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I love John, I've been buying from him since I was a teenager, and he runs my local hobby shop. I've probably spent more time with him in hobby related settings than nearly anyone else, so I will say he looks at model shows from purely a vendor prospective. So it makes me wonder if DAAM is getting more General Admission Floor Traffic, or people are more mentally focused on buying stuff in the vendor area than some other shows. It is pretty much the last show of the year North of I-40 until the Spring. John regularly sets up at 1:1 Autoramas, World of Wheels, et al rather than going to comparably distanced Model Shows because he sells more stuff at the 1:1 car events. Atlanta, NNL East, the old NNL in Toledo all seem like social functions that someone happens to be holding a model show during, rather than a MODEL CONTEST that attracts people to attend.

Revell's 2CV has over 120 parts, plus they tooled up the square headlights to match the movie car. Something that otherwise only exists in a sketchy old Heller kit. Plus like Matt said, 007 ain't cheap.

I know several people from the Cleveland area that make the pilgrimage up there, and when I lived in Cleveland I also once interviewed for a job (based in Ohio) in Detroit and never really though that much about driving up there and back in one half day. Seems like you never hear it mentioned around Pittsburgh...we aren't that much further away, but that might just be 25 years of driving for a living talking ?

And Round2 is the one giving them the information...because Steve is going to show the stuff over the weekend. There's no faster way to annoy your distributors than debut a product in public before they know about it. Monday morning they're going to get a flood of their downsteam customers - who are all hobby shops and other retail buyers - wanting to know about when/how to get the kit and their answer can't be - "What kit?"

It's a nice regional show for sure, but it's not really - at least within my spheres of influence - graduated to the point it's a "destination" show the way NNL was in Toledo. Or NNL East, NNL West, Acme, the former GSL, et al. Nobody has bragged to me they're taking vacation to go to Detroit...yet ?

At this point Round2 is showing products 3-5 times a year, they're never going to outright admit to something that would fall beyond the first half of next year right now.

Making it known to a limited number of modelers - DAAM isn't *that* big of a show, it's just convenient to get to for Steve/Round2 (and usually Moebius) - doesn't make something "official". It's official when it's got an item number and gets pushed out to Distributors as a future item. The number of people who sit around and check Steven's website is near 0 and even this forum represents maybe 3-5% of the hobby. When the 68 H/T is released there will be a bevy of stunned people who never knew it was coming. Look at any comment section to any Round2 video and people routinely ask for kits that AMT/MPC never made to begin with or are fervently demanding a reissue of something that in fact just WAS reissued 6-8 months prior.

Another flight from Hong Kong, another batch of freshly released race cars. The E90 shares the chassis plate, interior floor plate, and tires with the earlier 2001/2004 320i kits, the entire rest of the kit is new tooling.

Most Monogram tools of that era are massive one piece molds outside the body and inject all at once. Makes modifying them difficult as you're affecting the plastic flow when you start adding additional cavitations that weren't designed in from the beginning. Just repopping it would be a "new" kit to a whole lot of people who never bought one back then.

True, but it's been in April for 14 years now. 2/3rds of my kids weren't born yet, seems like forever...

...the USPS collected it, as intended.

NNL East is always that weekend in April and they're booked out through 2027 at this point. Permanently mark your calendars. ?

Then you're going to not be buying anything into 2024 as the only kit for November on the distribution list is a re-pop of the...venerable...1970 Dodge Challenger in a USPS Collector's Tin.

Fresh off the plane from HobbyEasy in Hong Kong. P/E sets are for the Civic and the smaller one is a Hobby Design for the Revell Audi eTron RS

The guy who owns Atlantis is a "Pete"... Round2 did sell off a bunch of old tools to Atlantis at one point a few years ago, neither company is ever going to admit exactly what they bought/sold, nor commit to what actual inventory they have. Although the Serpent was reissued under the Lindberg name, and that means Round2 owns that tooling still at the very least.

Your local vendor was almost slower to stock than NuNu, that kit's been available since mid-April.

In that time frame it was probably because Wal-Mart's buyers didn't like it. Those folks killed off all sorts of projects in the mid/ late 90s and about took out the Domestic Kit Manufacturers as a whole.

It was reissued in 2010, my LHS still has one on shelf. I've never not found one at a model show. I know none of that makes the current Revell any money, but it doesn't seem like that 2010 reissue sold particularly well. If there's anything to doom a project or reissue it's lackluster sales of that thing previously or a related piece of subject matter. We still haven't gotten a modern pickup out of anyone because of the utter clunkers the '97 F-150s that were simultaneously released by AMT, Revell & Lindberg. Revell completely ignores any sort of modern high end sports/supercar because of the disaster that was the video game inside a model kit project.

They can re-pop the Cyclone, it's been reissued long after any of the S-10 versions. What they don't seem to have anymore is the regular S-10 drivetrain and suspension parts to make a RWD truck. So the recent mish-mash reissue came with the Cyclone suspension and AWD drivetrain.

Purist...? So even the 429 cars had the pie plates and white walls? Seems like that would bump you up a wheel size to something that could better handle/transfer the power.

Doubt it, the C8.R is done, IMSA already made the switch and next year FIA/WEC adopts GT3 homologated cars as the replacement to GTE/GTE AM. Going forward the C8 will become a GT3 platform and be sold into all Series as a Customer Racing race car much the same way the upcoming Mustang GT3 will be. THAT would be the thing to kit because unless it's a complete dud as a GT3 car it will have much wider adoption Internationally in Customer Racing than it ever got as a pair of IMSA Vettes and a pair of FIA/WEC Vettes.

I'll agree to disagree on that. Just Google Image searching '71 Mach 1s I can only find one or two that have white walls equipped. The majority, even the ones with the Ford Pie Pan hubcaps have either white letter tires or black walls. The Whitewalls seem to be more an artifact of the movie car than reality, if anything (as someone else mentioned in this thread earlier) it's more disappointing they aren't including full Mach 1 stripes than not Tampo printing white walls when I'm guessing the majority of customers aren't necessarily going to specificly build the 007 car. Edit - I don't have to guess at all, someone posted the decal sheet in the other thread about 2024 Revell kits and the white walls are clearly on there.

I suspect they'd be decals the way the tire branding is being handled.

It's this kit - Ford 6-Wheeler Pickup, Revell 6415 (1981) (scalemates.com) It's a line of Fords that had a short bed, a flare side bed, and whatever that faux fantasy dually was supposed to be that were done in 1981. I don't believe any of them have ever been reissued, the Ford F-150 Ranger Flare Side that exists in Revell box in the past decade is the Monogram kit which was tooled up in 1980 way back before they were merged together.

I'll wait while you try and push a semi off the road with any passenger vehicle. But there are more Polar Bears with a ram bar than without...