niteowl7710

Hey look that Cabriolet has a UP-TOP!

I would think the licensing problems wouldn't be expense or whatnot, but rather the various manufacturers refusing to all be lumped into one decal sheet like that.

I have just shy of 129k miles on a Chevrolet Colorado at the moment.

Two things to consider.... First - It's a commonly available kit. The S&H deal is going to kill you until you find a buyer with no local outlet to purchase kits. Second - While yours is the cheapest one up there currently, there are 20 other of the same kits available right now as well. Doesn't seem like this is selling for anyone right now.

Well ya gotta have SOMETHING to do while the paint and glue dries...right?

Ahh right you are, I thought it was a DTR box which they used later which has the AMTish logo, but basically knocked over on it's side...

That's the rub it's NOT the AMT logo, but the one of the company that did these kits (and they did about a half dozen or so of them that I've seen on eBay). I dunno how they got away with it, you'd think there would be a trademark issue, but I guess since AMT/Ertl can never exist again, perhaps there's no "confusion" issue with the logo. Who would sue?

Not nearly as disappointing as the reissue of the '56 DelRay which was advertised as a 2n1 in the original Revell literature, but when it came out was a direct re-pop of the California Wheels kit which has all of the stock parts except the "snap-in" white wall tires. Still I can't believe those tires and the small runner of white-wall inserts cost THAT much that they couldn't include them. But then again I actually like the rims that are part of the California Wheels kit anyway once I looked them over.

Granted it was mis-released under the CA Wheels "sub-brand", nothing on the box or any information about the kit ever said it was anything but a straight reissue of the original.

This kit is where the other two came from. That's why the Street Charger was a "One Run of Fun" reissue, to backdate the tool back to the original NASCAR kit negated the ability to do it again.

I think any potential ticket you might receive would be inconsequential compared to the taxes you'd owe the IRS on your "winning" the Overhaulin' in the first place.

The Ford Courier P/U was last released during the AMT/Ertl days I believe it has a blue truck on the box labeled "Ford Courier". A 5 second check of eBay shows over a dozen Courier kits, but they're not cheap. The Dodge pickup you reference has been issued several times in it's L'il Red Wagon decals, and while it's been awhile since it was reissued, they're not that hard to find. All of the '97 Ford F-150's are particular to their own company. Aka while there's been 4 versions of the Revell tool, it's completely different from the Lindberh, which shares nothing with the AMT.

Price reasonability or lack there-of is going to be directly attached to whether or not they elect to offer one, both, or neither kit in the North American rebox treatment. Otherwise it'll be $32 or so and a LHS/eBay kind of purchase.

There's a reasonably large group of younger guys and gals for whom this would all be second nature. They've been "zModding" cars in Need for Speed, Grand Theft Auto, etc for almost a decade now. The most talented designers can create an entire car from "scratch" into incredibly realistic 3D models. I have to believe those skills would be tangible in this new media as well.

I've put wildly before optimistic too... But at least there's a stock number now,.which means you can pre-order it.

Tooling mock-ups in February? Tower Hobbies seems to think they'll have the entire kit by mid-February...

Well Danno you can bold and add as many colorful fonts as you want, but that's still not going to negate the fact that Revell was asked, and answered in full view if everyone who possesses access to Facebook and the reading level of a 6 year old that actually purchasing a kit was NOT required. This isn't a model contest as much as it is a photography contest. Prove a kid built their entry, prove the model wasn't built last year. Prove I've built less than 10 models in the last xyz # of years. All I'm showing with a receipt is that for that moment in time I had purchased something, then 15 seconds later returned it. I don't think for a second Revell REALLY cares if the rules are necessarily follow the rules to the letter. They get a lot of publicity, marketing and cash flow for what is really next to no investment. They want to attract interest in the hobby (hence picking kits that are on "alternative retailer" shelves), and get the "drop outs" back into the fray. People who used to build, but got real cars, real girls, jobs & a family. Basically ya know...EVERYONE who's older than 25 here, we all left for awhile before coming back with larger amounts of disposable income. People who see this thing on GEARZ and think "Huh...they still make models? I used to do that..." While it might generate honestly NEW interest, that's not the goal. Would you really want to be stuck as the judge in a contest of first time builders. Think back to your first completed model, then think about hundreds of them...put the rusty spork down.

Revell was asked directly last year and said buying a kit during the contest (while in the rules) was not a requirement. If they are going to enforce it this year, then like he pointed out, Wayne's out of luck since the contest doesn't officially start until February 1st making his ACR "illegal" to enter. That's ridiculous regardless of Revell's desire to move some kits this Winter. I own every kit on the list (except the Roth truck, but I own a different issue of the same kit) so I should be penalized for financially supporting Revell when the kits were issued? None of the kits are new, I think the Shelby GT500 and reissue of the Silverado are the freshest things on that list at over 6 months old.

I don't believe Testors has never owned any tools, all of the kits they ever "produced" were sourced from whomever owned the tooling at the time. The Charger kits say "Produced for Testors, by J. Lloyd Inc". A good deal of their import kits are reboxed Fujimi kits. It's actually the easiest and cheapest way to obtain the Enthusiast series of kits as they seem to always sell pretty cheap because of the Testors box.

I'm still wondering how in the world a bus is considered "light" commercial in any form...

Can I dredge up the FIRST year where everyone complained it was all hot rods and "Where are all the muscle cars?" instead? No it's a 2010.

Well I don't think there's any other big rig kits available. The 1/16 kit was a limited run, and everything else is Revell AG. Almost all of the kits chosen are the ones that have wound up at the "other" retailers (Wal*Mart, K-Mart, Meyers, Pep Boys, etc), so I suspect that had quite a bit to do with this year's selections. Not shy about calling Revell in the carpet for their screw-ups, but credit to them, as this seems a rather inspired bit of marketing. Even if it doesn't necessarily make everyone happy.

Clear taillights are better anyway, there was never really a good way to represent the small reverse lights in the lower part of the trim when the while thing was cast in clear red. I highly doubt they lost anything, Lindberg for better or worse has been plodding along at best ever since the got bought by J Lloyd. Heck they had to set their warehouse on "fire" just to fund the 4 year overdue run of police Chargers. That Charger tooling that saw service with Testors as the R/T and Daytona and then Lindberg themselves released it as the SRT-8 Super Bee and police package is probably the last new kit we'll ever see from them unless someone can unshackle it from it's current ownership. It's a shame because the CraftHouse stuff from the 90's was as good as anything else being made at the time.

Oh no planes and modern vehicles?!?!? Building out of you're comfort zone? Cue the flopping around and pouting. I mean really folks they can't have the same "classes" every single year. Might get more kids involved if their choices in vehicles aren't cars their grandparents owned.

That sounds expensive isn't there some sort of do-it-yourself kitchen plastic wrap method?