The Great Magnum Revolver (Japanese: グレートマグナムR, Gurēto Magnamu Reborubā), shorten as Great Magnum R is a Fully Cowled Mini 4WD car that was released by Tamiya on September 15, 2018.
It was featured in the manga Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers! as Go Seiba's 9th machine and was the upgraded form of Great Magnum Type-Zero in the series.
General info
Although it retains some aspects of its predecessor, the overall designs of the car has become more blocky. In the manga, it sports the M-shaped rear spoiler, while the actual kit sports the GT-style rear spoiler.
One noticeable features of this car is its side cowls design, which resembles the revolver's body and has the revolving cylinders on each side. The car is notable to be the first Magnum car to be equipped with the front motor chassis, and in this case, FM-A Chassis.
It was in the traditional Magnum color scheme of while base body with blue and red, flame-styled body decals.
It was equipped with the neon green, small diameter low-profile A-spoke wheels paired with the black low profile tires. Both the chassis frame and the A parts were molded in black.
In the manga
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Following Go's defeat at the hands of Haruto Ogami and his Haru 100 and having his Great Magnum Type-Zero damaged in the race, Go has repaired and upgraded the car to a incomplete state, in hopes for a rematch toward Haruto.
In order to complete his car, Go had to go to the mountain alone to fine-tuning it. Unlucky for him, he didn't noticed that he and his car was going toward the cliff side during practice run and was fall down from there, knocked himself out as a result. When he wakes up, he found himself in a house belongs to a old bear hunter.
Go later goes out and practice run again, and manage to master the monstrous acceleration the car has while the compressed-air calibers inside the side revolvers were used. Just as he mastered the car, he unfortunately encounter a one-eye bear!
Though the bear hunter, who just arrived to the scene to hunt down said bear, told Go to stay down, Go refused and decided to have his car ram toward the bear with the Magnum Gating Attack special move. The ram was so powerful that the car that, aside from damaging the car's front bumper and front cowls, managed to sent the bear flying backward, and scares the bear, causing it to run away in retreat.
Go later has a rematch with Haruto in the next Japan Cup tournament with his repaired car, naming it Great Magnum Revolver. In the end, Go won the race against Haruto after a intense battle.
As noted, the Great Magnum Revolver can achieve greater acceleration with the Magnum Gating Attack, in which both side of the revolver propellers (Which stores the compressed-air calibers) were used. In addition to this, the new Magnum can even greater cornering with the Magnum Revolver Inazuma Shot, in which only one side (the outer side) of the revolver propeller was used to causes the car to cornering on its own in the circuit that has the fences destroyed by Haru 100.
Technical info
Length: 156 mm
Width: 97 mm
Height: 42 mm
Chassis: FM-A Chassis
Gear Set(s): 3.5:1
Gallery
Boxart
See also
Magnum series
External links
Tamiya Japan
Tamiya America
| Fully Cowled Mini 4WD series | ||
|---|---|---|
| Super-1 | Magnum Saber* · Sonic Saber* · Tridagger X* · Black Saber · Spin-Axe · Proto-Saber JB · Victory Magnum* · Vanguard Sonic* · Beak Spider* · Neo-Tridagger ZMC* · Fighter Magnum VFX* · Ray Stinger* · Shining Scorpion* · Bergkaiser* | |
| Super-FM | Brocken Gigant* · Gun Bluster XTO* | |
| Super TZ | Cyclone Magnum* · Hurricane Sonic* · Cyclone Magnum TRF · Diospada* · Beat-Magnum* · Buster-Sonic* · Beat-Magnum TRF · Fire Stinger | |
| VS | Spin-Viper† · Diomars-Nero† | |
| Super-II | Spin Cobra† | |
| AR | Z Wing Magnum · Great BlastSonic · Beak Stinger G · Proto-Saber Evolution† · Tridagger WX | |
| FM-A | Great Magnum R · Cosmosonic | |
| * denotes Premium version available; † denotes racing chassis re-release of a Mechanical Mini 4WD car | ||