Battle of the Mini Crawlers - Traxxas TRX4M vs FMS FCX24 - Which One Is Better?

The most honest review on the YouTube.

I wanted to build a 100+ mph car. Found that to be boring. Discovered trail trucks /rock crawler and fell in love with the hobby again

You got me at the little one giving the real review!! I’m looking for a crawler for my kiddo and I can just picture him being at honest as yours! Thumbs up!! New subscriber :)

This video was FANTASTIC! Loved the detailed comparison but the part with the boy driving as I’m looking for something for my kids to run as well and this was extremely informative. Truly, wonderful work my friend!

Thanks for the video. I'm glad that I have chosen k5 Blazer over trx4m Thumbs up for your assistant 👍

Thumbs up for the small human! Looks like the Blazer is a better choice over the TRX4m (quite surprised)

I oil filled my k5 blazers shocks and added some beadlock wheels with proline super swampers and it is amazing. I am loving fms!

Nice video, I like my trx4m but in my humble opinion, the fcx24 just blows it out of the water. Particularly from a value standpoint, in the state they are pretty similarly priced. You just get so much more out of the box. And no proprietary battery junk to work about. Your little one did an excellent job too 🤘

Great job with this comparison. Very helpful! The little guy did an awesome job too. What a cool kid!

Well, I have them both. Fms is bouncy, toy like. The electronics, I already had to replace the steering servo in it. The Traxxas in my opinion drives more like a 1/10 scale rig. Seemed more planted and just has a better feel to it.

Both rigs are super solid but i give the edge to the blazer because of the 2spd trans and the portals also u dont need a ton of mods to get it to climb well like the trx4m defender particularly mines got alot brass on it and it definitely helps but yeah more invested needed on the defender than the blazer all i did was add oil to the stock shocksand just added some brass rings in the wheels and it climbs beautifuly the low speed modulation is awesome definitely on another level and u dont have to change gears to get that crawling ability like u do with the trx4m!

Damn, I'm just looking to get into rc to see if I like it as a hobby and I was about to buy the Traxxas but I'm so glad I watched this cause the throttle control alone sold me on the other one. Plus I like the smaller controller better. And it looks like it's much faster with that 2 gear transmission. And I wanted the blazer body but didn't realize this option existed. I'm getting the fcx24

All the recent mini crawlers are excellent👍🎶😁

I think I made the right choice with the fms. Could probably use some wheel weights or softer tires, but right out if the box it looks really good.

Your boy is so cute! Congrats!! He reminds me my own child that is younger, 3 yo, but is similar fisically and the personality too. Lovely!

You need the trx4m low range crawling gears, mine was the same. It whined until 60% throttle then would lunge forward. The gears fixed that but man is it slow to run between obstacles

After owning and upgrading both trx4m's and fcx24's with my kids I have to give the nod to traxxas! The only downside to the trx4m is the gearing and lack of bearings, Both of those are easy fixes and create an impressive driving rig with near endless upgradability. Fcx24 does have better gearing out of the box and the 2 speed trans is so fun. IMO the design and engineering used in the production of the fcx24 holds it back in so many ways. The single piece molded plastic chassis and shock towers combined with the double ball joint mounting situation for the shocks and links on the axle housings make upgrades more difficult than it needs to be. If it was a perfect world the trx4m would have a 2 speed trans and the fcx24 would have been built with a multi peice chassis and axle housing's with seperate mounting brackets for standard links and shock style ball joints.

Very nice also choose the k5 blazer

You got a smart kid 🤘

It looks like the trx4m has it way easier than the fcx24 I just went and bought two trx4m. Thanks for the video