Wanted: RC Car For Five Year Old

"MuchWagon" (muchwagon)
05/22/2015 at 16:49 • Filed to: None

Where can I find a near ready to run RC car that is upgradable / moddable over time as my five year old grows into it and out of it? Xrazygonuts RC 4x4 for your time.

Preferably a 4x4 all terrain type as the backyard is a bit of a mess. It’s not hard to find stuff, but I don’t know what I should keep in mind as far as letting the little guy ram it into the fence/wall/garage/sandbox/little brother and have it be repairable and moddable too.

I have a bad memory of my Sears Lobo running into the basement wall, dying on impact, and that being the end of that.

Extra points for Wagon style body!

DISCUSSION (16)

dogisbadob > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 16:53

what’s wrong with the cheap ones at family dollar? :p

TheHondaBro > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 16:53

Hey! There’s a Kinja blog for RCs if you wanna check it out!

http://smallscalebashers.kinja.com/

Also, I always suggest ECX for any first-time RC driver.

Kinja'd!!!

ECX makes a 4x4 version of the Torment SCT. I had a 2WD Torment one time, and it was amazing. I put a low-powered brushless system in it and 2.8s on all corners. That thing was a blast, and I had no complications with it whatsoever.

MuchWagon > dogisbadob
05/22/2015 at 16:55

No idea. If they have moddable off road RC cars that will survive my future demolitions engineer five year old at the dollar store I’m all set!

MuchWagon > TheHondaBro
05/22/2015 at 16:56

I didn’t know there was a RC Kinja! And I’ll check out ECX. Anyone know how to X-post?

TheHondaBro > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 16:57

I’ll share it to the blog. I can make you a contributor if you like!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 16:57

I’ve heard that Axial trucks are pretty tough and there’s a lot of support and aftermarket for those. They are a little pricy though. I’m not really sure of something cheaper.

MuchWagon > TheHondaBro
05/22/2015 at 17:00

Thanks! I have a feeling this is something my kid is really going to get into, and I definitely don’t mind. He’s ALWAYS building something out of whatever is around (mostly a few types of connectable blocks) and I’d really like for him to feel empowered to break stuff and fix stuff and mod stuff beyond lego type things. And I get to learn along the way so BONUS.

TheHondaBro > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 17:00

You’re in!

TheHondaBro > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
05/22/2015 at 17:02

They’re far from tough. Axial only did slow crawlers before they did the Exo, and it really showed how flimsy their construction is.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > TheHondaBro
05/22/2015 at 17:06

I haven’t owned one so I’m just going off of what people said.

MuchWagon > TheHondaBro
05/22/2015 at 17:33

In this case slow is a feature. Little guy has never even played a normal console videogame so I’m guessing controller use is going to be a steep learning curve.

1111111111111111111111 > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 18:08

Let us know what you get! I’very been thinking my almost 5 year old needs one.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > MuchWagon
05/22/2015 at 19:26

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

A XMODS for indoors, (very upgradable, lots of stuff for This for sale on eBay, don’t get the new ones. Those are crap. The STREET/EVO ones are the best.

And Traxxas rustler. It can go off road stuff, and teaches the kid how suspension/steering/diff works.

Wacko > MuchWagon
07/09/2015 at 15:44

The five year old in me wants a Redcat Rampage MT http://www.redcatracing.com/Rampage-MT-V3

all you need is gasoline and batteries, and + you can almost sit your kid on it and drive him around,

kanadanmajava1 > MuchWagon
07/23/2015 at 04:37

Those crawler things are so slow that you can’t crash against things with them. They are pretty fun too even though they lack speed.

Rustlervxl4sale > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
09/30/2015 at 23:33

Yep I’ve got a brushless rustler vxl that I need to sell. If you are interested please email at jgoorn@gmail.com.