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I think you'd find most of the European folks here would offer up body parts of which they have two of to get an easy and reliable supply of America subject matter car kits. The same goes for Japan, which has an entire subculture devoted to American cars, the problem there is while they can get the kits they're hideously expensive with the export costs and the currency weakness against the USD. Same thing for Australia where you can generally find American kits, but they cost 2-3x what they cost here for the same reasons.

I suspect we'll have to wait until either the 1st of the Year - although they didn't actually do that in 2025 for the first time in quite a established tradition, or until Spielwarenmesse at the end if January to get the Revell 2026 main new kit/major modification reissue news.

It's the SuperSnap (SnapTite) version of the Lindberg 1/20 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which was a simplified promo version of the glue kit. Those were dealer promotional giveaway items.

Minor point of order, now granted these trucks are supposedly "Special Use", but the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is the resulting agency from the merger of the Las Vegas City Police and Clark County Sheriff's Office back in 1972. It's actually headed by the County Sheriff (rather than a Police Chief) and is responsible for all unincorporated areas of Clark County (8k+ square miles) in addition to the City of Las Vegas.

The decal sheets for the kits are right below each of the box art placards and there isn't a decal for those "scoops". Makes me wonder if there wasn't a Berlinetta nose tooled up in the 1982 into 1983 kit and in the end they ended up leaving it a Z/28 and the 1/16 became the Berlinetta. The entire nose piece is separate on the 1982/83 kit so it would have been a quick easy piece to tack onto a blank spot on the tool at the time. I wonder what happened to the factory parts when they made the kit into a "Street Machine" in the mid-80s. I almost think the kit would sell better as a 2n1 since no kit of a 1/25 82/83 Berlinetta exists, but then again the Berlinetta ran it's own specific rim those yeats and now you get into having to make parts...😜

El Jefe is this 1980 Snaptite kit... I don't believe it's related to the tow truck as it was a one and done release that year and never seen again. Much like the series of 1981 Ford Trucks that resurfaced as that weird short bed "Dually" reissue.

The family that owns Stevens Int'l, MegaHobby & AAA Hobbies (wholesaler, online retailer, and brick & mortar shop) are retiring. They've been at it for more than 40 yrs, nothing nefarious or money related. Surprising someone hasn't tried to acquire it, but then they've never been particularly price friendly either - and I don't doubt that wouldn't extend to what they'd want to buy out the business.

Announced a few days ago - per Fujimi's X (aka Twitter). Expected release is "2026". The 1/24 scale "SUBARU WRX STI" (VAB type) joins the inch-up series, which requires gluing, painting, and assembly! This is the first completely new mold item for the inch-up series since 2017, marking the first all-new mold in about 9 years. The highly anticipated first release is… The special edition "EJ20 Final Edition," of which 555 units were limited-release sold in 2019. It recreates the car's distinctive features, such as the gold 19-inch wheels and the rear bumper with the air outlet grille.

Yeah I am seeing ads plowing through a wide variety of the forum right in the middle of topics. There used to be a way to close them and report them back to AdSense as being placed wrong - but the ads this week don't seem to have that feature.

There have been some cease and desists sent out over the years to various resin companies. Both GM and Ford have done that, and since they have in-house legal counsel it doesn't cost them anything since they're already paying those lawyers anyways. What is Joe Blow in his garage going to do, fight it? On the basis of...I can't even imagine what basis. Wouldn't be so easy to do with a digital file being made by a guy in Eastern Europe, there's a tangle of laws there between the U.S and the EU. Plus, it's not a tangible asset, it's just a series of "pictures" in a computer until someone presses the "go" button on their Elegoo. Plus as so many people have found out, once something is on the internet, it's always out there. Even if you did cease and desist Andrey over any given car file, the car file is already owned by dozens, if not hundreds of people who can just send it to each other. They might have a better chance at going after the "Print for Fee" guys who are selling the full printed kits on eBay but even then, most of them are again in the EU other than Iceman.

There's usually a master licensing agreement that gives you the trade dress items (name, logos, et al), and then each individual item has to be given approval of its own. If memory serves me from hours and hours of listening to Salvinos JR folks discussing it at length only GM still has an in-house licensing department. Both Ford and Stellantis contract out through 3rd party services. Should also be noted as it was being discussed in another thread. Having licensing to do a diecast of (insert your scale here) doesn't automatically give one the right to reproduce it as a plastic kit. The licensor always has last right of rejection for any project at any time and this entire thing might come down to Round2 not wanting to pay Warner Bros. fee, or Stellantis having no current interest in seeing a '72 Roadrunner reproduced by another company - giving that exclusive right to SJR for their NASCAR items.

No it does not. Both 1964 kits have the same hood.

Fast Forward all these years later and a state of chaos with Ford (and later GM) took out Jack Cooper Transport which was the largest remaining union auto haulers a few months ago.

Any one in particular? Well the shlubs and the file designer aren't paying licensing to Stellantis...