ARRMA Outcast 8s BLX 4WD

53HRA · July 9, 2020

Very nice. The red shell is stunning!

Fly In My Soup · July 9, 2020

10 minutes ago, 53HRA said:

Very nice. The red shell is stunning!

Does look pretty cool.... Let's wait for the arrma community to tear it to pieces all day on fb first... Before anything else... 🤣🤣

Priced around £950 in the shops...

Tug · July 9, 2020

Couldn't see 7075 for the chassis?

Will we get an 8S Mojave/Senton?

mydoddy69 · July 9, 2020

My question is this was it fully tested prior to release as it’s clear the 8s Kraton wasn’t and have they addressed the flaws from the 8s kraton or just carried them over ?

Not really that X Maxx killer everyone was hoping for just another flat pan chassis revamp

Lone-wolf · July 9, 2020

20 minutes ago, Fly In My Soup said:

Does look pretty cool.... Let's wait for the arrma community to tear it to pieces all day on fb first... Before anything else... 🤣🤣

Priced around £950 in the shops...

why will the arrma lot want to rip it to bits, looks a superb rig, i would buy one tomorrow but im about £800 short for the price

Jumper · July 9, 2020

wait for the exb version :good:

m4inbrain · July 9, 2020

.. sigh. Looks way more interesting than the Kraton, not gonna lie. Standing backflips with a 1/5th could be interesting.

My DBXL-E is a little lonely.. Might need to cancel the EXB (which isn't that far off in price after electrics), lol.

Edited July 9, 2020 by m4inbrain

fnknan · July 9, 2020

Looks bloody gorgeous but that chassis doesn't fill me with much hope, maybe the shorter wheelbase of the outcast will mean less bendy bendy

m4inbrain · July 9, 2020

Nah, it'll bend much like the Kraton, i'm pretty certain.

That said: it's £1000 (around there anyway) - it's not something i'd drive like i stole it anyway, personally. I leave the bending to people who get theirs from Arrma directly as review units, for free.

edit:

£930, wheelspin has it listed already.

Edited July 9, 2020 by m4inbrain

Ninetiesbeard · July 9, 2020

Did we need another brushless 1/5th truck? And that chassis looks interesting with the pressed in sections, i guess that they are trying to maximize rigidity without upping material thickness. Hmm.

Nick · July 9, 2020

1 hour ago, Ninetiesbeard said:

Did we need another brushless 1/5th truck? And that chassis looks interesting with the pressed in sections, i guess that they are trying to maximize rigidity without upping material thickness. Hmm.

Maybe not so much for the UK market but they are a big hit in the USA.

Personally 1/5th is a bit too cumbersome for me and where I live but this looks awesome.

Nick · July 9, 2020

£929 on Modelsport...

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/?product_id=1331334

monkeyboy_uk · July 9, 2020

I've got the windows open to help the plaster dry out. This thread should keep me warm.

bertberr · July 9, 2020

Well, being shorter than the Kraton, basic physics says that it will be more rigid (assuming its made from the same material, dimensions the same etc, and has same bracing, similar weight etc). How much more rigid / less bendy, well who knows? I've no doubt those guys who get their rigs for free will manage to bend it (though some prob won't admit that through fear of being black listed by Arrma...), and likewise those who can afford to smash & repair a £1K truck. But for most peeps buying with their own hard earned, and not being overly reckless, well I guess it will prob be an OK basher, assuming you have the space to hurl an 8S 1/5 truck around...

.AJ. · July 9, 2020

Meh 8s is so 2016

m4inbrain · July 9, 2020

Biggest problem with a second 1/5th for me is that i'd need to include the price of a new shelf as well, my current "RC-Storage Unit" wouldn't be able to cope with another 1/5th lol.

Now that the first "MUST have this!!!" moment is over, i still kinda would like one, but seeing how everything is more difficult with the DBLXE, i'll probably sleep over it a day or twelve. Realistically, 1/5th is fun, but it's not really practical. It's also pretty small for a 1/5th - not necessarily a bad thing, but it's smaller than X-Maxx, it's considerably smaller than a DBXLE - it's smaller than an SBR even. Now, it's of course very subjective, but if i buy a 1/5th, i buy it for the size. If the 1/5th is smaller than most 1/6ths.. Kinda defeats the purpose for me personally.

Lone-wolf · July 9, 2020

my final comment, i think this looks like a stunning basher, but i can only look from a distance as i would not spend this kind of dosh on an rc plane (first hobby) let alone an rc car, sadly my pockets are just not deep enough to blow close on 1k for an rc of any kind, but there are a lot of people that can afford to drop this pot on a basher like this and good luck to them

mydoddy69 · July 9, 2020

2 hours ago, m4inbrain said:

Biggest problem with a second 1/5th for me is that i'd need to include the price of a new shelf as well, my current "RC-Storage Unit" wouldn't be able to cope with another 1/5th lol.

Now that the first "MUST have this!!!" moment is over, i still kinda would like one, but seeing how everything is more difficult with the DBLXE, i'll probably sleep over it a day or twelve. Realistically, 1/5th is fun, but it's not really practical. It's also pretty small for a 1/5th - not necessarily a bad thing, but it's smaller than X-Maxx, it's considerably smaller than a DBXLE - it's smaller than an SBR even. Now, it's of course very subjective, but if i buy a 1/5th, i buy it for the size. If the 1/5th is smaller than most 1/6ths.. Kinda defeats the purpose for me personally.

Blimey I must be going soft I actually agree with you on this 😂😂👍

Fly In My Soup · July 9, 2020

5 hours ago, Jack Reacher said:

why will the arrma lot want to rip it to bits, looks a superb rig, i would buy one tomorrow but im about £800 short for the price

Ever been on one of the arrma groups on fb...?

They're not backwards in coming forwards about things.... Usually the more experienced hobbyist part of the arrma crowd is more vocal.. As I suppose they have a higher level of expectation from a platform... based simply on a larger amount of experience of other platforms in general....

It's down to how vocal they where about issues that they developed the exb range... And models like this outcast 8s...

Edited July 9, 2020 by Fly In My Soup

Lone-wolf · July 9, 2020

3 minutes ago, Fly In My Soup said:

Ever been on one of the arrma groups on fb...?

They're not backwards in coming forwards about things.... Usually the more experienced hobbyist part of the arrma crowd is more vocal.. As I suppose they have a higher level of expectation from a platform... based simply on a larger amount of experience of other platforms in general....

sounds like when i was on the DJI forum, i left in the end bunch of .....holes