I agree with you. I'm not sure where I'd take this outside to do off-roading. When I had a home-built off-road RC car, one accidental clip of a wall or rock would usually break a tie-rod. That would be really annoying if I kept breaking LEGO parts. Although this might not go as fast but then what would be the point of it? And at $230 MSRP, I think this is an easy pass until a deep sale.