Buggy vs Truggy RC Car: Which One Actually Wins Backyard Battles? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My six year old daughter picked our first RC buggy off the shelf because she liked the color, and honestly that turned out to be a pretty rough way to shop for RC cars. A…
Best 4WD RC Cars That Actually Survive My Backyard As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Three years ago I bought my daughter what I thought was a toy. It was not a toy. It was the start of a garage full of spare tires, a drawer of stripped screws, and more opinions…
How to Drive an RC Car the Right Way. My daughter is six, and she is the reason I own three RC cars and one permanently scuffed pair of sneakers. The first time we took our truck out to the driveway, I nearly put it through the neighbor’s fence in under a minute. If you…
Best Monster Truck Under $500 – The One I’d Buy Again As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My six-year-old daughter has a talent for finding every rock, root, and mud puddle in our backyard, which turned out to be the best stress test I never planned for. I went through four different…
Best RC Boat for Lakes: What Actually Handles Open Water Well As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My six-year-old daughter and I spent most of this summer testing remote control boats on our local lake, and I quickly learned that most “lake ready” boats sold online are really just pool toys with…
My six-year-old daughter picked out our first RC car at the store, a bright orange truck that looked like it could climb a mountain. It could not. Within a week I had fried a battery, snapped a steering link, and learned more about this hobby the hard way than I ever wanted to. If you…
High Capacity RC Batteries: The Upgrade Worth Making I burned through three battery packs in one Saturday before I finally admitted my problem wasn’t my RC car, it was my battery. High capacity RC batteries sounded like a simple fix, and in some ways they were, but nobody warned me about the trade-offs that came…
Best Electric Scooter Under $1000: What Actually Holds Up As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I spent way too many nights scrolling through scooter listings, convinced that anything under a thousand bucks had to be a compromise. Then I bought one anyway, out of pure impatience, and rode it almost every single…
RC Car Differential Maintenance – The Fix Nobody Warns You About My truck started sounding like a blender full of gravel every time I hit the throttle. Two stripped gears and one very confused Saturday later, I finally figured out what my differential had been trying to tell me the whole time. Turns out RC…
Losi Mini B Review – Tiny Truck, Huge Grins. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I picked up a Losi Mini B mostly on a whim, expecting it to sit in a closet after a week like half my other impulse buys. That did not happen. A few months and a stack…
