Redcat Unleashed A Mighty Mini RC Monster Truck!

[@The_RC_Guru]

It’s like a baby HPI wheely king! I’m liking that driveline, licensed logos , and the tires.

[@M_AbdullahArif]

thanks for keeping the background free from music :) nice to hear the actual truck sounds.

[@kendotek9414]

These need to be run in a scaled down monster truck arena!

[@derrickwilliams2903]

You can throw a 3s lipo in it, just like the Ascent18. The stock ESC will run it, even though it isn't "officially" supported.

[@JosephJoe-u7e]

Then it will hit 7mph!!

[@georgeshowalter8011]

Looks like a blast if you don't have much room indoors! I love rc's. My area no tracks available or place to make one. So this hits the spot. 😁😁

[@just.jose.youtube]

Looks quite good! Thanks for the tear-down review, always appreciated! 💪🙏 With a tiny bit of extra speed, this would have been unbeatable value! Still a good offer imho.

[@kirk0respite]

0:21 traxxas watching this with the trx4mt:🥵

[@TyBoogie520]

Love the driveshafts, all the metal... i feel like if you combined the best parts of this and a Smasher, you'd have one hell of a vehicle! As it stands though, I'd rather have the Smasher. Especially cause its on sale right now for $100

[@MadBeeRC]

Great vid and well done for that! Looks a little winner!

[@tim0339]

Glad you compared it to the other 18th scales

[@CodyMondy]

they need to rethink the tires

[@shuster1921]

Great Video Greg!!

[@rcdriver]

Thank you!

[@19_96tyler]

It could definitely use a brushless system! 😂 @6:20

[@danielmiecz909]

You can hear the disappoint in his voice when he released how slow it is

[@bradpritt1550]

Well, that is clearly a 24 scale and comparable to the FMS smasher. The best use for this is monster truckin in the living room when winter hits lol.

[@RcPlayer-tt2vw]

Ya you right I thought it was more like LMT. I feel for them , it can’t be easy competing with big companies and still charge enough for profit I buy a red cat to support them but most releases I have or had the versions of . This is probably nicer than the FMS. But FMS cool because 2sp tranny . We can get them on sale for 120 bucks . Funny is the mini MT and 24 seems to die down , I bet Redcat was working on this because of the mini craze . I guess that’s the hobby though, stuff gets hot than cools down and usually comes back sooner or later. I think 2025 going be Rally cars , the big companies hands are forced to if they weren’t already in the making .

[@Tipman2OOO]

I'm sorry that you feel like that!

[@Wreckedekcoupe]

I wish it came with a 380 brushed motor. Ima keep investing into my mini lmt and getting another 1 for the wife. I guess you get what you pay for. But majorly under powered. With a couple hundred bucks of mods itd be sick, but then you can just start with a mini lmt?

[@louis2179]

I like those tires and wonder if those tires will fit on the Volcano 16 platform. If so I might order some for my truck!!

[@Seegster77]

The ascent 18 is almost entirely upgradable in less than a year. Itll be interesting if Redcat, Injora, Treal, etc do the same for this.

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

I’m sure it will if it gets popular enough

[@michaelinzitari]

Hi Greg. Let me explain why the truck is so slow. It’s for kids. It’s light. It’s small. They can carry it. They can’t hurt themselves. They don’t want speed. They want run time and durability. Being slow means it won’t break. Will get this for my 4 year old if it comes to Australia (it won’t) 🍻

[@rjp52789]

This is my local skate park in New Milford too, Maybe I’ll run into you there sometime and we can get a bash in 👍🏼. I also take my cars there, it’s the only skate park around to my knowledge. Nice vid man

[@jimbo4203]

I like it 😊

[@413RC]

That’s a funny looking crawler. 6mph? 🥱

[@michaeldorich4485]

The truck looks good. I wanted to mention that I watched another video of this truck. His was a lot faster. Obviously, I don't know if you had a ba battery or motor, but there was a definite difference.

[@rcdriver]

The top speed stock out of the box is in fact 6mph. Exocaged got 6 and RC Review got 6. However he did show it will go faster with an aftermarket 3S pack. Perhaps thats what you saw.

[@michaeldorich4485]

@@rcdriver May be It just looked faster next to the Smasher MT. The video I watched was Roadside RC where they compared the Smasher and the Redcat.

[@TheUnknown714]

Great video brother. I really wanted this too. Until you did the speed test and showed the size comparison. 6MPH is truly disappointing. Then you put it next to the Smasher to see it really is more 1/24 scale than 1/18.

[@donniemarks94]

Damn redcat gonna make me buy rc lol i bought the accent fusion back in march, can easily pick up a more powerful brushed motor and it’s perfect

[@EstablishedLowriders]

What scale?

[@uan588]

Yes

[@markgrochowski7934]

At this speed it would be good in the house.

[@specialK319319]

It's a really neat truck, but as you alluded to at the end, it looks like it would get boring fairly quick. I dont know what you would really do with it as its too slow to bash, but the tires look way too big to crawl (I could be wrong about this part)

[@RcPlayer-tt2vw]

I agree but I get it , most people modify these it’s very cheap and a wealth of technology probably more in short time any other due to it being 24 scale .

[@kel5944]

What’s Lawless?

[@zigzag7919]

I think they purposely made it that slow for scale driving if you have scale ramps and scale jumps it will probably look somewhat realistic

[@ExtremeRC13]

What do you use to film your RC cars? I’m trying to figure out what to use that works good. Also, those tires are really big. It looks like a fun rig.

[@rcdriver]

DJI Pocket 3, Iphone and a GoPro

[@ExtremeRC13]

@ OK sweet thank you for your response. I use the DGI gimbal, but it didn’t work out too much. I will try to get a GoPro.

[@whatsintheboxx]

Looking very nice but 6mph is a bad joke !

[@small.and.even.smaller]

Good Monster Truck, but need more speed.....

[@nickz1122]

That’s a $99 rc truck

[@chrisvda7277]

Wish they had redcat here in the uk

[@Lod3runn3r]

Looks kinda fun but a quite a bit underpowered 🤔. Anyways, nice informative video as always. Have a good one and keep it up.

[@Croissant-yum13]

It does seem underpowered but the competitors are to

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

Basically every mini mt is a little slow

[@Lod3runn3r]

@@Croissant-yum13 yeah, that´s true for sure but a bit more ooomph and a brushless system shouldn´t be too much to ask nowadays imo 🤔

[@zacharyhodson6595]

I have a extra castle micro mamba v1 esc, and a 0808 4100KV motor that should fit 3s oh yeah

[@PhilipCockram]

Great review . Really nice mini monster .

[@guest6423]

Yeah, but 6mph x 24 (it's 1:24, folks) = 144 scale mph. I don't know of any 1:1 monster trucks that hit 144... (yeah, it needs to be faster, but sometimes we expect a bit much from our cheap toys.) I do think that, on a scale freestyle course, it'd be just fine. Unfortunately, approximately none of us have a 1:24 course ready for the new Redcat. I definitely like how bold Redcat is with new product.

[@michaelinzitari]

Wrong. Rc cars need to be fast no matter what size they are. 40 is fast. Less than 10 is not fast. Slow is always slow for adults. A 1/5 Baja is not faster than a 1/8 buggy but people still buy them. So your scale speed comparison is useless. Even a kid doesn’t fall for that rubbish

[@whatsintheboxx]

For what it is 160 bucks ain’t cheap at all

[@markhufnagel2744]

I agree it needs a little more whoop ass ! I think my lawn mower can go faster !

[@chriskryder2994]

Put a $13. 3s pack into it amazing difference.

[@whatsintheboxx]

Then it will hit 7mph 😂😂

[@jayleeson8517]

has redcat even released a competitor yet ?

[@silverrick90]

Redcat has been killing it lately. But…

[@TheImtoomuch]

That price is crazy for a Redcat! Look at the tires. LOL. Redcat does 80% of things right and usually gets away with it because of low prices. This is a $99 truck at best.

[@PonkyKong]

Is there a 99 dollar truck like this?

[@TheImtoomuch]

@@PonkyKong yes

[@ron486]

Kinda reminds me of the Traxxas little monster truck that failed.

[@philstudt3511]

For $160 it should be at least a little faster...

[@G.M..]

Nice little monster! We all know that all Redcat RC cars are rebrands of Chinese manufacturers' cars (PD racing, FS racing, HSP...). Do we know who is the original manufacturer of this MT?

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

Seems a little expensive and pretty slow out of the box but looks way better then the traxxas considering its an actual mt chassis instead of a glorified crawler. I see some real potential with a gearing change or motor/esc chance and a few upgrades

[@RCPoor]

Reminds me of a cheap kids toy though. I think they over hype some of this shit. Just because it's a new version doesn't necessarily equal better.

[@kosmokat111]

@@RCPoor I don't rly see it at all, this is an actual scale MT chassis, I've never seen a toy grade RC built like this lol

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

@@RCPoor a cheap kids toy wouldn’t have ball bearings, proportional steering, or oil shocks. Its definitely slower than it should be but it actually looks pretty good quality wise

[@Tipman2OOO]

​@@RCPooryoure just saying that because you're poor

[@Tipman2OOO]

​@RCPoor you haven't had it in hand. I was surprised how well lose scaled down their cars to micros

[@mikemanzo488]

Cool lil thing...not for that price at all tho!

[@mikefontenot5313]

Keep ya money

[@williamoleary9330]

I’m still skeptical because of all the issues they’ve had in the past. It’s going to take more to prove to me that they’ve worked out their Engineering & Quality Control issues

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

Ever since the ascent crawlers they have made some actually really good cars especially their crawlers. They also really redeemed themselves with the low riders

[@RcPlayer-tt2vw]

Ya he’s talking about back in the days and they sold those cars pretty recently.

[@CharlieJohnston-qp7qm]

They really have turned themselves around. They used to be no more than some cheapo brand like leagendary or hpx but recently they have been really outdoing themselves

[@DukeGaminh]

6mph? Nope

[@JT-6s]

This could be a winner if it came out of the box at 12-14mph. Flat-tread tires look a little weird, but probably offer more cornering stability. Has potential, at least the drivetrain looks beefy and it comes with a decent servo.

[@emory442]

The price is a bit of an issue for me. IDC about electronics, cause I always end up changing all that. But how about some offroad action? I wouldn't take an rc I cared about to a skate park

[@JLary71377]

It drives like an actual monster truck. No speeding here

[@Tipman2OOO]

Bleep bloop I am a computer

[@francoissoler5677]

Maybe it's geared to do some crawler stuff, not bashing

[@JT-6s]

Open diffs = not for crawling

[@Edward-bq6bk]

You can tell it’s geared low,plowed up the ramps like nothing. I think 10 mph would be a good compromise.

[@L.U.C.K.Y333]

1/10 scale would have been better

[@EJ-74]

Brushed in 2024 WHY 🤷🏼‍♂️ lol It looks to be a decent truck too but that brushed crap is a big deal breaker for most imo!?!?

[@montana4069]

I don't know about a hundred and sixty dollars... I mean I'd probably buy it for my 5 year old...

[@Xandro_B20]

Those tyres look’s horrible. Other than that everything looks good.

[@applefordguy76]

K10* c10 is 2wd. I'm done with Redcat. I own two soon to be zero. The kaiju isn't too bad, but the wendigo is almost impossible to drive and keep straight. This truck looks less than impressive as well.

[@dc9808]

needs brushless!

[@TrokaRC]

#Edelbrock

[@L.A.S._productions]

I took a chance going with the trx4mt but I am going to have to put so much money into it and the mini lmt and this thing will still probably run circles around it

[@dirtysoufracing6029]

Junk LMT for the win

[@Djkommode]

Interesting but small scale not for me

[@chrislewis5069]

Looks like it may be for young boys

[@kylekallies3381]

Looks more like a ford F-100

[@blackbirdrc8348]

Don’t these companies know everyone wants 10th scale solid axle monster trucks?? Still kinda cool but…

[@trashbag8124]

I can’t stand when manufacturers lie about scale, speed etc. why can’t they just be honest about things?

[@maxpaul11]

Truck looks Fugly! Tires are definitely different! I don't think this will sell well in my opinion 🤔 Just looks way off

[@jnmwtkns]

160 is just too much ! Come on Redcat? Your pricing is what got a lot of people in the hobby & kept consumers returning for more .please don’t chase away newbies by dropping them into this kind of stuff / . Most of us experienced rc people won’t even bother driving them out of the box after watching reviews. Imma head straight into modding to atleast pick up a little speed.or are they warning us not to expect too much out of this esc combo ? Will it handle 3s like the ascent 18 if we lower the turns? Ok enough bsing. All in all as usual we can’t wait to have one.😉🤞

[@thegoodboys2870]

They are taxing because it’s a licensed product ( edelbrock ) anything with a name brand stamp is always going to be taxed

[@tylerseabook9423]

Too expensive? 🤦‍♂️ that price is fine for the cost of living now. New hobbyists would gladly pay this along with the monster truck stuff is a niche market. Be happy they made a MT 🤦‍♂️

[@RcPlayer-tt2vw]

Stop being cheap they need money to stay a float and innovation,lol exactly it’s only MT besides LMT FMS and FMS is a crawler and lmt 270 $

[@TheImtoomuch]

Facts. The sheep and fanbois will disagree though.

[@tylerseabook9423]

@@TheImtoomuch just say your poor. We understand. 😂🤦‍♂️ this is better than anything anyone else has out for this class.

[@traxxasfans]

I think it’s ok for young kids maybe ok for a six year old

[@MRSOMEBODYRC]

This is child's play, and too expensive for what you get. Fms is where it's at. But opinions are opinions, and that's mine. Rc on my dudes.

[@SuppleBun]

oh my wallet 😭

[@christhibeault3205]

All metal drivetrain but plastic gears in the Trans? And some cheap ass motor. The arrma groms are way faster and cheaper. I wouldn't mind paying a little more if there was more quality and speed

[@Bluecollar_obs_limo]

It looks like it has a 4.3 v6 with those headers 😂😂

[@guest6423]

It runs like it has the 2.8...

[@Caseydotmpeg]

I feel this is a big swing and a miss. Not proper scale. Too slow. The traxxas only comes in a few dollars more and the arrma groms come in cheaper.

[@RcPlayer-tt2vw]

Ahh didn’t think of like this , but it’s one of three mini MT you can buy , ones a lot more 270 , other is a crawler but yeah you have a good point as well as Greg , put lower turn motor , and I know it will go on sale sooner or later if I decide to get one don’t want to pay full price. I have the mini LMT

[@bobrandall2727]

It is a monster truck,not a drag car, just saying

[@rcdriver]

Didn’t say I was expecting a drag truck. But enough power to pull the front wheels off the ground like a real monster truck would have been nice.

[@johninNJ]

Very underwhelming. It's a miss.

[@todd5060]

Ehh.

[@ectorvalle4059]

Beautiful Chevy body! Tires are ugly and needs a faster motor! Definitely NOT 1/18 scale, is a 1/24! Would of been better if it was! Still cool though...

[@skyhawk21]

That’s not worth asking price needs to be cheaper

[@PC_TV_73]

Way too slow and way too expensive for what it is

[@PonkyKong]

Would have liked to see a 380 motor setup

[@TeriWilde]

It looks 1/24 to me and cheap chinese junk.... I'll stick to the 1/10 stuff

[@jefftroxell4923]

$160!? Nah.... Those tires are fugly and the whole package is underwhelming especially at the $160 price point. This could've been a homerun but they messed up the scale and underpowered it. Hard pass.

[@Hutch_Davenport]

Should have gone with a 370 or more powerful motor. The 180 is absolutely anemic for a monster truck. It isn't a good basher and it isn't a good crawler. Drop a $40 GoupRC 2204 brushless out runner/esc combo and it would be a little beast though. It has potential, but that 180 motor just ruins it.

[@user-wp9mz]

If they were a hundred bucks I'd buy two of them I just can't see paying $160 for a tiny little truck that does 5 mph

[@genefaglier2133]

Slow speed, same problem with the traxxas monster truck