The Taser Twin is a three fined Apogee II!!!

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I was at Walmart today, and I just could not force myself to grab a Taser Twin. The Apogee II was my first 2-stager as a kid, and I decided I'd really rather clone that rocket. I picked up the Ricochet, and thought about getting it, and realized I have LOTS of little rocket kits at home that may never get built, and although priced right, why bother?

The one reason I was tempted with either was the fact that nice decals are included -- at least I assume these kits decals are nice. I did buy a Crossbow when they first came out, and I will admit that the balsa parts are very well done, and the decals look first rate.

I hope these are not the only new products we see from Estes this year.

Edit:
(Just saw the earlier posts from Mike at Estes ... sounds promising for some new kits after all.)

Edit Again:
OK, this is crazy -- after thinking about it, I decided why not complete the set. Bought these two yesterday.

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Fair enough.....

Having lived through the bad old days of electric powered RC (say the early 1980s) where the turnkey packages - if you were lucky - barely flew and probably turned more folks off to electric power than onto it.

So my concern is that the MM on an A10-3T is likely gone in one flight - and that might be a reason to walk away - especially if all they're out is $10 for the MM set and $6 for the four-pack of the only motors from the nearby display that will physically fit. I'm again thinking about those won't have or won't know about an LHS to walk into to buy a pack of 1/2A3-2Ts for it. A impulse engines aren't even mentioned on or in the box for the Moon Mutt (at least the one I bought).

FWIW I have a Star Stryker in primer right now, and a Ricochet at my desk at work to be my next lunchtime/while the computer is chewing on something build. I also have a Taser Twin here at the house but it will sit until there are A impulse boosters available as I expect it'd be OOS on a B6-0 even with a 1/2A sustainer.

Mike,

First, welcome to YORF.

Second, thanks for the latest news from Penrose.

Third, if you will be attending NARAM-51, you had better bring some rockets to fly.


Bob

...to BEC...I just wanted to follow up with the MM motor choice...if you will note, the only engines recommended onthe package are the 1/4 and 1/2 A...no where do we say its fine to use the A10...for the very reasons you mentioned. In the original plan for WM, when we developed the 30 engine pack display for them, we put the 1/2A in the assortment so that there would be a corresponding motor to use. Unfortunately, WM chose to go back the the 12 pack and so motor selection is going to be limited to A's , B's and C's and the MM sales might suffer as a result. However, we won't know this for some time to come.
I only bring this up as I didn't want it beleived that we put a launch set on shelf without thinking about which motor would benefit the first time user....we did, WM changed the plan on us.
Mike

Mike,

Again, fair enough. The big gorilla messed up your Cunning Plan . I figured it was something like that. Perhaps a suggestion in the documentation (future printings) to point people to sources for 1/2A3-2Ts or a note on estesrockets.com about that?

As you know from fielding questions on RCG, one must never assume that folks are necessarily going to figure this stuff out on their own even though it's obvious to us here.

I'm planning to go to a lauch this weekend in a BIG field and I may try to fly the MM on an A just to see.....

Mike, Here is a picture of the Estes display I was asking about....

...wow...most impressive...where was this image taken?...I know I wasn't there. I have most of the rockets seen in this image, but others have been packed away. If this was a traveling display or some such, it was before I took over Estes brand management 2 plus years ago.
Mike

The Interceptor E and big D-Region Tomahawk are in these pics so it has to be fairly recent.

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This wouldn't have anything to do with Chinese lead issues would it...??