OK, I like the HPI RC Itashas but this Hatsune Miku Super GT from Tamiya is like a dream come true! This is not technically an itasha since it the reproduction of a real GT Car sponsored by Vocaloid / Crypton and probably this makes the car even more interesting and with a bigger potential customers base...

My dream came true and I can finally have my very own Ramen restaurant!!!
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CARPET RACERS: A Crash Course - The first movie about RC cars and racers! This is going to be bigger than TRANSFORMERS 2!!!.

(via modellismo) From the 1st August, Kyosho and Nikon, will shocase a special mix between the micro RC cars Mini Z and the Augmented Reality video/headphones system called UP Media Port. It still unclear if this will be a real product or just a "location test" in the Kyosho Ototesando Shop (Tokyo) but I'm sure if they will tranform it into a commercial product ther ewill be a lot of gadget freaks (like me) ready to buy these cars!
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As a preview for the upcoming Shizuoka Hobby Show 2009 HPI RACING just revealed a new ITASHA RC CAR dedicated to “Shakugan no Shana” (spotted by modellismo Hobby Media).

This “Shakugan no Shana” car is based on the  HPI E10 chassis. The E10 is a four-wheel drive, factory-assembled, fully prepared 1/10th scale RC car from the same world-renowned HPI design team that is famous for user friendliness, racer appeal and usability.
In each box there will be two decals sets dedicated to the manga version and to the anime version.
If you are interested by real itasha you shouldn't miss the new  Itasha Club mook!

 

 

 

I just updated Modellismo Hobbymedia: the blog of my publishing company (sorry Italian language there). There are still some details to be set but the main issues has been cleared and the server is running ok. I'm really happy that in the first few days we got 300% pageviews and reduced to 35% the bounce back...
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(via Modellimo Hobbymedia) Last february, during the Nuremberg Toy Fair,  I tried a prototype of a super fan RC Hely that fires BB Balls (the same used by air soft gun replicas). Now the taiwanese company Wind Toys & Hobby as finally released it. The Falcon is Co-Axial so it's really easy to controll and can flight 8 minutes before you got to recharge the batteries. It's really fun to play with it indoor and in the garden but, since it uses BB balls, it's really important to wear the protection glasses...
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Massimo at HobbyMedia.it has just posted this body (from ProLine) for Rock Crawlers Radio Controlled models (Axial Scorpion & HPI Wheely King) that looks like Warthog from Halo 3 on steroids.

Features:
· Only 41 grams
· Made with Genuine GE .030 super lightweight, shatter proof lexan
· 12.5” long x 5” wide x 3.4” tall
· Detail decal sheet included

DIGG THIS!!

(a toy Playmobil store in Nuremberg)
Today I visited the Nurember Toy Fair. The exhibition is huge nad I barely visited one complete area. If your are into RC you can browse our new RC blog on www.hobbymedia.it   In the next few days I will post some strange producst I found (like the Noah`s Ark scale model kit)!

Today I was reading the new issue of the japanese magazine RC SPORTS and I found the very first RC model produced in the world: Radicon Bus. This toy has been produced in Japan during the mid 50s. Anyway Google told me that this bus pretty famous among toys collectors... Cool thing that in Japan the word "radicon" is still used as the equivalent of "RC".

A Shizuoka in occasione della settimana del modellismo è stata inaugurata BOX ART: un'interessantissima mostra dedicata al design delle scatole di montaggio prodotte in giappone dal dopoguerra fino ad oggi.

Si è aperta ieri la 46ma edizione dello Shizuoka Hobby Show: la principale fiera di modellismo in Giappone e in Asia. Il modellismo tradizionale statico ed radiocomandato la fanno da padroni, ma ci sono anche alcuni interessanti stand pieni di statuette in vinile delle protagoniste femminili (più o meno svestite) dei principali manga, anime e videogiochi prodotti in Giappone. Inoltre nello stand Bandai sono stati presentati i Gunpla che verranno prodotti nei prossimi mesi (oltre ai toys da collezione della serie Chougokin).







(foto AkibaBlog)