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But the mold "stealing" the employees did when they weren't paid took place back in the mid-late 70s when John Handley still ran the company. It's the reason all the subsequent Golden Oldies kits came out missing all of the "flat box" additional parts and often times the wrong later interiors in earlier versions of the same car.

Makes sense, the only stock part the BTTF kit doesn't seem to carry is the rear window/hatch area. Otherwise everything else that makes it the time machine is molded separately in the new BTTF kit which should be released in April.

It's the same kit, pretty sure Doyusha wound up with all (or almost all) of the old LS molds. They reissue the stuff on a very irregular basis, but they're still in business.

HL has 1,001 stores. Also not every Wal*Mart carried models, only the locations that have a proven track record of moving units in past years. Every time Wally tries to expand the selection to a broader base of stores they wind up supplying Ollie's with a truckload of "unsaleable" product - as seen earlier this year when the 2023 Christmas Displays were liquidated.

Seems reasonable to ban that stuff to me. I thought the point of Cars & Coffee was to show off unique high end stuff and eclectic classic cars? At least locally that was always what was allowed to park at the actual venue. Kinda loses it's point when any 25 yr old redneck with a Shelby Mustang his daddy bought him can be part of the show. There's enough of that sort of thing at the local county parks on summer weeknights.

Jo-Han operated almost solely (Gold Cup kits of 30s era cars excepted) on Promo contracts from the Big 3 and the release of those annual promos as model kits. When the promo contracts went away in the early 70s, so did Jo-Han. Royalties didn't exist back then like they do now, considering Jo-Han was being paid to produce the products in the first place on the promo side. The later Golden Oldies kits are in a slew of...unique...colors because Seville was a 1:1 Car Part Supplier, so they shot the kits in whatever color plastic they had lying around from their main production lines.

Correct, but they don't have to "release" the Gasser version of the Custom as it would just be a re-stock run and those are not bandied about as a "Coming Soon" product. They just show up on the shelf, back in stock.

The Revell Skill Level thing was changed many years ago to align the 3 Level North American one with the 5 Level European one. The Levels are now - 1 - Entry Level SnapTite - Build N Play Kits 2 - Snap Tite Kits 3 - Pre Painted Glue Kits (which I guess are now relegated to history) 4 - Any Glue Kit Under 100 Pieces 5 - Any Glue Kit Over 100 Pieces

Does the '40 Ford Sedan Gasser kit have the 1939 parts in it? Otherwise the 39/40 kit hasn't been out in 21 years.

As usual this is all a month behind/ahead, so the March kits are the 68 Coronet H/T and 2021 Charger Pursuit. This stuff won't be out until April.

Sooooo...this is a thread about old fart Americans not liking things done in Japan to VIP style cars? The cars are on air suspensions fellas, they lose the ridiculous camber when they're at normal ride heights. It's no different than any other "bagged" car done in the good Ole U.S. of A where the point is to drag the car as low as possible when you're showing it off. Nobody says you have to like it. Nobody from the Government is going to force you to slamber your daily driver... This forum really will find nearly anything to complain about, sheesh go build a model...

I don't believe this kit was ever released into Japan back in 2019 with the crazy sideways situation Revell was in a year after the Hobbico implosion. Hasegawa is still Revell's importer in Japan and they wouldn't be advertising something that doesn't exist, so it's quite possible another run of the kit is planned for when the modified reissue of the 1957 Del Rio (Hidden Valley) Ranch Wagon is being run considering how many parts are shared between the two kits. Given that box art is the "current" one (as seen in 2019) it wouldn't get a whole lot of hoopla about it being a big official reissue of they're just making another production run of it to restock distributors.

The only version of that Kyle Petty Grand Prix that ever existed was an AMT kit done back in 1983. From my experience you don't want any part of those early AMT stock cars, not to mention it would be the wrong scale compared to all of the Monogram 80s kits. The $50+ is the MSRP, the real shelf price is somewhere in the $42-44 price. Cheapest early 80s era Monogram Grand Prix on eBay right now runs $30 shipped and you'd still be on the hook for another $12+ shipping to get the KP 7/11 decals off Powerslide...so that's $42-44. Show prices of those old kits gas risen as well since $25 for one of those old Monogram kits is now half the price of a new one. Those sub-$10 prices are gone for now.

That kit was produced at recently as 1997 by what would have been the Craft House ownership of Lindberg. So unless Round2 sold those molds as part of their old junk clean out they did to Atlantis that stuff should still be with them.

I suppose there's vague value in - If this guy can do it, anyone can...if his work wasn't being used in advertising.

Came out back around Thanksgiving in Japan.

Ahh so it is. Should have checked the Tamiya instructions first. Well at least with it being a curbside you don't have to worry about swapping the battery and brake master cylinder.

You'd also have to (in theory at least) change out the center console - so the shift and e-brake handle are on the LHD positions. As well as modify/swap out the windshield scuttle panel and source LHD wiper arms - the arms would be in the Tamiya kit, but Hasegawa molded the scuttle panel RHD specific with the defroster vents.

Probably not until Late May at the earliest. Some Euro Retailer Pre-Orders are showing Early July, but they're going to lag Japan/North American delivery dates.

Yep, All 3. They very closely resemble the originals and have all that nostalgia feel and build style to them, but none of them utilize any tooling from the originals. All of those tools were modified back in the 60s and 70s (for the Demon).

Ran past the LHS today and got my dose of unobtainium.

I'll go one further and say that social media in all of it's forms (including this forum) have allowed people who want to be informed, know about upcoming kits months (and occasionally more than a year) in advance. Pretty much everyone here is old enough to remember when kits just - POOF - magicly appeared in stores. You might have an inkling if you subscribed to The BluePrinter, or sent regular SASEs to Hobby Heaven which always had upcoming kits as part of their mail order list. But now people don't get the kit THEY specifically want, on the time frame THEY feel is appropriate - well the entire enterprise is clearly a failure! Revell released 13 kits *specifically* to the North American market in 2023...I guess one a month is pathetic when you compare it to Round2 meat and potatos of reissuing xyz 60s kit for the umpteenth time... 🙄

I swear some people on this forum will argue about anything just to hear themselves type. You know exactly what I meant and being pedantic about it is pointless. Revell didn't release those images, and you as John Q Public couldn't enter the facility to see anything in there.

What do the guys at faux-JoHan Part Duex have to do with the Powell? That was an Okey Spaulding creation and plan and those two entities don't have anything to do with each other. I'm not going to do a line item reply here, but I'll just point out the '29 and '30 Ford were reissued 4 and 3 years ago respectively which is well after the Hobbico bankruptcy. What else do you want Revell to do about those? The Stranger Things kit...did you expect them to release the kits within 3 months of showing them at a trade show? Because until the Revell Home Office debuted them publicly on New Years Day, they technically weren't announced yet. We just knew because someone at the New York Toy Show "smuggled out" pictures. That event (much like the German Toy Faire) isn't open to the public.

Sure just go buy the kits off Jimmy Flinstone, I'm not sure what exactly this faux-iterarion of "JoHan" plans to add to either of the two JF kits (there's a short bed or a long bed) to make them more value for the dollar than the $120 price tag JF wants for them ("JoHan wants $120 as well based on their FB). You could probably buy them in person at NNL East considering the larger setup JF traditionally has going.