I think this is what many of us have been waiting for from Tamiya for years. At last something original, cool with scale looks. I can’t wait and it seems already there is almost nothing but universal praise and positivity towards it.
As a long time Tamiya RC collector/ fan boy this is perfect for me. I’ll be getting one or two of them. Looks like the gorgeous love child of a Wild One and a Rough Rider.
On one hand, I am in agreement, as that is exactly what this looks like. However, on the other hand, those types of transponders are typically only used by shops renting for races, and I don't see these buggies as being race competitively. Except for the possibility of racing in Japan, I don't see these fitting into any race class anywhere else in the world.
Thank you Gavin. This is epic. Tamiya back on form. I've been disappointed with most Tamiya kits, and once I'd bought all the ones I wanted from the 80's I struggled to find anything else I liked. This is a new 'old' kit and what I would expect from a Tamiya. Will be getting one of these without doubt. Maybe two so I can keep one and run one
Does look awesome. Perfect addition go along side the SRB family. . My personal mods :- Paint the cage, scale looking shocks, whip antenna, spare wheel/tyre
I feel like I'm 15 years old again...I actually just seen/heard of this for the first time about 4 days ago...This will be an obligation..lol...thanks for the preview!
Magnificent!!! Tamiya RC is back...at last! With this one i don't even care if it drives well. They have me on looks alone. Well done Tamiya and thanks Gavin for the breaking news!
After being on the fence with this and the Blockhead Wild One I got my pre-order in for this, been ages since I had a Tamiya buggy, looking forward to it!
Love this one Gav….there is an image floating around with the wheel mounted on there as a spare….looks proper tuff 🤘🏻💪🏻😎 I can’t wait to get one….well done Tamiya, hopefully more cars on this chassis too🙏🏻
I'm with you on this one Gav, absolutely love it! It shouts pure Tamiya through and through! Classic but modern, best of both worlds! Only bummer is the high price! :O)
I'm getting that from tamiya and others: everything is going up up up. Even chinese brand's pricing is going through the roof. RGT pioneer used to be $200 and now with shipping is over $500 CDN. I don't blame them, the molds for new kits are phenomenally expensive to produce. I had a small 4 up mold made back in the 80's and it was $50,000.00 so complex ones can run up to $400,000.00.
@@MarkBryanRC Oh for sure it's going to get worse. I make and sell wooden signs and stuff and I've had to raise my prices twice this past year simply due to material costs. Shipping has gone through the roof. I did my year end and while I had a feeling costs had increased, I saw a year ago it cost $18.00 to ship something and by the end of dec it was $28 due to fuel surcharges. They went from 10% to 50%.
@@muskokamike127 Oh yeah, fuel is the biggest issue here in the UK, recently petrol has doubled in price and gas quadrupled! No sign of prices dropping, only going up more!
Great stuff Gavin! I can always count on you for the earliest news on new goodies. I’ll make a video that guides people to yours for these announcements. No point in reinventing the wheel. All the best!!
BBX kit really looks phantastic. Tamico lists it for end of june, what a long wait. But i definetly will get one, its great. And the box art photos of the MB01 seem show what most people have suspected: m-chassis with the choice of having front or rear wheel drive in the 3 m-chassis length. Good news!
As soon as i saw this, i fell in love, this is the modern take on the 1980s Tamiya racers of old, I can't wait to buy one !! I wonder if the rear suspension is independent or is it a trailing arm ? Also I see aftermarket manufacturers making alloy frames for this, at least I hope they do 😁
I remember jokingly mentioning Tamiya on Instagram to also release something new with retro style design as an answer to new Kyosho Dirt Master few weeks ago, and now they announced BBX lol. Here's hoping i can get it on my hand one day 😅
This new Tamya excites me a lot. It was from a long time that Tamiya did not give me such a trill. Subbed! (in the back ground the yellow Kyosho.... I had one identical and stupidly I sold!)
I'm amazed we've not seen stuff like this sooner, Ansmann did a 1:10th sudo Baja 5b with metal chassis pieces, it was in a similar style but slightly more modern. Really cool that they've done this!! We are in the process of designing something a long these retro lines but in 5th scale..
Looks to me like a close replica of the Bel-Ray Bullet, as raced in the 1970s by Malcolm Smith and Bud Feldkamp. It's the buggy the Rough Rider was based on, so I suppose that makes this the Rough Rider's better-looking brother 🙃 There are plenty of photos of the Bullet with a spare wheel mounted on the rear too, so yep it looks like that's exactly what that cross-brace piece on the rear is for. I am definitely going to be buying one of these! Edit: Have just pre-ordered on Wheelspin models -- £358, ouch!
How very dare you, the Rough Rider is better looking than this 😂, some good info there mate and I guess I am just stuck in the eighties but I still think I buy a good RR over this 😜
@@onkouth Ha ha, don't get me wrong, I still have and love my original 1979 Rough Rider and actually spent a few weeks this summer restoring it. But it always annoyed me that the body wasn't a bit closer to the real thing; the big ol' radio-gear box on the SRB chassis kinda prevented it. Seems someone at Tamiya maybe felt the same way! I wonder if one of the original designers had a hand in this -- we never hear anything of what happens inside Tamiya and who designs what, which is a shame.
@@davidf2281 🙂, it would be very cool to get inside the factory and have a talk with the designers and see how things are made, that may be a job for one of our favourite RC TH-camrs to look into arranging and filming 😂
That "odd plastic mount" is for a transponder. The old style with internal battery. Something like a hobbyshop would loan out for races. All my other Tamiya kits have this type on mount also.
There’s a video of it and the battery loads from top above the steering servo a pin does come out and the rear part of the cage hinges up to access the motor and slipper clutch….
Well 2023 is gonna get a whole lot more expensive ha ha. That’s a fantastic looking machine , will definitely have to get one of those. The little weird circular mount at the back of the cab is for a transponder there one on my xv02 pro and a few others. Cheers for all the info ;)
The new BBX looks awesome and here’s the unusual thing from Tamiya, it contains FULL BALL BEARINGS!!! Also I’m loving the new 911 992 GT3 body but to me the wheels look a little under sized compared to the real one that has 20/21 inch wheels. Looking forward to seeing the new MB-01 too!
It's not unusual, they use ball bearing, better plastics and others on all more serious stuff. They just didn't make serious vintage looking buggy yet 😁
I have the old Ho Bao cage buggy and I loved the look being just a roll cage though my friend smashed it so it now has a plastic body as the cage was expensive. I think this BBX looks great with both due to the design a clear body to paint or a metal cage would be good and love to see a full new skool grasshopper or hornet.
@@RCKickschannel Plus by the time you have a motor, ESC, steering servo, transmitter, receiver, battery and paint, it will be over 500 GBP to get it running.
ha, I bought a rough rider back when it first came out and the design flaw was the FRP deck was flexible and since they used the rigid body as support, it continually cracked the body. So I built a tubular frame out of brass tubing. I'd post a pic of it but they've take my design to the "pro" level.
Let’s be honest. You wouldn’t take it to a track. But damn! If you grew up pouring over tamiya guidebooks with the hotshot on the cover. If you know what Rc lecture with moko chan is. If you watched the promo videos of the hornet, hotshot and wild one promo videos narrated by California hobby shop owner Bud Voss. If you were blown away by the fact that there was a Japanese TV series called “tv car Grand Prix”. If you didn’t get around to buying a bear hawk or a super champ. This car is your dream come true!
This should be the direction for Tamiya all along, not the monstrosities of the super avante/astute. keep the vintage buggy looks, but modernize the chassis for powerful brushless systems and servos
I watched a video someone posted of the Tamiya video that is showing on their stand at the show for the BBX, yap! the battery slides in via the front by removing that pin, also the video shows a spare wheel mounted on the back, the kit also does not apparently come with a motor or ESC.
That car is tight! Definitely getting one. Thanks for making a video on it. Like steve4738 wrote, this is exactly what us Tamiya fans have been waiting for.
That's a proper plastic fantastic SRB successor finally. BBX should be the chassis name though, so we need a nickname for the whole Car. € 252,- has changed to € 299,- on the Tamico site. Now I understand, why you're all discussing the steep pricing. On the other hand, I've just recently bought a TD2 for € 132,- for christmas…
Be interesting to see what else they put on the BB-01 chassis as it looks flat. The rear circle bit could be a transponder mount. That uses single pin mounting. Maybe they will do a racing series. Be disappointing if the battery goes in from underneath. Like you say by time you buy this and a slipper your looking at pure race buggies that come with all the good stuff
I think this is what many of us have been waiting for from Tamiya for years. At last something original, cool with scale looks. I can’t wait and it seems already there is almost nothing but universal praise and positivity towards it.
Couldn't agree more. They absolutely nailed the look, and the execution. Hex hardware, incredible!
Hex hardware I know! Go Tamiya LOL. That and bearings, OMG!
As a long time Tamiya RC collector/ fan boy this is perfect for me. I’ll be getting one or two of them. Looks like the gorgeous love child of a Wild One and a Rough Rider.
Now this is more like it! 👍 Tamiya nailed it with the design of this one! 👏 Can't wait to pick one up.
You and me both!
Yes!
The odd piece I would imagine is a transponder mount.
That's what I was thinking, roger! :)
Yes, this is included in most Tamiya modern kits nowadays. My M08 has it, and it's in the manual: it's a transponder bracket support
On one hand, I am in agreement, as that is exactly what this looks like. However, on the other hand, those types of transponders are typically only used by shops renting for races, and I don't see these buggies as being race competitively. Except for the possibility of racing in Japan, I don't see these fitting into any race class anywhere else in the world.
@@ninthislandrc maybe Tamiya are giving these as an option for a one-make cup in the Tamiya realm of racing?
It's gotta be a transponder mount. Right outer shape and right size ring in the middle. Transponder mount 100%
Thank you for all your work you do. You bring us the news on all the new kits as fast as you can.
My pleasure Joe! More info on the other releases come later today
very good look !!!!! 1980 buggy vintage !!!!! MERCI TAMYIA !!!!!
Thank you Gavin. This is epic. Tamiya back on form. I've been disappointed with most Tamiya kits, and once I'd bought all the ones I wanted from the 80's I struggled to find anything else I liked. This is a new 'old' kit and what I would expect from a Tamiya. Will be getting one of these without doubt. Maybe two so I can keep one and run one
That’s definitely a step in the right direction! Super cool design! Love it!
I think so too Mark!
Does look awesome. Perfect addition go along side the SRB family. . My personal mods :- Paint the cage, scale looking shocks, whip antenna, spare wheel/tyre
Yes!!! This is what Tamiya needs to put out. I haven't purchased a Tamiya in a long time but this one I will be purchasing!!!
I feel like I'm 15 years old again...I actually just seen/heard of this for the first time about 4 days ago...This will be an obligation..lol...thanks for the preview!
I am super in love...oh man can't for for this one!
Magnificent!!! Tamiya RC is back...at last! With this one i don't even care if it drives well. They have me on looks alone. Well done Tamiya and thanks Gavin for the breaking news!
The Tamiya booth is impressive.🇩🇪🇩🇪
Yep it was a big stand
This car looks really cool & exactly what made tamiya so big in the 80's. Not a race car but a great fun, awesome looking kit.
It even says it comes with a full set of ball bearings! This BBX is exactly what I have been waiting for a very long time!
Amazing looking buggy - now I’m excited Tamiya🙌 Can’t wait for one of these!!
Thanks for the video. Tamiya have since uploaded their own promotional video of the car, and it does answer some of your questions.
Yep I watched in this morning :)
Classic Tamiya! And thanks for great channel!
Our pleasure Adam. 👍🏻
Totally agree they really nailed it with this one.
The rear black plastic round piece is a club transponder mount
After being on the fence with this and the Blockhead Wild One I got my pre-order in for this, been ages since I had a Tamiya buggy, looking forward to it!
Love this one Gav….there is an image floating around with the wheel mounted on there as a spare….looks proper tuff 🤘🏻💪🏻😎
I can’t wait to get one….well done Tamiya, hopefully more cars on this chassis too🙏🏻
Very cool
I'm with you on this one Gav, absolutely love it! It shouts pure Tamiya through and through! Classic but modern, best of both worlds! Only bummer is the high price! :O)
Couldn't agree more Mark! Yep price, especially if you have to spend another £50 on a slipper
I'm getting that from tamiya and others: everything is going up up up. Even chinese brand's pricing is going through the roof. RGT pioneer used to be $200 and now with shipping is over $500 CDN.
I don't blame them, the molds for new kits are phenomenally expensive to produce. I had a small 4 up mold made back in the 80's and it was $50,000.00 so complex ones can run up to $400,000.00.
@@muskokamike127 I hear ya, Mike. I know how it is, and with global inflation on an upward spiral, I fear it's only going to get worse! :/
@@MarkBryanRC Oh for sure it's going to get worse. I make and sell wooden signs and stuff and I've had to raise my prices twice this past year simply due to material costs. Shipping has gone through the roof. I did my year end and while I had a feeling costs had increased, I saw a year ago it cost $18.00 to ship something and by the end of dec it was $28 due to fuel surcharges. They went from 10% to 50%.
@@muskokamike127 Oh yeah, fuel is the biggest issue here in the UK, recently petrol has doubled in price and gas quadrupled! No sign of prices dropping, only going up more!
2 minutes in and I want one already.
Great stuff Gavin! I can always count on you for the earliest news on new goodies. I’ll make a video that guides people to yours for these announcements. No point in reinventing the wheel. All the best!!
Wow this is awesome! This is exactly what we want!
100%
Interesting. Will have to get one for my narrow buggy collection.
New age of Old school rough n tough! Digging it 🤟
100%!! So cool
BBX kit really looks phantastic. Tamico lists it for end of june, what a long wait. But i definetly will get one, its great. And the box art photos of the MB01 seem show what most people have suspected: m-chassis with the choice of having front or rear wheel drive in the 3 m-chassis length. Good news!
Very cool buggy. Great kit to see out . Thanks for sharing
Nailed it definitely buying one
BBx is gorgeous!! The slipper clutch (along with other parts) is displayed on a board that says 'hop up options' on it. Take what you like from that.
It's an extra for sure.
As soon as i saw this, i fell in love, this is the modern take on the 1980s Tamiya racers of old, I can't wait to buy one !!
I wonder if the rear suspension is independent or is it a trailing arm ?
Also I see aftermarket manufacturers making alloy frames for this, at least I hope they do 😁
Gavin Many thanks for for the heads up on this car, it’s looks awesome definitely going on my wish list, best wishes
Thanks for watching Peter
Looks nice, if pricey, ripe for some refinement though imho✌️👍😊💜 Great review and valid comments too💜💜👍✌️😊
Saw this a few hours ago. Super excited. Will try to get one before you do! 😂
:)
I remember jokingly mentioning Tamiya on Instagram to also release something new with retro style design as an answer to new Kyosho Dirt Master few weeks ago, and now they announced BBX lol. Here's hoping i can get it on my hand one day 😅
Looks awesome way to go Tamiya! That black thing looks like a transponder mount for mounting a transponder for racing.
This new Tamya excites me a lot. It was from a long time that Tamiya did not give me such a trill. Subbed! (in the back ground the yellow Kyosho.... I had one identical and stupidly I sold!)
Absolutely epic design.
Looks a nice bit of kit if I get one I would leave the body work off and just have the frame showing.thanks for the vid 👍
Correct. Remove body clip on the side remove a pin and the full size battery slides under the driver
I'm going to the show in Nürnberg this Saturday - I will check and let you know here if they have it displayed.
Best part of the day😃. This is a great innovation from them. And yes I want one. Somehow it looks a little bit bigger than the regular 1 by ten buggy.
I'm amazed we've not seen stuff like this sooner, Ansmann did a 1:10th sudo Baja 5b with metal chassis pieces, it was in a similar style but slightly more modern. Really cool that they've done this!! We are in the process of designing something a long these retro lines but in 5th scale..
Thank you so much Gavin for this great content :)
My pleasure! Thank you for all your support Jonas
Excellent update! Looking forward to this kit.
The rear black part is for attaching the transponder.
I'll end up picking up 3, one to build, one to look at, and one just in case😄. Well maybe just 2, one to build and run, and one kit for spares.
LOL 👍🏻👍🏻
Looks to me like a close replica of the Bel-Ray Bullet, as raced in the 1970s by Malcolm Smith and Bud Feldkamp. It's the buggy the Rough Rider was based on, so I suppose that makes this the Rough Rider's better-looking brother 🙃
There are plenty of photos of the Bullet with a spare wheel mounted on the rear too, so yep it looks like that's exactly what that cross-brace piece on the rear is for.
I am definitely going to be buying one of these!
Edit: Have just pre-ordered on Wheelspin models -- £358, ouch!
The old classic real desert buggies are so good looking and I'm chuffed to see this 2023 interpretation.
How very dare you, the Rough Rider is better looking than this 😂, some good info there mate and I guess I am just stuck in the eighties but I still think I buy a good RR over this 😜
@@onkouth Ha ha, don't get me wrong, I still have and love my original 1979 Rough Rider and actually spent a few weeks this summer restoring it. But it always annoyed me that the body wasn't a bit closer to the real thing; the big ol' radio-gear box on the SRB chassis kinda prevented it. Seems someone at Tamiya maybe felt the same way! I wonder if one of the original designers had a hand in this -- we never hear anything of what happens inside Tamiya and who designs what, which is a shame.
@@davidf2281 🙂, it would be very cool to get inside the factory and have a talk with the designers and see how things are made, that may be a job for one of our favourite RC TH-camrs to look into arranging and filming 😂
The rough rider came from the The Funco S1 ‘s from the mint 400 in the 70’s
That's what I'm looking for.......love it...
100% right. :)!!!!
I agree Gavin, Tamiya NAILED this one! I like it without the body.
Thing on the back looks like an old school transponder mount
That "odd plastic mount" is for a transponder. The old style with internal battery. Something like a hobbyshop would loan out for races. All my other Tamiya kits have this type on mount also.
Yes, that is a gotta get. Love it.
There’s a video of it and the battery loads from top above the steering servo a pin does come out and the rear part of the cage hinges up to access the motor and slipper clutch….
Well 2023 is gonna get a whole lot more expensive ha ha. That’s a fantastic looking machine , will definitely have to get one of those. The little weird circular mount at the back of the cab is for a transponder there one on my xv02 pro and a few others. Cheers for all the info ;)
100% looks epic and yes 2023 is looking like an extremely expensive one lol
I'm a big fan of these news segments 👍
Another one dropping in an hour with an update on all other new Tamiya releases :)
The piece that sticks out is a transponder holder. You can see it on the TT02, TT01e and a few others.
The black "Thing" behind the Driver is for Transponder
Definitely getting this one. Gonna do rough rider colours.
The new BBX looks awesome and here’s the unusual thing from Tamiya, it contains FULL BALL BEARINGS!!! Also I’m loving the new 911 992 GT3 body but to me the wheels look a little under sized compared to the real one that has 20/21 inch wheels. Looking forward to seeing the new MB-01 too!
It's not unusual, they use ball bearing, better plastics and others on all more serious stuff. They just didn't make serious vintage looking buggy yet 😁
That thing that sticks up in the back bexa great mount area for the whip antenna flag .
This looks really cool.
ordered!!!! Hehehe!!!
LOL Thats fast Stephan :)
The black thingy..... might be for a Transponder
Looks really cool!
It does!
cool looking buggy. i would love to have it.
The black circle on the back looks kinda like a transponder mount...
Could be Kai.
Brilliant breaking news vid. Looks great!!
It’s for attaching a spare tire to just behind the driver.
I love the retro vibe.
Badass can’t wait
I just ordered from tamico. £14 delivery 266 in total
Coolest video Sir!✨
6:30
thats a place for lap counter
I can't wait for them to be released! I just may have to get one!
SO EXCITED!
Round at the back: transponder mount i presume. As it looks a bit like the ones on the TT-01 E.
I have the old Ho Bao cage buggy and I loved the look being just a roll cage though my friend smashed it so it now has a plastic body as the cage was expensive. I think this BBX looks great with both due to the design a clear body to paint or a metal cage would be good and love to see a full new skool grasshopper or hornet.
Tamiya have smashed it with this one. Back to the 80's! 😎 I hope you're right on price. Modelsport have it at £399rrp though, discounted to £349. 😬
HOW MUCH! Thats not good. I was told £299 this morning from a UK reseller.
@@RCKickschannel Plus by the time you have a motor, ESC, steering servo, transmitter, receiver, battery and paint, it will be over 500 GBP to get it running.
ha, I bought a rough rider back when it first came out and the design flaw was the FRP deck was flexible and since they used the rigid body as support, it continually cracked the body. So I built a tubular frame out of brass tubing. I'd post a pic of it but they've take my design to the "pro" level.
Let’s be honest. You wouldn’t take it to a track. But damn! If you grew up pouring over tamiya guidebooks with the hotshot on the cover. If you know what Rc lecture with moko chan is. If you watched the promo videos of the hornet, hotshot and wild one promo videos narrated by California hobby shop owner Bud Voss. If you were blown away by the fact that there was a Japanese TV series called “tv car Grand Prix”. If you didn’t get around to buying a bear hawk or a super champ. This car is your dream come true!
Well put 👍🏻
This should be the direction for Tamiya all along, not the monstrosities of the super avante/astute. keep the vintage buggy looks, but modernize the chassis for powerful brushless systems and servos
You make a good point
I watched a video someone posted of the Tamiya video that is showing on their stand at the show for the BBX, yap! the battery slides in via the front by removing that pin, also the video shows a spare wheel mounted on the back, the kit also does not apparently come with a motor or ESC.
Love it! I'll be ordering one👌
That car is tight! Definitely getting one. Thanks for making a video on it. Like steve4738 wrote, this is exactly what us Tamiya fans have been waiting for.
Love it thank you tamiya.
Hopefully, Tamiya will release the blazing blazer and Ford step side rough rider frame
Nice!!
that black ring on the rear could be a transponder holder?anyways yup im definatly getting one.
That's a proper plastic fantastic SRB successor finally. BBX should be the chassis name though, so we need a nickname for the whole Car.
€ 252,- has changed to € 299,- on the Tamico site. Now I understand, why you're all discussing the steep pricing. On the other hand, I've just recently bought a TD2 for € 132,- for christmas…
It quite clearly says 'Hop Up Options' above the slipper. Does look good though.
Modelsport UK are saying £349 due 15th June for the BBX, nice but that's up there with some proper great cars from Tamiya themselves and Kyosho
Encouragingly, it looks like Tamiya wants you to race it. Transponder mount.
That is such a cool car.
Be interesting to see what else they put on the BB-01 chassis as it looks flat. The rear circle bit could be a transponder mount. That uses single pin mounting. Maybe they will do a racing series. Be disappointing if the battery goes in from underneath. Like you say by time you buy this and a slipper your looking at pure race buggies that come with all the good stuff
I think there would be a lot of tuning parts from asia soon for this unit,it s a very cool RC👍🏼