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That whole side circus is providing one of the most audacious real time "Pot calling the kettle black" I've personally witnessed. Alpha is Hobby Design, and HD got their entire start via being the biggest, rootin'-tootin'est band of IP Thieves the hobby ever has seen. Now because they insist on over promising and under delivering their product line they're up in arms spam-posting their little manifesto about being copied by PZY. If you sit both 911 GT3 RS kits down side by side they break down slightly different and PZY's offers options the Alpha kit doesn't. With the Ferrari SP3 Alpha promised that almost a year ago...this isn't the world of "normal" Model production where a licensor wouldn't grant two competitors license to do the same thing and the same time. They're both making boot leg products probably from boot leg 3D CAD/CAM and bickering about which one of the illicit copies is legitimate.

Red Wheel is based in the Ukraine. For some reason everyone in the former Soviet Satellite states learned CAD/CAM, and now it's where most 3D files seem to come from...the guy is on FB and the kit is a few bucks cheaper if you order it directly. He already sold the entire first run in a matter of days. For anyone who trades in the deep end of the resin pool these days knows the price is what a full-on multi-media kit costs now. If you want a Tucker that isn't a diecast or an old resin piece that's going to look like a $10 slush cast piece (in comparison) then this thing is going to be worth every penny.

Price is right. Like I mentioned in the other thread those "cheap" Revell prices from last month are what was wrong. Take a look at the prices on the 3 newly arrived/inbound Revell kits ('57 Ford/Tudor/'77 P/U) the street/shelf price on those kits is $30 or more depending on the vendor. I paid $30 in cash at NNL East for the ones I got, and Model RoundUp has the Wagon and Tudor priced at $32.90...

It'll be a Revell Germany reissue, sometime in 2024. Places in Europe taking pre-orders don't have dates, just a price in the $150 before shipping ballpark. U.S. MSRP is $188.99 per Stevens International.

There might have been some sort of tiny possibility if those 1966 kits Hasegawa did were lying dormant in the back of some dusty warehouse in Shizouka. But Hasegawa is still actively producing those kits, so they're not going to have any interest in selling. Also Round2 would be "the competition" as Hasegawa continues to have strong direct ties to Revell as their importer in Japan.

Smells like kit sales to me, with a dash of licensing. You wanna make a "narrow-body" Hellcat, guess you're buying two kits. Also Stellantis probably has no interest in whether or not you need to buy two kits as they most likely don't have any reason to approve licensing for a non-halo version of their Charger. Remember with this Charger project Round2 got the files and whatnot directly from the manufacturer, so in one of those one hand washes the other and in turn both hands wash the face things - Round2 got to make 3 variants of a Charger that makes the entire thing financially viable, so long as they made the variants Stellantis was interested in seeing promoted.

To anyone who was waiting on the Back to the Future version of this kit. It and it's associated (but sold separately) P/E set were released this morning. Your pre-order mileage may vary depending on which vendor you've gone through...

The older one that's currently trapped as the "PullDozer" is a '76-'78 since Revell has been pretty flexible over the years with what exact year any of those square bodies actually are in a given boxing The new one for Stanger Things is supposed to be a 1985.

American SATCO has been gone close to thirty years.

The surprises were the Hellcat Charger and the '72 Chevellle reissue. Everything else on the table were things that were already announced in Detroit last month or other long known projects.

There was a series of 3 SnapTite 1981 Fords made. A "Styleside", a Flareside, and whatever the crack-smoked heck the "6-Wheeler" was supposed to be. They're all the same cab and suspension/chassis, just the beds and wheels are different. None of them have been seen again since 1981 that I'm aware of, and I'm not sure why they'd pick the "fauxully" to reissue - aside from it's perceived uniqueness.

Revell U.S. has like 2 employees now, and Ed functions as a consultant and show rep. So no, he doesn't specifically know when kits ship. Those "new" Revell kits ('32 Ford. 57 Del Rio, and '77 Chevy P/U) landed in stores over the past 72 hours. The two biggest distributors are in NJ and CT, so those vendors we're lucky via proximity to get their kits in Friday before they left for the show. My LHS, which does a lot of show vending, didn't get them in until Saturday Afternoon. So they didn't have them to sell at the show they found themselves at (not NNL East) since they were at the show when the shipment hit the store.

Talked to Ed he said the Blazer should be out by the end of 2024 if all goes as planned. I have pictures of everything (well not the Blazer, or any S.T. kits as there were no samples of those) but I took them on my full frame camera this year and I just walked in the door from the drive home from NJ. More to come in the AM...