I’ve got two kids and have done my fair share of repairs after they’ve crashed the cars. Here are my thoughts: - FTX do break easily but are easily repaired, I’d say buy the brushed one and use the cash saved for spare parts and poss a brushless set up later on - Arrma 3s are very robust, you can get real bargains on the old brushless ones, though the controller is quite slow - my 7 yr old has a brushless big rock and loves it, hasn’t broken anything on it, but it’s not his first RC (the FTX and Absima have been broken) - Absima 1/10 scale are more robust than FTX, good spares. You can even get them as kits. - I haven’t got a triton but given it’s two wheel drive I’d suggest the mammoth could be easier for a kid to control. Overall it depends on the child - some are pretty good at controlling RCs, others less so. There is a big difference in my kids, but they also learn fast so I agree that a car you can start slow and make faster is a good idea, either through switching it to make it slower or starting brushed and then upgrading, or starting with a NIMH battery, then going 2s lipo etc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk