there are 2 groups of people new to this Hobby
1. love tank, with little money
2. love tank, with money, but do not know what to buy.
all my advice to stop from HL is for second group. because I do not want you pay lot of money to learn it hardway.
to the first group, you just have wait until they have money. McDonald is junk food, everybody knows, but still lot of people buying. same thing here.

there are 2 groups of people in this hobby:
1. love anything with tracks, as long as it run fast, especially it can shoot, they are happy.
2. love the history about tank, care about the details, the running and accuracy.
all my advice to stop from HL is for second group. I know the defference. HL will not give the satisfaction. to the first group, they will crash it even you give a tamiya to them.

there are 2 groups of people in this hobby,
1. love sth blindly, they love HL because they just have HL and never even saw a tamiya one.
2. they love one thing with reason, after comparing, they will say I love tamiya over HL because tamiya one give all details and accuracy. or they say I love HL because it is cheap.
all my advice to stop from HL is fro second group. tamiya is expensive for a reason, they did the all research, they produce the models with fine details, they designed all electronics for light and sound effects. HL just copied tamiya mold. crap electronics. crap details, even the workiing suspension is wrong. to the first group, they will love tamiya blindly after they own a tamiya.

I know lot of more people will hate me