Breaking News: Kyosho announced Mini-z Boats!

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- February 28, 2005 at 3:06 am #12568
  Geo-Z
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  Kyosho has lifted the lid an unveiled their next volley into the world of mini scale: the Mini-z formula boats.
  
  These boats seem to be quite at home in a pool or large pond. They are powered by an nimh pack, and the trailer seems to be the charging stand (?)
  
  Sadly, the motors look increasingly to be NOT compatible with mini-z racer motors. They look more like the type found in AFX slot cars and EPOCH 1/43s. Maybe they can be modified to accept 130 class motors, but in boats, weight distribution complicates the matter quite a bit.
  
  You can see a short description (in japanese) here:
  
  http://www.kyosho.co.jp/web/race/race_event/event/2005nurnberg/nurnberg01-j.html
  
  Towed by an Overland, woohoo! Personally i can t wait till it arrives…..FYI these are NOT the predator 60 boats offered by Kyosho a while ago…..completely different type…..
- February 28, 2005 at 3:36 am #58712
  merc-blue
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  they look sick drop a Pd in one of them nelly it up and WHOO yeah
- February 28, 2005 at 3:38 am #58713
  z-beam
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  they look pretty sweet, id love a pair of them but i know they wont be cheap…
  
  did you see the video on that page yet? they look like they run very well indeed!
- February 28, 2005 at 3:44 am #58714
  merc-blue
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  yeah.. pity the motors arent a canned motor.. but still i wonder wat IW will do about this.. im surely up for one if can score one at a decent price
- February 28, 2005 at 3:56 am #58715
  hakhawk
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  meh, wouldnt be that hard to whack in a 130 size motor.
- February 28, 2005 at 3:59 am #58716
  merc-blue
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  yeah..i think modding of the stock motor rewind down + neo mags and a water cooled system.. no problem
- February 28, 2005 at 5:13 pm #58722
  bithed
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  …thats weird…the trailer is the charger…
- June 5, 2005 at 3:56 am #59562
  Admin
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  where can one buy one of these it looks preety cool n small enough to run in my pond 😛
- June 7, 2005 at 12:36 am #59574
  Aaron
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  We can source them, they re about AUD180+ though!
  
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- June 7, 2005 at 3:29 am #59575
  z-beam
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  id like to know if they can be attached to an overland for towing or if that pic is a promo pic that isnt real…
  
  $180 is a bit outta my price range… dont get em Aaron untill the stockist realises they cant sell em at that price…
- June 7, 2005 at 11:01 am #59576
  bithed
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  …affirmative they are designed to be able to be pulled along by an OL or whatever other car…they can be towed…cool eh 😀
- June 7, 2005 at 12:43 pm #59577
  Aaron
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  The $180 odd is becuase they re basically sellign the same price as a Mini-Z and becuase stock is low no-ones discounting. It took a month for the Mini-Inferno to come down so these will probably be the same.
  
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- June 8, 2005 at 2:14 am #59578
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  where from? im still slightly interested 😛
- July 13, 2005 at 7:17 am #59673
  z-beam
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  ok, its been a month! any shift in price yet?
- July 13, 2005 at 12:46 pm #59674
  dgs73
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  119usd on the ‘bay… not sure about postage though…
- July 13, 2005 at 6:36 pm #59675
  PandaBear
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  Weird aesthetics!
  
  Inboard motor even though there’s an outboard casing; why didn’t they just make a jet boat type arrangement and lost the outboard case?
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