Posted by: onebadbug
« on: February 18, 2016, 21:33:29 »Cool, I found out its in the 1990 Tyco catalog, pages 54 and 55, trying to get a quality scan of those pages
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Posted by: Dragon
« on: February 18, 2016, 20:06:00 »Hi onebadbug, I have some catalogs from that time, but they are currently packed up. I'll try to get to them next month so I can look through them for those images.
Posted by: onebadbug
« on: February 11, 2016, 20:09:17 »I am a big Tyco Turbo train collector and does anybody know what Tyco Catalog This Chessie Turbo train set was in? I think it was a 1990 Tyco dealer catalog. Can anybody provide me with a high quality scan if they find one? You can send an image to my email at grjd01@windstream.net.
Posted by: scorcher
« on: January 09, 2016, 04:28:51 »ho poptart how have you been
Posted by: poptart
« on: December 22, 2015, 19:03:18 »i concur scorcher you've got to be correct sir!!! no other Tyco had a normal wheeled front and tracked rear end
Posted by: scorcher
« on: November 24, 2015, 12:07:47 »tycoon sounds like a half traxx
Posted by: Tycoon
« on: February 13, 2015, 10:10:07 »When I was about 14 or 15 years old I had a Tyco rc car. It was made in the mid 90s. I know everyone had one.lol Well this one was special, and I have not been able to find it anywhere. There are no pics online, I can't even remember what it was called. Bear with me while I try and explain what it looked like. First off it was very long and the color was red. It had 2 very skinny front wheels with suspension, and had a Huge single track/trax, on the rear. It looked somewhat like a snowmobile but wasn't one! Im sure it was made by Tyco. If anyone knows what it was called or have a picture they want to share it would be amazing! Thanks
Posted by: Tyco Bandit King
« on: October 20, 2014, 22:32:41 »Yeah just gotta wait on the GPS to get here next week. I actually ran about 9 cars last night on 11.1v lipo Nikko's/Tyco's and they all hauled ass. I'm gonna test them stock and on 11.1v. I was running a bandit on 11.1v and it would pull wheelies from a rolling start haha
Posted by: R/C Toy Memories
« on: October 20, 2014, 00:31:42 »TBK, I have no idea why this forum died off either...I've been posting things here occasionally, and felt almost like I was the only one around.
By all means, post as often as you can. Your plan to speed test all those cars certainly sounds interesting!
H.
By all means, post as often as you can. Your plan to speed test all those cars certainly sounds interesting!
H.
Posted by: Tyco Bandit King
« on: October 13, 2014, 10:47:28 »Guys I'm not sure how this forum died out soo much but I think we need to get it back up and going again. I wanna start posting projects and info a lot more to see if we can keep all this going. I'm about to start speed testing about 50-60 nikko Tyco radio shack and new bright cars from the 80's-90's and also test them on 11.1v lipos using a GPS 
Posted by: Hopper
« on: October 12, 2014, 06:23:28 »Tyco 1989 Catalog Pics!
Posted by: Hopper
« on: October 12, 2014, 06:23:03 »Tyco 1989 Catalog Pics!
Posted by: Hopper
« on: October 10, 2014, 11:12:28 »
You've got to focus on what you enjoy and what gives you the most happiness.
100% agree, I remember when I first starting collecting and discovered all the amazing RC's from Taiyo. In a way I was shocked that there was such a variety of designs.
As a kid the Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari F40 were my, (and still are my) favorite cars and discovering the twin turbo Lambo with a speed of 31 km/h !!! was an awesome feeling. Even by today's standards that is pretty fast. I knew I had to have one and that is what keeps me going in the hobby of collecting.
Hopper
Posted by: R/C Toy Memories
« on: October 10, 2014, 06:41:27 »Memories definitely play a big part on what you like to collect. I'm the same of course.
I think as the years have passed though, I've discovered a lot of models that "had I known about them at the time" (when I was a kid) I would have loved them and wanted them just as much, as the ones I do remember.
Combine that with the fact that I did at least "know of" quite a lot of cars in the 80s (even if I never owned most of them), and you end up with... a pretty varied collection comprising a lot of cars, across a variety of brands.
Despite all of that, the stuff I collect is still very much about what I enjoy and appreciate. I don't hoard, or just collect for the sake completing a series etc (and there are some people out there who do that). You've got to focus on what you enjoy and what gives you the most happiness.
H.
I think as the years have passed though, I've discovered a lot of models that "had I known about them at the time" (when I was a kid) I would have loved them and wanted them just as much, as the ones I do remember.
Combine that with the fact that I did at least "know of" quite a lot of cars in the 80s (even if I never owned most of them), and you end up with... a pretty varied collection comprising a lot of cars, across a variety of brands.
Despite all of that, the stuff I collect is still very much about what I enjoy and appreciate. I don't hoard, or just collect for the sake completing a series etc (and there are some people out there who do that). You've got to focus on what you enjoy and what gives you the most happiness.
H.
Posted by: Hopper
« on: October 08, 2014, 07:24:25 »I definitely agree about the variety across all the brands from the 80s but for me Taiyo is what I have the best memories of. Also collecting everything can be very expensive, collecting Vintage Taiyo's alone is not cheap especially when you add up everything you have spent. I would rather have one amazing collection that I really enjoy than bits and pieces of others that I don't. I guess it depends on how old you are, and how much you are prepared to invest in the hobby.