Arctic Hobby Land Rider 507 RC Excavator Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,576 words · ~7 min read
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all right last one guys this is the Arctic hobby land Rider 507 this is an
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excavator it is ready to run it has all
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kinds of different cool features but the first feature we're going to show you is
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how the Box opens because
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that is what we do on this channel
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so I've been asked a number of times why am I unboxing fire trucks and tanks and
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excavators and the answer is because Arctic hobby is related to Arctic
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cooling which is a company that focuses
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on PC hardware and has a partnership with NC where I work and ncx sells these
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and I think they're bous as well so that
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those are all the reasons I think that should be fairly uh self-explanatory at
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this point I can't figure out how to get that uh controller out well we'll figure
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it out after okay here we go so we've got included batteries both 9vt and
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battery pack uh we've got a charged battery pack ready to go already down on
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the floor over there so you can get um there's an Arctic charging station and
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you can use that to charge the batteries um comes with the cable for that which
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is somewhere and then you can also get the uh the other charger so that's the
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one that we have which is just a wall wart and plugs into the wall okay we've
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also got an antenna for the remote so I'm going to go ahead and now I'm going
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to go ahead and not do anything because it's stuck and then finally we have one
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of those little straws for the antenna that goes onto the excavator itself to
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hold it up so that we get better
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reception so this is all pretty much your standard fair not a bad idea for a
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Christmas gift if there's uh you know someone you know who you don't like very
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much and their kids around the age that they would enjoy a fire engine or a tank
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or an excavator and you want to you want to give their parents something really
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noisy and obnoxious here's all the different ways that the ARM is able to
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be actuated not actually sure if I used that word correctly but I don't really
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care it's very late I'm very tired and I
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would like to go home but here I am in the tech tips room you know how it
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is okay so let's pull this guy out and
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see what we've got
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here I mean we've got an excavator I know that much but let's see exactly
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what we've got here how does this ah there this comes out that'll
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help this this one is secured quite
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differently from the other two so that
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was what I needed to do to get it
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out hopefully I'm not breaking it too badly here there we go we have our
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excavator so why don't I let uh slick
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who thinks it's hilarious when I break things apparently why don't I let slick
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go ahead and take a closer look at the land Rider here while I go ahead and
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start getting uh start getting it set up
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and take the uh controller out and all that kind of good stuff let's get this
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off so this is our antenna so in order to get this bad boy set up we're going
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to have to go ahead and and uh hold on
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there we go run this through the little straw
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thingamajiggy you don't have to look closely at what I'm doing over here
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that's fine just um show them the straw when it's done so you feed that through
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there this thing actually looks pretty good actually all of these I'm surprised
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given the price point and given the lack of context that I have for toys that are
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available to kids these days and all that I mean you could not buy something
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like this for hundred bucks when I was a kid so or like you could probably get
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something like this but it certainly wouldn't be remote control like it would
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look kind of like this I mean one thing that the that the toys that sort of we
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had were were better for was the overall
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construction quality like they tended to be made of of metal rather than being
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made of plastic um although in terms of durability I'd say all these land Rider
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devices are not bad at all because they're fairly solidly built although
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what I haven't tried is you know doing extent Ive uh you know crash testing
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with them or anything like that so it's hard to say how they're going to hold
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out in the long term and I have no idea how you are
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expected to remove this oh it's another
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removable piece look at that okay there we go yeah there we go so I got to
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remove that screw which means I'm going to have to go off camera give me a sec and I'm going to get this all assembled
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here and we are going to test out this land Rider 507
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like crazy Tech tip style okay guys so I'm just going to
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take a closer look cuz I haven't even checked out the land Rider 507 much
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myself yet so we've got rubber Treads this is something we've come to expect
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from Arctic hobby products we've also got some pretty cool compensation going
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on here you see that Flex there so it should be able to go over things fairly
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easily uh what else we got here we got little sort of rubber hosing things
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running around we've got sort of realistic looking Hydraulics with shiny
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chromed silver pieces uh that's comes
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off and then goes back on cool okay look at that look at that driver's seat it's
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too bad that oh wait hold on yeah it's
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too bad the door doesn't open otherwise you could totally put like a little action figure dude in there that'd be
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kind of neat like a little Lego guy or something okay we got like a light here
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I wonder if that light actually turns on I wouldn't be that surprised at this
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point because so much of their stuff is uh like has light and sirens and whatnot
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so here's the bucket so you can see here check this out so that's how the
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hydraulics look when they work pretty good pretty good all right
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let's uh let's go ahead and get started I'll show you guys the control up close
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first Okay so we've got your left tread front and back your uh right tread
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forward and backwards and then the bucket goes left and right up and down
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and up and down in the various different places so let's try this out first thing
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we're going to do is uh lift the lift the bucket up
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hey look how fast that goes whoa there
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we go okay let's try the other
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one all right okay so let's try moving
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this bad boy forward a little bit okay and then let's
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go down down
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okay huh I wonder what kind of weight it can
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handle like here not much was the answer okay so you
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can swing it around and swing it around the other way
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oh oh check this out though guys I yep I was right so when you're doing
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something this light does turn on oops sorry I'll give you better there you go
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so you can see what you're doing in the dark now what kind of speed can we
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expect out of the uh the land Rider 507 here let's let's uh move it around on
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the tech tips floor
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here there's that off-roading that I was
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talking about there before we can spin in
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place whack the Tex's whiteboard
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again bam and then they all like here we
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come slowly so it's I don't think it's
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as fast as the fire track or the tank but it's got some you know it's got some
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go to it it's him
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go not a bad gift for kids or child like
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adults although you could confuse someone by buying this for them and
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putting it this way before you give it to them oh no look at that okay so oh
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that's a little bit disappointing so you got to bring it all the way back around
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in order to turn it the other way cuz I was going to say you could put it right
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backwards and then people be all like oh yeah I think I'm going to go forward and
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then the uh the thing would actually go backwards but see now you can see it
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does go the correct
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direction
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wo look at this guy look at him go
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okay I think we're done