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Post by xredge on Sept 19, 2008 16:55:01 GMT -5
I was going that route, then heard about the SC8 so figured would wait to see how it was. Until recently I was all Nitro but with costs and things started rethinking it. Also the good news part is that AE is working on the e version. read it on another site bookmarked it but on my work desktop not my work laptop of course. But he talked to them at one the races but didn;t find out a whole lot just that they are working on it or a conversion.
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Post by -desertracer- on Sept 30, 2008 11:27:18 GMT -5
So was the Slayer a flop?? After the last 10 days and not a single post in this thread I think the answer is painfully apparent --- and will soon be, if not already, to the manufacturer.  |
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Post by Rob #28 on Sept 30, 2008 18:07:59 GMT -5
Doesn't help that everyone is waiting for the ae truck as well that wants to go nitro 4wd.
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Post by zman280 on Oct 1, 2008 23:44:22 GMT -5
I really think its demographics. The Slayer is selling up by where Bashfest was held, in Gladwin. No track either-
The Slash was pure Marketing Brilliance. Traxxas knew it. The Slayer was the nitro alternative, as people always want an option #2. building it on an existing platform kept costs from being with the SC8. It sells for what a Revo sells for.
I see nitro heading downhill with lipo/brushless being as popular as it is now. An E-Slayer???
only time will tell.
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Post by forktom on Oct 2, 2008 16:22:41 GMT -5
slash is cheaper. everytime i go to local hobby stores always someone new to the hobby is buying a slash.
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Post by -desertracer- on Oct 2, 2008 22:04:46 GMT -5
The Slash was pure Marketing Brilliance. Traxxas knew it. The Slayer was the nitro alternative, as people always want an option #2. Was that like coming up with the Pinto after the Boss 302? ;D |
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Post by matthiggins on Nov 15, 2008 7:33:49 GMT -5
You'll hear noobies say "nitro sucks," but nitro is still wildly more popular and the Slayer should do well in the long long. That said, I've been on a nitro-to-electric conversion kick lately. I think that's your best bet if you want an E-Slayer. The current E-Revo chassis is too long to work under one of Traxxas' current CORR bodies. Traxxas will have to design a whole new chassis to make an E-Slayer and there might be too much stuff to squeez into a shorter chassis.
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Post by dogsbody on Mar 6, 2009 17:09:34 GMT -5
I bought a Slash about 4 months ago and really liked it, so much so I went and bought a Slayer. I broke it in today and I am thrilled with it. I especially like the push rod suspension. I had been out of RC for quite a while and the current crop of spider-like truggies/trucks never appealed to me. The realism of the Slash and the the Slayer to their 1:1 counterparts is what got me back into it.
Forgot to mention, I paid $379 for the Slayer.
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Post by yoyoitsmario on Mar 12, 2009 15:33:26 GMT -5
i think its a cool truck one of my friends has one and loves it, he says its the most fun to drive out of all his nitros. but maybe its not selling because of the size, the bigger the badder the truck is. other than that it looks like it droped $100 since it came out.
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