form them. They made the first all metal truck back in the 80's and you would think being a plastic company they could make something. Heck even work from the Bruiser chassis and make it with plastic axles and a plastic transmission housing. I love all my Tamiya's and keep building them.

That Sparc Drive is really a cool idea and looks like a heck of a unit. Not sure its for any of my rigs, but its good to see innovation is still going. I think even more scale is what we could use, true scale transmissions, true scale axles (because theres way more axles than Toyota and Dana 44s), even a shiftable transfer case, scale NP205 or Dana 300 cases with high and low range, that might elimintate the slop in 2 speed transmissions cough RC4WD *cough*. I should edit, using the transfercase with a single speed transmission, not the transfer case fixing the 2 speed slop problem.

I would hope Tamiyas young CEO will bring the brand into current times and still keep the reissues as I'm sure they're profitable.

snowmobile, and missing some good 2.2 MOA crawler kits and 2.2 tire options. Also I’d love a 5” 1.9 tire option.

Josh: ‘that’s it for the spektrum radio - we will see what it is in a couple weeks unless tower leaks it before’

You're going to hate this answer: Accessible axle leaf mounts are missing from the market place. I had to design and print my own. So it was a win for the fun of the project 😂.

We need a 1/10 semi from Tamiya! Maybe with the new President?

Radio feed back to provide a steering and throttle feel

If anything is really missing it is more scale axles, transmissions and transfer cases. The Curry is cool and Yota axles be Yota axles, but there really isn't the one ton and up axles in the market. Dana 60s or 14 bolt GM, top load 2 1/2 ton Rockwells (I know RC4WD made one, but someone needs to make an actual bullet proof one. 4 or 6s with monster truck tires bullet proof.) Maybe some scale Atlas II or NP205 transfer cases. And more bodies. Yes licensing is a pain, but they don't have to make huge runs of less popular body styles. Everyone probably still has molds or pucks from older bodies they could do some runs on every once and a while.

I would like to see a 6th scale buggy! “H6 Optic”

A nice Chevy Silverado truck from the 90s... with some nice hard plastic details... Everybody in the world knows that truck but nobody gives it to us... and they have licenses...what a shame

I always look forward to the scale news. Thanks, Josh.

As far as Losi not sending out Super Lasernuts to be tested. I'm not upset. I put a LOT more stock into reviews by channels that buy their own rigs to test. Unconscious bias exist. Even worse is those that would exaggerate positive or downplay negative in hopes of gaining favor or fear of getting cut off. If you pay attention while acknowledging your own possible bias you can tell who is testing free stuff most of the time even if they don't tell you.