The Best Toy Grade Quad of 2017 (So Far at Least)

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The Bugs 3 is very popular and for good reason. Brushless motors in an affordable package and it can be flown speedy and sporty or as a stable camera platform.
 
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The Bugs 3 is very popular and for good reason. Brushless motors in an affordable package and it can be flown speedy and sporty or as a stable camera platform.
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Is it really toy grade if it is using brushless motors though? :p


Most other hobbies seem to use the concept of whether it was meant to be taken apart and the type of parts such as brush-less motors and even the power system to define toy and hobby-grade. With that is the inherent price difference that some other hobbies use to define the difference, but this hobby seems to loosely use the motors or modular design to try and define the difference. Really just semantics I suppose hahaha.


Toy or hobby grade that does not look like a bad platform. Depending on the price that may be a great starting point for those looking to get more serious into the hobby for their first quad.
 
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I hear ya, but once you hold the transmitter in your hands you know its toy grade. That does not diminish the quality and performance of the quad however. If it had a transmitter like some of the XK brushless quads, then that would put it over the top. Outside of my GPS drone, this is my go-to flyer.
 
Gadget Inspector said:
I hear ya, but once you hold the transmitter in your hands you know its toy grade. That does not diminish the quality and performance of the quad however. If it had a transmitter like some of the XK brushless quads, then that would put it over the top. Outside of my GPS drone, this is my go-to flyer.
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Didn't think to look at that. Is the receiver separate enough to use a better one if you have it?
 
The Bugs 3 is a champ in the air. There's nothing fancy about it - no altitude hold, no headless mode, just a stable, fast brushless quad that's a joy to fly and slows down beautifully if you throw a camera on it. I have other quads I love to fly, but it's hard for that one not to be a favorite.

Something else that I haven't seen mentioned is the amount of room inside the body for mods. I'm figuring people are going to start doing some really interesting things with the Bugs 3. Guys are already throwing higher-capacity 3S batteries on it and getting wild performance and longer flight times.
 
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