niteowl7710

Poor guy, hope he never reads all the hate he gets everywhere from what he wears, to what he says, to people blaming him (elsewhere) about what Round2 is making. Just the other day while making a video I said Fujimi when I meant Tamiya TWICE in a row while looking at a photo with a giant Tamoya logo in it. Word soup happens to us mere mortals. No one noticed the giant sticker on the box lid that says 50 Years of Edsel that he just read out? Sure blame the video guy, not the marketing and art department for no one in the entire approval process knowing how to math. I mean if you guys all hate this poor schmuck so much that every one of these monthly videos gets turned into "lob flames at the Round2 guy", why don't you all just save yourself the stress and not watch it? Or at least sling some arrows at the editing department who when they were watching this thing in Post Production didn't realize he says Olds Superbee or '69 Pontiac either. Thank God none of y'all perfect folks EVERY mispeak in this sanctum of perfection.

No it's a straight reissue of the GT/GTA kit.

I'm not sure you'll ever see that one come back, the engine was made out of white metal which was all the craze for about 20 minutes back when Gunze was doing that to a bunch of their kits as well about 25-30 yrs ago.

It should be noted that ONLY the Lexus kit comes with the LHD parts. Neither Soarer from either has them.

There's nothing new about Hasegawa's venerable 2000GT other than the resin female figure.

Alright now after sitting down and actually looking at it, the BOX ART car is a 2016 24 Hrs of Le Mans car, the TEST SHOT build is a 2017 24hrs of Le Mans car...which is also missing the 24hrs of Le Mans logo on the number placards, but whatever it's early run decals. But the rest of the sponsorship and the placement of the numbers on the built kit are definitely the 2017 car that finished 2nd. Soooooo which kit are we getting exactly, as you can't split the difference and deliver an accurate kit of either if you try to include livery for both, unless there are two rear splitters and headlight choices in the box.

So long as they actually tooled up the later spec race parts. There is a pretty significant difference in the rear splitters between the 2016 car and the '17'/'18 car, along with different headlights and a few other tweaks here and there. Ya know Ganassi ran FOUR of those in 2016, and both the livery shown on the box, and the one that's built are the two worst finishing cars. They didn't even podium in their class, why show those two off when you'd have to hope the 68 & 69 placards are in there to do the 1st and 2nd place cars....(third was a Ferrari).

The only version I have is the 1/24 kit. The 1/12 never interested me that much, even though it's still not THAT big considering how tiny the real car is. I just never dug the weird juxtaposition of diecast and plastic of the large scale kits.

The kit replicates one of the first Caterham Super 7s, which at the time was a complete kit car as Lotus had been selling - with a more powerful Cosworth engine. They ran out of the Lotus supplied kits in the late 1970s after about 6 years and have been producing their own "replica" versions ever since.

Yeah well going to most hobby shops will net you a slew of kits that are 6 or more years old in terms of their release date, and I'm not talking about the myriad reissues either. There's no demand for any more C7s beside that odd half-promo glue kit made, but there's a rabble at the gates demanding a 120+ part, 3 season old Ford GT GTE car?

Well those Corvettes are also 6yrs old for the Coupe, and 5 yrs old for the twin-pack. I'd want them gone at pretty much any cost too if I had a bunch lying around my warehouse. That also tells me Corvettes have at least as much interest as those goofy "show rods", which everyone always wets themselves over whenever those reissues are announced...

Looks like pricing is gonna be right up against $180-200 in Japan based on what some of the European places that have it up for pre-sale are trying to charge.

Well ya know how it goes, some people don't care, some people insist the difference between 24th and 25th is a like 1/35th vs. 1/72nd...

Not only did this kit never get reissued, Revell shortly dropped their entire Ferrari licensing shortly thereafter.

The parts to build the FF were already in the Ferguson kit, this is just a package with two complete kits and the book. Within the actual 1:1 the TE was built in England, the FF in France later in the production run with completely French sourced parts, so it had a different seat, steering wheel, front wheels, headlights, and distinctive paint job.

Because I don't take the whole "I'll buy a case of those!" thing lightly...

FWIW the new Welly '15+ Chargers are NOT 1/24 scale by a large margin. Which isn't surprising for them, as seemingly nothing they ever do really is...heck the box art says "1:24-27" on it...I guess it's a sliding scale now? Definitely is on the 1/27th end of things.

The issue with that is, unlike GT3 customer racing there's only 1 Ferrari F1 team with two cars, both of which are represented by the effectively the same livery. Much like Fujimi's recent McLaren-Hondas where the only livery decals were for all the evil tobacco & alcohol companies we had to save the children from... I'd also expect this to effectively be a curbside as the recent trend in "super secret" F1 engines has made a full detail kit out of the realm of reality the last several kits from both manufacturers starting back with the Red Bull Renault.

The ceiling of the courtroom will also be several scale inches too low...

I like the double speak of saying that customers won't be impacted, but they also don't know if the entire thing will be sold as one chunk, or split apart - which no matter which nice business speak you want to call it - is called liquidating assets. They can call them underperforming and dump all the dinky little companies that don't impact the bottom line by in large, or like Revell which is profitable, selling off the stuff that gets them the most money to dig themselves out of this huge hole they bought themselves into trying to be everything to everyone's hobby. Sell the R/C stuff to Traxxas and kill off the lawsuit in the process since they it's hard to sue someone over using your IP when you then own the IP...that might be cheaper in the larger picture than whatever punitive settlement of all past sales profits or the like. If someone were to pick up the entire thing and it's debt load they would of course ransack the management (which sounds like it's needs a good going over anyways) and then anything becomes possible in terms of what stays and what goes. As far as the generalized broad numbers, that's all bankruptcy speak. Just like when you answer a survey and it asks which your household income is and you're given a range. They're worth between x and y, and have between x and y amount of debt to between x and y amount of creditors.

It's going to be a "2n1", which is nominally over-selling it a bit since the n1 is a bumper, grille, and wheels added to the factory stock parts.

Well Nao left to go form Rocket Model, and their head 3D design guy left in the middle of the Pagani project. Combine that with the fact the "Probox" Toyota NCV160 is the first JDM new tool kit they've made since the Toyota 86/BRZ & Subaru Sambars - which was in 2012/2013, they were due for a pivot back to their home market a little bit. Plus they're making a small fortune reissuing all of these older kits with a few thousand Yen worth of upgrades to wheels, tires and decals. Shizuoka show in May should give a good indication of the path of travel this year.

Those are the most recent additions at Stevens. Round2 is always adding kits, so that's just part of the 2Q offerings. As for Revell being sold doesn't help anything, but also having all of your kits at least a month behind their original release dates doesn't either. Chances are the 2Q offerings are marginalized to help catch up as well. Remember when there was no 4Q at all in 2016 because they got all backed up on releases.

Hobbico bought Revell-Monogram lock, stock, and two sliding molds in May 2007. They bought Revell of Germany in 2012 and started Hobbico Europe to distribute them. It's all controlled out of Champaign. I will plead complete ignorance to European laws in regards to what happens to a company that's a division of a U.S. company when the U.S. parent goes under and dissolves. I'd also argue we've seen a slow, but continuous backsliding with RevellAG Hobbico owned offerings once they ran through what the former German ownership had in the pipelines. The loss of the Ferrari licensing - which instantly froze a pile of tooling and vaporwared an entire kit series, the cost cutting measures - when Europe actually has a growing hobby market, the quality of kit tooling and parts count declining - nobody can compare the Panamera and all is sink marks and half-engraved nonsense to the DTM cars or Mini Cooper, etc.

They filed Chapter 11 because it grants in automatic stay against their creditors - and gives them 4 months to figure out a reorganization plan. I'm sure the people in charge would love to keep it together and not get tossed out on their ears. But not every 11 case is puppies and rainbows. We're taking about a 20 millionish asset company here with a 10:1 debt ratio, not Delta Airlines or GM. Between the patent lawsuit and the Department of Labor being stuffed in their sideways who's gonna prop them up when there's untold amounts of fines, penalties and settlements pending?