I'll be going the friday as a HobbyTown employee and on Saturday as a Suburban Chicago Rock Crawler member (we'll have a good sized course there and having a competition on saturday ) There were more models there last year than the year before, but Tamiya opted out last year too.
Same here Bernard! It's my favorite of the "live action" Batmobiles and other than the ones from the early-mid 90's animated series, it's right at the top of all time favorites! Don't know if that's because it looks like some of the fastest LSR cars or what though
So long as they're not done like the Boyd's kits, I wouldn't mind a few Foose licensed kits I'd be willing to bet that the Olds and Stude tools still have to be around unless RC2 decided to scrap them. IIRC their part numbers from teh original release attemps might still in HobbyTown point of sale database too