While the racing segment of RC gets a lot of attention, the single largest segment of RC is the bashers. These are the folks that hang out at the local school yard, construction sites, or just fool around in their backyard. Bashers account for over 80% of all RC sales, yet you hardly ever hear […]
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RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Batteries and Chargers
November 21st, 2013 
Kevin We at RC Soup are mostly what you’d call “electric guys”. Most of us have run nitro in the past, but with the advancements in brushless and lipo technologies, the reasons for choosing to run nitro seem fewer and fewer (at least for us). Electric cars wouldn’t be where they are today without quality batteries […]
RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: On-Road
November 21st, 2013 Matt The On-Road R/C category is quite large. There are basic bashers to run around on the street. Then there are super scale drift cars. We also have the purpose built high speed machines designed solely to break a certain speed barrier. Lets not forget the carpet racers. With such a wide category, we kept it […]
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RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Flight
November 21st, 2013 Matt In the past, we have focused primarily on the surface side of the RC hobby. But with this holiday guide, we knew we couldn’t ignore you flight guys. There’s some pretty cool stuff for the air side of RC. Big props to our top air contributor Joe Vermillion for the help in selecting these items […]
RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Electronics
November 21st, 2013 Kevin This category is for electronics. That means anything electronic for radio control that doesn’t fit in another category we already have. It’s a catch-all for some of our top picks of motors, servos, and other misc goodies. As with all of them, this page is organized by budget. Economy Gifts Atomik Glitch Buster ($6.99) – […]
RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Entry Level RC
November 21st, 2013 Kevin Shopping for someone just getting into r/c? You’ve come to the right spot. The following vehicles and items are what we consider great items for newcomers to this hobby of ours. What qualifies them for this is being made by a reputable company that you will be able to get parts from a year from […]
RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Radios
November 21st, 2013 Kevin When an RC is being operated, the only piece of equipment that is physically being touched is the radio. For this reason, this is a very important category. There’s a lot to think about when purchasing a radio; number of channels, how many models can it support, does it come with receivers? When picking a […]
RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Scale Parts
November 21st, 2013 Kevin Since the “Scaler” market is so absolutely enormous at the moment, and there are tons of folks offering very cool scale items, we figured we’d make this a whole category on its own. The parts listed are trick little items to make your scale truck look a bit more realistic. They don’t really offer any […]
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RC Soup Holiday Gift Guide: Scalers/Crawlers
November 21st, 2013 Matt Scalers and Crawlers aren’t exactly the same thing, but they are close. A Scaler is generally a slow moving 4wd truck that is designed to look like a full size vehicle. You can go as crazy as you want with the details. People often use action figures as drivers, have scale camping gear on their […]
RC Soup’s 2013 Holiday Gift Guide
November 21st, 2013 Kevin The holiday season is just around the corner. It’s the perfect opportunity to give our opinions on some great gift ideas. This is basically our way of giving our better halves our wish lists. And what better way to give Santa a hint than stealing from the wishlists of RC Soup? We are going to […]
