The more you spend, the more you get saying is not very good. If a newbie gets an Xcell Fury Extreme 90 with a Futaba 9ZWC2 with 9252s all around and a 601 gyro with every carbon fiber upgrade known to man on board, then he's not going to get much more than a lighter wallet. I cases they wouldn't even want to start the engine, much less fly it if he spent that much on a "toy!" Well, not unless he had a rich uncle. That same newbie with a raptor 30 is going to learn MUCH faster if he only has to spend $29 a crash rather than $290 a crash.

Too bad Ace doesn't charge twice the amount for the EXACT same heli; it would be two times better. People do this all the time; I see it all the time. Take a $50 Sound Blaster PCI 16 VS a $25 Phillips 4.1 card. The Phillips blows the SB away but the SoundBlaster is twice as much. Guess which one most people buy. I think most people don't like the Raptor because it's afordable.