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Hasegawa was easier to find in the past because they had a long standing bi-lateral (aka it went both ways) import agreement with Revell. If you know you period Japanese kits you'll know there were a variety of co-branded Monogram/Hasegawa or Revell/Hasegawa kits in the 80s and 90s it went back so far. But with the implosion of Hobbico in 2018 Hasegawa lost it's U.S. importer. Hasegawa & RevellAG maintained their relationship through the bankruptcy and new ownership, but I don't know if Hasegawa's distribution was ever specifically resurrected through Revell-Carerra of the Americas or if they created their own network through established wholesalers. Like Justin said the kits are available, but you need a knowledgeable, and dare I say willing, shop to stock them.

I suspect heavily it's because of polycaps. Now you can have the argument about male fitment (Tamiya, Hasegawa, Beemax/NuNu) vs. female (Aoshima & Fujimi) which is all about which side of the wheel the peg is located (eg on the wheel itself or the suspension components) but nearly every single set of wheels in Japan all attach through the use of those little nylon donuts and it's easy enough to cut off the peg and/or make one out of styrene rod (or metal rod for that matter). It's not the relentless goofy nonsense of U.S. kit manufacturers where no two companies can agree which way to mount their wheels for a given 12 month period let alone over the long haul.

They're the same wheels. My LHS at one point had 27 sets of them for whatever reason. I haven't checked back recently to see how well they sold. The Cragers and the 5 slots both came from a series of "Hot Rod" kits that were done about 30 years ago and while the wheels have been reissued repeatedly I'm not sure the actual raked suspension has been included since then.

If you're relying on AK and their partners to make it, never.

It's the parts shown above the built model. Wheels and ST scripts.

Back at the Aoshima F&F land. The built production shots of the R34 and RX-7 and the new parts tooled for each.

More from Hasegawa... Celica LB 1600ST. New wheels and ST Badging added to the fairly recent 1600LB GT body/interior tooling. Isuzu 117 Late - New Wheels and another Japanese "Screaming Chicken" decal New Parts that are included to change the EF9 (shown earlier) into race trim. Mazda SA22 RX-7 Custom. This takes the civilian kit and adds all the aero and over fenders from the 24h of Daytona IMSA kit to make a "race" themed Street car.

Some more from the Beemax table of upcoming Pork and Bimmer goodness. Straight reissue of the 2018 911 GTE with new decals to reflect the other team car with the Rothmans heritage striping. 1979 24hrs of Le Mans Class Winning Hawaiian Tropic 935/77A driven by Paul Newman. This gets a new body, rear fenders and other odds and ends. Porsche 953, (colloquially the 911 4x4) the heavily modified 4WD platform that won the 1984 Paris Dakar Rally. This is based on the earlier 911 SC/RS Rally kit with many new parts. BMW 320 (E21) Gr. 5 - Brand New Tool. This particular kit is being boxed as the 1980 DRM Zolder Westphalia Cup Winner

Parts for the new Hasegawa Skyline R30. Body already shows the indents below the trunk deck for installing the fuel fillers in the Gr. A/JTC car. Plus the brakes and civi gas tank are a separate sprue. Expected, but nice to have confirmed.

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.