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They wouldn't need to run test shots on that. It was one of the kits they ran when they were still leasing the tooling from Tomy before they actually bought the whole thing. It's been 15 years, but Round2 has done it before. The previous 2010ish release and the original 2006 release in the "Rides Magazines" box are all the same kit. Used to be a point where you couldn't give those kits away.

PA cracked down on what were pretty lax regulations on what it took to get a Dealer's License (to get Dealer Tags). It's to the point now where you basicly need a physical location that you'd actually be selling cars from to be approved. Used to be if you had a desk, 3 chairs, a phone line dedicated to the "business", a 4' x 6' sign for the business and enough space to display 3 vehicles without the doors touching when opened, you too could be a used car dealer in the Commonwealth. 🤣

My local hobby shop has it for $28, which is $5 more than the new tool Blazer. Because it requires two tools to be run in order to create the kit. Looks like MSRP (aka HL shelf price) is $35 (vs. $32 on the Blazer).

From what I've seen it's a diecast mold they've run plastic through similar to DDA and all their Aussie cars. The GWM Tank 300 is a Chinese Domestic (CDM?) Crossover. Looks like it's exported to Australia, South Africa, and several countries across South Asia.

I got the Revell Hot Rod 3 Pack of Tri-5s for Christmas when I was like 8 (1985). I refused to build another Revell kit until well into the 90s. Which is probably why I still have an affinity for AMT/Ertl and Monogram.

It's not a kit you can build in "two days" like he said he attempted. It's actually quite hilarious that he even tried to rush build that hot mess. Should come with a warning - Caution Heavy Lifting Ahead To Even Complete Assembly.

Like Matt mentions test shots do not have decals available for them. Decals traditionally aren't sent to print until 30-60 days before the kit is going to be sent to full production

In a fanciful catalog put out in 2021 BeeMaNuNu vaguely announced (It was in the R&D/Licensing section) an Evo version of the 205 TI6, which is the car that came out the one Tamiya made a kit of back in the 80s. Tamiya's is also the Group B T16 version and not the Gr. A "factory" class Rally car which the new decal sheets are for...they're also labeled as being for the new Heller kit.

Warner Brothers pulled all licensing and stopped allowing the show to be aired after Dylann Roof murdered 9 people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC in 2015. Amongst that dirt bags many issues was an obsession with the Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee, which most people incorrectly identify as the "Confederate Flag", but wasn't actually ever used as such, nor is the Stars & Bars of the Confederacy. But one entity that DID decide to use that flag to much adoration of the uneducated masses (who joined in decided it was the "Rebel Flag") was of course the Dukes of Hazzard which put it on the roof of the hero car. WB decided it wanted no part of any poo tornado associated with that flag and what it symbolized to certain folks out there. I'm not here to argue meanings or what's in people's hearts, but for the scum in question it was a symbol of the worst kind of bigotry, hate and racism. For a while the DOH Charger was on the box without the flag being shown in the artwork, but the decal was still inside. But with the licensing pulled it's why every release of the Charger has been the City Charger & Country Charger (or soda sponsored) - depending on whether it's the new SnapTite kit or the old glue kit. I've tried to keep my answer as sanitary, fact based and devoid of politics as possible. Keep in mind everyone, anybody deciding to add their opinions is likely to start an express trip to pain town that will get this thread locked and you an indeterminate length forum vacation.

Decalcas has already announced several decal sheets for a rally version...that is the one that's very close to stock - not the Gr. B T16 monster. I wonder if that's going to wind up in some sorta - make it yourself - type deal or if Heller plans a Rally edition and the Spanish have blown their cover.

Nobody has a Dukes of Hazzard license, those don't exist anymore for anyone. Having a license for a diecast would in theory smooth the road to a kit as a door opener, but otherwise means nothing. You'd have to license it all over again for a plastic kit. The majority of the other police cars in the movie CPD & ILSP are 1977 Royal Monacos, which have a different front end and interior than a '74 Monaco. Chicago's also almost a 100% no to licensing something like that because the fallout over how CPD was made to look in the movie they refused to allow anyone to use their likeness. That's why Hill Street Blues is "Metro Police" while clearly being CPD. That has continued to the present day. The existing MPC Pinto Wagon is an annual parked as a 1979, the movie car is a '77 Pinto wagon which would require back dating the tooling, or creating a new front mold insert - which after the 70.5 Camaro is something they'll probably not be high on undertaking.

No doubt, My office is on an Island in the Ohio River just North of Pittsburgh and we're next door to a liquid fuel distribution rack. Every so often they burn something off over there that makes that whole God forsaken island smell like hot superglue.

Looks I'm a huge Belushi fan because of my dad, and I'm also closing in towards the middle age of 50. But the fact is Blue Brothers came out when I was 3, and Belushi was dead by the time I was 5. People who were in their late teens and early twenties when Animal House and Blue Brothers came out are now in their late 60s and early 70s. Those folks are already pretty well represented in the hobby already. With Revell putting out models of a "TV" show currently in production which features cars that actually appeal to the current middle aged gentleman, it pains me to say there's probably not really a market for a '74 Dodge Monaco (2n1 of course) in 2025. The movie, glorious musical that it is, just isn't relevant anymore.

They've got a bunch of things coming, they just re-showed - for much larger public consumption on YT - the '72 Duster, '65 Cuda and '60 Chevy Wagon just last month. They released a whole slew of stuff in January, one kit last month, and March is usually iffy because of Lunar New Year shut downs. It's hard to get to worried about them not shoveling out the 100th reissue of some 60 yr old kit for a month and suddenly deem that as being a huge indicator that Round2 suddenly doesn't care about models as I've seen people here and elsewhere on social media claim.

There are still several "big stinking plastic factories" in the Houston Metro area.

That's not a DTM car, that's a 24hrs of Nurburgring entry. 😎

Temporarily...they're still threatening to remove it again. It got reinstated after 4 days last month because Customs was buried under a literal million pieces of mail and air cargo at JFK alone. No politics here - just the simple fact that USCBP doesn't have the anywhere near the staff or facilities to actually deal with sorting and inspecting (opening) all of that to check contents vs. declared values. I also expect Americans will lose their collective minds if they start getting all their $4 socks packages rifled through and sealed with Customs inspection tape (which they don't have enough of hand to do the job either for that matter).

My LHS got the '29 Ford P/U w/Chopper Motorcycle kit in today...for anyone looking to get one of those they're in the wild.

I spent a year pushing, pulling and cajoling to get this sheet made. With it being done you can now build all three Black Falcon "Anime Cars" from the 2019 24H of Spa. This one was also a podium winner in that race. Also the latest resin multimedia offerings from PZY/Kitbox and Alpha Model.

FWIW the yellow car is a GT3 Spec car and the Pink Pig is a FIA/WEC-IMSA Spec GTE car. The RSR is quite a bit wider with completely different aero and is a different generation of 911 than the ADAC GT3 car.

There's still some Revell tooling based in the U.S., the reissue of the Chevy LUV High Roller will be made here since the Chevy LUV tooling is clearly still here given all the MADE IN THE USA stickers emblazoned on it. Round2s U.S. inventory would be some really old AMT/MPC tools that never got sent and all of the Crafthouse era Lindberg stuff that's never left the place in Michigan that tooled it. Of course Salvinos produces their kits here after their tooling is made over there. Increased prices would be subject to how much the company, the distributors, and the retailers feel like absorbing the current 20% tariff. Also based on the prices of the most recent round of Revell kits (Stranger Things) a 20% increase would be roughly $4. Before the AARP people club me like a seal, yes I get any increase to someone on fixed income is a disaster. But we're also not talking about some meteoric rise of $10+ either (yet)...

That would have been Binney & Smith's (Crayola/Hallmark) doing as Hobbico didn't buy Revell until 2007 which is almost a decade down the line of when the tooling was sent across the Pacific. What exists where and if it exists at all - as Revell has moved the tooling within China several times over the past nearly three decades - depends on housekeeping and inventory management. The 2WD S-10 parts have been AWOL for a long time, it's part of why the kit was never reissued past the 1999 Lowrider release. If the inserts were lying around in Illinois I would think someone would have found them in the intervening 20 years between the mass migration and when Hobbico went belly up.

I'll grant you that last part, but like I said SJR's modest quest to obtain more of the NASCAR stuff (they for instance have the Lumina body, but not the rest of the GM kit that goes underneath it) isn't couched in leaving the tooling in China. It's acquiring it and shipping it to California. You can say whatever you want about Rick and his bravado/brashness, but he's not going to buy something he would not actually be able to obtain.

Yet Salvinos JR has all of their tooling done in China and then ships it to California for production. The fact is tooling is big and heavy and a total PITA to ship anywhere years after the fact unless you're just packing away an entire warehouse and drop shipping it out of the country. That's why all the Accurate Miniatures and Galaxie Limited stuff wound up in the care of Academy. All of the Atlantis car stuff from Revell is still in Illinois, some of the Lindberg tooling (that's what 3 owners down the road from Crafthouse now) is still at the tooling facility in Michigan that created that tooling 30+ years ago. Salvinos has had on again off again talks with Revell for years now about getting more of the Monogram/Revell NASCAR stuff and it's never been about not being able to liberate the tooling from China, but about the costs involved and the price tag of the tooling itself.

There would have to be that much commiserate tooling that Atlantis has the Revell wants back. When Pete (Atlantis' owner) talked about all of this at last year's IPMS Nats Seminar he mentioned that once all of the tooling was divided up both "sides" wound up with things the other company was supposed to get. Pete said they (Atlantis) were not going to spend physical money to obtain TD (and other) tooling but were working with Revell on a tool by tool basis to swap things back to where they belonged. Last Summer Atlantis still had more than 600 sets of tooling they hadn't even opened yet.