Thank You Tamiya 😎 

85-92 was definitely the golden era of RC. So much cool stuff.. now I’m in my mid 40’s and trying to build the collection I couldn’t back then as a kid. I love the hot shot family of cars. The hot shot and the Big Wig are my favorites, but I love em all

Absolutely awesome video! I am so glad you finally have a Super Sabre. I have almost pulled the trigger on at least 3 original kits over the years for you just because I knew how much you wanted one.

It's not a bunch of dribble. Those early days getting our first RC kit from Tamiya or other, really sparked something in our soul. There is something about it all. That's why you and all of us keep doing this hobby! The old models and rere keep us interested. Believe me, I'm surrounded by a ton of those models also. Keep it up ol buddy! Thanks.

Loving the Sabre Glenn, I think one thing you have said and always say in your videos is that all these cars are no longer just cars to play with, they represent memories of much simpler times. I would spend ages watching the promo videos at my local model shop as my mum waited patiently all the time planning how she could save the money to get me one for Xmas. I can't wait until Christmas day this year to build my Wild One, my first car I got and built with my late father who I lost about a year ago, it will be a big tribute to him and Ray Lynch will lose his drive as Dad's Name is going on the car ❤

Super Sabre was my first RC, remember getting it for Xmas in 87, after a year of saving for a Boomerang. I also had a Saturday job in Beatties a couple of years later. So great memories from a long time ago now. Thanks Glenn…

Definitely get them all out again when you get the HS2 👍👍👍

It was genuinely the 1st car that got my attention the 1st time i saw an issue of RC Car Action. Took forever to get them to rerelease this. Funny you mention the thundershot i just finished the resto of my original last wk. it sat on shelf broke for over 30yrs. Fixed now even with correct elecs. Called the man who gave it to me (to have a 4wd for 4wd class race that i never made it to b/c i broke it) and showed him it sorted out. Funnier still was last xmas when i ordered a ReRe Thundershot and sent it to his house unannounced. A good laugh was had by all. -U10

So glad you like the Beatties bag. Fantastic video. I do love a good trip down memory lane

What a run tamiya did in 4wd from 85/86/87 absolutely Classics! Happy for you Glenn as these kits are so nostalgic for us its pure magic! But lol yep still don't have enough cash to buy them! Iol my mrs said she will buy me one for Christmas but l am stuck between this the Super Sabre or HS2??? help!!!! Can't get the both! We old boys are living the dream for the 2nd time 30/40 years later! l too say a massive thank you to tamiya and to you my friend for fueling the fire too! I have to agree 100% Glenn about the pre-cut and painted bodyshells absolutely bang on for me! About the box l think l will go for the HS2 just because of the box lol! That one off special silver box with epic boxart is mind blowing to me! Just love that box! The Super Sabre is pretty damn sweet also! I am pretty sure by now you know Glenn the Boomerang was my bread and butter 4wd back in the day and have the same emotion for it as you do this but for me its still all about the Hotshot! Definitely my favourite of the family! I love all the Shot family and l was the guy who asked Keith to do a video of the Shots a while back that Keith nailed! Just epic family in the RC timeline full stop! Glenn brilliant vid buddy love tamiya! Love the bag what a bit of rc history, Martin nice one! Mate keep doing vids and being as passionate as always even if its only a video a week on tamiya wheel nuts lol fantastic mate. Cheers James.

Great video. Tamiya...King Cab....please...

Glad you were finally able to get one! Can’t wait to see it built!

Your happiness was so very evident throughout the entire video. Certainly put a smile on my face too. Enjoy, my friend

Great video Glenn. Talking about a family based on shared chassis....the ORV chassis comes to my mind. A lot of cars came out using the basic ORV chassis. 👍👍

Love it Glenn....

My favourite video Glenn….properly happy seeing this with all of those memories of that era. Thanks for putting this out there!!!

Great video Glen, and 100% agree on the bigwig. I went from a grasshopper to a bigwig and couldn't believe my luck, will never forget that xmas, I am 48 now and still feels so fresh in my mind.

I loved the multiple model ads in the old magazines, even when they were uncolored. 100% drool material as a pre-teen kid. 🤩🤤🤤🤤 ……. Big Wig does stand out! I used to think it was corny but as I’m 46 this year it’s all nostalgia, it clearly stands out and is burned into my memories.

Hahaha, that bag, a right of passage for many of us 😁 Bigwig, Supershot, Super Sabre, Hotshot II, Hotshot, Boomerang in that order

The Super Hornet!! Needs to make a comeback.

You're awesome Glenn...always great to see your videos and your knowledge of Tamiya. Tamiya has a special place in my heart.

Nice one Glenn. No real preference for a specific re-re. Same as you just keep ‘em coming so we can just pick and choose what resonates with our own personal memories.

For me I want the Ford Ranger XLT, my brother had that when I was a little kid and I just about remember him getting that, and yes I want the Mud Blaster also. Love these Videos Glenn, talking about the old days when this was all new, what an absolutely amazing time to be a kid. Also can't wait to get this kit in the next few days ☺️

No rubbish in your video’s Glen. Love the nostalgia. A beautiful escape from the real world. Keep up the great work. Thank you.

I love the scoop and the colors on the big wig. It doesn’t look like a toy grade at all.

I’ve been waiting so long, to complete the Hotshot series, rerelease collection. Happy days 🥳😊

Jeez thats brought back memories or Beatties in Blackpool. Looking at all the RC that i knew my family could never afford and ending up with an off brand from a market stall. Simpler times. Growing up in the 70s and 80s . Brilliant video for that Beatties memory if nothing else

The Super Sabre IS the rere I’ve been waiting for.

I still have my original Beaties bag that came with my Thunder Dragon, it lives in the cupboard of my old bedroom at my parents house. I would stuff it with newspaper or old bubble wrap for display to give it a bit of body.

The Beatties bag, the smell of my childhood :) Like most of us, spent most of Saturday in there as a kid. It's funny, out of all the Hotshot family I still think the original looks the best - really aggressive looking. Tamiya nailed it from the start.

Glenn when I got my king cab when I was 14 I had the tamiya catalogue and I marked the pages and wrote a list of the kits on my wanted list this was one the avante and egress and astute and clod were all on it I am so happy they have rere this kit 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Brilliant vid Glenn.. awesome collection.. 😊 loved seeing the old promos reminded me of Sat afternoons with my parents in Birmingham I used to go to Beatties and sit watching and dreaming of owning all the Tamiya RCs great times.. I had the blue and black Beatties bags 😃🥇😍 Pete

The Super Sabre was my first 4wd Tamiya buggy.

I totally get it with what you say and do. Its all about the memory for me as well. Tamiya was BIG in the 80's as a kid. Seeing the cars and most my parents could not afford. I was lucky to even get the cheapest one, Grasshopper. LOL But did I have a blast with it when it came to my home by UPS. I will never forget it. My best friend down the street, him and I drove our cars all over the street. We would spend hours in his room modifying our cars with motors and shocks or whatever would make them better. Got all our aftermarket parts from Michaels MJ Design, now just Michaels. He was fortunate enough to get a handful of them. Hot Shots, Big pickups, all sorts of buggies. Great great memories of the past.

Nice one.. I had one. in the 80"s and will get one soon...

My top five....falcon, bigwig, Avante,thundershot and of course the Lunchbox....

Thanks Glenn great review of Tamiya Super Sabre

Two lovely kits there Glenn! Wow I would love to go back to the golden era of 1986! Use to love going to the local RC shop to me, either Apex models or Mydons in Bracknell UK and just drool over the shop displays!

Great video Glenn, I am hopeful these start showing up in stock soon! I am looking forward to getting one. I love al the HS family and one day will have them all!

Great video! I was not sure if the boomerang was part of that family. Thanks for the info

that bag! awesome! really reminds me of the good ol' days! (mine was a giveaway when i got the terrascorcher)

Remember my childhood friend having a QuickDrive Super Sabre, the bodyshell was black. Always thought it was a great looking bodyshell.

Nice. Iv been waiting for the falcon to be re released, never had one but one of them kits i want in my collection... hopefully soon 😁👍🏻

Absolutely amazing mate i wish i could afford one 😊 my mate had one back in the day and i had a beat up falcon 😊 absolutely loved that falcon so please ask Tamiya for me to re-re the FALCON!!! 😂 Cheers Glenn

Thanks Glen, I love these types of videos, and will happily sit there listening to you ramble on (your words) all the way till the end remembering all the cars I couldn’t have until now. I especially love that you sit in a space that looks very much like the hobby shop in my town when I was 10. So thanks to you and Tamiya, definitely happy days. 959 all the way.

Oh yes Glen.. you were right.. very nostalgic!!!!!!. You could not have timed this video better.. I had it on my mind to get the boomerang for a Christmas build… Not now it’s got to be the super sabre!!. Love it👍👍

As always Glenn, Fantastic video. I originally subbed because of your infectious enthusiasm. As a child of the 80's my start was a Hornet in late 85. 86 saw the Fox, then a Wild One, then a second hand Frog. Went to nitro 1/8th buggy after that and left Tamiya around 1990. Fast forward a "few years"..... Because of you I just bought a brand new 2011 Re-Re Avante and I'm in love. What a car. A car I couldn't afford at the time. Forgot how much joy there is in building these things. Hate painting and cutting bodies too (Got a second spare shell, undertray and wing with it too... Box art shell is done and looks stunning. Now I'm currently waiting for an ESC, I'll keep it brushed, Technigold motor coming from Japan too. Oh dear... It's happening all over again. The Tamiya bug is back. Mind you I currently own about 30 RC's. Traxxas X-Maxx, XRT, Arrma Felony, Typhon 6s, crawlers you name it...etc etc.. and yes they are all epic...some are stupidly fast but they are expensive..though, tough as nails. Nice trip the nostalgia thing isn't it!!! Keep up the great work!!

My first Tamiya. Obviously I have one on order, but ordering it is pure nostalgia, when I remove my rose tinted glasses I remember how delicate it really was. Same with the rere Blackfoot currently sitting on the shelf (the original fell apart way too quickly, I can't have been THAT rough with them back then), looking gorgeous but with the almost mandatory MRP diff that costs almost as much as the kit 😅

Great to hear you so exited Glen this is why I got hooked on your channel in the first place. Great video Glen! On families depends on how you look at dn01/trf201 is a huge family.

Definitely waiting on a kingcab or monster racer. Agreed on the Mudblaster as well.

Glenn, thank you, such a trip back in time, Happy Days!

That carry bag is neat

Great collection of hotshots Glenn . I'm lucky enough to have the hotshot 1-2 plus boomerang bigwig. All original . 👌 The highlight of this video was the Beatties bag . Still got mine from 88👌

Nice buggies. The original 86 Bigwig was Tamiya's 10th year anniversary rc car. Its very special hence it looks killer.

Great video Glen! Nostalgia is my favourite part of the hobby. Boomerang was my first Tamiya and my best mate got the Bigwig which I built for him so those two hold a special place for me. I totally agree that the Bigwig is 80’s Tamiya perfectly captured. Thanks again.

I got a hotshot for Christmas when I was 9 years old, I loved that car. Fast forward to my late 20's I discovered ebay, I got another hotshot followed by a boomerang, then I got my personal favourite the supershot. After that I bought a hotshot 2 and a bigwig. I never really fancied the super sabre though. I'm now 47 and I wish I hadn't sold them all on 😢

Great video. Lots of points I can agree. One of the first vintage models I've bought, which I had or wanted back in the day was a new build Avante 1988 from Japan in about somewhere of the year 2000 I guess. It cost me an arm and a leg back then and no one was talking about rereleases. The other was a Porsche 959 Rally new built as well and again it cost me a little fortune. At that period of time I was first time racing RC touringcars, actually restarted with the RC Hobby by the end of 1996 with a Kyosho TF-2. Had HPIs and Yokomos to race but always was Surfing trough the Tamiyaclub forums back then as the childhood buggys were also a thing which had my interest. so I learnt in 2007 that tamiya will rere the Hotshot and that was like a Bomb for me and I had to have one, as the Hotshot was the first RC I wanted back in the day, but when it was Christmas I did not get it, I got a Hirobo Bearcat 2WD Electric Buggy instead. Complete with a radio system, nicad battery and a plug in charger. Easy to say how much disapointed I was. After that I saved u p all my pocket money and bought myself the Bommerang, that was almost 9 month or so later and I loved that thing. Later I wanted a Thundershot, but it was delayed, so our LHS made a great deal with the Distributor and got some Bigwig kits for the price of the Thundershot and of course I've bought one of these. But man was I disapointed of the performance of the Bigwig, it was heavy and steered like a heavy Tank, quickly sold it. Later Ive also bought a second hand HS2 from a friend and converted it to a Supershot, because it looked so much better. Anyway, as you I have lots of memories in the Hotshot family. I have all the Hotshot family cars except the Super Sabre and can't wait to get it.

Super sweet releese from Tamiya .

Great Vid Glenn. Fell out of love with building the Tamiya kits but still have a stack of them to build and IKEA cabinets full of mint examples. If the Mudblaster or King cab is re released I will not be able to resist. I keep watching your vids and I am sure the passion for builds will come back to me......think I hit the Tamiya wall as you once called it. Keep up the great work mate. 👍

Great video Glenn, its allways great to go back intime, i could smell the Beaties bag when you pulled it out, mines all beaten up, lost its smell. But gets a use now and then 👍

If you ever get abducted by ailens, video it and upload to RU-vid please, I'd love to see you explaining the merits of a Technigold motor to them. Happy RC'ing

The Super Sabre was the first Tamiya Kit that I built back in the days. I bought it with my own money and was so proud of this car.

The box art is really good, scream nostalgia to me also !

You need the silver wheels from the NotShot Blockhead for your Saber

Yeah this is my favourite era of RC... There are only 2 I still want, the 959 and Falcon.

Nice family so far, looking forward to seeing the hole family 😊

Shud Up already! You Lucky Boy!!

Nice vid, full of memories (the promo videos, wonder where they were shot...) 🤩 👍I used a re-re Boom to build a Super Sabre with the correct red parts, so I was not in the market for the complete kit (only the Body, even if Penguin and MCI give a good result), but now, something caught my eyes, the little box with the Sabre on it, so cool. Ahhhhh 🤪🤑💰

Great video buddy. Doesn’t seem rushed at all

Another great video. In Australia I had a grey/silver Tamiya bag to carry my car around in

I raced a Mardave Meteor as a kid. Now I'm 50 I'm itching to get a car again! I don't know which to buy...I like the look of the Plasma Edge II

I want Tamiya to re-re the Willy's Wheeler (again) and the Striker, even just the chassis. In fact it would be good if Tamiya did production runs of hard to get spares. Great video as always Glenn, I sat back and relaxed watching it drinking an Irn Bru. Yes, my mother is Scottish. She buys them sometimes.

I missed the bigwig rerelease and would love them to do another run, I still have my original super sabre. Keep up the good work

As a kid I had a 1/14 QR Clod Buster. My friend had a QR 1/14 Super Sabre that was devastatingly fast by comparison.

My first rc car was a Tamiya Bush Devil around 1991/92 ish. Would love then to re release it.

Great video Glen. You can waffle on as long as you like 😊. If it wasn't off the cuff you wouldn't be you.

I do watch your videos to listen to you waffle on. My favourite saying is “just look at it. What a thing” and I sit and go “yeah look at it” You can’t fake that passion. And if an alien came down I’d say take me back to 1986 so I can do it all again. I’d still get that boomerang haha

Another great video Glenn 👍🏻👍🏻

Banger Video Mate! Cheers 🏁🏁🏁

Nice to see you kept my old tamiya hat! Great episode you know I love my hotshots!!!!

I love your emotions on this! For me it’s the Sabre and the Kyosho Raider 2wd

I have 3 of those cars but my eyes are always drawn to the Boomerang pure memories

Great video's keep them coming! Your right its more about the memories! My first car was a Striker I got for grade 8 graduation (I'm turning 51 this December so you can figure out how long ago that was lol). Doubt they will ever rere that car. But the Super Sabre was probably my favorite Tamiya car I had.

Great to hear someone else feeling excited about the Super Sabre. I bought the repro body from Penguin and they did the body and additional wing which seem spot on. The Beaties Bag looks brand new!! Mine has been well used but still going strong. Really well made bags unlike many modern bags. Great video 👍🏻

Nice job ,looks awesome 👍

I liked this video with you reminiscing and telling your story. Your passion is amazing 🤩. That being said, I’d love to see the Terra Conqueror re-released.

Love this video. We're totally on the same wavelength. Keep it coming!

Tamiya Dynastorm would be a nice one to come back or maybee a Thundershot 2.0 or a anniversary edition , like Kyosho does now with their 60th edutions

Fantastic video, made my Sunday morning. I’d love to complete the collection but I have to pick between the Super Sabre and the Hotshot II and because the Hotshot II is the second car I got back in the day and I sold it when I got married at a carboot for £15. In was mint with Technigold, fully ballraced with futaba radio set. I was painted metallic dark green loved it and one of life’s biggest regrets. I know now hope to have the opportunity to to get it back 🤞it will complete my Hotshot family albeit the Super Sabre sadly but my memory will be real again ❤️ thanks Glen 🙏😊

Hi Glen I’ve still got my 2 blue and white beaties bags from Newcastle I’ve just completed the SRB chassis collection always wanted Rough rider , super champ, I will make a Ford ranger but that would be a good re re

Hi Glenn, Im with you love the BigWig. That lineup of your built Hotshot family looks ace. Cant wait to see the finished family video. I have Hotshot and BigWig. Looking to get the Boomerang next. What is the Tamiya part number for the Boomerang kit with pre painted body? I cant find any of them maybe it was quite a limited release.

Another great video, I will be getting the super sabre myself… but I would love to see the Porsche 959 re release and the Toyota Celica grb too… ❤the kingcab would also be awesome too… thanks again for the video, keep up the good work 👍

Glenn, thank you for sharing your early RC experiences. I have similar enthusiasm for my first kit, the Nichimo Spirit FF. Having finally acquired a new-in-box example, I'm building one at the moment. Thanks for all the great content!

The biggest family is definitely the Manta Ray family of cars. 7 Buggys and a million touring and rally cars.

I have had owned Boomerang and Bigwig and I agree with you Glenn, Bigwig is one of a kind. The rack and pinion steering is one and done nicely. It is distinguishly stands out not only within the Hotshot family also within Tamiya RC line up.

Amazing Glen! Love the super sabre I used to have a quick drive version but always wanted the real thing. Like you my first Tamiya was a thundershot and now I'm starting to build a little collection, so I can understand the excitement and nostalgia 👍

I love watching your 'dribble' mate, between you and Gav at RC Kicks that's what got me back into RC a few years ago, and by god I bloody love it!! For me the original Hotshot looks bloody brilliant, and the Boomerang is defo my favourite, it was my first proper RC kit after all back in late 1987. Brilliant stuff as usual!!

Great video mate 👍

Ooooh need the suspension for my original - going to look for parts

glenn the super sabre is nice but you need a super shaver .

Cool video Glenn nice one! I’ll put up the ORV chassis as a contender for the most vehicles, with the brat, frog, lancia rally then Blackfoot, monster beetle mudblaster then the other Blackfeet and bushdevil. Obviously the last few have a different gearbox and suspension so that may exclude them 😆, and I guess that as they’re not all buggies maybe the hotshot family wins still. They’re both cool collections regardless