Product reviews ??????
Any time you have a product that is advertised in a magazine there is no way you will ever get a 100% COMPLETE, and truthfull review. The magazine and the person that did the review both rely on each other to make a living. To say or publish bad things would just be cutting each others throat. If you want an honest report the money has to be a non issue. Till then it won't happen. I can give you an example. I subscribed over the years to a gun enthusiast magazine called "GUN TESTS". IT has no advertising. Totally supported by the subscriptions to it. They will take 2 or 3 of generally the same model gun from different manufactures and compare most everything you can think of about them. Then tell it just the way it is. They have nothing to loose. And it can save the public thousands of $ by preventing them from purchasing inferior products. There are many times they tell of missing items, parts that fall off or simply just don't work straight out of the box. And they also offer unbiased opinions. If you get a chance to read an issue do so, even if your not a gun enthusiast. Just to see what it is the RC community needs. These reports are done by people that know what they are doing. If we read a report on the internet done by Joe Blow we have no idea of their capabilities of doing a proper job. Untill the advertising money factor is done away with you won't get what you want. The best thing you can do till then is simply don't purchase their magazine. Money talks, BS walks. And if money starts to get tight for these magazines they will either change their ways or go out of buisness!!!!!!