niteowl7710

It's as fixed as it's ever going to get.

No no...there are just some RevellAG kits that we get reboxed here with our two part boxes and Revell US specific box art, logos, copyrights, addressing, our style instructions et al that we talk about here as a "U.S. Rebox", it usually has a lower price point than the European boxing as well. Certain things we never get reboxed...usually the Cabrio version of a kit. We got U.S. reboxes of the Mk 1 Golf (as a Rabbit), '68 Beetle, and E-Type Jag, but if you want to buy the Cabrio of any of those, you can only get them here in the German boxings, the Targa 911 being one of the sole exceptions. One thing I have noticed is that in the years since the great Blitz buyout they've taken to continue to rebox stuff for the North American market - but now they just include the German instructions, we're not getting a redrawn set in U.S. "specs".

Full...ish detail. That's a nearly 100% markup from the price the 300Z was the last time it was in the catalog and was an $18 kit. It has an engine insert you plug a couple of pieces on top of, which is the same case for both the 2012 and 2020 Boxer Twins kits. But that's neither here nor there. I also don't think your wrong to be angry about the Hearse Surf Wagon, particularly if that whole Wal*Mart thing was a legit price and not a mislabeled (or switched) price tag. But the DBS was a $75 MSRP kit when it came out, and the ABER P/E kit was over $100. The licensing at A-M is now even more out of control, which is why despite there being a strong demand for the kit - prices online for them START at $200 these days - Tamiya is probably never going to reissue it. The costs are just far to high to deal with it.

If you think that $50 price tag on the remodeled Ecto was a gut clencher, you don't want to see what something with Aston Martin licensing would have to cost. There's a reason that Tamiya kit disappeared out of the catalog and will almost certainly never see the light of day again.

Especially the part where "movie" has now been transformed into any TV show people can remotely think of that might have once had a car on screen...

True but some of (all of?) the large scale kits were done much the way the U.S. Trucks were in the early 80s. Designed in Venice, California but tooled and ran in Europe. Which is why RevellAG has always been in possession of them, and the reissues eminate from their side of the company. Neither the Pete or KW reissues of the 80s 300+ kits or the most recent 1/8 Jag reissue were offered here in U.S. boxes and I don't expect that would change for this kit either.

Nothing I've seen anywhere has shown any sort of US SKU for the Firebird, so I believe it will be a German boxing only.

NuNu (Platz/Beemax) will of course be at Shizouka and they've dropped a teaser on social media as well as opening pre-orders for a long awaited release. Teaser is for a built production shot of the upcoming Volvo S70 Touring Car. Pre-Orders and Test Shots for the long awaited Audi A4 Touring Car (in 1996 British Touring Car Championship livery). This car as advertised in the box art pre-production sample was the BTCC Series Champion for 1996 with Frank Biela driving.

There are two people on this forum who are directly or tangentially employed by Round2 in their automotive modeling aspirations. If they can't say, I'm certainly not commenting on something I heard through an online game of telephone. Rob's right, some people will be happy, some people will be faux outraged ?

I'm O.K. with that, getting confirmation of what it's not is almost as good as what it is... Geez I hope it's a little younger than that, otherwise Round2 is gonna implode in less than a decade.

I gotta say with the way the CAD package is being shopped around everywhere right now, I wouldn't be totally surprised if that movie car wasn't the quasi-'70 Dodge Charger/Challengerish looking Batmobile from the new movie. Diecast seems to have done/are doing every scale other than "model scale", and Bandai announced a series of new Batmobiles from across the DC Multiverse that are all 1/35 scale of all things. Round2 has several Batman related models being reissued in 2022...me thinks...me wonders...

Pretty sure the only Twinsonic Round2 would have access to prior to tooling this new one up was the one that came with the 2dr Monaco "Force 440" and Datsun "Tow Truck" Monster Truck.

Yes as you said it's the big square bar which is known as the Twinsonic...which is what the description of the product says...it came after the Vis-a-Bar, and before the later Aerodynic which is what's on the DoH cars in 1:1 as well as the 1:25 kit prior. The Twinsonic was tooled up for the CHP branded reissue (from a year or so ago) of the Monaco that also had the more stockish wheels and tire set (instead of the nearly dirt track wide set the Monaco has had for years).

Mid 70s through the early 90s. Although 75 through 85 would be the prime years, anything after that would be recycling lightbars onto new vehicles. It was the one of the first fully enclosed lightbars where prior items like the Vis-a-Bar were twin single beacons with a siren in between (think the lighting setup in the JoHan Plymouth) and the later Aerodynic (which AMT had a terrible oversized oval monstrosity representing as their main lightbar in the 78 Monaco kit through it's TJ Hooker, Dukes of Hazzard and Batman reissues).

Revell kept what they wanted and wholesaled the rest. Revell kept things like the 1st Gen RX-7, '80 Ramcharger, and Chevy LUV. Obviously as Atlantis releases stuff you get an idea as to what they have (minus all the 80s/90s NASCAR stuff they sold onto Salvinos J R). However there will never be a public list from either as to what Revell kept and/or Atlantis received.

10 items to pick up from the flyer, glad I have a discount at HLJ from their previous sale to use...

Our club had it's show in Pittsburgh back on Sunday grabbed a couple of things during a break managing the back of the house.

One thing that isn't in that post, but that Pete has shared publicly a few times including on at least one modeling podcast after Vegas is that Atlantis tried to buy the entirety of Revell during the Bankruptcy Auction, but couldn't come up with the necessary capital in short order with Quantum having cash on hand to make the purchase. So the sale of the Scratch & Dent Revell tools to them a few months later wasn't so much of a miraculous occurrence as it was two old friends striking a deal that made everyone happy. Also Pete has mentioned that it was an all or nothing, sight unseen, take it or leave it proposition. Anything that needs chrome as part of the kit is still being stored somewhere in Chicagoland because that's where the plater is located, and there's no where on Long Island or around the NYC Metro that does that type of thing according to them.

This is the same fruitless circular argument that goes on every time this subject comes up. JoHan is dead, it doesn't feasibly exist in any way, shape, or form and there's no way to resurrect it short of buying the trade dress and copyrights of the name off Okey and then sinking 10s of millions of dollars unto recreating a catalog of odd 60s kits using 2022 technology. Because Okey has a pile of parts and some pieces of tooling. Seville took him on a ride of his own making and he clearly had no idea what he was actually buying. Even the kits he "released" (Fury Police car, Rambler, etc) were made from cobbled together NoS over runs. He has to the best of anyone's knowledge never applied plastic to a single piece of tooling he owns because it's not complete (ergo it won't close correctly in the first place), nor does a machine exist in which to mount whatever is left over to even attempt hanger shots of it. The example of Round2 creating new bodies or pieces for old kits doesn't apply here because Round2 has the whole of the old tooling, plus a way to actually use it. There's no reasonable way to do that with what is left of the JoHan tooling that wouldn't make a completely new piece of tooling the cheaper option. There are a handful of subjects like the AMX that probably deserve that someone does a new kit of them, but the majority is lost to history because you'll never show me a feasible plan to sell 30k Oldsmobile Station wagons.

But at home printing isn't there yet. Unless you have a larger 8K printer you're not going to have the print space to make an entire body. That doesn't even go down the road that there is no industry standard with 3D printing so what might work on one printer will likely be a total disaster on another without reworking the slices and support system. I think Ford, GM, and Stellantis would also have a lot to say if you tried to sell the files commercially on a large scale like that. Besides the "sales job" was this whole thing was that it was supposed to be an all new kit that has never been done by any kit manufacturer before. I've been across social media all day and plenty of people here went to the D.A.A.M. Show and not a single thing has been mentioned about this "big announcement", so I presume that like most things involving Okey since he got ahold of JoHan there's nothing to see here.

Boy I sure wish I could. Going to Shizouka during the show is a Bucket List item, hopefully one day. But there should be plenty of photos available to share here with the show being open to the public again (last year it was industry only). But at this point not too much is physically announced at the show, most of the things coming out of the various companies are then sold a few months later and pre-orders need to be put up in April for June/Jul/August sales. Hence Hasegawa announcing their kits in a few days.

I never really thought about it, since I've been using 24H format for a quarter century in transportation, but yeah come to think of it...I have heard it described as "Military Time" more often than the correct name.

Building this as a place holder for the upcoming 60th Shizouka Hobby Show, as announcements of announcements are starting to filter in... The first confirmed one is from Hasegawa who will be announcing their summer kits in a week (this will actually be 11pm Eastern Thursday night with the time difference for anyone who wants to watch in real time and not wait on the usual suspects to post about it.)

Couple of things from HLJ...

Get another one of those and you'll be knee deep in Raisin Bran...