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Realized I haven't updated here for awhile. So I got both the PZY/Kitbox and Alpha Model versions of the SF90XX Also here at the last two boxes from HLJ. The most recent one arrived yesterday and the de minimis still stands from Japan so no tariffs there.

That one is a "street machine/custom" only, you can't build a stock truck out of the box. It only had one other release back in the mid-90s the year after the stock pickup kit was done. It's one of a slew of "B-Side" kits of that era of AMT/Ertl - like the Lowrider 70 Monte Carlo - that never saw the light of day after Racing Champions bought the company until Round2 started reissuing them again over the past 6-8 months.

Well if people are using your stuff and you're not there to file complaints on it, they're gonna keep using your stuff and you just won't know or be able to do anything about it.

I don't know if there's been a more recent version of a thread about this kit - the search function here being what it is (and isn't), but this kit was finally released last week in Hong Kong/China. Now of course the problem is it's being taxed to heck and back if you try to order it directly from places that have it in stock due to the suspension of the de minimis from those locales. Should be available in Japan sometime later this month, and it'll be interesting to see how that would be handled under the current tariff regime. Technically it's a product of Macau, not China, and as such wouldn't be subject to the current de minimis nonsense that effects HK/China items. If you ordered it through HLJ and can store it for an additional 60 days beyond it's arrival date you might not have to worry about it - or it'll be 10x worse - depends on what mood everyone is in that morning.

A lot of the other Hawk stuff still existed through ownership at Lindberg, so on theory it's either with Round2, or perhaps part of the slew of old tooling Round2 sold to Atlantis.

There's a few folks who's wallets have been safe every month for the entire time Round2 has been producing these videos...that was my point. Like there's great value in helping people out who, in the case of the above discussion, didn't realize the Elky roof issues had been resolved. I just don't see where the race to be first in here to say you're not buying anything...MONTH.AFTER.MONTH...adds anything of value.

Ya'll need to band together and focus this energy on a new thread up in the General Section called - What I Didn't Get Today

No. Back when this kit was made AMT/Ertl was making annuals of the S-10 & Sonoma, this kit came last in the line after the single headlight grille style ended. It doesn't have stock wheels or front/rear bumpers. You might be able to get 98% of the way there by swapping out the bumpers from the Sonoma reissue from a few years back.

They'd have to make further tooling for all of that as the two kits we got were the only ones planned and done - and that's direct from Revell prior to the bankruptcy and tooling damage kerfuffle.

You'd think...but then the Revell '29 & '30 Ford were only designed to be those two kits and you'd think that's a milkable base for a series too.

Salvinos which is the most Murica of all the U.S. options still had to go to China for tooling because they couldn't find a U.S. supplier to make the tooling. Heck they can't even find a supplier to do minor inserts and fixes to the old Monogram stuff without doing backflips through hoops of fire. Their kits are $54.99 (via their own website) for the NASCAR and the 1/20 Indy Cars are $79.99 and ONLY available through their website (and trackside). For legacy manufacturers (Round2 and Revell) who's prior management 3-5 owners ago decided to off-shore manufacturing it doesn't make a lot of sense to have two tooling banks in an age when, in the case of Revell, they don't even have their own warehouse space.

No they were not there, neither was Atlantis, only Round2 in attendance.

The kit has been around since the early 80s and all of the various releases are fundamentally all the same, so any review of it will cover the new one (minus the 3 new parts and decals).

So granted this isn't for April per say, but rather for Round2's early Summer releases. Those MSRPs were $37.99 **48 Hours Ago** and were originally $33.99-35.99 when they were listed prior to the March 4th implementation of the first initial round of tariffs.

Well I stand corrected the original info I saw months ago said it was an 833. Must have been that it's an '83 733...too many darn 3s! Irregardless it's still not a new tool, or the right generation of BMW. Not a real way to "backdate" the original RoG kit show either since that was manufactured decades before CAD/CAM.

Take this in the humorous way it's intended... Well that's not a new tool now is it? 🤣 Plus the car in the Stranger Things is an 8 Series, not a 7 Series.

For those who have been waiting on these two kits, they're now in-stock.

It's not pre-panicking the 125% tariff is in effect as of 12:01am yesterday. I hope someone comes to their senses, but to be fair China isn't doing anything to help in this International Game of Chicken we've been invited to be unwilling participants in... I cede the floor, please go back to discussing these two thrilling SnapTite kits that have been around for 20+ years and are available second hand in plentiful quantities at much lower prices than these new boxings.

Tariff changes don't apply to items shipped prior to the tariff going into affect. I don't want to parry with a mod, but don't try to correct people if you don't understand how the process works. Reference - Working for nearly 30 years in International Logistics specializing in Air & Sea Cargo, Cross-Border Automotive Parts Movements between Canada/US/Mexico including In-Bond Trans-U.S. and International Postal shipments.

54% seems like a bargain given it's now 125%. Given there was previously 0% tariff on toys (which is where models fall as far as USCBP is concerned), it's a straight doubling of the production cost rather than an incremental fraction. There's a profit ratio built in there between what it costs them and what they sell at wholesale. The tariff would be on that wholesale value and that price would have to be adjusted in whatever way is needed to maintain that original profit ratio. If a kit costs $8 to make and is then sold wholesale at $14 that's a 57% margin. To maintain that ratio with a 125% tariff the production cost increases to $18 and the margin takes the wholesale to almost $29. Which puts the MSRP around $60 and shelf price around $45. Revell might be able to slide around all of that by shipping their kits piece meal and then boxing them in Germany and claiming thats their country of origin. But Round2 & Moebius are staring down the barrel of a policy disaster, to say nothing of the actual importers of Chinese military based stuff (Meng, Border, et al). We're already seeing pre-orders being canceled on upcoming items at places like Squadron.

To be fair that image is just a screen shot from Tim's video 🤣

GravityUSA hasn't existed (as in their entire web page is long gone) for more than 5 years now, so it's rather impossible to order from there by accident. Don't even get me started on the prior 3 years before that permanent disappearance. I'll also toss out ProScale Paints based out of the U.K. as a possible source. $6 (U.S.) per bottle. Lacquer basecoat (requires a clear coat), and they'll custom mix nearly anything you can find a color code for at no upcharge. With the grand new taxation scheme in effect the U.K. import tax of 10% will be less than the E.U. one of 25%.

Hopefully this will go some ways in alleviating the concerns about the contents of this kit. Since I immediately saw a bunch of folks on social media convinced it would be some variation of already existing old tooling rather than the next variant of the new tool Blazer. I do appreciate the "Retro Box Art" as it does match the styling of the High Roller LUV kit as well.

The '68 Roadster is the "B" side of the '69 Corvette that infamously had the first boxing printed as being a "429" when it was a new tool in 1989. That later came as Baldwin Motion and most recently Yenko versions. The Roadster was stock with a soft top & hard top, then became a 2n1 with Drag Parts, and also "Rebel Racer" SCCA/Trans AM race car. That's still a good 5-6 years before 1/25 kits began to come out as Monogram branded kits (50 Ford, 55 Bel Air, etc) and would have been the same Revell time period that the '69 Camaro & '32 Ford Series would be tooled up, along with the '64 Fairlane Thunderbolt.