Still the best RC car I've ever owned. I'm amazed other brands, even real hobbyist brands have never jumped on this concept. It solves the one major problem with most RC cars, the problem of scale. This just went over everything and didn't care. It took a beating too, and we ran it in winter in the snow, slush, and ice. It didn't care (mostly). They held up for a couple years too, brushed off hits, and just worked great. Just think what a major hobbyist brand could do with this concept. I'm looking at you Traxxas.
I miss my fast traxxx. My older brother had a hobby shop grade rc. When I decided to just runover his car with my fast traxx.....he punched me in the stomach.......but his rc was toast. Lol
They used to sell replacement tracks back in the day. I ripped one and side lined mine for bit but got a replacement about a month after my Mom ordered it. Got a new battery plate cover as well. But your right I bet you can’t find replacements anymore sadly.
I had the Neon Yellow one and my bro got the Neon Orange one. Most excited I’ve ever been for a Christmas present in my life 😂 Going to go dig mine out of my Parents garage and see if I can find a new battery pack for it.
Went to my local Value Village store today and stumble upon a Tyco Fast Traxx with the remote tape on top of it. I couldn't believe it how good condition it was in. I bought it for $3.75.
Man!!! I miss my fast traxx!!! I was sooo stoked when my mom finally bought me one. I remember taking it to school and racing other kids rc cars. I blew them all away. Such a great toy back then!!
I had it. It was crap. The best crap. Worked on perfectly smooth surfaces. Worked enough on water to not sink. Impossible to control. Still loved the hell out of it
Every decade or so I seem to dig mine out! Got it in '92. Then dug it out in college early 00s. By then drifting was a thing, so I actually got it to drift. Now going to dig it out again. Quality manufacturing back then.
Early 90's, man, 26 or 27 years ago. Toy grade rc is absolute crap these days. Radio Shack, Nikko, ans Tyco were the bomb back in the day. In fact, alot of Radio Shack and Nikkos were basically the same.
Steve Brynan many a Tyco RC for me back in the day too! The rebound, this Traxx, they also had a rebound bike I can’t recall the name... remember the Tonka FIST? A truck you controlled with a glove? So many good RCs
THis was THE best RC car i ever had as a kid, i still remember one of my friends with a 'real' RC flouncing off when it beat his car in an off-road race!
That's awesome that you kept the Fast Traxx. I remmber those when I was a kid. My neighbor had one and It slayed my Nikko truck. It was way faster and could drive on anything. He used to jump his off of stuff and it would fly through the air and somehow never break no matter how much of a beating it took. Definitely hold onto it. It gives me flashbacks of the days when ToyRus had all the Tyco and Nikko RC cars behind glass in one of the rows. Those little crappy toy RC cars were between $150 to $200 bucks. I always wanted one of the RC boats like the Tyco Riptide. Remmber that one?
Ooooh I had it! 10/15 min of full joy and 4 hours to charge. The most powerful toy I've ever had. I tried once to stop the wheels with my hands and I almost lose a finger. Toys now are not even half powerful than 25 years ago. Golden 90s... :'(
Damn these are memories, I always wanted one when I was a kid. I stumbled across your video searching for an other tracked Tyco model I had when little. It had one big track like a sled and independent skinny wheels in the front
Drove mine down the sewer as a kid. They came out with a crane type tool and a truck to take off the sewer cover, huge piece of cement. Belated thanks to the city of St Pete!
Dude! ........Dude!......... 😂 LMAO! Subbed on the strength of this vid alone man. Totally made my day brother. Thanks. The mullet flashback scene was the best part. I didn’t have the Fast Traxx, bit had the heads up turbo hopper, AND...... THE TYPHOON, which was the single biggest let down of my childhood as far as materialistic stuff goes. What a bullshit commercial. The absolute only place I could use it was on the tile in my 10x12 kitchen, for the 7 min it would run after the 4 hr charge. Was a good life lesson, but I’d rather have had a kick ass rc like my buddy’s Baja Bandit than a life lesson at the age of 11, lol. Again, great video. Tyco man great memories.....”Yahoooooo!”
I used to love my green one WAY WAY back in the day.. I remember not only did it climb my extremely slowed garden slide, but it launched itself off the back of it, Didn't land track side up, but it just bounced onto one of the tracks and all you had to do was spin up that track and it just naturally laid flat again.. And of course, it came out completely undamaged after the giant fall... Loved that thing! No idea what happened to it..
My biggest mistake with this toy was in suddenly shifting it into reverse as I was going super fast forward. Needles to say, it wore out the gears and grinded them down.
I didnt have the money to buy this when i was a kid went to the store and only looked at it hundreds of times, finally now i can afford it and watching this vdeo bring back memories,i ended up with a lc40 cr01 that i just built
Aghh man, my buddy had one when i was 8 in 1992 and i was so jealous... It was crazy back then... A couple years later i got that hoover craft thing that came out , 90s were the shit!!
I remember getting the red one when I was in elementary school (I'm 34 Feb 26) and I loved it! Mine had a chew mark on the tread belt from my guinea pig nibbling on it lol. Oh the nostalgia.....the good old days when life was about toys and what new pet I could bring home lol. I'm getting ready to get my first proper RC car (Kyosho Rage 2.0 in green) for my birthday and can't wait to finally get my hands on it. PS do you think the Kyosho Rage 2.0 is a good first car for a noob to the hobby? Thank you for any responses I might get and I hope you have a wonderful day. ✌️😎👍🏎️💨
Check out the Nikko Velocitrax... It's very similar to the Fast Traxx.. It's only a new model on the market, it's nostalgic for me looking at the Velocitrax with those Tank traxx. No idea how fast it can go compared to a Tyco Fast Traxx but it's still looks really cool.
Dude my truck version was worn out. Yours looks mint... did you even drive it?!? I was only about 7 when i got mine in 1992. Wow that sound of Tyco straight cut gears. What a flashback. I'm looking for good RC cars for my son and can't find any... vintage maybe but its $300 for a nice tyco.
I remember a friend bringing one of these to school for show and tell when I was about 5. He stole the show as he ran it all over the basketball court making a bunch of superficial mates in an instant. When I got home I hassled my Dad for one of these until Xmas rolled round. He wasn't quite sure what I wanted and I couldn't quite remember what it was called so he ended up buying a Scorpion. It looked similar to the Fast Traxx but that's where similarities ended. It had about half the top speed but I didn't have the heart to tell my Dad it was the wrong car so I played with it anyway and turns out it was still pretty cool. Never did get around to buying a Fast Traxx.
There was no sponge bob when this thing came out. I got one for Christmas when it came out 30 years ago. I was a bit of a curious kid so I drove it underwater to see if if would work. It did until it didn’t 🤣 you either had one of these or a rebound back in the day.
I remember my buddy had this fastraxx truck neon green and I had the tyco testerosa ferarri in yellow that fastraxx was the shit crazy fast and could jump stuff built solid too I wish they came back out with these I remember they were close to $100 back then if not $99.99
I had The radio shack knockoff. Pretty fun. Though I had a few radio shack rc stuff, and they would always loose one of the control functions after a few months. After which I would take them apart
I had one of these as a kid..If someone made one today with a lipo battery, brushless motors and maybe some sort of kevlar/rubber tracks(the old tracks were crap) I would buy it instantly
I loved mine. I had that same one and later received the neon geen truck version. It would beet my friends more expensive Radioshack rc in high gear. Good times.
The Fast Traxx was already re released 2 or 3 years back. It was in blue with under body blue LEDS , it was 95% identical to the original Fast Traxx but Tyco stopped making them again unfortunately. It was a short lived re release.
Flash back. I got one of them for Christmas and thought it was the best thing ever lol 😂 love it. Then I got a turbo thruster. Pretty sure that’s what it was called that thing was so much faster
Yes 👍🏻 that’s exactly how I actually acted and i remember I was oh this thing is professional grade stuff. Lol then my dad got me and him a nitro hawk RC truck. Needless to the fast traxx was old news. Not to mention the 4 hr charge time was so lame 😒
I still have that exact model myself, but I never see anyone doing what their also known for, and thats when you go reverse then forward quickly they'll run vertical on just the back wheels!
