| “ | Tsubasa, it's pit-in time! | ” |
— Go Seiba to Tsubasa
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The Z Wing Magnum (Japanese: Z ウイングマグナム, Zetto Uingu Magunamu) is a Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on November 8, 2014. It is the 7th entry in the Magnum series.
It was features in Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers! and Let's & Go! Tsubasa: Next Racers Legend as the race machine for a boy named Tsubasa, who happened to have meet the now grow-up Go Seiba from the original series.
General Info
The Z Wing Magnum features the fully-cowled body that covers all the wheels. It has the body colors that are dominated by blue and silver, with some of the red on it. There's the large rear wings to provide downforce to the rear wheels. On the front, the kanji Tsubasa (翼) is engraved on it.
By cutting out certain pieces of the body and applying the sticker included with CoroCoro Aniki volume 2, the alternate form Wing Magnum that resembles a F1 car can be replicated (coincidentally, Go Seiba is also a F1 racer by the time Return Racer! starts)
The car is equipped with the neon green small-diameter 5-spoke Saber-type low-profile wheels with low-profile tires.
Gold Plated Special
The limited gold-plated version of the car was also included in the limited edition of the first volume of the manga. Both the bodyshell and the wheel are gold-plated, and instead of the normal stickers it came with the special designed clear stickers.
In the manga
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The machine, the Wing Magnum was originally purchased and later tuned by Tsubasa himself (with the original chassis intact). However, the Wing Magnum suffers from stability issue on cornering during the first few races with Peter's Diospada. Motivated by Tsubasa's determination, Go Seiba modified it into Z Wing Magnum by adding the front piece made from the scrapped part of his wrecked F1 car salvaged by Jun. The front cowl acts as a thruster and the 'wings' for the car, allow it to overtaking Peter's Diospada from above.[1]
Later in the series, Its owner Tsubasa, is often seen using his Z Wing Magnum on the open road and unintentionally causes some mischiefs, including provoking a owner's dog to chase him and his car,[2] as well as having a truck (which happen to driven by Ryo Takaba, with his brother Jiromaru as a passenger) fliped on the road while avoiding his Z Wing Magnum. (Fortunately for Go and Tsubasa, the truck and the Takaba brothers were unharmed.)[3] Go had also borrowed the Z Wing Magnum from Tsubasa once to race against J and his Proto-Saber Evolution.[4]
Technical Info
Length: 155 mm
Width: 97 mm
Height: 43 mm
Chassis: AR Chassis
Gear Set(s): 3.5:1
Gallery
Boxart
Car views
Images
Manga and anime
Trivia
- The Z Wing Magnum is the first Magnum series Mini 4WD car not owned by Go Seiba.
See also
- Magnum Saber
- Victory Magnum
- Cyclone Magnum
- Beat-Magnum
- Lightning-Magnum
- Bison Magnum
- Dual Hybrid G Magnum
References
- ↑ Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers! Chapter 1
- ↑ Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers! Chapter 4
- ↑ Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers! Chapter 5
- ↑ Chapter 7 of Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!
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 | ||