Luc Janssens

IIRC the first thing Round2 did when they re-released it.

You did good Steve. Remembers me of a wheeler dealer episode where they "upgraded" an older Range Rover with newer style grille and head plus taillamps to make it more desirable for the market. Cheers!

Here's what's in the box of the original Dave Carlock designed kit. Hopefully Steve G. can share some info on the new revised kit. Anyway I'm buying.

Did Revell have a display at NNL East?

Somebody correct me, if I'm wrong but these Dave Carlock designed kits (S-10 trucks and Blazers plus the Ford Rangers and Explorers) were very nice kits, so great to see that the folks at Round2 is making these era kits even better.

Great to see that the good folks from Round2 updated the grille, cuz IIRC the Ertl designed kit still had the old style, S-10, and not the "Blazer like" as on the box-art below BTW these, the Blazer, Ranger and Explorers were pretty neat kits.

Good that I stocked up then.

When getting to the stash, I noticed I have two too. When looking inside the box of one of them saw extra parts to update it with the 5.0 and taillites from the early 90s Cobra kit and some Aoshima wheels.

Love it! Remember building with my dad a Monogram kit of it. Sadly it didn't survive, but thanks to Ebay thru the years I again got one and the Cobra version.

Back in the late '80's Italeri showed 3 possible new automotive kit releases in one of their catalogs, but only one made it as a kit; The Volvo 760. The other two were a Jaguar XJ Mk I Series III and a BMW 7 series like you show in your post, Rob. Cheers!

All 3 of the second generation Dodge Chargers would be neat to see as 1/12th scale kits.

The info bout the Mustang came from the late Bill Lastovich, when I met him at (I think) the last RCHTA show...the part that maybe there was more of the same in the pipeline is pure speculation on my part.

Think the first "snapper' from Revell-Monogram which was designed as a coss-over, was the WOF '10 Mustang convertible, maybe more was in the pipeline....

Well as you know Dave, wandering off topic is just the way things go sometimes, one can go further into it or ignore and answer/ add to the original topic. But is it realy off topic, guess we will see, when next months releases are announced Anyway as long as things don't go sideways. I don't mind. But the final decision on such matters lies by those who manage this forum. Cheers Luc

True, but it sheds some light on what the short/long term implications could be for our niche of the hobby. Cheers Luc

Les, I think we all want to talk about something else, but the truth of the matter is that it has a serious impact on the hobby we love and certainly for the people who work at/for Round-2, Moebius, Revell USA, etc....

Indeed. At best it will slow down future investments from manufacturers of which the US is the primary market but manufacture in China.

145% now

Well if these Chinese, American designed kits become "unsellable" in the US, they may divert that slow boat towards the EU, Ha! 😉

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An all new '69-'70 would even be better, a clean start for many versions....

Remember as a kid having a modelkit of this one, but don't remember which manufacturer and if it was a two or four door.

Maybe a chance to see the Bad Boyz 'vette decals available again?!

Picked the following up at a local hobby show. Neat items IMHO

Heard today that a hobby distributor and a vendor who orders directly from the USA, both from the Netherlands are dropping Round2, Moebius. Revell USA and Salvino's. because they feel due to the extra charges, US kits will be a very tough sell, if at all. A model kit dealer I recently spoke with said, that a Savino's kit would be over €100 (about the same in USD) retail. Oh well.