The move comes in a favorable context for the industry: the global market of radio-controlled models for hobby is expected to exceed $1.2 billion in 2025, with an annual average growth rate of 6.3% in the next eight years, per data from Data Insights Market. Against the backdrop of this dynamic, RC Legions aims to speed up the development of the segment locally and expand operations into Central and Eastern European countries.
“I want to turn automodelism, in Romania and the countries in the region, into an accessible, educational and competitive field,” said Marius George Ionescu, who owns the group of companies that includes RC Legions.
Through the acquisition and integration of the two platforms, which will keep their identity and will continue to operate separately, the company becomes the most important supplier specialized in Traxxas-branded automodels, a U.S.-based manufacturer considered a global benchmark in the radio-controlled (RC) car market due to its innovative, high-performance, and durable “Ready-to-Race” vehicles.
The management team of the new structure includes Marius George Ionescu – responsible with vision and international development, Bogdan Ionescu – sales director and founder of RCRacing.ro, and Florin Popescu – operations director and former director of AutoRC.ro.
In the near future, RC Legions will be opening a store specialized in modelism, in capital city Bucharest, which is set to become the largest in Romania and one of the significant in Central and Eastern Europe, in terms of both surface area and a wide range of products, spare parts and assistance services.
Automodels refer to small-scale vehicles, which are miniature, scaled-down replicas of real cars. These can be die-cast metal models, plastic models that are often sold as kits to be assembled and painted, or other types of miniature representations.