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look what i found, i think it's a grasshopper without any stickers and new wheels

You're right, very much a Grasshopper II. Even the blue line on the bonnet.
The one your showing has some yellow CVAs as a hop up...

Cool! It looks like a "hopped up" GH II.
As Edo says, yellow CVA's and even cool chrome rims and low profile tyres.

Kind of unfair to use the bullet-proof GH II in an advertisement for a glue, though...

-Lars

I guess this imitation is only further flattery of Tamiya's great toy designs.

I was in the supermarket the other week, and noticed a battery stand showing graphics of all the devices you could use the batteries with, and one was a drawing of a toy buggy that looked quite similar to a Hornet or something. You can only assume the 30-ish graphic designer was the perfect age to remember Tamiyas from his youth...

H.

post a pic if you can

Sorry, I didn't take one! The display is gone now. I should have thought it at the time...

No doubt it will happen again. Just like how, at Christmas time, you often see little toy buggies that are rip-offs of Tamiyas. A couple of years ago there was one being sold everywhere here in Australia for about $20, and it was even called "Grasshopper". It was a rip-off of the original Grasshopper.

It's been almost 30 years, and some Chinese companies still have so little imagination that they continue to rip-off ancient Tamiya ideas.

hmm, havn't seen the cheap buggy