Welcome to what is to be something of a mass unboxing of several products from
Arctic Cooling. Well, Arctic Hobby Arctic Hobby. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. So,
we have Okay, we've got a few things. Let's get the quick ones out of the way
really quick here. So, we have a charger for batteries. Okay. We also have the
controller that we have. We have three of these controllers, but I only felt it
necessary to grab one of them for the sake of this unboxing. So, the controller allows you to control any one
of these particular
land riders. Okay, so we've had a look at a few Arctic Hobby products so far.
We had a look at their tank, their fire engine, as well as their boat, and I'm
sure there's one more, right? There was an excavator. So,
so far the overall prevailing opinion from us and our viewers is that these
are actually a surprisingly good value and kind of neat for the price. So,
we've got a few more things to check out. So, here's the remote. We haven't
actually looked at this remote up close yet. So, fairly straightforward. You've
got your uh cardboard that is apparently too
complicated for me. Ah, staples.
That's what was going on. Okay, let's flip it over and we'll use the knife to
cut the incredibly thick zip tie that
was deemed necessary by somebody to put on there.
Take another crack at it. There we go. All right.
Now, the controller comes out. So, these controllers, there's your throttle,
there's your other stuff. It has multiple channels that are supported up
to two channels, so you can race. Oh, that's kind of nice, actually. It's got like a foamy outside on the sort of
chromy rim looking thingamabber going on here.
There's your power. It's powered by
100 billion AA batteries. Okay.
Actually, not 100 billion, eight. But those numbers are very similar.
Okay.
And the functionality changes depending on what you're using. Ah, this is
interesting. So, this is the crystal module. So, you'll use that to make sure
that you're on the same frequency as whatever particular card that you are
using. So, you can pop that whole thing out, should you so desire. Although, I
really don't see the point, but I'm going to do it anyway. Just because it's
pointless doesn't mean I'm not going to do it on this show. There you go. So, it
works like that. Uh-oh. You better make sure you put that back in carefully cuz
all of those seem to have to go back into the There we go. Okay, so that's
the controller that comes with any one of these given RC vehicles. Now, let's
have a look at the vehicles themselves. So, we have the Land Rider 305 onroad
racing car. We have the Land Rider 307 off-road truck. And we have the Land
Rider 309 off-road trucky. And I think what they mean is truck/buggy. So, let's
get these all opened up. I'm not actually going to do the unboxing for them so we can show you the features of
them because it's going to take way too long to do three unboxings in a row.
So, we've got them opened up now. It was a bit of a headache to get all the
antennas in and all that kind of stuff, but we're pretty much done. So, we've
got the Land Rider 305, 307, and 309.
So, this is the car, the truck, and the Trugy or, you know, truck buggy,
whatever you want to call it. We also have the TO1 digital transmitter. Now,
this can be used to control a number of different models, and you can save different profiles in it. It's actually
got a fairly complicated menu structure, but the documentation that comes with
it, sorry,
spells everything out like this in little uh diagram trees so
you can follow along for whatever it is that you need to do. You can adjust all
kinds of neat stuff like exponential steering and uh reversing your channels
and anything like that that you would want to do. Uh you use the crystal. So,
we've installed the number two band crystal in the back. This is an AM
transmitter. So, uh, this is the same crystal that came with all of these
different trucks, but if you wanted to race them, you need to make sure that you have two separate crystals for the
two vehicles that you want to race at the same time as, you know, your friend
or whoever else. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the various differences
between these models. So, this guy has very, very low clearance to the ground,
especially once once the weight is on it, these wheels compress a little bit.
So, this is an on-road sort of race car
type thing. shockwise.
Uh oh, yeah, you Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, Slick wants me to mention that. See
how these posts have lots of different holes? You can actually use those to
raise it up a little bit if you want. So, I'll show you guys how easy that is
to do. Removing the top plastic covers is also the way that you access
the internals of the vehicle itself. So, there's the heat sink on the motor.
There's your crystal. So, you can actually change out the crystals not only in the car and the but also in the
transmitter or not only in the transmitter, but also in the car. There's your on switch.
There's your front shocks. Fairly meager on this model, but you guys will see on
the other ones. That's not to say that all of them are like that. Pretty good
on the back. Uh there is your battery
here. Your battery pack includes six cells. So, in order to charge it, all
you do is unplug it from here, run it out from under the plastic cover or not
under the plastic cover, whatever else, and you charge the battery up without
actually removing it from the car at all.
You can see here's the receiver. So, we've only got a couple of different uh
channels that we're using on that. So, basically throttle and then uh this guy
right here. Seems actually fairly well built and just like the uh just like
some of the other ones we've looked at. Like you can see it's got like real tires on it and all that kind of stuff.
Pretty neat. Okay, so let's go ahead and put that one aside for now. So, that's
the on-road racing car. Next, we have the off-road
truck. And this one is actually my personal favorite based on our limited
experience with these vehicles so far because check this out. This one just
looks absolutely built inside.
Looks like the same actual motor, okay?
Same uh receiver, same number of channels being used. All of this stuff
looks pretty darn similar. There's your on switch. Okay. But look at how built
the shocks are on this guy.
So, you got a lot of give there. Actually, tires are like beast. Lots of
traction, all that good stuff. You got your front grill, you got your back
grill. Rear tires are just as built. And what I like about the shocks on this guy
is, check this out. They've got a lot of uh here. There's a bit of a delay before
they come up. So, they're very, very cushiony.
even if it's bouncing around out there, you're going to retain whatever traction
you happen to need. So, that's I think that's pretty cool. So, there's that
one. And then finally, we've got the Truggy. And this one is once again more
built than the on-road car because it's meant for more like uh an off-road type
scenario. Once again, fairly similar internals,
but only one set of shocks and using a
significantly wider spacing of springs. So, they're more bouncy and less
cushiony. So, depending on the scenario you have, this one is probably going to
protect you from a fall a little bit better, but not necessarily as good for
keeping all the tires on the road at any given time because there's a little bit
more bounce to it, a little bit less stability going on there. So, they all
use the same cells inside right here. So, the parts are very interchangeable.
You can see once you look at the internal guts, they are very, very
similar in terms of the platforms that they're built on, much like a Toyota
versus a Lexus. But, um, it's just in
the detailing where the differences really come out. So, thank you for
checking out my unboxing and first look at the Land Rider car series from Arctic
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So, it's breakfast time and trying out the Land Riders time. This is the 309
right here. So, uh the one that we're actually going to be testing in the
video here is the 307. They're all built on the same platform. It's just varying
shocks anyway, right guys? So, uh there's the 30.
Shoot, which one is that? No, sorry, that's the 309 out there. So, I've got
it in my backyard. I am actually super impressed with the performance of this
thing. So, for one thing, the throttle is uh is not just on off. It's uh
whatever the word is for that. You can adjust all the trims on the controller.
The whole setup process takes only a couple minutes. Uh your wheels are uh
not just straight on off, too. So, you have a lot of granularity in terms of
your steering control. You can turn a little bit, you can turn a lot. Okay, so
here we go. Check this out.
And this is not just the burst of energy it gets um when you first power it on.
This has been going for about 5 minutes already and it's still got a fair amount
of gustoa. You can see that my lawn is very uneven. Um
but in spite of that, it still performs admirably
just climbing over everything here. I'm going to head out into the other part of
the yard as well. So you I can go like over the rocks in the middle. Can you
see? Here we go.
Can get a fair bit of speed going. It can obviously go faster if you bring it
out onto the concrete. You can see it speeds up quite a bit on the concrete,
but yeah, the uh the off-road I mean off-road RC vehicles when I was a kid
certainly did not handle uh off-road Did you lose it? Certainly did not handle
off-road scenarios very well. But it looks like that has changed. So, thank
you for checking out this video of the uh performance and the unboxing. I guess
I'll just amend this to the end of the unboxing. Don't forget to subscribe.