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Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 5:15:32 AM   
blitzkrieg65



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I went to make some videos at the park and got swarmed by kids, so I let them participate!






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qjkiz4kL8



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZ42Bykp34




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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 5:59:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		awesome videos! looks like a fun place to battle it out


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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 6:32:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very nice... big kids playing with little kids! They'll be hooked for life, and I know what they'll be asking Santa for this year... I hope their parents have a good pool table in the basement!

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 9:16:13 AM   
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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 2:48:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		looks like great fun, may have also generated interest for new RC tankers. "ginfire in the river" also added a nice touch. Nice to be able run the tanks and not be hung up running the camera too.

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 4:39:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good move on your part. Like others have said, it will introduce a whole new generation to RC tanking and RC tank battling. It seems a lot of this type of fun is lost on today's kids; that they have a much higher preference for video games...

What was the kids' general impression of the tanks? Did they have any trouble operating them?

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 5:00:26 PM   
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Good move on your part. Like others have said, it will introduce a whole new generation to RC tanking and RC tank battling. It seems a lot of this type of fun is lost on today's kids; that they have a much higher preference for video games...

What was the kids' general impression of the tanks? Did they have any trouble operating them?


Thanks guys for all the comments! Its kind of funny becuase I went to make a " serous video" showing how the road wheels looked rolling over my two wooden bridges and comparing the different tanks as they went by! It was kind of spure of the moment type thing so my Tiger had a dead battery my Panther doesn't like the sand and the kids broke one of my bridges! Hey becuase if your putting a bridge across a stream if must be for walking right! So I just rolled with it, I recruited the kids to stomped down the sand and make the little jetty so I could have a bridge and a half, and went from there! I was surprise the kids really liked it, some older teanages looked in but the ten year old range really wanted to play, there was four that took turns and they all picked up the radio faily fast! You know sometimes you hit the start button instead of fire, but I have done before myself with the Heng Longs!

Bill I set the camera up on a tri-pod and stayed by it but it worked out OK, I have few videos that were good, and then a kid ran right in front of it, but I will see what I can do once I start playing with (learning) some editing!

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 5:09:37 PM   
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It seems a lot of this type of fun is lost on today's kids; that they have a much higher preference for video games...


I think that stereotype is completely wrong. Yes a lot of kids play computer games, but the vast majority do other things as well. I had a friend at a local school who organized RC and rocketry clubs and they were always packed to the brim, even on miserable sunday mornings. Go into any largish town during the holidays and you'll find the streets full of kids. The parks are the same. They aren't all at home huddled around PCs. If anything, it's the young adults who get addicted to computer games :P

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 5:17:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Your videos are a lot of fun and the location looks like a great place to hold a battle day. Great job and still laughing over the stone age artillery fire.

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 6:29:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Glad that such enjoyable pastimes (afternoon hobbies, model building) are not as threatened in the UK. I may be out of touch now but it seemed that way the last time I was in the U.S. It's a Playstation/X-Box world...

Sorry to hear about the demise of your bridge, blitzkrieg65. If it had any kind of painstaking effort put into its construction, you certainly held your composure when it was crushed. Kind of funny the way you wrote about the kids' logical conclusion as to its purpose. A kid bridge!



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ORIGINAL: Panzerfaust77
I think that stereotype is completely wrong. Yes a lot of kids play computer games, but the vast majority do other things as well. I had a friend at a local school who organized RC and rocketry clubs and they were always packed to the brim, even on miserable sunday mornings. Go into any largish town during the holidays and you'll find the streets full of kids. The parks are the same. They aren't all at home huddled around PCs. If anything, it's the young adults who get addicted to computer games :P



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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/12/2008 10:54:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOL that was good like everybody else I did love the way the kids were having fun acting as incomming for the tanks looked pretty good if they had been smoke it would of looked pretty real as the splashes were poping up around the tanks.

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/13/2008 3:03:01 PM   
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Ya the bridges where just the road structure I wanted to get some grit and dirt imbeded in the wood before i painted them and it will be an easy fix to put the other back together, they just snapped it in half and did not crush! Now I can paint and put on the railing!

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You know the kids where totally into the special effects, and one of them thought of adding smoke also! He said we need a some of those smoke bombs! I might just have to come prepared next time......

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/14/2008 2:52:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		when I brought up my bridge idea, which I think I've figured out, one of the regular 40k gamers suggested, making scale trees and putting ir recivers in them with a pin release so that if they get hit the tree falls over.

As to my bridge idea, posted in another thread, my mom actually, suggested two four inch tall boards that pop up from each end when the bridge gets hit, so that there is no possible way to hurt a tank but you still couldn't use the bridge.

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RE: Fun at the Park - 5/14/2008 5:08:20 AM   
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when I brought up my bridge idea, which I think I've figured out, one of the regular 40k gamers suggested, making scale trees and putting ir recivers in them with a pin release so that if they get hit the tree falls over.

As to my bridge idea, posted in another thread, my mom actually, suggested two four inch tall boards that pop up from each end when the bridge gets hit, so that there is no possible way to hurt a tank but you still couldn't use the bridge.



Rudoc,

Very creative idea! You can take out a strategic bridge by IR hits, I like it! How about at least 3 hits to block the bridge? That way if the enemy sees you trying to take out the bridge, they have time to counter, a battle over the bridge! This hobby has so much room to grow, its great!
Thanks for sharing!

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