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Well if they drew too much attention to it, the Great and Powerful Wizards of Illinois would be admitted they made a goof by putting the wrong grille in the original kit. It's a very COPO Nova approach...pack a kit with the parts you should have gotten in another kit in the first place. Of course broadcasting that the kit now has the correct 4-4-2 grille and decals would probably move quite a few more $27 model kits than they're going to sell otherwise as just a Indy 500 Pace Car with a figure I reckon 78% of builders couldn't care less - let alone want to pay an extra $8 for - about, however see Point 1.

Actually it's a Revell U.S. kit, hence the 1/25 scaling. It was designed back when Revell was still in California, and much like the Auto Transport Trailer the tooling was done 3rd Party in Europe, so the tooling always stayed with Revell AG. As far as a refund/exchange, why not contact Revell and let them know all three kits are missing parts. Then they can send you the missing parts runner(s). Chances are there might be several cases of them that got packed that way, and it allows them to pull the remaining ones to have them checked. The kits were run in Poland, and then sent over in bulk bins and packed in the U.S., so someone just wasn't on their "A" game one day at work. Very similar to when some of the new tool Mk1 Golf kits were packaged with the wrong interiors last year, not every one was wrong, but several cases worth were mis-packed.

The 918 will invariably be crammed into a box that's 2 times to small for it and be a warped pile of nonsense like most other rebox kits they've done in the past five years. Beyond that I like that Revell has created an all new category of car design - ProStreet DONK. What in the world is going on with those wheels and that goofy cowl induction? But not only will those two be molded in white, they're also...full detail? They're being listed as Skill Level 4 Glue kits. Here me out -- there's still a listing on Tower Hobbies for a December releases of a '13 Camaro ZL1 for $15.95, that's the unpainted kit. There's ALSO been a listing on Tower for about a month now for that Camaro shown on the flier under the Revell name with a price of $19.95. Unless you're gonna try to tell me that goofy hood and donktastic Jada diecast wheels incur a $4 upcharge, I'd like to think I'm getting a real chassis and what not under those kits. IF those kits come with stock hoods and wheels and are actual model kits rather than the weird 'Showroom Replica with an "Engine"' of the prepaints then I'm in for both, otherwise best of luck combining two long faded trends into one. The Camaro will 99% not have all of it's weird rear end issues fixed, so skip. Guess I'll take the '66 Fleetside and see what the rest of 2016 holds.

That's because it's an actual SnapTite (aka Wheels of Fire) kit, not a Build & Play.

Galaxie Limited has always used a Korean tooling source, but I would imagine a large portion of the 15 year delay in getting the Coupe version out is the same reason that Accurate Miniatures went bankrupt, AMT & MPC have had three owners, and Revell/Monogram has had at least two. The falling off the face of the earth of the hobby - brought on by Wal*Mart demanding a set price point, the closing of other mass retailers (anyone remember Hills or Ames, or Woolworths, or even G.C. Murphy? just to name a few East Coast ones), the death of Children's Palace which used to have a massive model aisle, the over all economy, etc, etc, et al. Through the Dark Ages between 1999 and 2008 the only company that never changed hands or went under was Galaxie Limited making their way one Aerosedan, Sedan Delivery, Dragster, and Race Car Hauler at a time. It was just recently as the "everything that's old is new again" nostalgia gripped the hobby that Galaxie Limited kits suddenly had a resurgence in popularity and were stocked back into a lot of Hobby Shops. About a year ago, I bought one of the last Aerosedans Gary had in the warehouse, it didn't even come in a box art box because those had all run out. The biggest actual reason for the current delay once Gary decided to move ahead with the Coupe was the goof up with the tooling that required scrapping the original attempt, and creating a whole new tool for the body based on the rework of the original test shot. The West Coast Port "Strike" was over before it even thawed out enough to start running the machinery again in Korea.

Something to.keep in mind with fixing the tooling is that it was originally done when the movie reboot was done over a decade ago. That's an entirely different ownership of Revell, who knows what has to be done just to get it "up to snuff" to make the changes.

It was released in Japan on the 17th, so based on the pattern of the Fords, it should be any day now.

These kits are about as "rare" as any other 90s Tamiya kit. Studio 27 did a Carbon Fiber decal set for this right after the first of the year, and all the $20 ones instantly disappeared. This created a little faux collector's market. You can find them pop up in the $20s if you have them on a Watch List. They seem to reissue the OOP stuff on like 3-5 year cycles which makes this and the 90s M-B AMG DTM cars prime candidates for being Spot Run again as the Opel is still in the active catalog. Tamiya just dropped about 6-8 kits out of the catalog, so it'll be interesting to see what they replace them with in the 3 & 4 Quarters. However for the moment, $40 is probably fair.

Well then there must have been a misprinted price, because last week they were $31.95. I wonder if they'll honor that price for people who ordered it last week, or if the price "corrected itself" once you got into the ordering process. Makes me wish I had actually ordered one.

Just for clarification S41.95 is the SHIPPED cost, the actual kit is only $31.95 when ordering directly from Galaxie Limited.

There are also several businesses that use the umlaut spelled version. So those trademarks were already taken.

These kits are finally shipping out to Distributors, and will be available in the next week or two hopefully.

I suspect it's because it's not a real world. The one like in the infamous strip is Möbius.

It's gotta be creaking up over 350 now. In my defense about 100 of those are kits I managed to warehouse in storage lockers through several early adulthood moves prior to finding permanent residency in my house. I have gotten to the point in the past 9 months or so that my many conquests to acquire entire "collections" of a specific car (I have like 40 Nissan GT-Rs of varying vintage) have been completed, and most of my kit purchases are confined to new releases and/or GT3 "blanks" for the mountain of decals I've acquired. I'm always looking for the one or two odd kits that complete a series, THEN I'll build them - yeah that's the ticket!

All i have to say is, cut the hoods off the runner and sit them on the body before you presume there's no warping issue. My hood looks fine to the eye, but it's glaringly obvious when you sit it on the cab that a little bit of tweak makes the entire fit, particularly at the hood/cowl interchange off by a lot. I'm not bashing, I can fix it, I'm well practiced by my excursions into Revell US reboxed RevellAG Ferraris, just consider it information - especially helpful before you start primer/painting. As others have said there's really nothing to hold the hoods on in mock up, they don't fit INTO anything, they just lay on top of the fender. The texture isn't nearly as bad as some people have made it out to be, I was expecting a moonscape. But it is there, it just doesn't concern me,

Several online vendors that I know both here in the States as well as in Japan will automatically list a kit as "Discontinued" if they can't get more kits from the supplier. Sounds like the run sold out, which can't be a bad thing at all regardless to your opinions of the bumper, fenders or any other part of that kit. Sell outs = Money Money = MOOOOOAAAAR models Nobody remembers the '70 Hemi Cuda being "Discontinued" for a couple of days a few years back when that run sold entirely out to the point they actually had to make more in China when they ran the tooling again for the new Sox & Martin Cuda?

Inspecting my short bed tonight I found the hood & bed sides warped, and one inner fender well doing an impersonation of a Cheeto. The runner the hood came on is clearly warped in just the flow lines to the parts. I can't believe after 3+ years of fighting to get this kit out China managed to totally muck up the entire production process that bad. In attempting to straighten the hood I already am developing a stress line in the plastic after the most minor attempts as it's the least warped of the parts.

I wish someone at Revell...somewhere in the global entity owned a set of functioning calipers, because the i8 looks to be a gem of a kit that's has pedantically small wheels....as USUAL. I hope that Hobby Design, who has a track record of providing more gooder wheel/tire solutions to RevellAGs Ferrari kits does a set for this kit.

Look I don't believe anyone who posts in ANY thread related to a pending model kit - and let's stop pretending that this isn't a PENDING model kit, Revell didn't Whoops gee-golly-willickers accidentally show it off in a major media piece by mistake - about the errors they see is doing so out of some point of malice, or at least I don't. If Revell or it's backers don't want to see blanket bashing of their products, then maybe the should be a little more savvy in regards to at least PRETENDING to respond to comments. Because as Chuck points out 95% of the time stuff that is pointed out in test shots ends up being EXACTLY what the kit winds up containing. I will give Kudos to Revell for fixing the back bumper guard problem on the Del Rio. How many pages of debate did that problem cause? Now puzzle over how many kit sales Revell would have lost from plopping that out with the wrong bumper and letting a certain group of people rampage around the internet claiming people who think it's a major problem are just kit assemblers. Now puzzle over how many ADDITIONAL kit sales they garnered by delaying the kit for a couple of months and resolving the bumper issue...I know they sold one more than they would have - to me. But therein lies the problem...and I'd say the divide between car modelers and the "IPMS" builders. Instead of having a problem with the bumper being wrong, a lot of people were just too excited to have a Del Rio wagon to care. Revell could have very easily just issued a blurb - anywhere - that said "We know the bumper is wrong and A)We used an existing part to complete the display model and the right bumper is included, or B] Thanks for bringing the bumper issue to our attention, we're gonna fix that. Poof all talk of "lazy" Revell stops instantly months ago...but for some reason the Elk Grove Village crew lives in some insulated bunker that's immune to the outside world of actual builders. We as builders are not (as some of the Hobby Popes like to act) too stupid to understand how kit production works, or that mistakes happen particularly between kit design and what China produces. But no, it was radio silence from Chicagoland that let that debate brew and fester until the kit finally came out this week. Meanwhile I don't recall seeing too many military builders chastising each other, producing excuse laden posts of biblical proportions, or resort to personal attacks towards each other when the newest tank, plane, or boat is riddled with problems. If anything right now there's a savage beat down of Dragon going on across the spectrum of the internet because they've been de-contenting reissues of kits, while still showing all the parts being included on the box and charging full price. The stuff being said about Dragon makes the heated debate about the LX Mustang here seem like afternoon tea time. Yet there's no counterpoint of people defending Dragon and saying that people should just be happy they have a tank to build in the first place. Because military modelers are grown adults producing replicas of something, whereas car modelers see that as too confining and possibly too "grown up" for their "We're just big kids playing with our toy cars!!!" attitudes and name call military modelers as rivet counters. To that end Revell knows they can shovel THIS model right out the door with the roof, blower & firewall exactly as-is because car modelers who want to take the hobby seriously simply aren't their customer base. Because so long as the majority of car modelers view the model companies as borderline deities, that every new release is Christmas Morning @ 10 years old, and of course the fact that car modelers are relentlessly cheap; they know they don't REALLY have to take things THAT seriously in the end.

I believe that would be for the 1:1 glass & trim.

I'd say the far more entertaining aspect of the entire process is that as the kits change, different people who are each in their own way more familiar/passionate about whatever the subject matter might be find the faults...however the personally offended always remain the same apologists and torch bearers...coincidence? HAR HAR I say...

Shhh Snake you're too close to finding out where all the bodies are buried. When you start looking at who's involved with what and what problems the past efforts have had, then Fast Forward to the present it suddenly all makes sense why some new kits aren't quite right either. We're all supposed to be too gleefully happy that new kits are reigning down from.upon high to notice pesky little track records...

$60? For what exactly? It's not like it's a licensed copy of an actual trailer. Moebius' NEW tool trailer didn't cost that much, and that's MORE than I paid for the Mitsubishi Car Hauler from Fujimi that has a TRACTOR INCLUDED! These things are a couple bucks per kit to make, and a couple of bucks per kit for box art and shipping them over from Poland. Even at the wholesale level they had to be pulling in $10 per kit and sold the entire run at a month. Sounds like they printed money, not lost it to me.

Hey if you can live with your collection being incomplete, that's your cross to bear. I was just pointing out the 409 only comes in the Convertible kit that's all.

Well you have to get the Convertible to get the 409.