sense when is Losi... ???

[Suburban_Hooligan]

sense when is Losi sponsoring Monster Jam?
screen shoted his from a video shot at Anaheim 2 weeks ago. i thought traxxas had the exclusivity rights to Monster Jam?

 

[DavidB1126]

Probably because of the LMT and Mini LMT grave digger / son uva digger.

Those are official licensed bodies. Traxxas doesn't have a monster jam licence anymore I think. They have bigfoot though

 

[majin]

losi also has a new lmt coming out they've hinted at for the past few weeks

 

[Doom!]

Horizon has been dropping big money on advertising in Nascar too, so it doesn't surprise me.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

i know about LMT and LMT mini (might actually pick up a mini at some point) but i figured Losi just got the rights to put Digger bodies on the truck so it would sell. i didn't know the agreement (partnership ?) had anything to do with Losi advertising in Monster Jam. and last i had checked (it's been a while) traxxas had exclusivity rights to the series. so i was kinda shocked.

the "new" LMT is just going be the old LMT with new/different electronics. id bet money on it. maybe a couple durability upgrades at best. or some stupid driving aid gimmick.

i know wHorizon's been dumping money into NASCAR. that started long before they released the Losi NASCAR's.

 

[WickedFog]

losi also has a new lmt coming out they've hinted at for the past few weeks

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They're stupid if they don't do Dennis Anderson and Gravedigger's biggest rival. Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction.

 

[majin]

I'm trying to talk myself into getting a roller lmt off the bay and throwing a body on to tribute this madman

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

They're stupid if they don't do Dennis Anderson and Gravedigger's biggest rival. Tom Meents in Maximum Destruction.

Max D might not be a thing anymore. Tom retired i think last year and i think owned the truck.
i could see them doing Monster Mutt or El Toro Loco, maybe Blue Thunder sense it's been around so long. sense Feld Entertainment owns them and they're pretty basic bodies with some add ons. problem they're going to face is all the dumbass non truck 3D bodies they use nowadays can't easily/cheaply be made in lexan.

 

[WickedFog]

Max D might not be a thing anymore. Tom retired i think last year and i think owned the truck.
i could see them doing Monster Mutt or El Toro Loco, maybe Blue Thunder sense it's been around so long. sense Feld Entertainment owns them and they're pretty basic bodies with some add ons. problem they're going to face is all the dumbass non truck 3D bodies they use nowadays can't easily/cheaply be made in lexan.

That doesn't matter obviously. Dennis Anderson retired in 2017, and the LMT Diggers didn't come out til 2020.

Any long time fan of Monster Jam, from the beginning, would recognize the next logical truck would be the Max-D. But everyone has their favs. Those were both the most popular back then though, as it was either one or the other winning nearly every event. At least when Dennis and Tom were driving them.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

fun fact about the Grave Digger. Dennis doesn't own it anymore, he sold the rights back in 1999. Feld Entertainment owns it now.

I'm old school. i want trucks from the old TNT days. i want to hear Army Armstrong's voice in my head while I'm driving

 

[WickedFog]

fun fact about the Grave Digger. Dennis doesn't own it anymore, he sold the rights back in 1999. Feld Entertainment owns it now.

I'm old school. i want trucks from the old TNT days. i want to hear Army Armstrong's voice in my head while I'm driving

I watched the first televised race with Bigfoot and USA-1. I've been a fan ever since. They only went like 5mph over uncrushed cars, but they were so cool. It's crazy how they have changed over the years.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

overgrown show quality 4x4's crawling over cars to tube chassis race vehicles doing backflips. i think the only thing that hasn't changed is the size of the tires. (unless you count the 73's some trucks used back in the 80's)
i went to this show in 1987 (i was 4 years old)