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The IPMS Germany page has some photos of a few of the booths, but they really didn't do a huge photo spread like they have in past years. There's only one picture at the Heller booth and it's of a random kit that's been around almost as long as Heller has been. So unless manufacturers upload their own, I'm not sure we'll see much as the Toy Faire is an industry show and isn't open to the public. This particular Hasegawa kit was just part of their monthly kit pre-orders, nothing to do with the Nuremberg show.

This will ride the chassis/drivetrain of the original "notch back" 1970 Celica (2003 tooling) with a new body and interior for the Lift Back body style. Something that's been desperately needed forever and a day since the only alternative is the Aoshima kit which was tooled up in 1982 and shows every bit of it's over simplified motorized age at this point.

This kit has been out for almost 4 months now. My LHS got it back at the beginning of November.

They're also reissing the Abarth 695SS version of the Fiat 500. Also a Clear Bodied version of their 300SL. For a show they have been dropping a new tool at for the past several years this go around was a major snooze-fest. I guess there's always hope for a Shizouka announcement...otherwise we're waiting until Fall for anything new.

With Salvinos JR being officially licensed by NASCAR, I can't see the financial viability of re-releasing the old 90s era AMT/Ertl kits. Aside from NASCAR probably not wanting to play ball, you'd have to get licensing from GM or Ford, the driver, the team and the sponsors, and Goodyear. Even if you skipped a lot the extraneous licensing and just did "blank" kits, none of the currently produced aftermarket decal sheets are produced in 1/25, they're all scaled to fit the Monogram kits of that era.

Point of Order - 1960 was in fact 64 years ago now ??

Yeah...but the PZY stuff sells out pretty quickly and they occasionally might do a second half run, but it winds up being less than 300 pcs worldwide between direct sales and resellers. Very easy to miss out on them if you don't grab them when they're released.

Latest PZY/Kit Box resin multimedia kit. Liberty Walk's latest take on the Lamborghini Aventador in the cars final production Evo Spec. Also the latest from HLJ

Nope, posting into a different thread doesn't change what I said in my original reply to you. This is the box art for the '63 in all it's glorious 3/4 profile... It's one of their "silent" style with no printing on the art work, here the finalized box with the little AMT Kool Kats sticker.

If you look at the chassis plate & subsequent "side tree" that's molded to it, you'll notice on the '60 the side tree is on the right, and on the '63 it's on the left, with what appears to be the same chassis pan in between them. That would almost certainly be one singular tooling insert that has a gate function attached at the bottom to "throw" the plastic one way or the other depending one which kit you're running at the time. I suspect a great many other things are designed in a similar fashion so that in reality both of these kits are modular inserts that plug into the same overall larger tooling schematic.

Both kits share a majority of parts besides the body/interior/trim pieces and the "bonus" (trailer vs. camper shell). That's why they're being released at the same time, and ultimately what made the project feasible since it's basically 2 kits for the price of 1.5.

'63 has a rear 3/4 profile showing off the camper shell.

Because they buy in such vast quantities, directly out of China, and have (since Covid) chartered their own fleet of container ships and actually gone through and had Wal*Mart specific container trailers built. They undoubtedly bought (via Round2) directly from the factory and shipped to themselves directly from China direct.

Some decals...

To say nothing about the fact it's a below mediocre detail part out of a SnapTitie kit made in 1978. There's no planet in this galaxy where regurgitating part of a 46 year old kid's toy should be a viable anything except a firing of the person who made the decision.

Remember that these Round2 videos are always a month off...so February is going to be a break for your wallets. This month you have to pick up the Demon, both Ford P/Us, the Warlock, the Mach Won and the '59 Caddy that's finally a proper Ambulance...

As far as I've seen it hasn't actually arrived in-stock anywhere yet to be sold out. The most recent Round2 kits anyone has got in since the 1st of the year are the Omni-based Shelby Charger and the old IMC Dodge L700 w/Race Trailer.

I'm sure it would be feasible for the right price. But I'm just saying a whole slew of people have a small pile of the Ford kits sitting unbuilt and if they sold the parts to the wrecker ahead of the kit itself - a lot of people would side step a $45 model kit for $25 worth of "parts".

That would all be dependent on how the tooling was designed to fit the mold machine. Some stuff is designed to be run on smaller machines and can be individually produced like the dually wheel sets which Moebius via Pegasus sells separately (along with the plow, and the gun rack). Some stuff is designed to be modularly plugged into the larger tooling that spits out the whole truck and can't be run without producing an entire Ford. Maybe at some point they could consider doing some over-runs, but with the wrecker bed and it's axles - I'd presume you'd want the front axle and the shorter (than the wedge hauler) differential set up, and you'd get the PTO parts too whether you want it or not - you'd have to wait until after that whole kit has actually been released and sold for a while. Otherwise, I suspect they'd do a brisk business in axles, wheels, and wrecker beds and have several thousand relatively unsaleable model kits as a result.

Yeah Aoshima had a few kits in that time frame that for some reason switch fitment compared to their normal order of operations. The Kei "ABC" cars (AutoZam, Beat. Cappuccino) all have male fitment wheels, and they were all tooled up in the same 1991-1993 time frame.

As you found with the HiLux Surt, the LHD parts are included in the Terrano (Pathfinder) kit as well. The only thing SATCO did was include a decal sheet for the U.S. trim/names for both of them, as both kits have always had LHD & RHD set ups from the time they were tooled up in 1992.

While it is a Lexus LS400, it's NOT a rebox of the Tamiya kit. It's a rebox of the Aoshima kit. The Tamiya kit has a full engine, and the Aoshima is a curbside.

In regard to the 1970 Shelby, if you translate the web site into English the listing for it mentions the chin spoiler and hood decals. I'd like to think that means they'll spend the $2k or so it would cost to add the chin spoiler.

That would be correct, the annual January 1st listing is for RevellAG (or Revell Home Office at this point I suppose) kits. They're getting their own Euro boxes of the Stranger Things licensing for example, while we'll never see - unless you have a really well stocked hobby shop or acquire the kits from Europe yourself - the majority of the Armor/Aircraft/Ship/Figure kits on the list.