First State Hobbies — Local services in Brookside

I had the pleasure of making my first visit to First State Hobbies yesterday, and was blown away. I’d like to share my opinion from my experience.

In addition to being a really nice shop, their staff was very professional, courteous, friendly, and helpful. I ended up making a purchase they help me with. The two gentlemen I worked with yesterday, Josh and Steve are super nice guys and helped me a lot. I recommend going to see them if you have questions or need help to make a purchasefor the hobby.

First of all, the store is massive. In the front area, they have a great selection of RC cars and trucks of many varieties. On the other side of the front, they have a ton of accessories like wheels, tires, wings, bodies, paints, you name it.

What really Is amazing, is the indoor tracks they built. Any pictures you take cannot do it justice. When you’re inside the space, it’s amazing the scale of these tracks that they have managed to build indoors. They’re beautiful.

They have tracks for multiple types of indoor racing. They have really cool tracks with jumps and turns for 10th scale vehicles, but they also have a drift track that’s to die for. They made a really nice course With P tile and accessorized it to look like a a real race track.

I know I’ll be going back, as I picked up an MST RDX 2.5 drift ready to run yesterday. Apparently, on non-race days, you can come in and use the track for a very reasonable fee.

Aside, purely reviewing, I would like to also say how nice it is to have a hobby shop, with a physical location to go to. I’ve been doing these hobbies for over 40 years, and love going to a physical hobby shop. Sometimes going online is not enough. Sometimes you can’t see, feel, in a really evaluate a product you want to buy. For guys, my age, hobby shops were some of the coolest stores we ever went to as kids. I had that same feeling when I walked into First State Hobbies yesterday.

If you’re looking for a hobby shop that has a great selection of off-road, on road, racing, drifting, cars, and trucks, you have to visit this hobby shop as you will not be...

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