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Originally posted by Jtskty
Does this mean their are only 6 people that come to these boards regularly? That's not near what it used to be.
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I think there are more, it's just that in the past year or so, several other forum sites have picked up, plus the market has been flooded..and when the market is flooded, sales slump, and product lines begin to shrink.
speaking of market being flooded, I have a feeling a lot of people got into the micro rc hobby "temporarily", i.e. short attention spans. For one reason or another, they got bored and left, while the rest of us keep on.
I'll admit to the occasional spurts of boredom where I will go for three or four years without messing around in the RC area (my first "real" RC cars were a Tamiya Hotshot and a first generation Team Associated RC10 buggy).
I do think this is temporary. I also think the 1/18th scale RCs starting to come out (starting with Team Lossi's offering) will increase interest in micro RC. Many people think they are just toys, in regards to quality. Once people see that the Mini-Ts and Mini-Zs are quality products, they might go further down to 1:43 and then 1:64.
My biggest problem with RC was space. When I was younger, I had the room to run a 1:10 car. I don't now, but I do have the room for 1:43-1:64, and so it's gotten me back into RC.
enough of my ramblings.