I wish a million potential RC enthusiasts get these for Christmas .

You're easily the hardest working RC channel this Christmas, thanks for the awesome content

And people say I purposely try and break my cars😳🤣

Super excited for the Mini Typhon Grom 👀

Fantastic bashing and review, Phil! 😃 What the heck of a little truck! Really tough!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊 And happy holidays!

Good videos buddy. I like to watch these. Merry Christmass Tomley RC

this has been a fun series! i have watched each one almost daily!

I'm watching this while getting ready to go out with my GROM and a mini ramp. Love the grom, and it hasn't broken yet, and I city bash.

@Tomley RC you're smashing out this daily Christmas content 👏

Great video.. definitely one of the better grom reviews.

Amazed your Grom lasted that long and took that abuse! That H style drive cup shaft on the diff’s is the number 1 weak point on these trucks. Mine exploded on 2nd pack taking way less abuse than you showed here. Horizon did warranty it for me and even sent me 2x spares. Hopefully a HD diff comes out soon cause as long as those plastic cups thread into plastic spider gears this problem will remain.

This is an excellent review and test. I bought one on a Black Friday sale at my local Hobbytown. I am glad to see Arrma trying to compete in this market. Also, the Gorgon is another attempt to get into a more reasonable price range. You gave it a real bash test and it might've shown a weakness that Arrma can correct.

definitely one of the better rc channels rather than some of the other ones that promise content and never deliver, just random skate park crap

I love my Grom. Yea at first I thought the buddy mount system was kinda goofy too. But once you get used to it, it’s actually not bad at all and very easy to remove and remount. The steering is a bit squirrelly too I agree 😂 The only problem I’ve had is one of the plastic teeth on one of the rear driveshaft cups ( I think that’s what my local hobbytown said happened) stripped out. Looks like that’s what happened to yours too, Phil. Most likely from me doing doughnuts in the basement concrete floor 😬😂 So that’s my fault. But my hobbytown even warrantied it and fixed it. Those guys are awesome. Other than that, this thing is a perfect basement basher for me. My body is all scraped and scuffed up. But that gives it character 🤘🏼😂 Great video!

I LOVE Arrma, more than I can say....but....MJX has this corner of the market on lock and for good reason 😉

Good test. Just what I needed to see I have the grom under the tree. I did brake the hyper go in cold temps not being hard on it. Love the calender

Got mine earlier this week also. I like it. Got a few issues but on the whole, I think this is a good platform.

I never tire of the Allen guy, laughs every time

Excellent video as always. I would 3d print that cup, personally.

That’s a tough truck! Great video Phil..

Cool Review! I just got mines and haven’t been able to whip it out.

Hey Phil, been loving these Christmas calendar videos. Because of your videos, I do end up getting some of these cheap small scale cars and they are generally great cars. Some sometimes will end up having leaky shocks but all cars can and do. At the beginning of the video, you asked if this more expensive car holds up to the mjx i think it was? Here is my findings here is Arizona. To be frank, I guess you could call me a fanboy of Arrma and traxxas because my rustler 4x4, summit, and Infraction are my favorite cars I have but thats not what Im comparing. I also own the mini ERevo and the Grom and a few of the cheap minis you have featured. After giving them all a good bashing, a lot of these cheap cars perform really well and in the case of Rlarrlo, maybe better until something breaks. Its not easy to get parts for some of these cars and It took over a month to get an axle for the Rlarrlo desert buggy where when I break something on my ERevo, Im just a hop, skip and a jump away from my hobby shop. I always find myself unconsciously being more timid and careful with cheap cars but I run the ERevo and the Grom like Kevin Tolbot. To be fair, I run them harder then the Rustler 4x4 because they are so cheap to fix.😅 This rant was by no means disagreeing with you or throwing you any hate. Just my thoughts and findings to the question of what holds up to what and maybe its unfair because the VXL ERevo is $300 but still mini.

The advent calendar was a great idea . You've been working really hard . Many of us appreciate that .👏🏻 Great lil truck from Arrma . While a long time fan of micros and 1/18 scale . I think the new resurgence and proliferation of this size is partly because the larger scales have become more expensive . These are more affordable to mod as well and you don't need a huge place to run them . 👍🏼🎅🏻🎄

We have officially been properly introduced to Tomley's inner Talbot! Or his TiT for short 😂

What a little beast! I hated the steering trim on my MJX hypergo 14 for the same reason. Plus I'd bump it. Now its running either my Dumbo or a Flysky gt2b just so I can get straight drives. Also, you are so lucky to have skateparks with nobody on them.

Great job on the Christmas countdown…appreciate there’s a lot of work gone into this

Day 16!!! Yay! I really dig these Christmas videos… great idea.

It's a fun truck and indeed if you immediately floor it it won't go straight for some reason. But if you accelerate a bit more gradually it's surprisingly stable. It's pretty well balanced for jumping and I guess they build in weak points on purpose with RTR cars for upgradability. Very curious how the upgrade diffs hold up. Mine will get a brushless conversion soon so diffs will probably have to get upgraded pretty soon. 🙈

It took a beating, pretty dang cool 👍🏻

Cool review 👌🏻

Took mine to the skate park, didn’t even get through a whole battery cycle before my rear differential went. Luckily my local hobby shop had a pair of all-metal upgraded ones. Bless them 🙏

I got an absolute chuckle out of the Grom attacks 😂. Arrma tough baby. Awesome

Cheers Phil

Wow, what a tough little truck. And the green pops. But for the money I don't think you can beat the MJX trucks. They are beasts with 3s in them.

Going strong ‼️👍👍🦾🦾🤘🤘

Day 16 hits on a Saturday morning so I get to sleep in a bit. Nice got an Allen in😂 Love the hat fits right in I had an idea can we get the finger pointer you use to poke open a calendar day just the finger only poking through like on the videos 😂

the GROM feels like a grommet that just hit my groin area 🤣🤣🤣

I think this is very cool and only £20 more than a tracer. Gotta b worth it surely. I like it. Can easily upgrade it to brushless later on. I’m sure a lot of kids would b happy with this at Xmas.

I still miss my mini E Revo was such a fun little car just really hard to find parts for where I live I really regret it though since they've stopped making them I just had a very bad problem stripping differentials I would run through front and rear differentials very quickly

how d''you squash a GROM , stamp on it with your foot 🤣🤣🤣

I'm waiting for them to release the upgrades and them to be in stock before I maybe pick one up I'm a sucker for the 3s range as well

Hola Amigo como estas , hoy fue un dia de prueba de resistencia de este pequeño mostrico verde es indestructible , 16 dias del calendario , saludos y mucjas gracias Mr feliz dia

I had the same steering trim issue with my Grom so i was going to change out the receiver and connect it to my spektrum Dx5C transmitter and then realized that it is a 2 in 1 esc. So... now its brushless with a gyro and it drives straight and goes 52 mph.😆

I have watched every single one of these rc advent calander videos religiously and I love the idea!! So new and unique, so tell you wife this was a great idea!!!❤❤❤

phill finishing the video with 2 black eyes and a broken leg 😂😂 the attack of the grom 😂 ...but i am with you Phill the price puts me offf but keep watching videos i will get one and make it brushless 😂

Just bought two of the for my kid and I . thanks for the video

RC cars are Not for cold weather!😅 Snap,Crackle, and Pop!🧨🤣😂😆

A few of the KZfaq folk are talking about spares availablity of the Chinese stuff Vs Arrma but in my experience my MJX rarely broken for long. Mine has an FTX body and body posts from my local shop. The arms look like Tracer too. On the shelf at the model shop. The front uprights are special MJX because of the big, metal CVDs so they took two weeks to get here, but only because I wanted cheap because mine weren't fully dead yet. There's an English site for MJX bits, everything is a quid or two dearer obviously but it's in your hand in two days. Be it a diff or whatever. I can imagine the Arrma will be better for upgrades in the not too distant future. Especially where that diff' is concerned. Plus spares availablity can only get better can't it. Proper cool little truck that 🙂

This thing needs an upgrade video!

Great little truck, but as you said, tough market for Arrma to drop into! My son has the HBX16889, and he's beaten the absolute snot out of it over the last 3 years, and all that's broken is the shell! It'll be interesting to see if the ever get to a V2?!

Man that's a tough little truck

I like my Teton with the $30 Amazon special brushless setup in it. Slap some RPM A-arms on there and you're good.

1:58 I love you! LOL

I like Mini Bashers - got 4 MJX. They are not perfect - BUT - they are not expensive, brushless and spare parts are available! The Grom is to expensive for what it got. Nice Vid!

nice little truck indeed only issue i have so far is the pins of that clipless body bending and breaking .. havent seen/heard much about that so maybe i just had bad luck or im doing something wrong

tuffffff little bugger, nice review. I'm hoping the ftx outback mini Texan x evo is behind one of the remaining door's, I'd love to see it in action before buying. I've got the original and have done a fair few upgrades and is still running well.

Great video as always. Seems like a good truck but I feel that you get a better bang for your buck with thr Chinese offerings in this segment. I don't go bashing every day so I don't mind waiting a little for parts. Also I am a cheapskate or rather I think that the big brands are way way too expensive.

Put mine to the test at the skate park last Tuesday it took a beating 👍

Rich duperbash needs to get his hand on it it'll probably have a hobbywing combo in it 😂

I got 22 with mine 😊 I love the grom.. remember it's Brushed phil.. let that motor fully break in it will hit 22 😊 .. nice video

For filming yes the green may look better, but that blue 😉😜

skatepark and -3c don't mix 😂 took a beating considering 👍

Idk Phil, for 1/2 the price, you could buy a lot of parts for that MJX. I would probably go for that, if I’m buying for my kids.

I bought this as soon as it was released. Great little truck. My only complaint is the body release mechanism. They could have done it a little better since it's so weird in regards to how easy Traxxas makes their body mount release system.

Damn good price really. And a built in weak link saves everything else from breaking. Acceptable.

love my Grom, I brought it to the beach and put the HyperGo sand paddles on it, absolute ripper! kills the skatepark too! Getting my 6yr old nephew one of these bad boys

How does it stack up compared to the FMS Colorado? Apart from the obvious that the FMS is smaller. But they're roughly the same price.

I'm pretty sure this is the number 1 selling RC car right now over the Christmas holiday.

Vorteks and Granite are DISCONTINUED😢!do you know their replacement?any thoughts?

LETS GOOO❤

I like it because it looks fun it’s a ARMMA & it’s tuff.

On the 16th day of Christmas Santa playing a trick on my ....with this tiny Arrma rc .. still better than a traxxas

Do you need the CAD data to 3D print your own spares? It‘s always the same part that breaks and I made a CAD clone an print it myselve.

Wow, you kicked the crap out of that, it did well!

Rear diff is the Achilles heal on these

The UK looks appealing right now!

The easy to get parts is a myth, it's over a year since I can't find a 4x4 kit for my Granite Boost...

I know this video was months ago, but they released metal diffs for this model, however even those are back ordered right now. .

What runtime do you get out of the lipos that come with them?

Hi! Could you answer me a question? Is this Arrma Grom a better option than the FMT24 or worse? Which one do u like the most? Thanks!!!!

RE: the trim issue. I've got the same problem with my MJX and my Hosim. Do you think it's an underpowered servo? Or the funky servo saver? (Or a little of both??)

Im gald you said something about the fingers getting burnt. I said something in my video about it but you get more views lol!

arrma grom not turning right far enough. any suggestions ? it turns left very tight turn. turning right it makes a much wider turn. what is the problem ?

Yeah Arrma not the best for parts support. Hobby shop told me that center diffs for the 4s Mojave are on backorder till July.

That thing is just as bouncy on the wheels as it is the roof🤣

This is a video I have been waiting to see since I saw them advertised on modelsport phil,looks like its bigger brother/sister just been shrunk being arrma I am imaginingit will be tougher than the one in my question for you. Could you answer my question though please. Either the grom or brushless ftx tracer monster truck it's for blasting around with my little lad who has the maverick ion mt

I was never happy with the handling of my Gen 2 (I think?) Granite. Tough as nails, but I could never get any speed out of it because it handled so poorly. Still loads of fun, and I kind of want to get one of these mini Granites.

That looked like a tough one to me.

What dumbrc remote do you recommend? Thanks

I wanted to get 1 of these for my grandson for Christmas but I can't find one anywhere

sorry i can't help the comments below , i just can't hold back on my 💩 sarcastic humour 🤣 🤣 🤣

That thing took that on a freezing day!? Damn

We need a senton like this 🔥🔥

Arrma tough babe

I think Exocaged RC fitted his with vitavon parts. I guess vitavon has their fingers in everything.

I have a Traxxas 18th scale latraxx Tenton... how does this compare? The Tenton is my favorite little travel all RC I bring it everywhere.

Mini baskets are usually super cheap I love them you can get a decent one for £70 aproxmetly

The Typhon Granite is a little quicker, longer, and less twitchy than the Granite...and $10 more, but I love it for the toughness and parts availability

why did the meerkat talk to the key , because it was called , ALAN , ALAN , ALAN 🤣🤣🤣

Did you look to see if appliance electronics had it in stock?