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Yes, although I'm pretty sure they're considering the 442 to be a "new" kit as well, as RevellAG never sold a Euro-boxed version of any of the Convertible kits.

To be fair it's not like Revell in Germany was exactly producing trucks of any kind recently anyways. The most recent trucks out of them were the reboxes of the Moebius trucks and the Italeri M-B Actros.

Given that this is the same platform as the Taycan...so much so it's a Taycan with an Audi styling, I wonder if they'll consider the Porsche if this sells well enough. Will modelers actually buy an EV? I mean besides threatening to cut up a curbside model just to put some sort of GAAAAAASSS MOOOOTAAAR into it.

Yes this MR-2 would be the 3rd kit in that series, the Supra will be the 5th street kit (there are 3 racing kits as well). Next RX-7 is the 2nd place (GTU Class) 24hrs of Daytona team car to the kit you pictured. I'm not sure anyone has ever done the 2nd place car even though the livery is basicly identical, just different colored stripes. I suspect there are several more kits in that series as the "Late" body also has all of the thinned down "Cut Here" areas you have to remove to build the race version. That late body style RX-7 was used quite a bit in Australian Touring (Bathurst) and not having to kit bash together a couple of them (and modify a RHD racing dash - as the Daytona cars were LHD) would be most welcome to use the couple sets of decals I have.

Almost all of the kits Hasegawa does are factory stock variants, with the one '72 Celica they do as a "race look" bubble fender release being the outlier. The MR-2 and Civic are existing kits, this time around the Civic gets new decals for the 50th Anniversary Edition, and the MR-2 a new MOMO Leather Steering wheel to replicate one of the "Final Edition" cars that was a 300 unit run all painted the white/gold two tone of the illustration, it should have new decals as well. The Civic is a straight curbside, the MR-2 has a little top half engine insert with separate intake parts for the option between N.A. and Turbo engines.

I keep track of my stuff by databasing it through Scalemates. My amassed mess crossed over a number in the beginning of the 4 digits and for some reason that plucked a string in my hoar...err collecting and I've recently been selling off duplicates, never builds, and so on. Probably close to 100 kits in the past 3 months to the point even my wife noticed there are holes emerging in the shelving.

Just some decals to reflect a different trim level.

Yeah I was hoping this would be the direction they'd go when the announced the 73 GT-R...given how few of those actually got made. If they really plumbed the depths of the C110s and made a sedan body I could dispose of several dubious Aoshima kits.

91 C-V is a new tool. Plugs a hole in their Japanese Group C kits and goes along with the Nissan R91/R92 kits they did a few years ago.

Satellite...Roadrunner...it still makes "1971 Chrysler Plymouth" a weird descriptive of the contents.

The one thing SJR has done with the current "Next Gen" kits is direct support from NASCAR. Over the course of this year it has led to those Camaros being carried on the official NASCAR site, the FANATICS online store, and they're being sold at the track on the NASCAR, Hendricks, & Petty/GMS Haulers. They might not wind up on the Trackhouse Hauler because of the low production number on those two kits. The majority of those kits are being sold to people don't regularly build models of any genre and given SJR is up to around 60 model kits right now opens the possibilities for people to go "backwards" into the Historical kits they've already produced. No matter how mass market Round2 is to the average hobbyist they're never going to get some dubious old reissues being sold at the track on the official NASCAR trailers. They're also very close to be able to announce the next licensing deal in regards to the expansion of the Next Gen kits to another manufacturer. If they can get the third car maker on board they're talking about making something in the range of 40-50 kits next year alone on very short runs (since the differences would be in the boxes and decals) of the new cars, plus the 10-12 Historical kits. The Roadrunner is the first of 6 new tool (7 if you count the Modified mentioned elsewhere - although Wes is paying the freight on that) classic car projects coming in 2023-2024.

It occurs to me the box art says "1971 Chrysler Plymouth"...I wonder if that's a typo, or a licensing issue with the whole "Roadrunner" name. This kit wouldn't need the cartoon logos that seem to always be the sticking point...

I agree with you, but in both cases Round2 beat the "competing" kits to market - by months for the Revell '69, and by years in the case of the new Mustang. Nostalgia and cashing in on being "first" to market. Both examples of the NASCAR kits however are only plucking on nostalgia heart strings since they'd be woefully behind the Chargers and considering the "mystery kit" still hasn't been shown, months behind the SJR Roadrunner. Plus SJR holds the licensing rights for Petty Enterprises and Bobby Allison so the major players for both of those kits are spoken for, and kits of their cars are already on the shelves. The only appeal I could see would be pushing those kits out to HobbyLobby as SJR doesn't deal with them, they'd be the only choice there. But jeebus that's scarily reminiscent of how hard Revell (and AMT in particular) leaned on Wal*Mart and what a disaster for the hobby that was in the short term.

Yes for whatever reason Hobby Search is no longer offering any Tamiya kits of any genre for "self-export" on their overseas sales site. They're only listed on the Japanese language/Japanese Domestic Sales pages.

Yeah I suppose, except I don't think anyone recognizes MPC and thinks - Oh BOY now THERE'S quality!! Especially these days, but even back when everyone were operating separately they were 3rd banana (maybe 4th) to Revell, AMT, and Monogram. If they had some strong brand recognition I doubt Ertl would have immediately buried the brand and switched all their kits to an AMT label. There were a lot of current annual kits and a few newer regular kits (like the '69 Olds twins) that magicly became AMT after the merger. The MPC name has only recently arisen with Round2 Retro Deluxing everything in sight, but the brand white-washing that took place in 1989 is eerily similar to what Round2 has done stripping out the 1990s era Lindberg kits and make them insta-AMT kits.

I know it won't float a lot of people's goats, but man I'd love to see a new tool Skyline R30. It would allow me to dump a bunch of mediocre old Fujimi and Aoshima civilian kits, and hopefully they'd make a Gr. A race car version to cover the early years of JTCC. With the R31 pretty much done (except for whatever "resin bits and bobs" reissues) and the R32 winding down I'm not sure it makes sense to go forward into the R33. The Tamiya kit is pretty basic, but there's not really an "other" side to that kit as the race versions were in JGTC and completely race cars by then rather than "close to factory" the way the Group A cars were. Going backwards into the R30 seems far more sensible...in my world where I get kits and decals of all the JTCC cars that ever existed anyways. ??

I can't see it being the Roadrunner, that would be in DIRECT competition with the '71/'72 kit that SJR will have released before Thanksgiving. Plus SJR already has a '71-76 Charger on the market in quantities well in excess of 30k pieces over the total run, anyone who wants one has one.

And the Builder's Club will take more than 500 of them off the market before they're even distributed.

Should be pre-orders in a few days, there WILL be an All Japan Model & Hobby Show after all on 10/1 & 10/2. Hasegawa is announcing Nov & Dec this Friday at Noon (JST) - which is 11pm Eastern Thursday Night.

Roof is separate, the roof trim is separate, the interior color keyed pieces are separate, the seats are 3 pieces. Y'all keep telling me about how furrin' model kits are useless, and I'll keep pointing out you're missing out on just building a GOOD model that isn't going to wrestle you into a pit of despair and putty shavings.

Here's one of those kits on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/374223296332 You could probably buy the current Lola T90 kit (which Hasegawa has reissued 6 or so times around 2018-Present), a vacuform machine itself, make a buck, and make the other parts from scratch/resin for less than that is selling for... ?

So Modelers is a Japanese aftermarket company, most recently "known" for putting out a series of modern JDM cars in multimedia resin. But back in the 90s/00s they focused mostly on racing subjects offering transkits and decals. This set of decals is for a special project they did with Hasegawa which took Hase's 1/24 Lola T90 Formula 3000 kit and added in resin & vacform pieces to back date it to the earlier T89. I believe there were 3 of these Hasegawa/Modelers co-boxed kits back in the past and these days they sell well in excess of $100. This was an optional set of decals sold separately to offer further options to those kits.

Given how the image shows it loaded it should in theory be fine. You'd want to balance the weight out between the trailer tongue and the trailer axles. Given the low weight of the car putting it on engine first would put an undue amount of stress on the hitch and receiver. From the picture the engine appears centered over the axles with a lot of dead space to the rear end of the trailer. Now if you had a small trailer and a full size car (or something else equally as heavy) and put it on with the engine weight near the rear end of the trailer well behind the axles then you would get the "death wobble". You never want the majority of the weight distribution behind the last set of axles. When you watch crash videos on YT of people hauling stuff on small trailers/hot shots it's almost always because whatever the thing is it's loaded just past the ramps and left at the end. I presume because people are lazy and want to save the 30 seconds from parking it over or forward of the trailer axles. Or maybe they're nervous of trying to pull it on further and not off the sides? Because it's just so easy to toss the ramps on and back it a few feet rather than the entire length of the trailer (again risking backing off the side if you don't know what you're doing). Right up till it tail whips you upside down into the median.

Presuming that it didn't need any serious tooling cleanup or anything, I'd wager that Round2 has more costs associated with transportation in most of these reissues than in the actual production of them.