you nostalgia you lose

[andrewrob]

Morningside said:

andrewrob said:

schmalex said:

Mine comes today!!!!

I am so excited.

Still to buy a new motor..... and a LiPo battery (whatever they are).

This is going to be a no expense spared build and factory tune up

Don't charge your lipo unattended, they are very good batteries but can go very wrong if overcharged/short circuited or are faulty.
Take a look on youtube for lipo fires and you will see what I mean. I have fireproof lipo bags to charge mine in, you can grab them off of ebay for a fiver.

That hardly give me any faith in these batteries

Haha sorry didn't mean to scare you. They just need a bit more care when charging than Nimh packs do. The bags are just for charging.
Just don't ever be tempted to go to bed whilst they are charging. The chargers are quite intelligent and will double check with you what its detected and what you have selected to make sure its the right battery type. Have you already got a charger?

[joe_90]

miniman said:

Whoops.

whoops indeed.. but £200+

I had one of these,



A much much better car, so fast with a chain belt drive... Until 4 minutes was up and it ran out of juice

[joe_90]

[bigrich4]

Not sure if this is a re-post but:

I always wanted this set too but alas I never got them:


Oh and the best Chrimbo present I've ever had:

My mates who had the Game Boy's and Game Gear's were envious, I still have it somewhere too.

[miniman]

schmalex said:

Mine comes today!!!!

I am so excited.

Still to buy a new motor..... and a LiPo battery (whatever they are).

This is going to be a no expense spared build and factory tune up

Those LiPo batteries look bloody lethal!

[GroundEffect]

I'm 24 so my childhood was this...

[andrewrob]

miniman said:

schmalex said:

Mine comes today!!!!

I am so excited.

Still to buy a new motor..... and a LiPo battery (whatever they are).

This is going to be a no expense spared build and factory tune up

Those LiPo batteries look bloody lethal!

They are, but very light. I dug out my old Tamiya TL01 for my son a few months ago and stuck a 2c 2200mah lipo in it and it was so much lighter than the 1400mah nicad pack it replaced.

[Elroy Blue]

V40TC said:

and

Bloody hell. Just remembered I've got one of those in the attic at my mums.

[schmalex]

miniman said:

schmalex said:

Mine comes today!!!!

I am so excited.

Still to buy a new motor..... and a LiPo battery (whatever they are).

This is going to be a no expense spared build and factory tune up

Those LiPo batteries look bloody lethal!

Just got a vm from Mrs K. My delivery has arrived. We'll have to do a build photo comparison on this thread here

[gog440]

GTIR said:

gog440 said:

You buggers have had me spending the last 10 minutes looking for Monkey and the Water Margin on DVD, I think I might be dropping hints for Mrs Gog to get me them for my birthday.

Don't do it.

You'll regret it.
Trust me, it's best to have those foggy happy memories in your head.

The thing is that I know they will be st, but I dont think I ever saw right to the end of the water margin and I did watch some of the re runs of Monkey a couple of years ago and they were st, but entertainingly rubbish so still worth watching.

[maximm]

[TimmyWimmyWoo]

maximm said:

I bought my brother a double-size box of those for Xmas from a retro sweet shop on Oxford Street. £4.50.

[Morningside]

Loved this:

[Stig]

Morningside said:

Loved this:

Gronda gronda rangdo....

[arun1uk]

Anyone know where I might be able to get a Licorice/twizler/rope dispenser, (for a car) like the one in Wayne's World?

[Twincam16]

monthefish said:

(anyone have one of these?)

When I was about 5, my mate from down the road did, in black.

Envious? You could've mistaken me for a traffic light.

[Steamer]

TimmyWimmyWoo said:

maximm said:

I bought my brother a double-size box of those for Xmas from a retro sweet shop on Oxford Street. £4.50.

Awww they were nice!

Anyone remember 'the glass scare'? However sometimes you used to get a 'clear-nerd' anyway (which I think was just a chunk of sugar)... at least I hope thats all it was!!

[Steamer]

Twincam16 said:

monthefish said:

(anyone have one of these?)

When I was about 5, my mate from down the road did, in black.

Envious? You could've mistaken me for a traffic light.

Me too! They looked ace at the time.. in the Kays catalogue.

Thankfully I just held fire and ended up with a Burner - which in my view 'st it'.

[stew-S160]

RedLeicester said:

sherbert90 said:

zb said:

:shocked: I'd forgotten about those!!!

They're not gone either - a favourite in kids party bags at the moment, though my four year old was a bit gutted when I swiped it the minute I spotted it, and refused to let him have a go until Mummy told me off for not sharing.

OMG. I HAD forgot about those, now I want again!

[joe_90]

Watched this last night...



and the soundtrack.. just epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6VPFQw6BU