So, this has been bugging me of and on...

[Thomas Porfert]

I don't think it has so much to do with snakes, as so much as we've had a long history of naming our products after animals; sometimes mythical, sometimes real.

With the cars it has always been some type of snake, the Mamba and the Sidewinder. We started with the aircraft line which has the Phoenix, Thunderbird, Griffin, Pixie and Pegasus. And of course our boat controllers are the Hydra and Barracuda.

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes, we just love naming our products after creatures and mythic animals :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

[nitrostarter]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

I don't think it has so much to do with snakes, as so much as we've had a long history of naming our products after animals; sometimes mythical, sometimes real.

With the cars it has always been some type of snake, the Mamba and the Sidewinder. We started with the aircraft line which has the Phoenix, Thunderbird, Griffin, Pixie and Pegasus. And of course our boat controllers are the Hydra and Barracuda.

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes, we just love naming our products after creatures and mythic animals :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

Well played sir!

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by nitrostarter

Well played sir!

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

[nitrostarter]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

I think this forums gets their wheels spinning in every direction!

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

I can just picture the boys (and ladies) of Castle sitting in their conference room every morning with this forum on the projection screen, and all of them trying to come up with responses to our questions....

I can absolutely imagine that being the case

[Thomas Porfert]

To my knowledge, no on here owns a snake, so I doubt anyone is sporting a philia for them :) I think that if we started throwing around too many names, PETA might get on us for some crazy reason or people might think we're a nature reserve or a transporter of wild animals :P Or at the least it would get really confusing with a whole zoo of controllers.

Also I'm sure the marketing and art department wanted the snake because it's easier to draw and to work into designs. I could see them trying to come up with a cool logo with a big ol' fat rhino; could you imagine Connie the Control Freak with a rhino tattooed on her inner leg? I like the snake myself :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

could you imagine Connie the Control Freak with a rhino tattooed on her inner leg? I like the snake myself :P

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

As a matter of fact, I can, and am doing so right now........

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

... I think that if we started throwing around too many names, PETA might get on us for some crazy reason or people might think we're a nature reserve or a transporter of wild animals...

Somehow, this could end up in a situation similar to the one in The Holy Grail where a woman was found guilty of witchcraft...

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

So I doubt anyone actually has a phobia about snakes

Thomas, I'm implying the contrary, which is to say that somebody there has quite an affinity to snakes: ophidioPHILIA, not phobia.

But, I think your answer was directed at the core of my observation in a roundabout way, so it's all good

I found it interesting that snakes were chosen to name the car ESC's over other species, say a rhino (MMM), cheetah (MMP), and wolverine (MM) The boat and air ESCs, i can understand completely.

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