niteowl7710

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?

Problem is they don't include the lightbar he wants.

No my point is that this kit is a Round 2/MPC kit. They have zero to do with Revell. Two COMPLETELY separate companies. Ergo if Revell was getting complaint calls about a Round 2 kit the lack of the clear plastic body must be epically disappointing. Akin to calling McDonald's and complaining Papa John's made your pizza wrong...

Lindberg did sell the lightbar separately for $7.49 (about half as much as the kit cost), but it had the same red/clear some split, which meant you needed two of them if you needed one for an all blue light project. As far as why it's never been reissued, the car itself probably can't be relicensed, the Ohio Highway Patrol is a real stickler (putting it mildly) about that winged wheel they use. Back when the kit was issued Lindberg was owned by CraftHouse and they were based in Toledo. The Vector/Vision SHOULD have been in the CHP reissue so you could build an accurate car out if the box.

There are none right now, it was just a teaser post, the actual details come out next week according to the tease.

Man, it must really be bad if people are going to complain to Revell about an old MPC kit. :/

Wonder if it's a tech issue or a price issue... Considering Tamiya released a clear-bodied version of their LFA a couple of months ago, but the U.S. MSRP was $92. So perhaps they can't make a clear plastic body that BIG that retains the qualities they desire. Or they can't make one satisfactorily for the price they think they'd be able to sell this kit for...it's not like the nostalgia crowd is going to pony up say $50 for it. I imagine the $35 it costs at Tower -- figure $43ish at LHS is already making some people cringe.

It usually held the first Saturday of October. So that would be the 5th this year. We have several of the guys from North Coast on here, so how about it guys?

Well lets see this pile of police car "blanks" is still there, although it has half a case of Chargers piled onto it now. My main wall of kits, now everything is sitting flush with nothing double-stacked... Which was made possible by taking all of my import kits (except the London Bus and Trumpter ALF) and putting them onto their own separate shelf.

Same here, although I didn't burn up a PS1, but a rather more expensive PS3.

Still have my Genesis too, along with my NES, and my wife's Super Nintendo. Still play them from time to time just to see how far we've come to the current PS3.

I understand where you're coming from, I would just say that if I wasn't interested in a '57 Chevy 150 in 1996, I was likely just as disinterested when it came out last year some 16 years later. I don't think prolonging the release schedule of tooling variations somehow makes people become interested in a kit. The cost of cutting the subsequent tooling inserts doesn't decrease over time, albeit you can certainly amortize that cost over the longer period using very minor "modified" reissues (California Wheels) to pay for the next variation.

I get the idea, make the tooling variations last forever, while occasionally reissuing the existing kits. But am I the only one getting tired if these 20 year journeys to get the kits? The original '55 Chevrolet BelAir Convertible came out in what...1996? Then the '56 Nomad, then the '55 again as the Indy Pace Car and so on and so forth into 2013, 17 years later and there's still no '55 or '57 Nomad, nor '56 BelAir or BelAir Convertible. Similar to the ZL-1 '69 Camaro. That original Revell tool has to be 20 years old. It took 16 years for them to modify the '65 Impala into the '66 Impala (but don't call it that on the box SS 396) kit. Then 17 years to reissue the previously only once run '65 Impala Convertible. I get it, but I just don't get it. It's like Revell is run by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Why build the whole road over 4 years, when you can pave it in 4 mile sections for 30 years. That's one thing I'll tip my cap to Moebius over. There are 6 variations (currently) if the Hudson - " '52" & '53 Coupe - '52 & " '53" Convertible - '52 & '53 NASCAR Granted you need 2 Coupes and 2 Convertibles so you can cross-swap the grills and whatnot, but in less than 2 years I can build one of each.

Very VERY nice! Is this a replica of the one that lives out in Chicagoland and famously (or perhaps infamously) got tangled up with a Lexus a few blocks from Reynold's show about 13 years ago when it was still out in Rosemont?

Build 'em, it's not like there's a real shortage of old kits, they're all collecting dust in people's basements. With the overall "graying" if the hobby all you old farts are eventually going to shuffle off this mortal coil in the next decade or two there will be a glut of these so called rare/hard-to-find kits. Looking at the fact eBay has 72,000+ models for sale all day, everday since I joined in 1998 makes me believe 95% of every kit ever made is sitting in someone's closet somewhere...

I guess it all depends on how much you like Corvettes. I wouldn't expect any movement out of Revell on the current (last issued as the '10 ZR-1) tool because they're more than likely going to issue the next Gen Vette that comes in 2014. The Craftsman kits are basically unassembled promos. I have the Camaro Convertible (since it's the only way to get one) and it's a nice 50 part curbside kit that should build up into a nice shelf model. So like I said do you want to build a pair of '12 Vettes? You could probably get them both done over a weekend, it save them as quick slump busters. Otherwise trade-bait they be I imagine...

Well there-in lies the slippery-slope if "it already exists, we don't need a new one". Sure Beetle, Mini & 2CV kits exist, but whether anyone wants to admit it for fear of feeling old, those kits.are now (or nearly) 30 YEARS old. Beyond the Asian market vs. European market comparisons they'd be a fair amount of popular kits that wouldn't exist... Revell '49 Merc - NO! The AMT kit is fine Revell Tri-Fives -Heck No! They already had kits of those.. No '32 Fords, no '69 Camaros (hey Monogram had a perfectly serviceable - if not cartoonish one already.), no,'57 Ford, and on and on. I mean exactly where does one draw the line at deciding what kit does or doesn't deserve new tooling? Revell is on try THREE on the '70 Cuda after all.

The Dark Red and Dark Green were also available on the LT-1 Caprice police package. Pennsylvania State Police had several of each as unmarked/admin cars with cloth seats, carpeting, etc. They were some if the most sought after cars when the state auctioned them off as the color/interior options were rare.

The IPMS Germany site is listing the kit as a "in cooperation" release, so new tooling it does not appear to be...

Your right they were all black, but there are a fair amount of clones out there (which ironically missing the correct suspension pieces is what this does build) that are other colors. I've seen them in Silver, White and the Dark Maroon you mentioned.

Pretty sure every release of the GN including the DONK one includes all the stock parts. This GNX kit was only ever released once back in '87/'88 as part of the Monogram High Tech line (also included a ZR-1, Pontiac Firebird GTA & Olds Aerotech) and as mentioned was cast in black. The original issues have never been particularly hard to get ahold of per sea, but if you're not doing a black GNX, having it molded in white has to be most welcome.