I bought one as well oh about 4 months ago.... I ran it inside my house for about 10 minutes ...threw the tracks a few times and then took it to our Tank Battle day and used it for what I intentionally bought it for.... a STATIC battle field display piece...[>:]
I shared it with other fellow tankers that day and then as soon as I got home I tossed the transmitter in the junk drawer, removed the batteries, cut the antenna off it and made it a permanent Static Battle Field Display Vehicle!
We usually have lots of half-tracks, tanks , jeeps, soldiers etc on our BattleField to add to the DIORAMA ...Makes Battles look so much cooler and the setting more busy.... Looks cool..