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Blitzer-Sonic

* Original
* Black SP

The **Blitzer-Sonic** (Japanese: ブリッツァーソニック, *Burittsu~ā Sonikku*) is an Aero Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in January 2000.

Although the car was first featured in the *Let's & Go! MAX*'s after-story diorama side story that was published on *CoroCoro Comic* after the manga's conclusion, it was later featured in the manga two-shots *My First Big Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* as Retsu Seiba's sixth machine, and was later replaced by the RodeoSonic.

## General info

The Blitzer-Sonic features the low-height, fully-cowled body design. Unlike the Lightning-Magnum, the Blitzer-Sonic ressembles its predecessor, with the exception of the new front cowls and the front suspension prop designs. It has the stripes-styled body decals, with the 'Retsu' (Japanese: 烈, *Retsu*) emblem on the front bonnet.

All variants were equipped with the small diameter 3-spoke VS-type wheels and X narrow-type slick tires.

### Blitzer-Sonic

The standard Blitzer-Sonic features the red body color with green and white highlights.

It was equipped with the yellow wheels and black wheels, and comes with the chassis frame and A parts molded in dark green. It doesn't comes with a standard motor.

### Black Special

The black-colored Black Special variant features the smoke black body color with red and white highlights.

It was equipped with the red wheels and black wheels. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black and clear respectively. It doesn't comes with a standard motor.

### Clear Red Special

The limited clear red special has the clear red bodyshell, white chassis frame and A parts. other than that, it is mostly the same as the standard model.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* series

The Blitzer-Sonic was developed as a successor to the Buster-Sonic. The car can now run ever faster thanks to its compact body and chassis, and its improved aerodynamic body allows it to have most of the downforces no matter what. According to the diorama story, it was first used in the 2nd world grand prix.

The car was later fitted with the MS Chassis during the test trial, but unlike Go's Lightning-Magnum, its body was able to handle the performance of the new chassis as the car was equipped with reinforced parts. During the accident where Go falls into the bottom of valley in an argument​ with his brother Retsu, the bodyshell of the Blitzer-Sonic was damaged. During the time when Go is missing, Retsu has the reinforced parts removed after remembered that Carlo told him that 'he had modified the car cowardly'. Following this, Retsu modified his car into the RodeoSonic.

In *Return Racers!*, the Blitzer-Sonic, along with other Sonics, appears in a dream of teenage Retsu who is having problem with creating a new Sonic. The Blitzer-Sonic shown in this scene was equipped with the VZ Chassis.

## See also

* Sonic Saber
* Vanguard Sonic
* Hurricane Sonic
* Buster-Sonic
* RodeoSonic
* Great BlastSonic
* Cosmosonic

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Blitzer-Sonic at Tamiya Japan
* Blitzer-Sonic Black Special at Tamiya Japan
Gouki Ichimonji

**Gouki Ichimonji** (Japanese: 一文字 豪樹, *Ichimonji Gōki*) is one of the two protagonists in *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*.

## Biography

Gouki and Retsuya are brothers, students and battle racers at the Borzoi School until Gouki quits due to the brothers' conflicting ideals between him and the academy itself. He aims to become a true Mini 4WD racer to clear his reputation. He is currently living in the GEN Manufacturing workshop with his uncle as the managing director. Despite his rustic behavior, he has a good heart and values the spirit of Mini 4WD racing. He is also shown to be good on mechanics, but terrible at remembering names such as Marina's.

## Synopsis

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## Other appearance

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Gouki, along with his Max Breaker (and later, his Blazing-Max), were added in the game following the August 25, 2021 update as part of the time-limited "Gouki Ichimonji Appears!" recreation event, before being added in Map 9 following the September 1, 2021 update.

## Mini 4WD cars

* Max Breaker Z-2
* Blazing-Max

## Trivia

* In retrospect with the previous protagonist, Gouki's name shares Go's kanji letter.
Large Diameter Lightweight Wheel Set

The **Large Diameter Lightweight Wheel Set** (Japanese: 大径ライトウェイトホイール, *Daikei Raito u~eito Hoīru*) is a Mini 4WD Grade-Up Parts released by Tamiya since 1990.

## General

The lightweight wheels, as its name implies, is the wheel set that weighted less than the normal 6-spoke wheels. Its lightweightness does come at the cost of wheel structure rigidity though, as the wheel spokes only provides the minimal support to the rim.

It was initially made available in light gray color, before the fluorescent yellow and white color options were released later on.

Due to narrower offsets, it is not compatible with the MS Chassis and MA Chassis.

Some Mini 4WD kits, notably the Super Mini 4WD cars, comes with the lightweight wheel set as standard.
Buster-Sonic

* Original
* Premium

The **Buster-Sonic** (Japanese: バスターソニック, *Basutā Sonikku*) is a Fully Cowled Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in December 1997.

It was featured in the manga and anime *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP* as Retsu Seiba's 5th machine, succeeding his Hurricane Sonic.

## General info

The bodyshell design of the Buster-Sonic is similar to that of the Beat-Magnum, but with curve-edge cowls and the gold-colored absorber props being placed on the front.

It has the very same color scheme as its predecessors, with the racing white body color (pure white on Premium variant) with the same smooth stripes body decals that has red and green highlights. on the front bonnet, instead of having 'Retsu' emblem, in its place is the mark of a yellow-color phoenix with the word 'Buster-Sonic' overlayed on it.

All variants were equipped with the fluorescent yellow (yellow on Premium variant), large diameter 5-spoke TZ-type wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts for the standard variant were molded in black, while on the Premium variant they were molded in metallic gray and red respectively. Only the Premium variant comes with a standard motor.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* series

In the manga, shortly after Retsu's Hurricane Sonic lose to Go's Beat-Magnum in a race, Retsu has the Hurricane Sonic equipped with the Super Beat Chassis he got from Dr.Tsuchiya. While being equipped with the new chassis makes the Hurricane Sonic performs better, its cornering is not what Retsu wanted. After getting the idea from the air turn Jun makes while riding her mountain bike, Retsu modified the car by moving the suspensions to the front, thus the Buster-Sonic was born.

In the anime, Retsu, who has recovered from injury, developed the Buster-Sonic that was based on Go's Beat-Magnum.

The Buster-Sonic has the unique aerodynamic design; On the straight road, it only generates the moderate amount of downforce, but in cornering, it generates much more downforce, which in turns pushing down the front of the car and its unique front suspensions, shorten the car's wheelbase to achieve better cornering performance. The Buster-Sonic can initiate the 'Buster Turn ('Buster Phoenix Turn' in the manga)' technique by using the recoils causes by the front suspensions to make a quick turns.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the Buster-Sonic.Boxart of the Premium variant.
### Images

The Sonic Mini 4WD cars.Buster-Sonic Premium, with Beat-Magnum Premium and Z Wing Magnum.
## Trivia

* Despite being look like the same wheels, the wheels comes with Buster-Sonic Premium has newer mold that has some minor design change. Beat-Magnum Premium also use this new wheel mold as well.

## See also

* Sonic Saber
* Vanguard Sonic
* Hurricane Sonic
* Blitzer-Sonic
* RodeoSonic
* Great BlastSonic
* Cosmosonic

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Buster-Sonic at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
* Buster-Sonic Premium at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Buster-Sonic Premium at Tamiya America
Daihatsu Kopen XMZ

**Daihatsu Kopen (Future Included) XMZ** (Japanese: ダイハツ コペン XMZ, *Daihatsu Kopen Ekkusuemuzetto*), also known as **Daihatsu Copen XMZ**, is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on March 1, 2014. It was the standalone, regular version of the Tokyo Motorshow-exclusive Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and XMZ set and was released alongside the standalone Daihatsu Kopen RMZ.

It was based on the Concept K car of the same name by Daihatsu.

It was featured in the manga *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* as Akira Omaezaki's machine.

## General info

The Daihatsu Kopen XMZ shares a similar headlight and overall convertible body design with the RMZ, with the difference being the additional dark gray body parts that are not present with the RMZ and coming packaged with the Super-II Chassis instead of VS Chassis.

Unlike the limited set, the standalone XMZ has the Matador red bodyshell.

The XMZ also comes equipped with the metalic gray small-diameter 5-spoke Saber-type low-profile wheels, paired with the black low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## About the Daihatsu Kopen XMZ

The Daihatsu Kopen XMZ concept car, alongside with its sister-car RMZ, were unveiled during the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show.

Its mass-production model, the Daihatsu Copen XPlay, went into production on November 2014.

## In media

### *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*

   In *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*, Akira Omaezaki brought the minicar during his visit to Sumeragi's model shop.

He later assembled it and wanted to challenge Shinkuro with it, but was quickly shot down by both Tankuro and Punkuro.

## Trivia

* In the beginning of the PHASE 1 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*, Akira Omaezaki was first seen driving the second-hand 2002 Daihatsu Copen convertible until it was crashed onto the electric cable pole while trying to avoid a cat on the road. (The cat was jump onto his face while avoiding Yonkuro's Emperor)

## See also

* Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and XMZ
* Daihatsu Kopen RMZ

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and XMZ at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Daihatsu Kopen XMZ at Tamiya America
Carcharodon (Megalodon)

Metabolic Rate
 Stages
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## General Background

Their are a Species of a Genus called Carcharodon,the same Genus with the smaller and less stocky Great White Shark.This Species was the top predator of the Miocene and among the top predators in the Pliocene.They grew up to 59 feet long and weighed a staggering 65 tons.These sharks have effected the oceans on evolutionary level.Dolphins live in groups because it was the only way to survive a Megalodon attack.Great White Sharks stay close to the shoreline because back then if they went out to open sea they would get eaten by Megalodons.Megalodons' in the Miocene had one predator,each other.The Pliocene was different though,Their predators then were each other of course but also Livyatan.This and the change of climate and of prey leaving the warm seas may have lead to Megalodon's demise.
Mini 4WD Panda Racer

The **Mini 4WD Panda Racer** (Japanese: ミニ四駆パンダ, *Mini Yonku Panda*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on March 21, 2015.

It was the 3rd Mini 4WD car in the 'Animal Mini 4WD' sub-series.

It was featured in *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers* as Kitaro Kiba's machine.

## General info

The Panda Racer featuring the racing buggy body design, with a opened canopy that has two rollbars around it. It has a 'Tamiya' decal on the spoiler, the Tamiya logo decals on the sides of the side cowls, a 'Super-II Chassis' decal on the front, the 'Mini 4WD Panda Racer' decals on the side canopy and the Panda Racer logo decals on all around the bodyshell. As it was the 3rd car in the 'Animal Mini 4WD' sub-series, it has the car number 3 on it.

Inside the rollbar canopy is a pre-painted, cute panda driver figurine that was attached to the battery clip. The bodyshell was mainly in orange, with white and red stripes and black spoiler.

It was equipped with the white, large diameter 6-spoke teardrop-type wheels paired with the cyan Avante-type slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in German gray and orange respectively.

## In media

### *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*

Kitaro Kiba, the older brother to Kotaro and coach of the Team Pegasus, owns a Panda Racer.

Kitaro's Panda Racer has been tuned extensively and is a par above the Team Pegasus member's machines in terms of performance. It also turns out that his Panda Racer had one major trick under sleeve: He had modified the panda driver figurine (Which is originally a static figurine) into a small, size-shifting robot, which he use to cheat his way in a race against the team member by catching Maruo's Rowdy Bull and stopped the other cars right at the finish line, much to Tsubasa and co.'s chagrin.

## See also

* Mini 4WD Panda Racer GT
* Mini 4WD Panda Racer 2

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Panda Racer at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Panda Racer (Finished model) at Tamiya japan

### Tamiya Online Shop

* Mini 4WD Panda Racer at Tamiya Online Store (Japanese)
Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers

***Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*** (Japanese: レッツ＆ゴー!! 翼 ネクストレーサーズ伝, *Rettsu Endo Gō!! Tsubasa: Nekusuto Rēsāzu-den*) is a manga created by Tetsuhiro Koshita and published on Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Ichiban!* magazine, running between August 21, 2017 to January 21, 2021. It was the side-story to *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!**.*

## Overview

The new series follows the story of Tsubasa and the new character Shun.

## List of chapters

> *Main article: Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers/List of chapters*
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## List of Mini 4WD cars

* Z Wing Magnum (Tsubasa's machine)
* Avante Jr. (Built by Shun Daichi, flashback)
* Customized Magnum Saber (Machine of random kids)
* Super Avante RS (Shun Daichi's machine)
* Rowdy Bull (Maruo Usami's machine)
* Wolfang (Kotaro Kiba's machine)
* Mini 4WD Panda Racer (Kitaro Kiba's machine)
* Dark Armour G (Takashi 'God Eye' Saiki's machine, VR world)
* Aero Avante Black Special (BA Team's machines)
* Brocken Gigant Premium (G Muscles's machines)
* Gun Bluster XTO Premium (Team Gun Bluster's machines)
* Light Armour G (Takashi 'God Eye' Saiki's machine, real life)
* Great Magnum R (Tsubasa's machine, entrusted by Go Seiba)
* Infinity Mobius (Aoking's machine)
* Baron Viento / Baron Viento Japan Cup 2019 Limited (Phantom Thief Baron's machine)
* Geo Glider (Yuzuo's machine)
* Razorback (Kazuyo's machine)
* Hexagonite (Mizuki's machine)
* Mach Frame (Saruhiko's machine)
* Copperfang (Daiki's machine)
* Lord Guile (Baron the 2nd's machine)
* Manta Ray Mk.II White Special (Reina's machine)
* Brocken Gigant Black Premium (Team Black Brocken G's machines)
* Cosmosonic (Shun Daichi's machine, entrusted by Retsu Seiba)
* Neo-VQS (Tomy's machine)

## Gallery

### Volumes

Volume 2 (Released on November 28, 2018)Volume 3 (Released on July 26, 2019)Volume 4 (Released on May 28, 2020)Volume 5 (Released on March 26, 2021)
## See also

* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!*
Lord Knight

The **Lord Knight** (Japanese: ロードナイト, *Rōdo Naito*) is an Laser Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on July 30, 2022.

It was featured in the manga *Mini4King* as Grease Mackenzie's machine.

## General info

The Lord Knight features the same sleek, open-wheel body as the Lord Spirit, with differences being having the body color and having the different roof on the cockpit part. On the top of the cockpit is an mohawk-esque air intake running back from it.

By default, the Lord Knight was equipped with four 2mm height rollers, an rear hi-mount roller stay and a front underguard. While the 2mm height rollers and the hi-mount roller stay provides similar effects to the ones on Jadow A, the front underguard not only provide a slight tensile strength improvement to the front bumper, but also provides the frontal brake on slopes.

### Standard variant

The standard model has the blue body color with yellow stripes.

It was equipped with the white, all-new 3-spoke Laser Dish wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black, and the Laser parts were molded in clear yellow.

### Full Laser

The *CoroCoro Comic*-limited variant has the bodyshell molded in the same color as the Laser parts. It was produced at the limited quantity of 500 units.

## In media

### *Mini4King*

Like Mota's Lord Spirit, the Lord Knight is presumably a mass-produced kit. Grease later has the Lord Knight equipped with the Laser Parts, after he figured out that he can calculate his out with with the parts.

Whereas Lord Spirit's specialty is straight speed, Lord Knight's specialty is cornering. Its Laser Parts, particularly the rear hi-mount roller stay, absorbs the centrifugal force when cornering, and release them through the stay results in massive acceleration at the curves, eliminating speed loss. By accumulating enough energy and release them at once, Lord Knight can perform the "Star Road" (Japanese: 流星光路スタァロード, *Sutaa Rōdo, lit. Meteor Optical Path*) driving technique. During the training session against the supercomputer and the virtual replica of his car, Grease learned the "Dark Star" (Japanese: 暗黒流星ダークスタア, *Dāku Sutaa, lit. Darkness Meteor*) driving technique by eliminating the roller rotational loss of his car.
Mini 4WD Shining Scorpion Let's & Go!

**Mini 4WD Shining Scorpion Let's & Go!** (Japanese: ミニ四駆シャイニングスコーピオン レッツ&ゴー!!, *{{{2}}}*) is a Mini 4WD video game developed by ASCII, released for the Super Nintendo console. The story is based around the first story arc in Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!.

## Trivia

* Pre-orderers of the game will receive a Shining Scorpion gold-plated body.
* The Limited version includes a Shining Scorpion white-pearl body.
Mini 4WD LINE Friends Brown Racer

The **Mini 4WD LINE Friends Brown Racer** is an upcoming limited edition Mini 4WD REV car to be released by Tamiya in September 2023, exclusively in South Korea.

Based on the K4 Gambol, it features the character Brown from the LINE messenger app.

## General info

The Brown Racer features the clear light blue bodyshell, with the LINE-inspired, pop-styled body decals. Also included is a small driver figurine of the character Brown.

It was equipped with the black, small diameter fin-type low-profile wheels paired with the fluorescent pink low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in fluorescent pink and white respectively. It comes with a special labeled Torque-Tuned 2 Motor.

## About LINE and the character Brown

The LINE messenger app was launched in Japan by NHN Japan (Which later became LINE Corporation and later LY Corporation) on June 23, 2011, few months after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. By February 2015, LINE had 600 million users.

The character Brown, who had been featured since the app's launch, is a brown bear who is silent but has a warm heart.

## External links

### Tamiya Korea

* Mini 4WD LINE Friends Brown Racer at Tamiya Plamodel Factory Korea (Korean)
Japan Cup Junior Circuit Slope Section Set

* Green
* Red

The **Japan Cup Junior Circuit Slope Section Set** (Japanese: ジャパンカップ ジュニアサーキット スロープセクション, *Japan Kappu Junia Sākitto Surōpu Sekushon*) is a expansion set for the Japan Cup Junior Circuit released by Tamiya in the 80's.

## General info

As its name implies, it is a expansion set that allows user to creates the slope section(s) of the circuit when combined with the 3-lane oval circuit set.

It contains two slope parts that can be combined to create one slope section. The slope parts can also be used to create uphill or downhill sections.

## External link

#### Tamiya Japan

* Japan Cup Junior Circuit Slope Section Set (Red) on Tamiya official website (Japanese)

#### Tamiya America

* Japan Cup Junior Circuit Slope Section Set (Red) on Tamiya America official website
Jin Endoh

**Jin Endoh** (Japanese: 炎堂 刃, *Endō Jin*) is the character in the manga series *Mini4King*.

## Biography

Jin is one of the members of the Mini 4WD race organization, the Yonkudom.

Back when as a child, he always look up to become a hero after he watch a hero show on the television.

As he grows up, however, he suffer a devastating defeat in a form of losing a Mini 4WD race against the Yonkdom members. He swear that one day, he will beat them, but to his surprise, however, Yonkdom Tokyo leader King gave him the Jadow Ace, telling him to try to become the fastest with it. Soon after that, he become a member of Yonkdom.

## Synopsis

Jin, along with his fellow member Giato, is participating into the Atami Mini 4WD Festival. Having previously heard from Giato, Jin sees Mota as his rival. During the time where every other participants were disappointed at the announcement of a qualifier race at the Atami Mini 4WD Festival, Jin walks upstage and proclaims that everyone here are Jadow Ace's preys.

At the start of the qualifier race, both Jin and Giato's cars were intentional running at the very last positions. Jin later has his Jadow Ace perform the "Ultra Red" driving and smashes away any cars that gets in its ways, and subsequently causing both Mota and Grease's cars to run at the last positions. Having reminded himself of how he became a member of Yonkdom, he decided to have his car perform the "Red Burst" driving and overtook other cars with its explosive acceleration, taking the first position in the qualifier race.

During the final, he has his Jadow Ace to force its way through the section filed with sands with the use of his car's explosive acceleration. In the end, Jin finished in the 5th place.

During the time when Neiji and Yonrin was racing against Giato and Rola in a relay race taking inside the Yamanokesen train, Jin meet up with Mota and Grease who got separated from the rest of the Lord team. Jin gave the two a piece of the coin, and tells them that he can't race anymore...

## Other appearance

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Jin Endoh, along with his Jadow Ace, were added in the game on May 22, 2022. He was originally part of the time-limited world event, before he was added and can be fought in Map 4 following the June 1, 2022 update.

## Trivia

* Jin's name, in Japanese, means Flame Shrine Blade.
Mini 4WD Kumamon Version

The **Mini 4WD Kumamon Version** (Japanese: ミニ四駆・くまモン バージョン, *Mini Yonku Kumamon Bājon*) is a Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on August 13, 2014. Like Mini 4WD Shirokumakko and Mini 4WD Panda, the normal driver figurine is replaced by the driver figurine of Kumamon, the mascot character of Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.

Originally a limited model, it become a regular Mini 4WD car release due to popular demand. It was the first Mini 4WD car in the 'Animal Mini 4WD' sub-series.

## General Info

The body is based on the Astute Open Top but with normal driver figurine being switched out for the pre-painted, Kumamon driver figurine that is attached to the battery clip. The bodyshell is molded in black with several Kumamon-based decals on it.

It is equipped with rhe red-color, small-diameter 3-spoke Fully Cowled-type wheels paired with the black high-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## Trivia

* The Mini 4WD Kumamon version is the first limited-edition Mini 4WD car to become a mass production Mini 4WD release due to popular demand.
* In addition to the Mini 4WD Kumamon Version, Tamiya also released the R/C Buggy Kumamon Version and the R/C Tractor Kumamon Version, based on the same company's Sand Rover 2WD R/C buggy and Tumbling Bull 2WD R/C tractor respectively.

## See also

### Related

* Kumamon Mini 4WD - Supporting Kumamoto
* Mini 4WD Kumamon Version GT

## External links

#### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Kumamon Version at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)
* Mini 4WD Kumamon Version (Finished Model) at Tamiya Japan

#### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Kumamon Version at Tamiya America
Little White Dragon

## In Fictional Media

### **Owner**

Hakurou Oohinata

The **Little White Dragon** (Japanese: 小白龍シャオパイロン, *Shaopairon*) is a fictional Mini 4WD car that appear in the poster manga *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden*.

It was made and owns by Hakurou Oohinata in the series. It was replaced by the Shao Bai Ron.

## General info

The Little White Dragon features the curve, open-wheel body design, with a large canopy and two rear fins. Air intakes can be found on the right side of the front nose and on the side cowls.

Its bodyshell was mainly in white.

## In media

### *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden*

The Little White Dragon was Hakurou's own customize machine. As revealed by Baron Ghost, the machine has the clear PET bodyshell and the super lightweight (but fragile) chassis.

At the time when Jingi and Ryou meet him in the local hobby shop, Hakurou was still adjusting the machine, thus reject Jingi's challenge. This action leave Ryou furious and use her Poseidon-X to show him how fast their machines are.

Unfortunately, Ryou accidentally placed her car in the opposite direction of the race course, resulting in the head-to-head collision with Hakurou's car which shatters the white car to pieces. Just then, Baron Ghost shows up, revealing that he and Hakurou will have the race the next day as well as the machine's true nature. Seeing this, Jingi lend his Liberty Emperor and use it as a base for Hakurou's new machine: the Shao Bai Ron.
Clod Buster Jr.

The **Clod Buster Junior** (Japanese: クラッドバスター Jr.ジュニア, *Kuraddo Basutā Junia}*) is a Wild Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on September 27, 1988.

It was based on Tamiya 1/10 RC monster truck Clod Buster, which in turns based on the 2nd generation Chevrolet K5 Blazer pickup truck.

A modified Clod Buster Jr., named the **Moby-Dick** (Japanese: 白鯨モビーディック, *Mobī Dikku*), was featured in the manga *Dash! Yonkuro* as Musashi's machine.

## General info

The Clod Buster features the 4x4 pickup body design, with the rectangle-shaped, mesh-styled grills with headlamps on the front and the rectangle-shaped signal lamps on the rear. There's a large, silver-colored bumper on the front and a supercharger-like air intake on the bonnet. Behind the cab are the roll bars, with 5 headlamps on top of them. It was mainly in red, with black and yellow stripes on it.

It was equipped with the standard wild-type wheels with monster truck tires.

## About the 1/10 scale monster truck Clod Buster

Released on September 21, 1987, the Clod Buster is a 1/10 scaled R/C monster truck released by Tamiya.

The chassis, dubbed the Clod, featuring the bathtub chassis frame and is supported by the front and rear solid axle suspensions linked with trailing arms and has 2 pairs of friction-type dampers on both front and rear. Each solid axles has their own gearboxes and 540-size motors, and has four-wheel-steering mechanism through rod linkages.

The chassis would be later re-used for the Bullhead R/C truck and later its successor, the Super Clod Buster.

## In media

### *Dash! Yonkuro*

In the manga, Musashi owns the white-colored Clod Buster named the Moby-Dick.

Musashi and his gang challenge the Dash Warriors as he thought that the Racing Mini 4WD cars has no place for the Mini 4WD racing because those cars had stripped off the ability to run on off-road tracks to become the circuit machines. This led to the race in which his gang race against Yonkuro's Dash-1 Emperor and Genta's Dash-W1 Wild Saurus in the sewer.

During the race, Musashi revealed that he had modified his car to include another sets of gears to the other side of the chassis, eliminates the need to the driveshafts between the left and right wheels, doing so to making the car running better on even the harsher terrains.

## See also

* Chevrolet Pickup 4x4
* Sunny-Shuttle

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Clod Buster Jr. at Tamiya Japan
Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!

***Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!*** (Japanese: 爆走兄弟レッツ＆ゴー!!, *Bakusō Kyōdai Rettsu Endo Gō!!*) is a manga series created by Tetsuhiro Koshita and published in Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* from June 15, 1994 to August 1996. It is the first series (before the WGP arc and *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*) in the *Let's & Go!* series.

A TV anime adaptation, produced by XEBEC, was aired on TV Tokyo from January 8, 1996 to December 23, 1996.

## Overview

The first series follows the Seiba brothers, Go and Retsu, as they begin their racing careers and compete against racers from around their hometown of Tokyo and later all of Japan. Along the way they face many different challenges from racers who use battle techniques to destroy other cars in order to win.

## List of Mini 4WD cars

* Manta Ray Jr. (Go Seiba and Jun Sagami's machines)
* Super Astute Jr. (Retsu Seiba's machine)
* Magnum Saber (Go Seiba's machine)
* Sonic Saber (Retsu Seiba's machine)
* Avante 2001 Jr. (Makoto Kohiro's machine)
* Black Saber (Futoshi Kurosawa's machine)
* Tridagger X (Ryo Takaba's machine)
* Spin-Axe (Tokichi Mikuni's machine)
* Shining Scorpion (Mini 4WD Fighter's machine, anime-only)
* Wild Home Run (Jun Sagami's machine, anime-only)
* Proto-Saber JB (J's machine)
* Super Avante (Dr. Tsuchiya's machine)
* Victory Magnum (Go Seiba's machine)
* Vanguard Sonic (Retsu Seiba's machine)
* Fighter Magnum VFX (Mini 4WD Fighter's machine, manga-only)
* Saber 600 series (Numerous racers, anime-only)
* Beak Spider (Kai Okita's machine)
* Neo-Tridagger ZMC (Ryo Takaba's machine)
* Flower-Axe (Chiiko Mikuni's machine, anime-only)
* Spin Cobra (Tokichi Mikuni's machine)
* Brocken Gigant (Gen Kondou's machine)
* Ray Stinger (Rei Hijikata's machine)
* Cyclone Magnum (Go Seiba's machine)
* Proto-Saber Evolution (J's machine, anime-only)
* Dragon Delta (R's machine, anime-only)
* Hurricane Sonic (Retsu Seiba's machine, anime-only)

## Gallery

### Promotional

Anime series poster.Poster art for all 3 series
## See also

* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!*
* *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*
Flame Astute

* Original
* Red Metallic

The **Flame Astute** (Japanese: フレイムアスチュート, *Fureimu Asuchūto*) is a Mini 4WD REV car that was released on March 8, 2014.

It was based on the classic Astute Mini 4WD cars.

## General info

The Flame Astute features a open-wheel, long-nosed, short rear body design that was inspired by the IndyCars (a type of open-wheel racing car) in the US, specifically the Dallara DW12 used from 2012 until 2018, when the car's design were changed to remove the rear wheel covers.

Both the original model and the Red Metallic variant features the classic Astute color scheme, with red body color, dark turquoise canopy, blue highlight and white trims. The Red Metallic variant features the semi-gloss red plated bodyshell.

Both were equipped with the small diameter low-profile 5-spoke Saber-type wheels paired with the black low-profile slick tires; The wheels were molded in black on the original model, while they were coated in semi-gloss red plated finish on the Red Metallic model. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the Flame Astute.Boxart of the Red Metallic (with Carbon Wheels) variant.
## See also

* Astute Jr.
* Super Astute Jr.
* Astute Open Top

## External links

#### Tamiya Japan

* Flame Astute on Tamiya Japan
* Flame Astute Red Metallic (with Carbon Wheels) on Tamiya Japan (Japanese)

#### Tamiya America

* Flame Astute on Tamiya America
* Flame Astute Red Metallic on Tamiya America
Grasshopper II Jr.

**The Grasshopper II Junior** (Japanese: グラスホッパーII Jr., *Gurasuhoppā Tsū Junia*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on March 30, 1989.

It was based on the 1/10 scale Grasshopper II R/C buggy by the company.

## General info

The Grasshopper II featuring the white, undersized R/C buggy bodyshell, with the partially-exposed canopy with driver figurine in it. The damper props were placed near the wheels. It has a 'I'm hopping mad' decal on the rear spoiler, the 'Grasshopper' on the side cowls, a 'Team Hopper' decal on the front nose, as well as a 'Works' decal on the roof. It has the car number 56.

It was mainly in white, with red highlights and blue trims.

It was equipped with the white large-diameter 6-spoke Teardrop-type wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. The chassis was molded in gray.

### Special versions

As of 2016, there are two special versions of the Grasshopper II: the Champion's Gold and the Pearl Special.

The Champion's Gold version, which was released in 1992, has the gold-plated bodyshell, neon-yellow wheels and blue tires.

The Pearl Special, which was released in 1995, has the pearl bodyshell and red wheels.

## About the Grasshopper II 1/10 R/C buggy

Released in 1988, the Grasshopper II is a rear-wheel-drive R/C buggy released by Tamiya. It is the third model in the Grasshopper line of R/C buggies.

The Grasshopper II improved upon the chassis from the Hornet; Both the body and the battery holder were hold in place by snap pins, the tires were changed to the front 4-groove tires and the rear spike tires. The Grasshopper II was powered by a Mabuchi-made 340 motor.

It was later re-released on April 22, 2017, with the minor modifications (such as replacing the MSC with the ESC) to keep it up-to-date.

The bodyshell of the Grasshopper II was later reused for the Mad Bull.

## Trivia

* Much like its R/C counterpart, the bodyshell of the Grasshopper II Jr. was later reused for the Mad Bull Jr. with minor modification.
* The Grasshopper II Jr. is the base car for the New Year's Limited Edition "Year of the Rabbit 1999".

## See also

* Hornet Jr.
* Falcon Jr.
* Mad Bull Jr.

## External link

### Tamiya America

* The Grasshopper II Jr. at Tamiya America
Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape

* 10mm
* 20mm

The **Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape** (Japanese: ミニ四駆マルチテープ, *Mini Yonku Maruchi Tēpu*) is a series of Mini 4WD Grade-Up Parts released by Tamiya since July 6, 2013.

## General info

As their name implies, they are the tapes for multipurpose-uses. They can be used for the following

* Secure the parts of a Mini 4WD firmly. (Usually the batteries)
* Stick them onto the front bumper, rear roller stay or the brake sponge to adjust braking power.
* Protects parts like the stabilizers from scratching and friction wears.
* Masking part of a Mini 4WD bodyshell for painting.
* Decorates a Mini 4WD car.

They were made from the semi-transparent Washi paper and as such, they usually only leaves little to no adhesive residue after removal. They are available in 10mm width and 20mm width forms.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Blue) at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Black) at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Red) at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Black reissue) at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Orange) at Tamiya Japan
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (20mm Red) at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Blue) at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Black) at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Red) at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Black reissue) at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (10mm Orange) at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Multipurpose Tape (20mm Red) at Tamiya America
Go Seiba

* OG Manga
* WGP Manga

**Go Seiba** (Japanese: 星馬 豪, *Gō Seiba*) is one of the two protagonists in the *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* series.

## Biography

Go is Retsu's younger brother by one year, and in the fourth grade. He is initially depicted as Retsu's opposite, being rash, impulsive, careless, and impatient, but on some occasions, he can be calm, kind and gentle. Go is portrayed by his blue-colored theme on his hair, eyes, gloves, boots and the coloring of his vehicles, while wearing his trademark goggles. His cars, the Magnum series, are all known for their speed.

In *Return Racers*, Go is now a professional racing driver. In his private life, he drives a BMW Mini convertible. He met a boy named Tsubasa, who became his protégé at his will as Tsubasa intends to follow Go's legacy as a Mini 4WD racer.

## Synopsis

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## Other appearance

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Since the game's launch, Go, along with his Magnum cars, can be fought in various World Maps.

Note that his appearance and the car he use varies depending on which stage the player race against him.

## Mini 4WD cars

* Manta Ray Jr.
* Magnum Saber
* Victory Magnum
* Cyclone Magnum
* Beat-Magnum
* Lightning-Magnum (MAX manga)
* BisonMagnum (My First Big SPECIAL)
* Great Magnum R (Return Racers!!)

## Trivia

* Go's name is based on the Japanese homonym of the English word "Go (ゴー, *Gō*)" .
CoroCoro Aniki

***CoroCoro Aniki*** (Japanese: コロコロアニキ, *Korokoro Aniki*) is a Japanese manga magazine created by Shogakukan as a sister magazine to *CoroCoro Comic* magazine. It was published quarterly. (Formerly published on random dates.)

## About the magazine

Unlike other *CoroCoro* magazines, *Aniki* targets at readers who are about 30 to 40 years-old that are the readers of *CoroCoro Comic* magazine. As such, many series serializes on this magazine were either spin-offs or sequels to the series serialized on *CoroCoro Comic*. (there are few exceptions though)

Starting after the Spring 2021 issue (Published on March 15, 2021), the publications of magazine in physical book form would be discontinued, and future publications of the manga series serializing on the magazine would be moved to the *CoroCoro Online* site from then on.

Two Mini 4WD-focused manga, *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!* and *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*, were serializes on this magazine.

## Gallery

### Front covers

Vol.1 (October 15, 2014)Vol.2 (March 14, 2015)Vol.3 (July 15, 2015)Vol.4 (November 14, 2015)Vol.5 (March 15, 2016)Vol.6 (July 15, 2016)Vol.7 (November 15, 2016)Vol.8 (March 15, 2017)Vol.9 (June 15, 2017)Vol.10 (September 15, 2017)2018 Winter (December 15, 2017)2018 Spring (March 15, 2018)2018 Summer (June 15, 2018)2018 Autumn (September 15, 2018)2019 Winter (December 15, 2018)2019 Spring (March 15, 2019)2019 Summer (July 13, 2019)
## Trivia

* On February 9th, 2016, one of the magazine's manga, *Sock it! Kiyohara-kun* by Junji Kawai, have its serialization halted by Shogakukan starting from the magazine's 5th issue. This is due to Kazuhiro Kiyohara, a real-life Japanese former baseball player whose the manga's titular character is modeled after, was arrested due to the possession of illegal drugs.
* Because the magazine has CoroCoro's title to its name, book stores in Japan are often place the magazine into the children section of the book store, rather than its intended Seinen section. This led to a disclaimer being placed into the magazine by Shogakukan starting with the 6th issue to reminds book store owners to not place the magazine into the children section.

## References

1. ↑ Announcement at CoroCoro Online (Japanese)
2. ↑ CoroCoro Aniki is Going Online! at CoroCoro Online (Japanese)
3. ↑ Famed slugger Kiyohara arrested for possession of stimulant drug (Source: The Japan Time)
4. ↑ Kattobase! Kiyohara-kun Manga Goes On Hiatus After Baseball Player's Drug Arrest (Source: Anime News Network)

## External links

* CoroCoro Aniki special site on CoroCoro official website (Japanese)
Basic:Shock absorb parts

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* Bumper
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* **Shock absorb parts**
* Reinforced chassis
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* Friction reduction
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **shock absorb parts** (Japanese: ショック吸収パーツ, *Shokku Kyuushuu Parts*) referring to parts that can absorbs some kinds of impact shocks.

## Types of impact shock

There are multiple types of impact shocks to a Mini 4WD cars while running on a track.

The first, and perhaps the most common one, is having the car hitting the fences of the circuit during cornering. To put in simple terms, the faster the car when entering the curves, the harder the impact shocks will be. The sideway impact (depending on the roller setup) will cause the inner wheels of the lift up, increasing the risk of being coursed out on cornering. Even with the roller setup that prevents that from happening, the rollers, the screws, the spacers, the bumper, the rear stay and/or the reinforced plates has to withstand the impact shocks causes by hitting the fence, and weaker and/or softer structure(s) of any of those parts will cause them to breaks and/or bends.

The second one, most commonly seen on technical tracks, is having the car landing after a jump. As the car lands, the collision between the wheels and the track surface create the shocks to the Mini 4WD car, causing the car to bounces even after the landing. This is more apparent with cars with chassis reinforcement and/or having hard-compound tires equipped.

## Countermeasures

The shock absorb parts are countermeasures to the impact shocks. Their main purpose is to absorbs the impact shocks and reduces the risk of being coursed out.

The Wide Sliding Damper sets, which are meant to be install on the bumper or the rear stay, typically has a movable plate with spring. As the car hit the fence, the sliding damper's main plates (made of plastic, aluminum or carbon fiber) will slides to one side to absorb any sideway impact. The spring in the sliding damper will slide the plate back to its default position as the load lessen.

There's also a series of mass damper sets, typically used to counteract the landing shock. The mass damper features a freely movable weight (Usually made of brass), hold into one place by a series of screws. As the car is in the air, the movable weight will floating, and as the car lands, those weight will quickly move down and pushing against the car, creating a negative force that keep push the car down to the road surface.

There's even the more obscure parts like the semi-pneumatic wheels and tires set, in which feature the tires in pneumatic design. The natures of this parts helps absorbs the landing shocks at the tires level.

## Advanced modifications

* Advanced mass damper setup
* Custom stay
Crimson Glory

**Crimson Glory** (Japanese: クリムゾングローリー, *Kurimuzon Gurōrī*), also known as **Crimson G** (Japanese: クリムゾンG, *Kurimuzon Ji*) and **Crimson-1 Crimson Glory** (Japanese: CRIMSON-1 クリムゾンGグローリー, *Kurimuzon-wan Kurimuzon Gurōrī*), is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on December 12, 1990. It was the first front-motor-mounted Mini 4WD car.

It was featured in manga and anime *Dash! Yonkuro* as Momotaro Kibi's machine.

## General info

The Crimson Glory featuring the red bodyshell that is specially made for the new FM Chassis. It feature a blue canopy and headlights on the front and has the rear absorber props and a big rear wing on the rear. It bears the car number 'G1', being the first in the Crimson series cars in the manga.

As usual for a car from *Dash! Yonkuro*, it has the *CoroCoro Dragon* markings.

The car is equipped with the white, large diameter 6-spoke FM-type wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. Both the chassis frame and A parts were molded in brown gray.

## In media

### *Dash! Yonkuro*

In the series, Souichiro Kibi, the grandfather of the Team Momotaro Samurai's leader Momotaro Kibi, created the Crimson machines (which includes Crimson Glory) using the chassis design made and left behind by Genkuro Hinomaru, Yonkuro's father. The Crimson G was given to his grandson Momotaro who would uses the machine throughout the series.

Despite being having higher performance that is comparable to Yonkuro's Great Emperor, it is inferior to the Aero-Solitude, another front-motor machine that is also made using the design left by Genkuro

## Trivia

* Although the bodyshell of Crimson Glory is, by design, compatible with the FM-A Chassis, racers will need to remove the removable side exhaust parts as it will prevent the main bodyshell from fitting onto the new chassis.

## References

1. ↑ All That Zaurus features from *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* volume 2

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Crimson Glory at Tamiya Japan
Lunch Box Jr.

The **Vanessa's Lunch Box Junior** (Japanese: ランチボックス Jr., *Ranchi Bokkusu Junia*) is a Wild Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on December 17, 1987.

It was based on the Vanessa's Lunch Box 1/12 R/C truck released by Tamiya.

It was featured in the manga *Dash! Yonkuro* as one of Musashi's friends' machine.

## General info

The Lunch Box features the yellow, minivan body design, with 5-row roof headlamps on the roof and the circle-type main headlamps on the front. The front faux-intakes was covered by the bullbar.

It has two-tone stripes of red/orange as well as the cartoonish minivan logos on the sides.

It was equipped with the standard wild-type wheels with monster truck tires.

## About the 1/12 R/C monster truck Vanessa's Lunch Box

   Released on June 23, 1981, the Vanessa's Lunch Box is Tamiya's 1/12 scale, rear-wheel-drive R/C truck. It utilizes the CW-01 Chassis, modified from the Pajero Chassis which itself is the modified Grasshopper chassis.

Compare to the Pajero Chassis, the CW-01 Chassis has longer front swingarms, lower rear gearbox placement and long stroke friction dampers. The battery has now placed onto the center of the chassis. Just like the Pajero chassis, it was powered by the 540-size motor that is mounted into the rear gearbox. For Lunch Box, the chassis was equipped with the large monster truck wheels and tires.

The Lunch Box was later re-released on July 13, 2005, with the mechanical speed controller being replaced with the electronic speed controller.

## External link

### R/C truck That the Mini 4WD Car is Based On

* Lunch Box (2005) at Tamiya Japan
Iron Beak

The **Iron Beak** (Japanese: アイアンビーク, *Aian Bīku*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on April 10, 2021.

## General info

The Iron Beak features the fully-cowled body design with a V-shaped motif.

On the front, it has the honed beak-like nose with the front spoilers that are sandwiched between the nose and the fenders, and under the front nose is a pair of air intakes to dissipate heats from the batteries and motor. On the rear is a two-part rear spoiler. Sitting above the two-window cockpit is a piece that has a large air-intake, extended to the rear end. To accommodate its unique body design, a new, slimmer bodycatch with 45 degree lock was included.

The overall design of the Iron Beak resembles the Formula E car.

### Standard variant

The stanrdard variant features the dark silver colored body with the red and white, angled sprites on it. It bears the number '3' on the front nose.

It was equipped with the white, small diameter fin-type low-profile wheels paired with the black low-profile tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in gray and red respectively.
EVO Chassis Set

The **EVO Chassis Sets** (Japanese: EVOシャーシセット, *EVO Sya-si Setto*) refers to a series of chassis kits that were bundled with Grade-Up Parts.

Some of those chassis kits comes with the special-made parts made exclusively for them.

## List of chassis kits

* Mini 4WD PRO MS Chassis Evo.I
* Mini 4WD VS Chassis Evo.I
* Mini 4WD Super XX Chassis Evo.I