It appears Hooben is gone.

[Rubicon99]

Seems Hooben known for their highly detailed and kind of pricey 1/16 and up tanks is out of business. They made beautiful looking tanks, but which always had running and durability issues. Not to mention their CS was spotty at best.

Even with their product quality and CS issues it's sad to see an RC tank manufacturer disappear. Hope they come back with a new direction focusing on quality and good CS.

[SoCalBobS]

They did have some unique products.

[keilau]

It is sad. www.hooben-store.com website no longer exists.

The "Hooben Hobby" page also closed on Amazon.

twin-horse.de continue to sell Hooben tank. No mention of the manufacturer closed door.

[tank_me]

https://hooben.com/ is still working, but the site looks sketchy. The currency dropdown has "US Dollar" written "US DOllar". Their FB page and Feng's page are still up, but neither have posted in like a year. If they are dead, it's their own fault for treating customers so bad. I wonder if someone like Dave from Forgebear would know more. I have noticed that they have had falling levels of inventory all over the place for the places that carried them.

Even if they were trying to relaunch the company, their reputation is beyond repair. It's like Loic from Field of Armor and Kitlinx. No matter what he does, he will always be known for bad business practices.

[Durahl]

Seems Hooben known for their highly detailed and kind of pricey 1/16 and up tanks is out of business. They made beautiful looking tanks...

I guess standards may vary from person to person but I found their Models to be about the ugliest mother****ers out there 🤔

When I first heard someone made an E-100 and Maus I was like: "Horee sheed! Must have!" until I saw their models with exposed Fasteners ALL OVER THE TANK and I immediately changed my mind to "Fine... I'll do it myself!"
The only thing I got from them were a set of Maus Tracks after I did my E-100 since I could no longer be bothered to go that route of making them myself anymore - And to be very honest... Even those look highly "meh" compared to the likes of Tamiya ones 🤨

[Rubicon99]

I guess standards may vary from person to person but I found their Models to be about the ugliest mother****ers out there 🤔

When I first heard someone made an E-100 and Maus I was like: "Horee sheed! Must have!" until I saw their models with exposed Fasteners ALL OVER THE TANK and I immediately changed my mind to "Fine... I'll do it myself!"
The only thing I got from them were a set of Maus Tracks after I did my E-100 since I could no longer be bothered to go that route of making them myself anymore - And to be very honest... Even those look highly "meh" compared to the likes of Tamiya ones 🤨

Appears you never got to see first hand their newer releases. Their Merkava, Leopard 1, newer T55, Sherman E8 and others are by all standards compared to Tamiya, HengLong, TongDe, Mato, Torro and Haya far superior in stock finished appearance and details hands down.

Materials, electronics and gearbox wise they were lacking and had issues. But their details and factory paint were industry leading.

They were expensive, they had very poor CS, their tanks were made for indoor hard floor running and looking pretty sitting on a shelf. Anything more and you could expect fairly rapid breakage.

But they looked good.