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Dunno that I've ever see Revell really commit to a due date beyond what they tell vendors. I also hardly consider this rushed. Revell had the test shots already on hand when this kit was announced and here it is coming out 11 months after that. The Ford & '62 Vette (both which also already had test shots) are going to clock in over a year after the trio were revealed. If that's rushing against a deadline, I want a job like that.

A '50 Oldsmobile, '57 Ford, '62 Corvette, along with the modified reissues (adding the plow to the Chevy 4x4, tooling back a GMC grill to the tow truck), etc. Plus all the tooling for the stuff that will be announced at iHobby in October. It's not like this '32 is the only thing Revell is working on at any one time.

I don't normally weigh in on the "What's wrong with NASCAR" debate, but for the love of Moses take one of the dates off Fontana to spare everyone that boring 3 hours of TV and re-open North Wilkesboro. "Everyone" (being the NASCAR elite) claim NWS has no "modern amenities". GOOD! I don't need a sky-box, falafle and champagne, I want to see people beating the heck out of their cars while enjoying a hotdog and fries. Guess that's why the local short track around here always draws a good crowd.

What Don said. The Monogram box is the newest version of the top two. This is part of Revell's mysterious plan to sell pretty much everything that is a straight reissue as a Monogram kit. It looks like universally all of the Fall '12 release list that is straight re-pops of existing tooling (The Buick GSX and '04 Vette Z-06 being the first offerings this month) is being released under the banner "Dream Wheels" in Monogram boxing, even though at least half of those kits are 1:25 Revell kits.

The "big deal" as it were about this rover landing was that it's too large to land the traditionally way they have been in the past, so it was using newly developed, but otherwise unproven technology. You can test something hundreds of times pre-mission, but when it's crunch time and billions of dollars are hurtling towards the surface of Mars you have to hope it works like it's designed to...and in this case it certainly did!

That's ok though if you get the Revell N.A. boxed version the entire body will be warped like a wrung out washcloth...

Saw that yesterday, they just sold me on getting one of the "custom wheel" kits as that further distances itself from the Tamiya offering. Rather than a triumph for Aoshima, I consider it to be a big win for Toyota marketing that forced their hand into including the Scion option in the first two kits rather than a separate offering later.

Well my LHS guy has multiples of kits, but he traditionally only puts one out on the shelf of any given kit, unless it's a case where he snagged a collection. For example he has an original release of the Revell '67 Charger along with the "current" Cali Wheels version, the former coming from a collection. Otherwise I don't see much on the shelves of Virgil's shop that I can't get at mine in a way that doesn't have the kits go GMC P/U - Contach- '63 Bel Air - Mustang Saleen Speedster - '67 Chevelle - '32 Ford 5 Window - '70 Mustang - '62 Bel Air - '37/'38 Ford P/U. Nothing wrong with it per sea, but it makes my OCD want to re-organize their shelving... In regards to the original point of this thread, I didn't know my local Wal*Mart carried kits this Christmas until they showed up in the Clearance section Mid-January. I have no idea where they hid them at, it certainly wasn't in the toy section (with a 10 y/o and 1 y/o believe me I was in those aisles last year). I now work for Wal*Mart in their Grocery Distribution Transportation, so far I haven't seen any models, but I've only been to two of our 212 Wal*Marts we service since I saw this thread. If I do find them out there, I will be circling the aisles like a buzzard waiting for them to slip into clearance again, there's a great deal of parts potential in the kits the O.P. saw. Hmm I don't think I've bought multiples of anything since the Lindberg Police Chargers finally arrived after that Warehouse "fire". Although there are a few kits that I wouldn't mind having to build more than one way. But heck I need to build it the FIRST way before worrying about a second variation. My LHS is 11 miles to the East, but well worth the drive to me, and I'd be moping around relentlessly if they ever closed their doors. EDIT - I lied I bought several of the Lindberg Dodge 330 kits for their Straight 6s when they were on sale at Ollie's for $8 (the result of the aforementioned warehouse "fire".

He might love models, but he hates organization! Maybe it's me...but does anyone see a rhyme or reason as to how those kits are shelved? Glue in with the snaps, Ferraris in with Hot Rods...my gosh how do you find anything in there without having to go through every kit on each shelf. Perhaps that's the point...catch that impulse buy by getting people to find kits they didn't know they were even looking for... My LHS is Fords one shelf, Chevrolet the next, MOPAR the third (orphan brands - Hudson, AMC, Buick, Olds & Pontiac at the end of the Mopar shelf), 4th is Sports cars (Vettes, Camaros, Mustangs, Ferraris) regardless of year but organized by make and model, with import kits (Tamiya, Hasegawa, Fujimi, RoG etc at the end),Truck models on the bottom with any odd sized boxes (Trumpter, MiniCraft, etc) down there too. Snaps regardless of brand are in a clump, show cars in a clump, race car in a clump. All the manufacturer specific shelving is organized by age Newest to oldest by year of the subject left to right with any P/U & SUVs on the end after the newest cars (again in order by year of subject matter). I can walk in and in 30 seconds see what they have, if a new kit has arrived and get back out. Granted most of the time I go ponder the supplies and paint racks as well.

That should really be part of the swearing oath. Allegiance and faith to the constitution, honor, valor, bravery, dedication to the community....and anything else that may occur."

But for what point, with the bottom cover on (as seen in the Tamiya kit where they mold there's in place in the first photos) you can't even see that it has an engine. So you don't need more than the top part, and it's not exactly a hot must-have engine in the first place. The car is designed to be a perfectly balanced driving experience, not tear up the dragstrip.

Guy got stuck on the Cement Median Wall on the freeway as I recall in San Diego. The Taurus PI was at the funeral for the Utah Highway Patrol Trooper who passed away after falling to his death during a SAR operation near SLC, so yeah I would guess that's an I-80 corridor NHP unit.

Why does everyone keep saying the Aoshima kit has an engine...it did not, and does not. They have said repeatedly on their FB page that they could not include an engine at their price point...want proof? Fine...take a gander for yourself.

Yeah...so much for those Chargers there Wayne Having seen a few police policy manuals in my time let me assure you there is no section covering "Attack by Tractor"...

As pointed out above by Wayne, they ceased production of the Crown Victoria back in 2011, so unless they intentionally buy used vehicles, it's impossible to match them to the fleet exactly. Any "spare set" of vinyl will not fit any of the current platforms. Existing graphics might be made to fit the new Taurus, but heck if you're that far into a graphics program, might as well start from scratch.

Well once the "windfall" comes in from the insurance payout, lots of decisions to be made. Stick with the Ford and their new Taurus Interceptor, or go to Chevy or Dodge. Might as well consider a redesign of the graphics too since you have a blank slate of your entire fleet to work with...

Why would anyone at the Sheriff's Office get fired cause some nutjob pothead drove a tractor monster-truck style into a non-secured parking lot? You wanted them to station someone on the roof with a Barret just in case something like this ever happened? Perhaps they should have went out in the lot and did a Tiananmen Square with the guy?

Man I'm not trying to start an argument with you, pick on you, or embarrass you. Perhaps you woke up on the wrong side of the Looney or whatever. But to us filthy unwashed general public and our knowledge, the Revell Website...which no offense to you I presume to be a higher authority on what they plan to do than whatever they happen to tell their retailers in advance lists the '04 Vette and GSX as July releases...as seen HERE! (aircraft models taken off because they made this post error with "You are trying to post more images than allowed") 1/25 '04 Corvette® Z06™ 85-4029 1/24 '70 Buick™ GSX™ 85-4030 1/24 GMC® Pickup w/ Snow Plow 85-7222 Preferred retailer or not, I can't see why you want to argue about something that is plain as day. I wasn't even going as a dig towards you or anyone else. Rather a comment about Revell changing their release schedule seemingly randomly on a whim. I do wonder what (if anything) is going to slot into those 2 open August release slots however...

Except that it's not anymore, the '04 Vette got bumped into July's releases.

I should say so since the two I left in the August listing are being released in July according to the Revell website...

Tamiya has released a number of new tooling boats and planes in the past few years...but beyond that the Japanese kit manufacturers also don't engage in 12-24 month long tease festivals either. They don't announce new tooling until it's a few months away from coming to market. I'm sure both Aoshima and Tamiya knew they were doing something the the FR-S/86/BRZ as soon as the real car was green-lighted, but didn't go on blabbing about until all of the tooling is cut and it's about to go into production. As other have mentioned in this thread, Japan is still a solid market in the hobby, and I don't believe the manufacturers have to deal with "big box" wholesalers (Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Hobbytown USA, etc) like Revell and Round 2 do. Therefore they don't have to tease subject matter to the purchasers to see if there are enough pre-orders to justify production.

Dave Panek has been back in business for almost a year now. I know he offers an Aerodynic which would be your LAPD bar of the 1980's into the mid-90's. The Plymouth Furies the Yodel models represent were from an era when LAPD still used the "soup" can lights.

I'd like to claim this is a once in a lifetime occurrence, but I can remember re-organizing the stock on the shelves at K-Mart, Toys R Us, and Children's Palace when I was younger (early teens). Maybe it's OCD or something, but if there are little stickers on the shelves with what is supposed to go into the slots, what's so hard about going through there once a day and keeping it straight. How can you possibly order correctly if you don't know what stock you have on hand? Albeit today I bet all inventory is computerized and they can tell when they actually sell out of something. Gotta say I've never gone into a wrecked model section at a Hobby Lobby.

The last time I went to our local Michael's they didn't have anything I wanted, even with a discount coupon, so I spent a half an hour re-organizing their model section just so I could see what they did have, and see what was on Clearance. Those shelves were a mess with planes, cars and diecast just looked like someone had a sea-sick stocking cart and it barfed all over the shelf.

Show me a Japanese kit that has some sort of molded in carpet texture. If there are any, they are certainly few and very widely far between. Not sure why that is, perhaps flocking/embossing your own carpet is a given over there. One of those oddities you get when you buy models not intended for export.