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Interesting that they're releasing them again in two different colors when they just released this kit in the MF Ghost boxing in February. Other than decals and the fact you don't get a 1/24 drone in these two kits I'm not sure I see the point in the repeat. Although maybe they're a few bucks cheaper without the Manga license.

There's going to be an interesting story for this someday. This is a Toyota Celica ST205 Rally Car, which was supposed to be the next kit out of DModelkits as the follow up to the Ford Sierra 4x4 Sedan they did. The project was supposedly canceled, supposedly not, then supposedly was...but if you go on their website they're still taking pre-orders for it. Then today it magicly shows up on the BeeMaNuNu stand. If you find the couple of Beemax produced TikToks (Reels/Shorts) these tooling mockups were not on the stand when those were made. People were of the opinion that the factory in China that does Belkits stuff was the one to tool the Sierra and Beemax's stuff is done in Macau...so who knows who owns what as it corresponds to this project at this point.

One of those three subjects was 3D scanned (Mustang), the other two weren't.

Last one for this morning from Hasegawa test shots of the R30 Skyline, and a built production shot of the EF9 Civic in it's race trim. More photos from Hasegawa to come as more photos come in...today and tomorrow are Media days, so the majority of these photos have been either company provided or are courtesy of Model Art Magazine.

While we're at the Aoshima booth, new entries into the 1/24 Snap Car line include an Evo III (which was mentioned on a sign back at the Tokyo show last fall) and 1997 Honda EK9 Civic Type R and 2024 Nissan 370Z NiSMO

Aoshima has decided (and hey why not) to release several models attached to the Fast & the Furious properties. Two are modified reissues... The other is a brand new tooling. Interesting to see them finally break away from reissuing that craptastic 1/25 AMT offering that has been their previous kit for this generation of Supra.

Beemax showed prototypes of three 1/12 offerings which include 2007 Yamaha YZR-M1, the aforementioned Mazda 787B and a "mystery" offering - which is a Porsche 917 LH. More to follow from their both as more images arrive.

Tamiya announced the new 2025 Honda Prelude. The gimmick on this one is an opening hatch and a set of luggage and golf clubs for the rear. Rather disappointing to see this coming only as a RHD home market offering considering it will be sold globally.

So some of these things now have their own threads, but to keep it all self contained within this universal 2025 Show Thread... Belkits announced Toyota Yaris WRC 2023 Rally Mexico Winner

Well if you go on eBay right now you can pay $50 for an incomplete parts kit sooooo... I mean I get what you're saying, but I'm pretty sure it's never been reissued which means the supply is whatever is left over from 60ish years of diminishing second hand stock.

Realized I haven't updated here for awhile. So I got both the PZY/Kitbox and Alpha Model versions of the SF90XX Also here at the last two boxes from HLJ. The most recent one arrived yesterday and the de minimis still stands from Japan so no tariffs there.

That one is a "street machine/custom" only, you can't build a stock truck out of the box. It only had one other release back in the mid-90s the year after the stock pickup kit was done. It's one of a slew of "B-Side" kits of that era of AMT/Ertl - like the Lowrider 70 Monte Carlo - that never saw the light of day after Racing Champions bought the company until Round2 started reissuing them again over the past 6-8 months.

Well if people are using your stuff and you're not there to file complaints on it, they're gonna keep using your stuff and you just won't know or be able to do anything about it.

I don't know if there's been a more recent version of a thread about this kit - the search function here being what it is (and isn't), but this kit was finally released last week in Hong Kong/China. Now of course the problem is it's being taxed to heck and back if you try to order it directly from places that have it in stock due to the suspension of the de minimis from those locales. Should be available in Japan sometime later this month, and it'll be interesting to see how that would be handled under the current tariff regime. Technically it's a product of Macau, not China, and as such wouldn't be subject to the current de minimis nonsense that effects HK/China items. If you ordered it through HLJ and can store it for an additional 60 days beyond it's arrival date you might not have to worry about it - or it'll be 10x worse - depends on what mood everyone is in that morning.

A lot of the other Hawk stuff still existed through ownership at Lindberg, so on theory it's either with Round2, or perhaps part of the slew of old tooling Round2 sold to Atlantis.

There's a few folks who's wallets have been safe every month for the entire time Round2 has been producing these videos...that was my point. Like there's great value in helping people out who, in the case of the above discussion, didn't realize the Elky roof issues had been resolved. I just don't see where the race to be first in here to say you're not buying anything...MONTH.AFTER.MONTH...adds anything of value.

Ya'll need to band together and focus this energy on a new thread up in the General Section called - What I Didn't Get Today

No. Back when this kit was made AMT/Ertl was making annuals of the S-10 & Sonoma, this kit came last in the line after the single headlight grille style ended. It doesn't have stock wheels or front/rear bumpers. You might be able to get 98% of the way there by swapping out the bumpers from the Sonoma reissue from a few years back.

They'd have to make further tooling for all of that as the two kits we got were the only ones planned and done - and that's direct from Revell prior to the bankruptcy and tooling damage kerfuffle.

You'd think...but then the Revell '29 & '30 Ford were only designed to be those two kits and you'd think that's a milkable base for a series too.

Salvinos which is the most Murica of all the U.S. options still had to go to China for tooling because they couldn't find a U.S. supplier to make the tooling. Heck they can't even find a supplier to do minor inserts and fixes to the old Monogram stuff without doing backflips through hoops of fire. Their kits are $54.99 (via their own website) for the NASCAR and the 1/20 Indy Cars are $79.99 and ONLY available through their website (and trackside). For legacy manufacturers (Round2 and Revell) who's prior management 3-5 owners ago decided to off-shore manufacturing it doesn't make a lot of sense to have two tooling banks in an age when, in the case of Revell, they don't even have their own warehouse space.

No they were not there, neither was Atlantis, only Round2 in attendance.

The kit has been around since the early 80s and all of the various releases are fundamentally all the same, so any review of it will cover the new one (minus the 3 new parts and decals).

So granted this isn't for April per say, but rather for Round2's early Summer releases. Those MSRPs were $37.99 **48 Hours Ago** and were originally $33.99-35.99 when they were listed prior to the March 4th implementation of the first initial round of tariffs.