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I did a little reasearch myself on b&b, this morning. They closed in the mid 1980's. And were brought back just a few years ago.

Beautiful engine. ?One of best designs ever.

Interesting. b&b did the car in real life? Learn something new everyday. Interesting also. Note the box art car. It has modifications that obviously had to be made to the doors to accommodate the top setup. The box art car shows a vent like window in the front door that one does not see on a normal 928. I also do not see it on the kit itself in the pictures above. Are they in the kit? Lastly, I wonder what happened to b&b? I only remember seeing them around in the 1980's. About the same time as AMG was coming on big for Mercedes Benz. I know what happened to AMG. But not with b&b.

Looking at the instruction for the Revell, it's looks great compared to the AMT version. I may someday want to hunt one down. But, I'd love to see what a finished version looks like first.

A 928 with a T top or Targa set up? With the way the 928s were designed, I don't know configuration be done on the real car. Are you sure your not thinking of the Porsche 930, Brian?

Well, at least you got three out four, and can't blame yourself for the one that is missing. Those pegs for the pipes are nice. But, I don't think missing them is going to effect my build too much.

Don brining up Mouse Trap reminded of a fun game I got for Christmas in '67 or '68. The game was the Silly Safari Game. I remember the game being fun, but for what ever reason we didn't play it a lot. I think setting up and taking down the game center piece evertime you wanted to play, was maybe the reason why?

Good old Mouse Trap. I have never really "played" the game. Neighbors had a copy. But, the only thing we ever did with it was set up the trap and make it work. Other than using the board to hold the trap pieces in their correct positions, we never used the outer movement squares to play the actual game. I can't even remember if you had a spinner, dice, or what, for determining the movement of the mice.

I don't remember ever seeing one those before. Great job on building it to the condition you now have it.

This is going to be weird statement. As I noted, this my least favorite product ever sold in an AMT box. Now if I had found this in a Monogram box, pre Revell/Monogram merger, I would not have been as disappointed. That's the quality of kit. It's just not what I expect from AMT. Shame on Ertl for putting this under the AMT banner.

You are correct about why it's not a mistake to call a Comet an Edsel. Very good. I'm impressed.

What are the letters? Maybe they wouldn't appear random to someone else. No guarantee. Why not give it a try?

Hey, your postal carrier brought cooler stuff to your house, then to mine today. I'm going to have to have a little with mine. ?

Your right about it being Italian Rob. At least that's what it says on the box. In the last couple of hours I've been doing some subassembly work in preparation before painting. The kit is a mixed bag. If one doesn't look at the kit too close, it doesn't look too bad. In fact the body proportions don't look bad at all. But, the engine compartment, the interior, and the chassis are a joke. Parts fit. But, details are weak. The rear seat on a real 928 is a joke. But, the kit's is a joke of that joke. And a joke that doesn't work. And seems to the best explanation for all of the "details" of this kit. Even though I'm sure it will continue to go together with no problems. I have to rank this as maybe the worst kit I have ever seen in an AMT labeled box. It's just not right. It was obviously engineered to pass as something barely acceptable. Easy enough for a kid to build. But, not acceptable to someone who appreciates a good scale represention of an automobile. And that's coming from me, who willing to overlook a lot of flaws and inaccuracies in a lot of other kits. Including other AMT kits.

The question is, what to do with it? I mean I will build it. But, how? I'm just thinking about basically getting a can of cheap gloss black, and basically shooting eveything in that one color. With a few exceptions. Wheels, etc. silver. And call it good.

Wow! This one is a disappointment. They say a picture can speak a thousand words. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Here's one from the 1960's, that I just got in today's mail. These are little cars made by a company called MPC. Not the MPC model company outside of Detroit. But, a toy company from Chicago. These very tiny cars. They were usually sold in bags like this in dime stores and grocery stores. I also remember them being sold through ads in comic books. Most of the cars, have the names of what they are on their rear decks. Two models in the sets were known to have some interesting names on their rear decks. One was the '61 Mercury Comet. It states on its trunk it's an Edsel Comet (which is partly correct). The other is the Alfa Romeo. On its deck, it claims it's an Alpha Romeo. Cool little toys I remember playing with as a kid. But, I never had a set of my own (until today, that is). I always though they were cool. Because they always looked like the cars they claimed to be. Maybe not prefect replicas. But, in the size they were, they looked fairly close. And they were small enough to take with you anywhere. You could then play with them just about anywhere. They where molded, including the wheels, in one piece. Yet for what they were, the non rolling tires were not a problem. It just meant there were no worries about parts braking off or disappearing. In someways the perfect little toys. At least for many situations.

In today's mail, I got these two. I've heard and seen online mixed things about AMT's Porsche 928. But I like the real life car and the price was right. The second thing is something I've been looking for for a while now. These were little toy cars you use to a lot of back to the 60's. Most of the time they were sold in dime stores and grocery stores in bags like you see in the photos. I also use to se them advertised in comic books. They were made by a company called MPC. Yet they were not related to the model company with same initials. They are very small. And mainly on the rear deck, they have the name of the car molded in raised letters. If there is a '61 Mercury Comet in this bag, it will be identified as an Edsel Comet. And if there is an Alfa Romeo. It will say it's an Alpha Romeo on its deck. But in general the rest will not have those mistakes. And generally look like the cars they portray. The only sin beyond that, is my plans for opening the bag. I bought then to enjoy the cars inside. Not just have an untouched bag. I will carefully open the bag to do as little damage to it as possible. But, still I will be opening it.

It's great that you brought up Voice Control Kennedy Airport. The last big toy of that type I lusted for, and got for Christmas that year. And got bored with fairly quickly. I think in less than a year, it was passed on to a friend of my mother's younger child. The Christmas' after that I wanted more sophisticated things like models. I was pretty much done with toys. Christmas of 1969 I was 11, almost 12. That I believe, was the year I got three Eldon model car kits. The Pink Panther. The Milk Truck. And their bathtub thing, custom car. Christmas 1970. I believe the big gift that year was Mongram's Mean Maverick. '71, I know was the Visiable V-8.

Ah good. I'm glad to see with the last few posts, we're back on track. Yes!

Yea, another great video review by Chris. Interesting his comments on the plastic itself. So it's not just me noticing it. Despite the odd plastic, I like the kit. The only mistake I've made so far on mine, is cutting off the little nubs on the bottom of the cab for side pipes. Not a big deal. But, I should have looked at the instructions closer.

Now if we can figure away to bring Dagmar into a meme dealing with Corona. We'd have something then.

Wasn't that way it was with a lot of toys. The fantasy of what it could do was better than what it could actually do. A lot of the commercials also made a lot of toys look like they could do more than they could. This went for both TV and print ads.

Here's a game I never really understood how you were suppose to officially play it. Never had one. Always want one. Played with only once or twice in my entire life. Still trying to figure out why I'm still fascinated by it.

Heck, I want one of Doug and emu. Or anybody else from a Liberty Mutual commercials. I hate that companies commercials so much. Their "humor" is like fingernails scraping a chalkboard to me. Doug and his emu partner are the worst though. But, the idea of beating the GEICO gecko sounds good too.