1/4 scale RC tank: is this still a toy?
I had my fair share of toy weapons as a kid: laser rifles that spark and pop when you pull the trigger, swords of all shapes and sizes, a slingshot. Apparently kids these days have much higher standards. Mark – 1 Tanks recently unleashed a 1/4 scale of the Germans’ WW II beast, the King Tiger Tank. This…man-toy is 6′ long, 8′ if you count the gun, and 38″ wide. It’s powered by 2 500W 24 V motors and it weighs all of 551 lbs. (250 kg). The PS3 is still heavier but hey. We’re talking about a remote-controlled tank. I mean look at it!
Apparently kids these days also look like grown men. But seriously: look at that thing. I almost wept when I realized that the guy was behind the tank, and not on the tank. Where else will you see an RC vehicle that can literally trample a child?
I’m pretty sure that the tank’s gun isn’t functional, but still. Still. Imagine your kid showing up at their school Christmas party on this. He’ll immediately be everyone’s best friend. Or at least every bully’s best friend.
Of course something this cool and obscenely large also has a humongous price: the King Tiger is worth £6,600 ($9, 713). If that’s too much for you, Mark-1 is also selling a 1/6 scale King Tiger, base price £2900 ($4,267). If that’s still too much for you then you’re a bad parent. Because giant tanks are the key to stronger parent-child relationships.
[Mark-1 via Tech Digest]
categories: cool toys just plain fun retro strange + wonderful
December 26th, 2008 comments (4): stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
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Huge, enormous, slightly ridiculous, but the fun to be had by big boys with a toy like this
wow… if im rich iwant to buy remote big tank
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2 weed wacker engines would move it two plus it would give it a mean sound and a harder bit not to meantion how pised youll be once the batteries go out in that thing aslso it the barral is metal wich base on the weight i would say it is you could always put in a 3 channal radio and reciver or one more cannal then what is needed to run that thing buy a conecter head and stick some gun powder down the barral and use a drill to drill a small hole in the barral stick thetwo wires down so there touching when you turn on the conecter or flip a switch it will go (boom!) mussle lodder of corse