The more I run the humble silver can, the more respect I have for it.

Just want to let you know that I really enjoy your in-depth comparisons and waffling. I appreciate that it takes a lot of time and effort to not only acquire and build all of these models but also to capture all this great footage and edit it all together. I'm not a huge fan of the Beetle body lines, but that Blitzer looks like a blast.

Great video, and I appreciate the detail in your comparison of these. It has helped me make a decision. Thank you Sir!

Great overview of all three they all look great and offer various levels of fun in different ways.. reminds to pick one up at some point still love the old SRBs and scale look

Great to hear your views and experience of these buggies. The voice over on the footage works very well. Great end result 👏🏻

How beautiful is that and scorcher. I love it

Very good video! Love the content, and helped me decide to pick the sand scorcher for a recent purchase!

I’m watching this twice because I absolutely love the (Monster Beetle) the (Blitzer Beetle) I really never saw the (Sand Scorcher) run but it’s beautiful and looks Amazing. It does look like a real beetle driving around. I enjoy the videos very calm and informative as well as awesome driving shots. Ok great video again 👍🏼.

I loved hearing you thoughts and opinions on them. I have two of the 3 now and think they are super cool, The Blitzer is a lot of fun to drive and I love the looks. The Monster Beetle is a lot of fun but the steering in that leaves a lot to be desired. It works but they tend to dart a little when hitting bumps and stuff. Overall I love them both and that is one of the cool things about the Tamiya kits, they all have their own personalities. Some have more quirks than other and some are just so quirky they are cool!! Thanks for putting the comparison all together and I am looking forward to seeing that Kyosho join the group!

Great video, really interesting 😊👍 thanks for another good video 👍👍

This is an interesting video, thanks for sharing it👍. I'm a huge fan of the Tamiya beetles and have a blitzer, I wasn't aware of the differences in the bodies, I thought they were all the same. Thank you👍🦘🇦🇺

Great video! I’ve yet to experience a blitzer beetle but your observations about the other 2 are spot on. I did manage to get a stick pack in the sub box.. the modern esc and receiver I used are very small so that helped. You might want to try to fit a stronger servo on the MonB. Made a huge difference on mine. Thanks for doing these in depth reviews. Good stuff! 👍😊

Lot of people don't realize the front end of the sand scorpions actual beetle front suspension system that they actually put on the actual car.

great video, mate!

I love your videos. Thank you for the content.

Sand scorcher is legitimately a copy of the real baja bugs of the era. It’s also my dream Tamiya buggy

Ha ha, buddy, I made it the part you thought we all switched off, I really do like the talk videos, and you skills to add footage b-roll, that's just icing on the cake. I don't know any of the three, probably never will. But I recently got Beetle crazy after painting up a Kyosho Beetle, and now I'm planning a Tamiya CC-02 with a Kamtec body and a similar HBX Devastator 24th scale, also Kamtec, both painted as an apparently iconic Baja Buggy, the Desert Mouse, lovely blue, red, black and white colour scheme, so much looking forward to paint those. I normally only like buggies, painted as far from scale realism as I can, ha ha!

Some great info there, thanks 👍🏻 i did wonder why my spare sand scorcher body didnt fit right on my stadium blitzer chassis 😂 took a Dremel to it in the end just because its a basher body anyway... least i know why now lol

Hi there very good video. The blitzer beetle has only the falcon chassis tub, the front and rear sections are from the bearhawk buggy from 91 with slightly different gearing for the bigger wheels/tyres, oil filled shocks rather than friction dampers, longer front axles/uprights and different mounting posts for the body. Thanks!

The Monster Beetle was my first Tamiya, and I still have it! I love it to bits. I also have a Sand Scorcher its a shelfer. Also have a F150 and the Frog.

good stuff! i saw that kyosho beetle too - but it is always out of stock here stateside. looking forward to it!

Good video I really like the bllitzer beetle .

The front suspension that's actually from the actual car of those years is a trailing arm torsion bar.

Fun Fact: The re-re Sand Scorcher actually comes with the 540J Johnson motor which slightly edges out the 540SH Mabuchis. This combined with the gearing make the Scorcher pretty quick especially on Lipo power 👍🏻

Thanks mate.! 👍 👍

More more more. Thank-you.

cool video and awesome rc's new friend

Is very well put

Awesomeness

The monster beetle does pretty well and snow too.

Thanks for the video... can't wait to see what you think about the Kyosho Beetle... and would really love a comparison between that and a Turbo Scorpion... I can only collect SO MANY models.... and racing RCs with my kids takes a lot of the budget. I have an Ultima, with Turbo Scorpion wheels, so that has a somewhat similar look to it with the wheels, roll cage, etc... but I would still like ONE of the trailing arm style cars...and I have a line on possibly being able to buy a new in box Kyosho Beetle kit... Of the 3 models in this video, the one I am picking for my collection, is the Blitzer Beetle... I think I am opting out of getting the Kyosho Optima Mid, I'm going to put a Javelin wing mount and wing, amd original Optima body on my Turbo Optima gold kit, and run that(hopefully with an under pan to protect the gold chassis) Besides the Blitzer Beetle, I think I going to get a few other Tamiya kits as I'm able to... but the Kyosho ReRe kits seem to be such high quality compared to most Tamiya cars I see... maybe my thought on that will change after I build and run a few Tamiya cars... Cheers!!! Looking forward to more videos!

My Blitzer beetle has a radon Trinity motor 15 turn with 15° of timing.

Thanks for the great video David! I want to get the Kyosho but it's out of stock so I think I'll get a Blitzer in the meantime :) Question: Did you paint your rims white? The current stock comes in orange as does the front fascia.

Another great video comparison! You’ve opened my eyes to the blitzer beetle, I remember selling them at the model shop I worked at way back when, but never owned one. What are you thoughts on drivability between kyosho beetle and blitzer beetle?

I love the Scorcher in silver. What paint did you use?

i'm amazed by your follow shooting. how did you do that? you can't be just running together with the rc car, can you? they are fast!

The original shocks from 1979 SRB models leaked. They were not a very good design, it had 1 seal and used brass for the seal retainer and would wear out pretty fast. I have not looked at the re-release shocks, but I do know they are larger and I am sure they use a much better design while retaining as much of the vintage look as possible.

Hi, can you give me code color of silver sand scorcher? Thanks!!

Just curious what park is this. We spend lots of time in Kansai and very few parks with good play structures for kids.

Hi David, do you think the blitzer beetle body will fit on the kyosho beetle chassis?

how do you think they would handle a brushless set up ?

Are your electronics waterproof?

You have a Beatles haircut