Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Takara Tomy Drift Light Package Nissan Skyline R34

When I first saw that a small remote control car capable of drifting would be available soon, I immediately thought it was worth checking out. Afterall, it is small, about 1:26 scale and costs less than RM 150.

So recently I bought the Takara Tomy (Takara merged/marry/combine with Tomy) Drift Light Package Nissan Skyline R34. Basically it is the small version of the Drift Package where the car is 1:10 and the budget and track required is much much bigger.

Bought mine from the same place as tkt, Litt Tak shop at Level 6 Sg. Wang.

The car I bought is the Yellow R34 Skyline. There is also red AE86, white with Carbon fibre bonnet RX-7 and blue Nissan 180zx. I would like a Subaru Imprezza, but the next best thing would be a skyline.
Aero drift package Light Nissan Skyline R34

In total it needs 5 AAA batteries; 3 for the car and 2 for the controller. I would prefer it uses 2 AAs since AAs are more common and an even number would make buying batteries easier, since batteries always come in even numbers.
Aero drift package Light batteries

The back of the box showing its key feature. Too bad its in Japanese and I got absolutely no clue what it being written
Aero drift package Light back boxart

The overall content of the box. There is a manual (100000% in Japanese but with informative pictures), an insert showing the other drift cars, decals for the car, the car body in a protective cardboard compartment, the chassis, the wheels and drivetrain package, the controller and other stuff. Oh, they give you 3 sets of wing mirrors just in case you drift too close to something or crash (where you will for the 1st time). I am impressed by the fact that the packaging is extremely neat and they use minimal plastic bags and cellophane tape to wrap the bags. Like 1 plastic bag can have 2 compartments to store 2 different items and still need 1 cellophane tap to wrap. And they wrap it extremely small too so save space in the box.
Aero drift package Light full contents
Aero drift package Light contents

The size of the drift light package compared to its bigger brother. As you can see it is wayy smaller than the big one (and waayyyyyyy smaller than the real thing)
Aero drift package Light Insert paper

If you have assembled a Tamiya 4wd car before, then you know what to kinda expect, simple snap into plastic pieces. However unlike a Tamiya car you will need a philip head screw driver to unscrew the plastic holding the batteries. Also you do need to make sure the contact points of the motors are proper since the first time I played the steering didn't work (motor contact points not properly touching).

Once you get it up and running it can really drift, and best of all, you dun really need a big room. I have seem ppl drifting on a conference table!

I have yet to place the stickers on the car, but the car body even without the decals it looks GOOD. The paintwork is better than my BT-19 (uneven blue) and BT-20 even.