New Toyota FJ body scaler

[pardonmyn00b]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

WILL IT HAVE DOG EARS AND A TONGUE!!?!

That's all I care about! TELLLLL MEEEEEE!!

 

[Scrap]

A servo operated wagging tail too?

 

[steven318is]

just hope more rigs come out like the fj, Traxxas is a good company with great aftermarket support. it would be good for traxxas also because they havnt come up with something usefull for the scale market even though it blew up some time ago. hpi should have jumped on this awhile back

 

[Harley]

So in a roundabout way the initial troll job redirecting traffic to the traxxas website was accurate

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Lol. My initial thoughts aswel.

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Traxass and HPI may have been in negotiations about the acquisition for quite some time. Perhaps the redirect was a real hint about the buyout. Hope that Traxass saw value in the FJ way back but I'm not holding my breath.

The redirect was a complete troll. It had nothing to do with either company. I did it. I own the URL still. I can send the redirect to this thread if I want. It was purely a joke that cost me 7 bucks.

But in the end, it could be even more funny if it comes full circle :lol:

 

[wouterb]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

Whaha! $7 well spend I would say!
Got to love the way people take the whole matter way to serious, in my opinion.

 

[BigSki]

Maybe Axial will try to acquire the FJ Scaler, it would take minimal new parts to replace the HPi branded pieces with Axial logo parts, then they'd have a cool scaler that everyone seems to want to buy.

 

[gbean]

Maybe Axial will try to acquire the FJ Scaler, it would take minimal new parts to replace the HPi branded pieces with Axial logo parts, then they'd have a cool scaler that everyone seems to want to buy.

All axial would do is throw that body on an SCX10..., then remove any Toyota branding because licensing is expensive.
Boring.

 

[AngelowDoom]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

The FJ body does not matter, don't care for that at all. It's almost like a fictional truck. Have never seen one live, and they are almost none existing in Europe. Top of it all the FJ don't have solid axles, so someone should make a independent suspension platform for this, the hummer and similar off-road vehicles. But the rest of the truck seem interesting. The motor up front and t case especially.

 

[lonleycreeper]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

The FJ body does not matter, don't care for that at all. It's almost like a fictional truck. Have never seen one live, and they are almost none existing in Europe. Top of it all the FJ don't have solid axles, so someone should make a independent suspension platform for this, the hummer and similar off-road vehicles. But the rest of the truck seem interesting. The motor up front and t case especially.

Like this?

2006 Ultimate Adventure - 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser Buildup - Part 6 - 4-Wheel & Off-Road Magazine

 

[Natedog]

Traxxas has a massive interest in efficiencies of distribution.

And modular design, close tolerance, high quality, spare parts available, etc. "thumbsup"

...it's all just speculation.

I'd rather a company with money and apparently a strong presence take over, than just watch them die.

"thumbsup"

 

[AngelowDoom]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

Like this?

2006 Ultimate Adventure - 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser Buildup - Part 6 - 4-Wheel & Off-Road Magazine

Yes, just as fictional. That body looks like a toy body even on the full-size.
Does not hide the fact that this is originally a IFS truck from the factory.

 

[dubyas1989]

Ever since I have found out about solid axle swaps in fj cruisers I have been ok with solid axle 1/10 cruisers, but it really bothered me before, almost as much as the gelende fj40 with coil overs.

 

[fr8cture]

Ever since I have found out about solid axle swaps in fj cruisers I have been ok with solid axle 1/10 cruisers, but it really bothered me before, almost as much as the gelende fj40 with coil overs.

The coil overs bother you? The linked suspension bothers me more.

 

[dubyas1989]

Well yeah that was implied with the coil overs, I don't know why they didn't make that body for the tf2 instead.

 

[K.O.M.]

The FJ body does not matter, don't care for that at all. It's almost like a fictional truck. Have never seen one live, and they are almost none existing in Europe. Top of it all the FJ don't have solid axles, so someone should make a independent suspension platform for this, the hummer and similar off-road vehicles. But the rest of the truck seem interesting. The motor up front and t case especially.

Yes, just as fictional. That body looks like a toy body even on the full-size.
Does not hide the fact that this is originally a IFS truck from the factory.

Solid axle swaps are fairly common in the USA. I live in San Francisco, arguably one of the handful of cities that are aspiring to be similar to European cities, and I don't have to drive more than an hour to see multiple examples of not just solid axle swapped swapped vehicles (GM trucks, Toyota Tacomas), but of actual FJ Cruisers with solid axle swaps.

It's possible it's because of our Proximity to some prime wheeling areas: 1.5 hours to Hollister, 1 hour to Carnegie (mostly dirt bikes), and only 2.5 hours to the famed Rubicon.

I don't see those Icelandic Trucks or formula off-road cars around here, but that doesn't make them fictional. Even Tamiya putting a Jeep body on a CC-01 chassis is not in the realm of fiction as I have seen a Jeep with a custom IFS setup. If you ask me, the latter is farther from the norm than an FJ Cruiser with a solid front axle swap.

 

[BigSki]

I personally didn't care that the model wasn't 100% prototypical, I thought that as a turn key RC package, it was pretty much spot on as far as the current trends of having a front mount motor/trans, mid-located t-case and a decent looking set of axles that seemed to have a proportional track width. I'm sure that we'd see tons of the FJ bodies go up in the classified section, with people just using that chassis as a starting point, much in the way that the SCX chassis is still used as a 'back bone' for scale builds.

I'm still hoping that we will see this vehicle make an appearance in the market place, regardless of who's Logo gets cast into the diffy covers. There's too much work that has been done by HPi to get to this point of being *this* close to a full release, just to make this go away.

 

[AngelowDoom]

Solid axle swaps are fairly common in the USA. I live in San Francisco, arguably one of the handful of cities that are aspiring to be similar to European cities, and I don't have to drive more than an hour to see multiple examples of not just solid axle swapped swapped vehicles (GM trucks, Toyota Tacomas), but of actual FJ Cruisers with solid axle swaps.

It's possible it's because of our Proximity to some prime wheeling areas: 1.5 hours to Hollister, 1 hour to Carnegie (mostly dirt bikes), and only 2.5 hours to the famed Rubicon.

I don't see those Icelandic Trucks or formula off-road cars around here, but that doesn't make them fictional. Even Tamiya putting a Jeep body on a CC-01 chassis is not in the realm of fiction as I have seen a Jeep with a custom IFS setup. If you ask me, the latter is farther from the norm than an FJ Cruiser with a solid front axle swap.

The Venture looks like a good platform. And what I mean by fictional is the body does not look like a real truck, it looks like a toy, even the full-size. It's in my opinion butt ugly. But probably some likes it. And the comments about the real one is IFS, was regarding that it should have IFS when they tried to replicate the cruiser. But still looks like a good truck, just my inner wishes that it could had a different body. And I guess that cruiser thing is much more popular in the states where it is (was) for sale. But regardless the real FJ cruiser looks like someone made a kiddie truck in full-size, hence the fictional part. Not always easy to explain, English is my second language.

But if someone did do a IFS scale truck in around the 9" width, I think it would be very warm welcomed. You may say we have the twin hammers, and we do, and it's great, but it is a buggy. I was thinking more scale truck.
One can also say, why not just build one, but when building it usually involves lots of metal, welding, and it just get so dam heavy. The rtr trucks usually has a mix of plastic and metal, and is much lighter than what the average builder can whip up.

 

[pardonmyn00b]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

You do know the body is removable? Lexan bodies are always lame regardless of subject matter. Buy the kit, take the FJ body off and run it over with your Jeep.

 

[Natedog]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

You do know the body is removable? Lexan bodies are always lame regardless of subject matter. Buy the kit, take the FJ body off...

Thank you! Or sell it to offset a different body. :lmao::lmao::lmao:"thumbsup"

 

[pardonmyn00b]

Re: New Venture RC/HPI Toyota FJ body scaler

Thank you! Or sell it to offset a different body. :lmao::lmao::lmao:"thumbsup"

Exactly. Some people want every company to cater to their own personal tastes.

A. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
B. Don't like some of it? Modify it to your liking.
C. Start your own company.
D. Put dog ears and tongues on all trucks.