Shovel this crap outta here ! Where’s the good stuff !
Look meh it’s been too many days without a response from the staff. I am determined and now my next mission is a Christmas list, sponsored by meh and presented by everyone who posts on my comment. Without further ado, I present the meh Christmas shopping list:
IRK Plushies, Mehgic 8 Ball (all responses some form of meh.), Squatty Potty (because we don’t have the fukubukuro anymore and our crap needs to go somewhere), AAA batteries, poop meh emoji pillows, and candy corn because it’s near Halloween duh.
@iPatrick@reclaimercube “He” is a woman, and now is not the best time to make suggestive remarks to one of us that you don’t even know, mkay? But it’s okay. We’re good. Fuggedaboudit.
@Pony Well you could use it to help plant the spring flowers, use this to dig the holes and fill it back in without needing to leave the porch except to plant the seeds
Did someone at Meh fall for the “OMG-amazing-buy-this-now” China adds that have been on facebook the last couple of weeks? This digger looks awful familiar, is all I’m sayin…
@Kerig3 I am digging this use suggestion. This thing can seriously up the game if it takes over the job of mediocrebot, right after scooping up a load of doggy goo…
@nolrak@RiotDemon-I’m a kid at heart, but I don’t got $50 for toys. Anyone want to buy this for me? Okay, Moom -myiieeee, they’re being mean to me, boo-hoo!!
@decoratedwarvet@nolrak@RiotDemon
In the same boat. Man, I’d have so much fun with this little excavator it’d almost be criminal. The kid in me loves that it has real working treads and I can actually dig holes with it! Alas, $50 is too much for nonessential purchases at the moment.
@nolrak@PooltoyWolf after driving actual forklifts and other things, I’m not sure this would be as fun. I mean, I have an RC pickup truck but it moves a little faster than this thing. Plus, it was much cheaper.
@nolrak@RiotDemon I dunno. I’m forklift certified and have operated skid-steers, tracked loaders, and rollers, but there’s still something cool about seeing it all working in miniature. Tracked drive on a small scale in particular is pretty awesome.
Reading some of the reviews users say the similar one comes with a 400mAh battery pack which is only good for about 20 minutes of play. A DIY upgrade to high capacity NiMH, or better, a 2000-2500mAh 2 cell LiPo pack will extend that considerably to around an hour before recharging.
Also, I’m about to get pedantic with the manufacturer’s marketing team about my RC stuff: 15 buttons does not equal 15 channels. Most channels include an up and down or forward and reverse. Some can be momentary or latching switches, but things like left track forward/reverse, right track forward/reverse, cab rotate left/right, inner boom up/down, outer boom up/down, bucket up/down are one channel each. So this is maybe 8 channels if we’re being accurate. 15 channels is a whole lot of controllable items.
@mehcuda67- daughters make great foremen! Don’t worry about the ‘men’ at the end of foremen; check out ‘women’! She’ll love it!! ‘Believe Me’ Just Do It!!
@decoratedwarvet I know it’s off topic but it’s truly sad how little our government cares about those who volunteered to be killed so they have the freedom to sit on their butts raking in hundreds of thousands in tax payers money by telling us what we can and can’t do.
@NoImNotNSA-you have me mixed up with someone else because I don’t give a shit what you do, you two legged cry baby!! Go whine about your political bullshit to some other coward that’s afraid to fight for their country so much that he would rather give money to Pakistan, Israel, and any other bogass ass country, but doesn’t want to support their veterans. FUCK YOU, BITCH!!
@fastharry dude, it’s $50. Nothing wrong with cheap toy grade rc for kids to play with for 10-20 hours over the course of a year, and when the plastic gears finally strip who cares, got your money’s worth. Then it becomes a regular toy truck, destined to end up buried in the yard. Maybe the real question should be, is the battery environmentally safe?
@fastharry I’m an RC Guy myself and I have both hobby grade and rinky dink toy grades but even nonhobbist know not to expect a hobby grade toy especially at that price.
This is mainly geared towards parents/grandparents and big kids like myself who just like playing with RC toys.
Do I want this? I think I want this. How “cheesy” is it – does anyone have this? I know it’s not $500 hobby-grade. But is it basically pretty solid? Is the battery replaceable? Wish we had Lab Rats like with the wine thing. (love the wine thing BTW).
The Tonka manually operated ones we had growing up (made of metal) would cut into the topsoil if we watered it first, but as soon as you hit the caliche about 6" down, forget it. Fruitless scratching and bent bucket teeth. This thing made of plastic? Sorry, but meh.
@medz@MrMark Ah, so the arms will flex or break to protect the teeth. Kind of like the Kitchen-Aid mixers made for a few years with crappy plastic gearboxes inside the traditional heavy-cast housings.
There can be another life for one of these after your child destroys the mechanical bits.
One of the members of my robotics club saw this video
It uses the electronics from one of these RC vehicles. If you’re not interested in this level of construction, he is interested in getting the electronics, but not interested enough to spend $50.
I was back and forth, to and fro deciding on this but ultimately couldn’t resist. My dad worked on the full size version of this for 40 years so I’m getting it so he can relive his glory days while dazzling my son with his mad backhoe skills. memorable-greasy-plot
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Excavator
1x Remote control
1x Excavator battery pack
1x USB charging cable
Price Comparison
$129.95 at Amazon
Reviews for Similar: 4.1 stars with 367 reviews
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
YES
Shovel this crap outta here ! Where’s the good stuff !
Look meh it’s been too many days without a response from the staff. I am determined and now my next mission is a Christmas list, sponsored by meh and presented by everyone who posts on my comment. Without further ado, I present the meh Christmas shopping list:
IRK Plushies, Mehgic 8 Ball (all responses some form of meh.), Squatty Potty (because we don’t have the fukubukuro anymore and our crap needs to go somewhere), AAA batteries, poop meh emoji pillows, and candy corn because it’s near Halloween duh.
@reclaimercube I thought I’ve seen it all here, but I guess not. At least it’s not another blender.
@reclaimercube and MEH faced pop sockets!
@deathbynoodlez yes noodlez!!
@reclaimercube I dunno … I might give them an out on this one, this thing looks pretty cool
@nolrak @reclaimercube-Yes it does, all but the $50-1$, that is!! I’ll give them $25, that’s it! They didn’t have a photo of any dirt being dug!
@deathbynoodlez I got some extras. I will part with one black and one white. Make me an offer.
@reclaimercube Don’t forget Glen socks
Meh has gone meta(l) on me.
Dammit! I thought it was a full-sized one. I was totally gonna hit “Buy It”. We could use it on our little farm.
@Pony Yes pony while you’re at it how much are you offering rides for?
@reclaimercube Really?
@Pony sorry I wasn’t trying to offend.
@Pony @reclaimercube dude, he is a farmer. He gets weary if you call him gay.
@iPatrick @Pony I didn’t mean it that way at all and that wasn’t what I was implying either. I was pretending in my head he was an actual pony.
@iPatrick @reclaimercube “He” is a woman, and now is not the best time to make suggestive remarks to one of us that you don’t even know, mkay? But it’s okay. We’re good. Fuggedaboudit.
@reclaimercube well i got it the comparison to the original comment and thought it was funny…
@Pony Well you could use it to help plant the spring flowers, use this to dig the holes and fill it back in without needing to leave the porch except to plant the seeds
Digging this deal
Good call on starting the Xmas shopping now. Might just make it in time!
Meh - I do not dig this. Not caterpillar not interested.
This is the hardest I’ve ever clicked “Meh”.
@JT954 Did it make a difference in the meh-ness of the click?
@JT954 @shahnm yep it you press it hard then they give you a coupon for tomorrow.
Those battery packs haven’t changed since the 90s.
@Kerig3 That’s obviously because they were wisely stored in a refrigerator.
/giphy the more you know
@shahnm
That excavator looks like the perfect size to shovel pop sockets of the MEH face variety
Did someone at Meh fall for the “OMG-amazing-buy-this-now” China adds that have been on facebook the last couple of weeks? This digger looks awful familiar, is all I’m sayin…
Only practical application: Teach your kids to clean the yard of dog poop!
@Kerig3 I am digging this use suggestion. This thing can seriously up the game if it takes over the job of mediocrebot, right after scooping up a load of doggy goo…
@Kerig3 @shahnm Dog poo is good for the yard. But I never heard anyone say cat poop is good for the house. Use it for your litter box!
@Kerig3 @phendrick @shahnm I was thinking the same thing
@Kerig3 @phendrick @shahnm-You don’t want to stir that shit up!! ‘Believe Me’!
I would of loved the hell out of this as a kid.
@RiotDemon pfft, I’d love the hell out of this even now
@nolrak @RiotDemon-I’m a kid at heart, but I don’t got $50 for toys. Anyone want to buy this for me? Okay, Moom -myiieeee, they’re being mean to me, boo-hoo!!
@decoratedwarvet @nolrak @RiotDemon
In the same boat. Man, I’d have so much fun with this little excavator it’d almost be criminal. The kid in me loves that it has real working treads and I can actually dig holes with it! Alas, $50 is too much for nonessential purchases at the moment.
/image sad excavator
@nolrak @PooltoyWolf after driving actual forklifts and other things, I’m not sure this would be as fun. I mean, I have an RC pickup truck but it moves a little faster than this thing. Plus, it was much cheaper.
@nolrak @RiotDemon I dunno. I’m forklift certified and have operated skid-steers, tracked loaders, and rollers, but there’s still something cool about seeing it all working in miniature. Tracked drive on a small scale in particular is pretty awesome.
@decoratedwarvet @nolrak @PooltoyWolf @RiotDemon
I checked the math best I could: $50 today is equivalent to about $8-10 in 1970-75, when I would have had the most fun with it.
Three motors just for the arm? In my day, you had to move the damn things yourself.
@TheFLP i remember those!
(i think the one we had at our kindergarten was red, and somehow even less “fancy” than this one, but hey.)
I clicked meh, but it was more like hmmm… Thinking this one over. My 10 year old would absolutely love this.
/giphy sleep on it
This looks really cool, but 7.2V (and that product photo) says it uses NiMH or worse, NiCd battery chemistry. That’s so 2004.
It still looks really cool, though. I might wind up buying it as a gift (for myself).
I guess Christmas is within the 90 day warranty period for those who would give it as a gift to others.
Reading some of the reviews users say the similar one comes with a 400mAh battery pack which is only good for about 20 minutes of play. A DIY upgrade to high capacity NiMH, or better, a 2000-2500mAh 2 cell LiPo pack will extend that considerably to around an hour before recharging.
Also, I’m about to get pedantic with the manufacturer’s marketing team about my RC stuff: 15 buttons does not equal 15 channels. Most channels include an up and down or forward and reverse. Some can be momentary or latching switches, but things like left track forward/reverse, right track forward/reverse, cab rotate left/right, inner boom up/down, outer boom up/down, bucket up/down are one channel each. So this is maybe 8 channels if we’re being accurate. 15 channels is a whole lot of controllable items.
Recently on woot for 55.99. So okay deal, I guess, for woot leftovers.
@MrMark Isn’t that kinda by definition what Meh is all about?
meh… holding out for a bulldozer. now that would really knock me over.
Can this dig a shallow, let’s say “bathtub-sized” hole in the Palisades before the batteries run out? Asking for a friend.
@ShotgunX-Sure! You can dig a grave 9’ deep, 7’ long, and 4’ wide in no time & still have time to die!! ‘Believe Me’!
@decoratedwarvet Whoa now, who said anything about a grave?
/me adjusts suit
I ain’t said nothing about no grave.
WHY YOU BREAKIN-A MY BALLS FOR HUH!?
And what if I’m getting it for my granddaughters?
/giphy truth
@mehcuda67- daughters make great foremen! Don’t worry about the ‘men’ at the end of foremen; check out ‘women’! She’ll love it!! ‘Believe Me’ Just Do It!!
@mehcuda67 how do you know your granddaughters don’t identify as grandsons?
Almost had me until “simulate real rc” on the box. I only buy 100% real rc. No simulation crap for me.
This is pretty damned cool. I think I might enjoy it more than our college freshman Engineering major son would.
For videos of the “similar one” go to the reviews link in the specs. A manufacturer video and in the reviews.
From the reviews, only for light, loose material digging.
@RedOak Exactly; like litter from the cat box!
@RedOak You just addressed one of the two failings I see in this.
1: It doesn’t look to be heavy enough to actually dig in any compacted material.
2: The tracks look as if they will break fairly quickly.
Otherwise, it looks interesting.
@phendrick @RedOak a $50 pooper scooper!
@phendrick @RedOak-As I warned, don’t mess with shit!
/buy
@rand3y It worked! Your order number is: lavender-cardiac-lion
/image lavender cardiac lion
And now this is in my head again.
Oh man, I forgot how much I wanted one of these as a kid and never got one. I’m in!
Okay, this thing looks rad. I’m getting it for my daughters.
@tizio
/giphy feeble-unready-pita
@tizio-I’m sorry, but I can find a turtle that’s faster than that + save a turtle!!
@tizio FYI, different battery, remote, no “smoke” and doesn’t come with the accessories.
@decoratedwarvet It’s gonna be an excellent platform to build a more powerful robot on though!
Being a disabled veteran I get a fixed income under $6,000. so I can’t afford this toy this time of the month!!
@decoratedwarvet I know it’s off topic but it’s truly sad how little our government cares about those who volunteered to be killed so they have the freedom to sit on their butts raking in hundreds of thousands in tax payers money by telling us what we can and can’t do.
@decoratedwarvet If it wasn’t such a shitty Chinese knockoff product, I’d buy it for you.
We need to have a feature on this site that allows us to place orders for other users.
@NoImNotNSA-you have me mixed up with someone else because I don’t give a shit what you do, you two legged cry baby!! Go whine about your political bullshit to some other coward that’s afraid to fight for their country so much that he would rather give money to Pakistan, Israel, and any other bogass ass country, but doesn’t want to support their veterans. FUCK YOU, BITCH!!
as a 20 year RC guy, here are the issues some of which have been caught by eagle eye MEH readers…
There are two grades of Radio Control…Hobby grade and toy grade. Toy grade RC is a problem.
So for Display?..i guess pretty cool…but for real RC use?..never happen, and if it does, it wont be for long at the hands of a 10 year old
@fastharry dude, it’s $50. Nothing wrong with cheap toy grade rc for kids to play with for 10-20 hours over the course of a year, and when the plastic gears finally strip who cares, got your money’s worth. Then it becomes a regular toy truck, destined to end up buried in the yard. Maybe the real question should be, is the battery environmentally safe?
@MidBayMike I agree.,…as long as there are no expectations of what it is…even the better ones on Amazon all fail the fakespot test…
@fastharry I’m an RC Guy myself and I have both hobby grade and rinky dink toy grades but even nonhobbist know not to expect a hobby grade toy especially at that price.
This is mainly geared towards parents/grandparents and big kids like myself who just like playing with RC toys.
I had a metal one of these as a kid. It is buried in the yard somewhere, with Kung Fu toy soldier at the wheel.
Mehtal li-mehtations…
I mean, it’s close…
@fuzzmanmatt It’s so lifelike!!
Welp got one of my nephew Christmas present already.
Sadly this is only my 4th purchase on Meh in 2 years that Im not sure about then buy then regret and cancel right away.
Great table/bar top Peanut scoop.
I’m going to use this to scoop the buried treasure out of our litter boxes!
Dream big! Or little.
https://jalopnik.com/5884800/since-1997-a-man-has-been-digging-out-his-basement-using-only-rc-scale-model-construction-equipment
@blaineg This post should have gotten many more stars!
Thank you for posting it. I was debating whether to try and search for the video - having seen it many many years ago.
Damn, I want this…
But I also want to be 10 years old again with a giant sandbox.
My kids going to love me more now
I assume this gets re-branded under many different names.
Looks like this one, and does not have that many bad reviews.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0157CGVZ8
{mod edit: no referral links}
Know your limitations? My limitations are limitless!
Do I want this? I think I want this. How “cheesy” is it – does anyone have this? I know it’s not $500 hobby-grade. But is it basically pretty solid? Is the battery replaceable? Wish we had Lab Rats like with the wine thing. (love the wine thing BTW).
@pmarin I spoke with our buyer for this. Here’s what she said:
/giphy gilded-arrogant-cleric
What the…
The Tonka manually operated ones we had growing up (made of metal) would cut into the topsoil if we watered it first, but as soon as you hit the caliche about 6" down, forget it. Fruitless scratching and bent bucket teeth. This thing made of plastic? Sorry, but meh.
@duodec This isn’t plastic it is “Super Die-cast”
@duodec @MrMark Right I think the scoop is die-cast and the rest is plastic.
@medz @MrMark Ah, so the arms will flex or break to protect the teeth. Kind of like the Kitchen-Aid mixers made for a few years with crappy plastic gearboxes inside the traditional heavy-cast housings.
/giphy guilty-fatty-potato
It worked!
Your order number is: sour-nebular-shoe
This will make a great Christmas present to go with the RC dump truck we’ve ordered elsewhere!
There can be another life for one of these after your child destroys the mechanical bits.
One of the members of my robotics club saw this video
It uses the electronics from one of these RC vehicles. If you’re not interested in this level of construction, he is interested in getting the electronics, but not interested enough to spend $50.
I was back and forth, to and fro deciding on this but ultimately couldn’t resist. My dad worked on the full size version of this for 40 years so I’m getting it so he can relive his glory days while dazzling my son with his mad backhoe skills. memorable-greasy-plot
/giphy memorable-greasy-plot
