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Aoshima, slated for June.

Well considering the Celica Rally is still a 3D Mock-up of the Tooling, there's not a hope in Shizouka that's actually coming out in the remaining 14 days this month. Actually none of those under development BeeMax kits are going to come out on time, even assuming there isn't a licensing hiccup like there was for the Cruze. Casey - BeeMax's Civic is a different generation than the one Tamiya made. That Tamiya kit has also been OOP long enough to make it made out of unobtanium...which Honda models seem to get coated in over time, go price the racing kits Hasegawa made, or even the perfectly factory stock 4 door Civic sedan. In regards to the Celica, it has a rally nose on it. BeeMax doesn't seem to hold any interest in making street cars, the E30 M3 is going to be a race car as well.

Price is in line with their "blown up to 1/24" cars they did in 2013. Figure $45-60 depending on source and possibly shipping. Of the two Model Ts, this is the one I'd consider buying, the '13 2 door just doesn't do anything for me.

Once they get the '88 Countach 5000QV Fuel Injected kit - which was announced back before Christmas - out next month(ish), then you can expect to see more on the new projects they teased at Nuremberg.

Oh well let me tell you all...or no why do you even post that comment other than an attempt to flame the people who might actually care?

I suspect since the actual Toyoda AA that Toyota owns, and this kit is designed from is a bit of a homemade Frankensaloon rebuilt from several sets of factory plans after no original ones could be found, nobody knows exactly what the top end of the engine REALLY looked like enough to make a model of it.

Pretty sure considering Chuck already BUILT the kit - it'd be that yellow one - he can speak about what fits and what doesn't...

Someone on here based in Europe posted one in the What Did You Get Today thread about a month ago. But they certainly haven't arrived in Japan where I've had mine on pre-order for close to 8 months now. I've never seen one pop up on eBay yet either.

Now available for pre-order at HLJ with a firmish release date of August. Priced in just under $45. http://www.hlj.com/product/EBR25004/Aut

Now available for pre-order at HLJ with a firmish release date of August. Priced in just under $60 as predicted. http://www.hlj.com/product/EBR25005/Aut

As of right now I don't believe there is going to be one, looks like the bottom of the engine is molded into the frame rails. But we'll find out for sure next weekend when the big Hobby Show in Shizouka, Japan (where all the companies are located) occurs. Also will get a good look at the Honda S600 that's coming out this month as well.

I have one, but I'm sure someone else will come through before I get home on Friday.

So you two are telling me that you don't find the fact a JAPANESE company is the one doing these doesn't qualify as eccentric taste? I don't care how popular it was in Europe, Revell AG isn't the one doing it are they? Something perhaps you'd expect from Heller, but not an upstart Japanese company. But then again if you appreciated the history of Ebbro instead of trying to tell me how much of an idiot I am, you'd find they sort of specialise in off-the-wall eccentric stuff. Go ahead tell me all about how 5 years ago you saw a wave of Citroens coming out...

Well don't forget they started with the 2CV Fourgonnette, and the same time this DS is heading to market their also releasing the pick-up version of the 2CV - mention of which has been banished to the truck part of the forum. That's some pretty eccentric subject matter.

Ebbro isn't anything to France, Ebbro is a Japanese company with an...eccentric taste in subject matter.

The box art the kit is actually released in is an almost exact duplicate of the original. As Mike points out someone made up that faux box (or maybe there was an idea to do that at one point), but it was good enough to "fool" Tower Hobbies, who has since corrected back to the actual box art. FWIW the Round2 & Auto World websites never had the Stig laden box art posted.

That's because for whatever reason France has seen sales that have doubled themselves for the past three consecutive years (per Revell AG) so you cater to the market. The only thing doubling year to year in the American hobby industry is gray hairs. In addition to the actual Auto Industry putting out loathsome products, the hobby nearly died in the process as all the 60s kids did the "women, cars, jobs, kids" portion of their lives and there's really not a big block of people in the hobby who sit around and lust after a 77 Mustang II, let alone a pedestrian 4 door boat. The next major rush of kids came in the mid 80s as the children of the first Golden Age and we had IROCS, 5.0 Mustangs, etc...the only sedans I can think of being made after the AMT '70 Ford are the AMT SHO (which was promo based), the '92 Caprice (later Impala SS) , '96 Crown Vic, and '03 Impala - all Light Commercial fodder and all simple Snap Kits, and then the '06 Charger that was more kit than it needed to be and was a sale disaster. Revell is set in their ways, and they refuse to even dare to repeat history. It's just the past 2 years or so we've seen reissues of some kits we haven't seen in 15-20 years because the first go around was so bad they've essentially waited on an entire generation of builders to have kids before running them again.

Lucky You? It existed, it was discussed here. I'm not about to try to unearth the thread wherever it's buried. Go ask Dave he had at least one member here send him his kit for examination.

Studio 27 is doing a multi-media 1/24 "kit" of the 919 Porsche.

The original batch of '53s had that weird "machining" texture on the hood, but it wasn't anything that affected the end paint finish.

Without a drastic change in management you're never going to convince Revell to tool a low volume,1 variant kit. Nor are you going to convince them that U.S. buyers will pay more than $30 for a model kit. That makes that Lincoln, as nice as it might be, a nonstarter. Frankly it would take a bunch of work to convince me any Revell kit is worth $50 regardless of subject matter based on the past 3-4 years of new tooling.

That's the retail price, the sales price is below it, and is actually down a few pennies to $61.68. When HLJ lists it next week after Golden Week ends I predict a lower price below $60. Is it stiff? Well you're talking about a "boutique" producer at this point. EBBRO doesn't have 50 years of old tooling they can wrap in nostalgic box art and sell a bunch of for the umpteenth reissue. This is a full detail kit of an admittedly odd car without many variants for further releases beyond updating to the later model cycle, the convertible, and maybe the wagon. Low volume kit from scratch. You guys want one, you'll have to pay the freight. This is the reality of why Revell is the way they are when it comes to not kitting up that odd 70s land yacht I see requested all the time. Imagine the rioting if they announced a $50 1/25 kit.

I suspect this was just merged into this thread by a moderator this morning.

Didn't seem rude, just offering my opinion. Hobby Design can do a lot of things cheaper since they're in China and don't bother with pesky things like copyright or in the past more or less directly copying other people's resin transkits.

August might be a little ambitious for a 3Q kit that hasn't been officially announced.