The Rising Bird (ライジングバード) is a Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in 1989. It is the first to ultilizes Type-3 Chassis, after the disastrous body and chassis compability problem on Type-2 Chassis with bodies designed for Type-1 Chassis.
It is featured in manga Mini 4 Top as Toppu Kudo's first machine.
General Info
The Rising Bird is the very first machine created from the Dream Attack project planned by Tamiya where everyone can design their own machine.
The Rising Bird's body is dominated by blue color, with some white, yellow and orange mix onto it. The body is designed to have more curved lines, reducing the drags. Pair of small wings that are placed on rear of the car provides the downforces onto the rear wheels.
The chassis, along with the high-profile spike tires, are molded in bright red, unlike the others.
In the Manga
In the manga, Toppu received and temporary owned the uncolored Rising Bird (codenamed D-01) from Doctor T. Toppu later received the finished model in the assemble kit form, and build it into its well known form. Later in the story, knowing that the Rising Bird is no longer able to match the newer, faster machines in terms of performances, Toppu upgrades it into Winning Bird.
Technical Info
Length: 127 mm
Width: 86 mm
Height: 53 mm
Chassis: Type-3 Chassis
Gear set(s): 5:1, 6.4:1
Gallery
Boxart
Trivia
- The Rising Bird is the first non-limited edition Mini 4WD car to have chassis and tires to be molded in different color.
- It is currently the tallest Mini 4WD car ever released, followed by the Nissan Be-1.
See Also
Winning Bird - Rising Bird's successor, also the second Mini 4WD car in Dream Attack project.