Icenutz, I'm going to wait a while before I do anything.
I doubt the AE truggy will be worth the wait anyhow. I still cant even decide if the RC8 is any good or not. From what I've read they don't perform all that well and they're so weak that AE had to send out repair kits.
Its hard to trust an RC company that has their customers unknowingly doing their R&D for them.