ARRMA Kraton EXB - Extreme Bash Roller Speed Truck

Looks like they're answering criticism of bending chassis?

38 minutes ago, Tug said:

Looks like they're answering criticism of bending chassis?

They've addressed quite a lot here it seems.... 

 

Seems well specced really for the price it is... 

 

Cue a load of arrma fans selling of they're old gen arrma's 🤣👌

2 hours ago, Fly In My Soup said:

They've addressed quite a lot here it seems.... 

 

Seems well specced really for the price it is... 

 

Cue a load of arrma fans selling of they're old gen arrma's 🤣👌

 

They've sort of addressed the K8 chassis, will they now go all out with a super chassis to fix it once and for all? 🤔

That looks impressive.  Totally down with the buy once and not need aftermarket stuff to use it as intended. 

10 minutes ago, mond said:

That looks impressive.  Totally down with the buy once and not need aftermarket stuff to use it as intended. 

 

Funny you should say that... Some upgrade sellers are a little worried....some aren't though.. 

 

We have 2 threads on the same thing XD

 

Yeah if I was m2c or just bash it or m3 I would be a bit worried right now.

Saying that though plenty of people bought the rtr hyper St as well as the pro version and they still up

wondering if the Kronos has them worried and they upped their game 

2 hours ago, Stormbringer said:

wondering if the Kronos has them worried and they upped their game 

 

I doubt it, the Kronos isn't much tougher as a Kraton. A few videos already of them breaking on youtube. They're not tougher.

 

I think they do this to end the "discussion" about Arrmas  bending, which is damaging to the brand. 

 

That said: this thing looks pretty bad-arse, and if nothing goes majorly wrong, it's an addition to my garage. Did feel the itch to build for a while now, but couldn't be bothered with another crawler. This is perfect. Just hoping the price is reasonable. 

 

edit: $470 on the HH website. Translates probably to £470. 

 

edit2: damn, misread - not a kit, but a roller

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by m4inbrain

£429 on MS 👍 

 

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?product_id=1331329

I think the whole premise of corrally updating their cars based directly on customer feedback has kicked arrma into gear a bit ngl

For £430, i'll buy it.

4 minutes ago, fnknan said:

I think the whole premise of corrally updating their cars based directly on customer feedback has kicked arrma into gear a bit ngl

Anything that motivates another company to pull their finger out is a win for everyone, hopefully this in turn gets Corally to release the updated parts quicker 👍 

3 minutes ago, m4inbrain said:

For £430, i'll buy it.

Considering 1/8th race rollers are well over £500, this is a bargain 👍 

1 minute ago, .AJ. said:

Anything that motivates another company to pull their finger out is a win for everyone, hopefully this in turn gets Corally to release the updated parts quicker 👍 

Hope so mate 

1 minute ago, .AJ. said:

Considering 1/8th race rollers are well over £500, this is a bargain 👍 

 

My thought exactly. Though i'd buy it as a basher.

 

£430 is a good price. 

you can get a tekno nt48.3 kit atm for £480, but that more of a race truggy and  its about to be replaced. 

Edited July 2, 2020 by Jumper

1 hour ago, .AJ. said:

£429 on MS 👍 

 

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?product_id=1331329

Stock due on the wife's birthday, That's her sorted.

3 minutes ago, babylon said:

Stock due on the wife's birthday, That's her sorted.

roflmao mate 🤣

 

 

holy crap batman that took a beating 🍻

Of course it's stuperbash, didn't even look at title or anything, just peeked into the first video. 

 

Already in love.

 

edit: watched both videos, shocking that a cracked body was the only casualty for RC DUDE. Yeah, i'll have one.

Edited July 2, 2020 by m4inbrain

Jaytee getting in on the act. 

 

 

Certainly took some abuse. Rear wing mount still broke, really needs a nylon type that bends a little more. 

 

Some horrible landings on to those protruding kerb stones! Yet nothing bent. 

 

£430  is almost kit money and this is a pre built roller 
 

Arrma finally sort out the truck make it like folks want and remove the electrics meaning the roller with electrics will be more like the £650 mark if you want some half decent electrics again that’s almost kit money 

 

Hmm is this really the steal they want you to think it is 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

Is this a sign Arrma has finally peaked as all they seem to be capable of doing is re releasing the same old trucks time and time again and let’s be honest even the hard core fans will have there v4 kraton better spec’d out than these so why would they buy it 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

Great to see Arrma finally fix the flaws but it’s certainly not a cheap fix fir sure 
 

 

 

 

Utter nonsense.

 

First of all, this isn't a Kraton, nor is it marketed as a Kraton "upgrade". It's a "best of". Second, yeah there's a (very) few people who have high spec kratons. You do realise that the standard Kraton plus an M2C 7075 chassis alone blast past £650 easily? I also very much doubt that there's many "better spec'd" Kratons out there. I don't actually recall that many upgrades that a "fully spec'd Kraton" has, that this one hasn't. Of course, a "fully spec'd Kraton" will end up being around four digits. 

 

£430 is kit money. And, lets be clear: why wouldn't it be? It's kit-level equipment. 7075 all around, plenty of metal, and plastic where it needs be. The only difference is that this isn't (or i wouldn't consider it) a race-setup. I don't think anyone is considering it "a steal". It's a good price for what you get: a similar specced kit is more expensive. Why would you argue that an expensive chassis (and lets be clear: the material choice on this roller is pretty much spotless) has to be cheap because it's in a roller, rather than a kit? Compare it to the Associated RC8T3.1E kit, which retails for exactly the same price, and look how much is missing on that compared to this roller. Plastic shock towers, plastic braces, a-arms being literally a third the size of the EBRs etc. 

 

It's not a steal (nor do they argue it is), but it's well priced for what you get - which is all it needs to be.  How someone can look at this and go "well duh, why'd they charge so much", i mean, i dunno. What are they supposed to charge for a truck that's better spec'd than quite a few "high end race kits"? 

Edited July 3, 2020 by m4inbrain