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shodog wrote:If you ever saw one of these back in the day just smoke everything on the track you'd be saying look at that ugly bitch go

+1! They were awesomely bad jumpers! A flying brick but fast as snot

Has anybody else heard anything more about this?

I'm guessing that this isn't happening now!

I guess too
probably not enough successful for yokomo

I doubt it will come to fruition. In the pics on page one. it looks like all the parts were rapid prototyped using a 3D printer.

Maybe a 35th Year Anniversary Edition... its just a few years away... Yes, I know. Wishful Thinking... but then again... you never know!

Maybe this will be the year! LOL

I'm seriously thinking about 3d modeling up all the parts for 3d printing , I've already started making a few parts .
I already have a shelf car and a modernised runner but I'd still go for a Re re if they made them !

I'm thinking the window for opportunity is rapidly closing on this. The Yokomo 834b was one of the earlier examples of this particular era of RC cars and therefore the people who would be most likely their target niche are getting older and older...and more and more of that demographic sadly aren't around anymore. This won't attract nearly as many buyers, even from the crowd buying re-re's; the re-re-resurgence will ultimately wind down to the point of unprofitability. Tamiya, Associated, Kyosho and Schumacher all seemed to hit the market with re-re's with the right timing, on all newer models compared to the Yoke. I think this was little more than nostalgic vaporware from the first post.

Probably the demographic is people who were between 10 and 20 years old when the model was released so for the YZ-834B an age now between 43 and 53 and are just getting to that financially comfortable stage of life and maybe a minor mid life crisis , so most of us will still be living ... I hope for a while longer but the younger ones probably dream of slightly later cars from the later 1980s and early 1990s .

I'd probably disagree age-wise; I'm 51 and the Yokomo 834b was before my time and I was already about 19 when RC racing really started to get going, and I first got into it with building my bro's Marui Galaxy, my cousin's Hunter, and eventually my first car, The Frog. I think most kids under the age of 18 probably couldn't afford hobby-grade RC cars at that time. Just my 2 pesos. I'm thinking most guys who'd pine for a 834b re-re the most would probably be in their mid-50's and maybe even pushing 60.

I'm 49 and was racing from 13 or 14 years old so 1983-4 and the Dogfighter won the worlds in 1985 , not long before you started but legendary for me !