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Yeah the Toy otas are nice kits, but they're also 1:35 and aimed at military modelers like their other armour pieces. Going out on a limb with a 1:24 American Pick-up that all the talking heads of the hobby in the States insist there's no market to be found to support the sales of...that's taking a risk.

Oh I expect the sales to outpace the proverbial hotcakes, but there is already wailing and gnashing of teeth over the scale and "too expensive" expected price tag in certain corners of the interwebs mere hours after it's official unveiling. I think the reveal in Germany rather than in the U.S. is telling as well - as to where they expect their sales to be concentrated.

Well, well, well...a Chinese company known for it's superb 1:35 Armo(u)r kits winds up being the ones who step way outside their comfort-zone to bring us the first modern pickup since 1999. With an engine and everything no less! Starting with a Crew Cab F-350 would indicate that there's probably a Dually up their sleeves too eventually. Now will people around here who have beem bemoaning the lack of modern truck kits be willing to pry open their wallets for a furrin' kit that's most likely going to have a U.S. MSRP North of $45-50?

The Street Machine is a different variant of the same tooling, much the same way the "Nash Bridges" Convertible kit was. But those wheels, the "Raisin Bran" hood, and the vinyl top (if it existed at all) aren't in the standard '71 Hemi Cuda kit.

It's an old Monogram kit from the 80's, that pretty much what you got out of those kits. It's also the only game in town when it comes to a '71, unless you want to shell out the coin for an original JoHan or MPC Annual kit, and then you'd find even less parts and fun things like metal axles. Since apparently this kit doesn't stir your building desires, you could always get one of the new 1970 Cuda kits and then scratch build and whatnot to update it to a 1971...

Unless Revell AG were to plug it into a hole in the release schedule it's not on the 2014 releases they announced earlier. Maybe 2015, to get this place the true exclusive they're paying for by having it reissued.

If you wanted to participate on Facebook then you can just join in, or if you were planning on creating an album specifically for the build on Photobucket/Fotki/Flickr for the build to be linked up to the main Fotki page for the build you'd need to get in touch with Gary via the F.B. page by this evening. Otherwise you can post your progress here, or as a WiP (might want to call out in the thread title that it;s for the 24hr build) as we'll all be keeping track of everyone's progress while the paint and glue are setting up through out the evening and overnight.

Well it was allegedly supposed to be carried by Barnes & Noble, and there's one out there by the mall.

Yeah the guy put himself out there, so I guess he gets his turn on the "internet barrel", nice that you're all doing it here behind his back where he can't see it tucked safely behind your keyboards. Everyone going for the Internet Bravery Merit Badge this evening? While less than inspiring, to downright sloppy, there are things on this forum that look far worse by a country mile, and yet have so much sugary praise attached to them you get diabetes just reading them. Builds with the finish of spoiled citrus, seams and mold lines, and engine wiring that would scale out to the diameter of garden hoses, and it's all lapped up as the next best thing here. If anyone here actually had their build critiqued they way you hypocrites are doing to this poor mope this place would burn to the ground in a bonfire of butthurt. Whatever happened to the MCM mantra of "Don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!"?? Y'all oughta be ashamed of yourselves! It's one thing to call out these auctions, everyone looks and sees the problems, and then moves on. But I don't ever recall one going into two pages of verbal beatdown to someone who isn't even here to defend themselves. By "This is disgusting", who knew you were going to be talking about the behavior that was to come...psychic thread starter.

Yeah we're really not that far apart, I live off PA-51 out south of Rostraver. Greensburg seemed so far away from here as a kid, but then again so did Uniontown. I think in reality they're both the same distance away, but the Cinemark out at the Westmoreland Mall is 10x fancier than the ceiling falling in dump - don't ask what that sticky thing you just touched was - place in Uniontown.

While Amazon has a Distribution Center in Carlisle, PA, my order was shipped out of Cincinnati. I paid PA Sales Tax at the Amazon checkout, they know where you live (with the whole drone delivery idea that sounds way more ominous these days), and charge the appropriate tax rate.

Alright y'all are gonna have to pick a side of the fence to stand on and park a lawn chair for more than 15 minutes and stop trying to tap dance along top the pickets. The hobby is alive and well, look at all these kits, resurgence, renaissance, ONLINE SHOPPING -- WHOOOOOEEEEEEE!! No one's at the hobby shop, doom, gloom, death spiral, etc, etc... Well if everyone's shopping online, no wonder no one's at the LHS. If no one's buying anything how come the wholesale end of things is looking up? If the hobby didn't die in the 70's and 80's when the cars were replicas of some of the least inspiring automobiles ever created -- man I can NOT wait until the next CHEVETTE model!!! Get out the way the new Pinto kits are in!!! -- then I think things are just fine and well into the foreseeable future. 65 is not the slow downward spiral into the grave that it was when our grandparents (or your parents for the older guys) was...life expectancy is far greater, QUALITY of life is far better as well.

Those days of Sales Tax free transactions are on their way out. Not making any sort of political statement, just a fact. When I ordered my wife's birthday present from Amazon I was charged Sales Tax on it. When the largest internet retailer does that, everyone will have to follow eventually or risk the wrath of the various State Taxation Departments, because we all know nobody willing admits to and then pays the requisite sale taxes on their state income tax forms.

Round 2's website says February. It also doesn't mention any corrections/backdating of the kit other than the "vintage" MPC box art.

As an addendum to my earlier comments... When I played it for my wife, all THREE of my kids (including an 11 m/o - although he was more interested in trying to touch my mousepad) came to watch. My 2 y/o was pointing at the screen shouting "Car-Car! CAR-CAR!!!", while my 11 y/o was asking if they were going to give them away at the Car Show in Pittsburgh next month. Both of them are female type children. Ford - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Well Glenn with all due respect you're about 10x too old for the video. Mr. Wizard got replaced with Bill Nye - The Science Guy a while ago, and this embodies a little bit of that "too interested in the subject matter - over the top delivery". It's slap-stick and kooky, like Luc points out kids will love it. It's Ford's video, not Revell's and as such it's not a Detailed How-To on Model Building, but I imagine Ford's ad people know exactly what they're doing. The video is meant to be playing on monitors as you enter the Auto Show, to grab the kids attention, who will then immediately want one of those "cool" Mustangs of their own and drag their parents past all of the other manufacturer's displays directly to the Ford "booth". Sure a mom and dad with 6-12 year old kids aren't in the market for a Mustang (although Dad and/or Mom might want one), but it's all about getting people in the "door" and then getting them to sit in a cross-over or the F-150 they actually will buy this year.

Ya know Nate I already had it posted to the Calender from back in September when I got the flyer @ 3RAM. Now it's double-posted. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOOOOOOOOW!! :lol: I'll be there as usual, maybe the temperature will be above freezing at the start of the show so people know where to park this time around.

I think it was about a week and a half, maybe two weeks. At the time I was gone for work 5 days a week, so the amount of time it actually took is hard to calculate. One day I was home and it was in the mailbox Being a Revell AG kit you might be pushing the outside of that 3 weeks if they have to get the parts sent over from Germany. Depends if they had any spares on hand in Illinois or not.

I agree completely, hope this "kit", along with the sound bites from the Revell people indicate a new relationship with Ford going forward.

12 pieces of mostly assembled plastic toy is hardly a model kit. The only reason they had it there was Ford PAID them to have it there.

Well I expect the video is probably designed to be played at the Make 'n Take area on a loop. So the target audience is in the single digits, and they sort of expect the over-the-top engaging delivery. Meanwhile there ya go folks who want a modern car, here's your 2015 Mustang! Now back to 50's with you before this modernity stinks up our tweed...

Well the Mustang would be the only one actually in continuous production for the entire 50 years.

Beats being a Garden Weasel?

Revell posted on FB that they're announcing tomorrow. Hope there's something like the NEW stuff for the 4Q or this is a leadup to nowhere.

Austin... Having actually ordered from GMS before I can assure you they wouldn't open the kit, break the rear window, steal a tire, and then reseal it and send it to someone.