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The Street Custom BRZ came in this morning.

Keep in mind the prepainted kits have bodies that are prePAINTED, not just molded in color. If you decided to paint over the paint presuming you didn't cause a catastrophic reaction, you'd more than likely obliterate the details. I'd say hang out and wait. Revell is releasing a molded in "blank" white with real decals version of the ZL-1 Camaro. The Corvette is an even bigger "no brainer" for that treatment, especially if no full detail kit is in the pipeline.

Exactly. But it's also a complementary piece to the Berlin Wall Trabant 601S Art Car they did many years ago on their old tool curbside Trabbie.

Depending on what you're looking for in a build experience in general, Fujimi has a pair of Sileightys already converted and ready to be built right out of the box. Although I don't believe they have LHD parts in them.

I believe all of ESCIs tools, along with Protar belong to Italeri at this point. Revell AG (which just popped out that M1 again last month in fact) seems to have access to them as part of the agreement with Italeri that has them sell Revell AG boxed versions of most of their Class 8 truck offerings.

It would be interesting to see Revell AG make some other kits off the Mini Cooper tool, as well as the VW Caddy pickup from their new Mk1 Golf GTi/Cabriolet. I think the BMW 2002 is the most missing European car, arguably there'd be no BMW today without the success of the "New Series" cars, and the 2002 leads to more than one variation from the tooling easily. But considering Revell AG seemed to be replicating several of Tamiya's 1980s tooled cars, it makes you wonder if there isn't a Fiat 500 and VW Karman Ghia in the future. The latter especially since a bunch of the parts could be shared with the '68 Beetle tooling.

Looks like the guy in the Jeep was watching the Aventador which started to pull away, and figured the 458 would move too...and whoops. For all the hype you'd think it hit the Ferrari at freeway speeds, but in reality I think we've all seen Wally World backing incidents with more velocity.

The Celica GT-4 Rally car is slated to come out this month - OFFICIALLY - unlike the ever shifting sands of release time on this Cruze. The kit itself is pretty much the same as the existing Celica Rally car that BeeMax/Aoshima did last year as the Australian Rally Spec, but instead it will be modified to reflect the Monte Carlo Rally which required a new tarmac suspension (as opposed to a more "off road" gravel setup in the first kit) as well as a night lighting package for the front. BeeMax has said this is a Trilogy of Celicas, so it remains to be seen what their 3rd and final variant will be in 2015.

I was thinking that too when I saw the first teasers of this new QV, but I'll danged if the addition of the fuel injected engine and the '88 "Spec" don't make a Countach that hasn't been kitted before. Now how much of a difference that actually makes to anyone depends on how "into" Countachs you are...

Almost positive the tooling is being "modified" to represent a Aventador LP 720-4 50° Anniversario.

I'm curious as to why some people here think there's going to be more than one issuing of this wagon. I see a lot of "I'll wait till the 2nd version" in response to the 2n1 being Factory Stock & Police. Not to be Danny Downer here, but show me any other Revell re-tooled kit that itself got re-tooled, unless we're projecting out 3-5 years when this thing will invariably be put on 20" wheels and sold under the California Wheel banner. There have already been 3 (or 2 1/2 depending on your view) versions of the '57 Ford Custom - Special Edition, Model King Police Car, & Vintage NASCAR. At this point I'd expect any tooling amortization projects - READ Ranchero - will be further modified versions of the tooling. Eg I don't believe there will be say a Drag/Custom 2n1 version of the wagon in 9 months or so.

It shoupd be noted that Tamiya's kits of those two cars can only be built as Japanese Domestic Market cars. There are NO LHD parts in either. If you want to build a North American Spec BRZ or a Scion FR-S you need the Aoshima kits. Which conveniently happen to be the better models anyways.

Nice job! Is that the Tamiya kit?!?!? (Inside Joke)...

I suspect it's due to the fact that the box for the car hauler when compared to the size of a regular Revell kit is in fact bigger in scale...

Hasegawa all the way. Anything Aoshima releases with "Best Vintage Car" on the box is taking a trip back in time to when most Japanese kits were motorized. So it's got a generic chassis, a cradle for the electric motor, spartan interior, etc.

I recently saw a HTUSA with an AMT Vantom with a $43.99!!! price tag attached. When you're marking your kits almost 100% over the nearly 100% mark up... well you aren't gonna stay on business very long.

On a casual once over, all I see is the issue mentioned earlier. The test shot has the earlier kit's rear bumper guards. That's gonna make opening the tailgate part if the hatch rather inefficient...

Like I said Wheels of Fire SnapTite. It's all of 20 parts, if you count each tire separately. One piece chassis with metal axles, stickers instead of decals - typical Revell fare. Granted the Tamiya kits were curbside too, but at least they're real model kits. About the only "positive" it has is for the scale bigots who absolutely can't deal with Tamiya kits since their kits the "wrong scale", it's 1/25 like everything else Revell did at the time (New Beetle, '02 T-Bird, PT Cruiser, etc). It's also probably the most indestructible model kit ever when assembled.

They're supposed to keep airing the Edited "Best Of" shows based on the wishes of Ray and his family. Even after it stopped being live it's still one of the most listened to Entertainment programs NPR carries.

Well I see four kits on this list. That's four more Revell kits than than I bought in all of 2014. What 1/24 stock 1940 Ford did Monogram make? I thought the only one they had was the one that was part of the '40 Ford Convertible ProModeler tool that came out in the late 90s? That's 1/25...

I wasted so many perfectly good hours on the weekends listening to Car Talk. Back before XM (or SiriusXM as it became) Car Talk was one of those shows that was carried on every non-musical NPR station at pretty much the same time. Sad to hear, but Tom had Alzheimers and who would want to live that way. They retired two years ago last month, and I'm not sure how many people who weren't regular listeners even realized, the Best Of stuff is so timeless.

There is no point of reproducing a 7 part version of the Lindberg Crown Vic with a new tool either. I had wondered about it being another Build n Play Puzzler, then rememeber the old 1980 Ranger. Just couldn't get my phone to allow me to post the box art this morning. Considering I feel like someone ran me over with a 1980 Ranger, I'll claim Operator Error...

I got $5 on the Boxter being a straight reissue of the Wheels of Fire SnapTite kit. Everything on that list is a straight reissue of an existing tool with the exception of the '57 Wagon and the Ford Ranger. UNLESS the Ford Ranger is the old '80s Monogram F-150 Ranger that's the cousin to the era Ford Bronco that Revell has run not that long ago. Also whether the ZL1 is an actual model kit this go around, or a molded in white version of the pre-painted kit. The Auto Transport Trailer is the old Revell AG tooled car hauler trailer, nice to have back considering the price point of those on eBay these days.

Revell has repackaged the Heller Bentley at least twice since the 1980s. It's usually a good 15 years or so between "reissues". Heller is a fully functional company again being bought out of receivership a few years ago. They've quietly been reissuing several of their "Big C" classic car kits with next to no notice of anyone on this side of the Atlantic.

As of this evening the release dates on Tower Hobbies are as Jonathan stated. For whatever reason Revell's 4Q releases are sliding hind-end right out of 2014 for the most part. Everyone wonders where the 1Q 2015 announcements are, while the 4Q Corvette is sliding out of control into the 2Q of '15. If Revell hasn't gotten the memo about including decals in the pre-paints after the first round of ZL-1 & Challengers, wake me when they get around to a full detail glue kit.