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You can count me among the "Not Shocked" crowd when this get reissued at the end of 2015 or early next year in a regular box the way the Black Widow recently did. This kit "sold out" quickly, so there's still a market for them, and your "big box" places don't get to carry SSP releases.

It would make sense that since there is very little difference beyond the body parts that you would run off a whole slew of kits since you have the rest of the tooling out and being run.

My RevellAG Golfs came in Friday fresh from the Big Building down in Champaign, Illinois.

The Rubicon is going the route of the Build n Play, making it like 7-9 parts, not 20. It was touted as NEW tooling, not a modification of the diecast into plastic kit. Like so many less than truthful concept drawings - remember the Police Expedition looked much different from the Art Department than the real box - I'd be in wait and see mode over anything.

But what I'm saying is the Fujimi EM kit is still I production. Not sure it's available in the traditional EM boxing without looking, but it's in one of their animé series currently. Friend of mine ordered it cause he like the box art and was shocked to find the contents were in fact the EM kit. There is a new "The Circuit Wolf" series of kits Fujimi is doing that will bring the '76 Porsche 930 Turbo EM kit back out after a long dry spell.

There hasn't been a NASCAR kit (other than the AMT Snap-Tite CoT toy thing) since what? 2002?

Well I know that answer, it doesn't cost anything of substance to plop it back onto the market, and the casual builder doesn't know how bad a mistake they're walking out with...Step 3 - Profit!

Why would they retool it with the Fujimi EM kit still out and available?

Just because the 918 was a popular request, doesn't mean it wasn't already planned. I'd expect Tamiya will do one too, and highly doubt they base their kit development on Revell AG websites. I was rather surprised to see the Marmon come back, being the universally loathed kit that it is...

This is just a reissue, it's existed in this Marmon format before. Pour plastic in mold, put in box, step 3 - Profit! Revell AG IS doing a brand new tool fire apparatus. Sure it's not an American truck, but then it is Revell of GERMANY after all. Sort of an indictment of the U.S. kit companies that people are getting steamed the German and Italian companies aren't making new kits of American Class 8 trucks. Beyond all of that with the whole "Share Your Dreams" thing, I thought it was universally agreed that any model company has their next 12-18 months already planned. I think you guys are expecting a bit much that they start an R&D project for kit ideas and then y'all are indignant they aren't bringing those projects to market in 5 months.

Fantastic job on both Toyotas. The Hasegawa curbside kit is one of those "eternal" catalog kits, I don't think it's ever been out of production. There have been a few other variations like the race version, and the metal engine kit you've shown above, but the baseline kit is 001 of the Historic Car Series. You can always backorder it at HLJ, and it's selling for less than $20 with the exchange rate. Just got one in last week.

Well for all the press the 918 has got, it's just officially "gone on sale" (all 918 are spoken for) in 2015. So they're not late per se. Tamiya seems to alternate a majot automotive release every other year if you look back to the Carrera GT, Enzo, DBS, LFA, FXX, and then LaFerrari. Then the "off" year they do a bunch of new military kits, usually one significant release per genre.

More like Home Market Discount, remember Trumpeter is based in China. When you buy a foreign kit through your LHS you're paying to keep the lights on at the Middle Man's place too. Similar to how us guys who use HLJ can by $92 LaFerrari kits for less than $40.

Yet in both of my LHS the larger "art" boxes, as well as the collector tins Round2 has done have all been exiled either down to the end (or on the hand onto a separate shelving unit entirely) with the similar sized import kits and large scale domestic kits are lurking. That might not be drawing the correct eyeballs if you personally don't buy import and/or large scale kits.

I believe the Weissach Sports version is in this case specifically replicating the car that holds the current 'Ring record for production cars, and the first street legal vehicle to break the 7 minute mark. Overall that package deletes the radio, HVAC, adds more carbon fiber and lightens the car by 90 some odd pounds.

Boy some of you guys are never happy. With the exception of four Ferraris Revell AG has done nothing BUT classic cars for like five years now. I gotta remember to gripe the next time Revell US or Moebius offers drag/racing cars I have no interest in so I can moan about a lack of factory stock kits... That aside, I'm in for an i8 for sure, a 918 only if Tamiya doesn't wind up doing one. I'd also like to think that a new Porsche and BMW could be a gateway into new (or at least improved) licensing agreements. That i8 you look sideways at might lead to a 2002 down the road.

Through Tower the Rabbit is $19.95, and the Revell AG Golf GTi is $31.95. You will have to pay the higher AG price if you want a Cabriolet, as that's not getting reboxed here. After a debacle of warped Ferraris and Audis that I have personally suffered through, I will always pay the AG "surcharge" to get a kit packaged as designed, rather than pancaked into one of our smaller boxes.

For the record I'm not complaining, My '68 Beetle in USA rebox glory will wear some spiffy Euro plates from the Cabrio kit i also bought. Just warning of the pending avalanche o diisappointment I saw well up after the '68 Beetle debacle where literally tens of European modelers across FB, and modeling forums attempted to explain to no avail that the kit is in fact correct for what it represents instead of what people here WANTED it to represent. Before fleeing the unflappable cries of "MURICA!" Frankly there's probably an entire subset of casual modeler who has no idea about the entire Revell USA rebox scheme and presumes Revell USA is the one tooling the kit.

Just as an aside you can also get models of ALL of those vehicles I just mentioned (except for the Materia/Coo) from Fujimi. Tamiya also did a Toyota bB, but Fujimi has also done the 2nd Gen bB.

The Cube first started in 1998, but didn't garner it's rolling toaster looks until the 2002 generation upgrade. It came to North America in 2003. The Scion xB, and home market Toyota bB started in 2003 and were brought to both markets simultaneously. There was also a Asian only, nearly identical Daihatsu Materia (Coo in Japan an Thailand). But beyond that the rolling bix on wheels really goes back into vehicles like the Suzuki Wagon R, Daihatsu Move and perhaps even the Honda Stepwgn - although that's a larger MPV van rather than 5 door compact.

I can't find the one I've seen floating around, but it's quite clearly a narrow bumper Euro Spec car with a big RABBIT wording on the box. The other thing at hand is the AG kit is a '77/78 Golf GTi, we didn't get GTi Rabbits in the States until 1983...they didn't even take the front Euro plate holder off the '68 Beetle reboxing, just instructions to cut it off - ya know the CHROME front bumper - so why anyone thinks Revell of GERMANY is going to provide U.S. Spec parts is beyond me.

Well we're on a separate thing with the Cube vs. The Original Car at hand, but the thing to remember about the Cube is it was in production as a JDM vehicle for 11 years and two product cycles before Nissan decided to sell them here. The styling isn't out of sorts with comparable JDM designs.

We're getting the GTi reboxed here as a Rabbit in the next month or so. There's been no announcement of the Cabriolet, and if it follows the Beetles there will not be one. They didn't rebox the Beetle Cabriolet for us, if you wanted one you had to seek out an AG box - the same for the Trabbies, and the Rally version of the Mini Cooper.

It's in the first test shot, probably Summer at the earliest. I'd expect more information later in January during the Nuremberg Toy Fair, that's where the public unveiling of the 4L took place.

Oh a little thing like that isn't going to stop Revell U.S. from reboxing the GTi, slapping a set of Rabbit decals and U.S. plates in it, and marketing to their fawning audience that considers them the second coming of the Messiah as a VW Rabbit shamelessly. Probably in the California Wheels marketing line too to make things more obtuse. I can promise you that no one on this side of the Atlantic has paid a whit of attention to anyone putting out these kind of warnings and are going to eagerly run right out and buy one of them and promptly the whining, wailing, backlash will start by all the people who don't seem to understand people build model kits outside of the United States, that Revell dared to sell them something that hadn't had additional parts tooled up to make an American version of the car in question. This EXACT thing happened with the '68 Beetle kit where no one here (in the States) or HERE (on this board) could (or perhaps wanted to) understand that the '68 is a German Spec'd and German Specific vehicle no matter how many U.S. license plates the folks in Illinois put on the decal sheet. I have one each of the Golf kits in their Revell AG boxes on pre-order at Tower Hobbies, they look fantastic, and you have to appreciate the approach Revell AG took in making the kits different from one another and not just cramming a Cabrio body onto all the GTi parts and pretending like that's acceptable. For anyone who has a wide spectrum interest in automobiles (and not a laser focus on the middle two decades of American Iron of the last century), and can handle the fact they are making European cars for a European hobby consumer, Revell AG has been en fuego with their releases for about 5 years now. Just one excellent release after another starting back with the DTM Audis and new full-detail Trabant 601 right through the other DTM cars, the VW Samba & T1, both Beetle kits, the Trabbie Universal, the Mini Coopers (Street & Rally), the 2CV Charleston, along with the SLS AMG and all the Ferraris. I'm pacing a trough in my basement floor wondering what they have planned for 2015, the Nuremberg Toy Fair can't come soon enough.