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Latest box from HobbyLink Japan Also a few things from LB Production. The Leon AMG sheet and wheels are direct replacements for the ones that come in the Leon AMG kit that Tamiya did. I have other decal schemes that need those Super GT specific rims and frankly who wants to wrestle with Tamiya kit decals.

I doubt there is an N.A. rebox for this planned. Revell doesn't even sell it in Europe without it coming with the Paint/Glue set. The whole thing was snuck out the back door without any sort of fanfare that it was coming. When I look back at the announcement for this it just says "50 Years of G-Model 911 Model Set" with 0 mention of it being a Cabriolet or it having new parts.

Well the Plymouths were tooled up 3 years before Moebius was sold to Pegasus, so you're talking about two different ownerships and their individual plans for the tooling.

Doesn't all of this stem from the fact these kits are basicly re-skinned Plymouths? They have the Dodge specific parts, but are otherwise carry overs of the original Plymouth kits - as seen by the amount of those parts still floating around. Those kits were originally the regular drag kits and then were made into AWB kits.

...they used to say that there was nobody meaner...and that she terrorized Colorado Blvd...

The last year of the AMT Mustang II annual was 1977, and the releases after that have always been branded at 1977s.

TamiyaUSA says late November. MSRP - $47.

Well of course it would sell especially well to it's niche market. It's how broad a sales base does any kit have into the broader market. Almost everyone tinkering with plastic will buy a good Hot Rod kit, but I'm not sure an AWB car has in-roads with the Hot Rod Guys, the Factory Muscle Car Guys, etc. You'd also never see Moebius on clearance because they don't supply the type of stores (Wal*Mart & Hobby Lobby) that would wholesale their goods to get rid of them.

I suspect the "issue" would be people more or less knew exactly what to expect out of the AWB kit as it's had a number of test shot features over the time since it's been announced. The A990/Day 2 kits were a bit more of the unknown in terms of exact contents.

No it was just an "Art Car" boxing with the big "painting" of the box art. But just like the original 1975 kit it has both the stock & custom parts.

The production run of the Shelby is probably half of what the C8s are, given it's a chin spoiler and decal sheet of difference over the '69. I can see where they'd hedge their bets on exactly how many you'd make of something so slightly different. Compared to the C8 being a brand new tool with (in theory at least) a much larger appeal if for nothing else that you couldn't ever build one before now.

Based on the CAD (and the built test shot) the floor has the "bare bones" stamped texture. I can all but promise you some form of race car is coming out of this tooling in 2025. The only time Hasegawa does this is on their subjects that are dual use tools (R32, Mk III Supra, AE92 Levin, etc). The 61 Starlet was used in touring car and rally spec (the kit description even mentions this), and Hasegawa did that series of 1st Gen Civic Touring Car kits, I suspect this will get the same treatment. As for the various arrangements of features the kit is labeled "Mid-Late" and if the past 8 years of new tooling are anything to go on I'm sure there will be an Early, Late, Mid-Afternoon, Early Evening, Late Morning, 3am, et al versions coming.

To my understanding yes. Although there are boatloads of '69 kits over three releases out there that could be purchased for less than what the new '70 boxing will sell for when it's released.

If the tooling exists (and doesn't fall into the stuff AMT/Ertl had out sourced and no long have access to anymore) it would be the face lifted '94/'95 version.

A serious chunk of the upcoming Tamiya R/C stuff is Porsche themed, so it wouldn't be impossible to believe. Plus there is the big fall Hobby Show in Tokyo coming up and pre-orders for that will be announced this week (Hasegawa for example will be tomorrow [Tuesday 9/3] at 11pm Eastern). So it'll be official in short order.

I don't doubt the tooling still exists, I just wonder what point it would serve to reissue some old promo "kit" when there's already a full detail kit that's 30 years newer on the shelves already. It might have made financial and logical sense in the early 90s before the Revell created the '64 Chevy in 1996. Heck the fact that kits are usually in the pipeline 18 months in advance the news that Revell was doing a new tool truck might be what killed the American SATCO project.

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Legit question - With Revell having done a '66 Fleetline as part of their '64-'66 Chevy truck line, what would be the point of resurrecting an old promo be? With all the grumbling about the curbside nature of the Craftsmen Plus kits (aka - "I'll wait for the version with an engine") I can't see where cloning something to provide the market with a curbside version of an already existing full detail kit makes them any money. Back when American SATCO threatened to produce it the Revell kits didn't exist yet.

...such as? The ZG came out over three years ago, if there was a problem you would have heard about it.

But all of that stuff was in the ZG, the single parts tree is the only difference between the two, other than decals and the subtraction of the ZG nose parts.

Well it only took like 3.5 years if waiting...