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FWIW the next round of Revell US releases (442 Olds, 69 Camaro 396SS, '66 Malibu. '37 Chevy P/U etc) are all MSRP'd for $36.95. Consider that pre-Rona (post buyout) Revell kits MSRP'd for $29.95...

FWIW my LHS has gotten in both of the U.S. reboxes of the new tool AG Porsche 911s. Unfortunately in Chris' round the world in 30 milliseconds review you can't tell if the Coupe body still has the C-Pillar sink mark issue the molded in silver German boxing has (the Targa has a different rear end and doesn’t have c-pillars to sink), but I'm low key hoping the fact the U.S. kits are molded in white perhaps the issue isn't necessarily (as) present this time around...

Platz is the Japanese distributor (they also distribute Round2 & Italeri), Beemax/NuNu are based in Macau.

No, but the logos broken up are in the separately sold P/E upgrade set, as has been the case with all of the other NuNu/Beemax kits with "naughty" liveries.

Hypothetically speaking none of those 8 lightbars in the Lindberg kit were more than a 75% whiff of their 1:1 prototype counterparts. I'd be happier with 1 or 2 actually 95% of the way there to dodge the licensing if that's what it comes to, than 8 things that are borderline useless. Also why waxing poetic we need both the steel and dress versions of the AWD wheel please and thank you.

It's listed for $180 at SpotModel, $196 and change at Hobby Search. The kit is listed in the TBA stuff on Stevens, but there's no pricing yet on any of the future RevellAG specific releases.

She's probably thinking - People say they want these large scale kits back, but they also shake like they're possessed over normal kit prices. How many of them are really gonna shell out the $180? I know it'll have a niche audience, but I wonder what the run number is going to be. Because it's hardly a "wandered into the LHS and saw this on the shelf, so I figured why not" sorta purchase. Based on the dimensions and weight listed by SpotModel it will cost around $50 to ship it across the U.S. (not factoring in any volume discount any online vendor might have). I seriously doubt it would cost any less to ship it from Eurooe or Japan to the U.S.

The thing is all of those Moebius kits are modern. There's very few things in the Round2 catalog that were made after the 1998 disposition of Ertl to Racing Champions which means CAD data doesn't exist for any of it. It's not a simple matter of "drawing" new parts into the kit and having them perfectly fit the existing kit parts the way Moebius can. Prior to the recent scanning of old kits to create modern replicas, the earlier examples - re-stocking the Gremlin, which lead to the new parts not fitting the old kit without modifications, and the "full bumper" 70.5 Camaro which required them to intentionally tool the new parts incorrectly (compared to the 1:1 car) to fit the 90s era body which wasn't geometrically square - show that while the ideas might be "no brainers" the application there of isn't as easy, intuitive or cost effective as it might otherwise be.

I have to wonder if that isn't a clearance price ? Wally World is pretty ruthless in disposing of stuff that doesn't sell, they'd rather get it out of the store and just "never" carry the product again rather than go through all the trouble of shipping it back to the DC and then trying to sell it off to Ollie's. Especially given the fact that Ollie's seems to have their own direct deal with Round2 for those biannual kit dumps.

The news in Vegas was that it was still in design phase and that they were researching specific bits to make sure they had them correct - I got the drift it was for the later versions, since they obviously 3D scanned a real one. The pictures about the 3D scanning were indeed accidentally released, which leads to the "it's been too long, it must be cancelled" effect, but I was assured the kit was still coming it just wasn't nearly as far along as "announcing it publicly on FB" that wound up happening by accident. I was hoping to see Ed again at NNL East, but since that got cancelled (for whatever reason, clearly the NJ IPMS is still going on with their show at the same venue 2 weeks earlier in April), I believe Revell went to the Indy IPMS Roscoe Turner show last year, and the next time I expect to see any of these guys in person with all their test shots and whatnot is in July at the IPMS Nats in Omaha as Atlantis, Revell & TamiyaUSA are already all on the vendor/industry list.

ZL-1 with a new hood, the fake COPO thing was a Nova.

If he spent 100hrs building that $3k is $30/hr. What's your time worth?

The U.S. is the only place (well North America) that shrink wraps kits. Every kit, even kits imported from other countries (TamiyaUSA, MRC for Fujimi, etc). Most everything from Europe has those circle seals - RevellAG, Italeri, Heller, etc. Meanwhile Japan doesn't shrink wrap or seal anything domestically. Some hobby shops put banding around the boxes, but that's an individual decision. Speaking of things from far off lands, this finally arrived yesterday.

Is anyone gonna do anything to you? No. But if you look at one of those boxes it has a warning printed right on it that the box is Property of the USPS and is to be used exclusively for mailing Priority Mail items and any other use of the box is a violation of Federal Law. That's why I said "strictest most literal interpretation", the USPS would make no friends if they sent the USPIS around fining everyone who used them "illegally". ?

Why would someone use a USPS box to ship via UPS? Unless they're recycling boxes...because in the strictest most literal reading of the law to use a Priority box for non-USPS purposes is theft. Those boxes are "free" with the understanding that you'll use them within the USPS system, and ergo the postage you're charged offsets the "free" box. Also we (FedEx) took back the delivery of the majority of urban FedEx SmartPost (the USPS delivered version of FedEx) because after the October imposed slowdowns made by the USPS they were missing too many delivery windows. Having worked for both, the SmartPost stuff took a backseat to USPS's own parcels and they were forever behind on sorting it and getting it out of the building. Once they started forcing trucks to depart at their cut times and stop paying for dock delays a lot of that FedEx stuff ended up getting stuck until the next day. Wash, rinse, repeat that a few different places and suddenly it's taking 7-10 days to make a 3-5 day delivery. Ever since the end of October a bunch of us have gotten a little topper to our weekly checks because we are now running shuttles out of the local SmartPost facility down to OUR local sorts when this used to be the job of a couple of folks who ran the trailers between the SmartPost and the big Pittsburgh Metro USPS Distribution Center all night long.

As an update on this, I put in an order for one of the 3500s, one of the 2500s, the suspension upgrade for the 2500, and two Hemi engines and got a note back this morning saying my estimated ship date is May 10th. Not that I was in a particular hurry, but for anyone considering it, be aware of the que time.

I second that, who knows maybe they'll do a separate engine in the future like they did the Hemi. In which case I'll have a spare resin Hemi, which i suppose isn't the worst position to be in...?

For anyone who's been waiting on this item, they officially released it today. 3500 dually pickup truck. Full resin kit, 1/24 – A&N Model Trucks (an-modeltrucks.com)

Hmm maybe not, I haven't seen the insides of the hardtop kit since I built one for my mom (her dream car) back in the early 90s. So what is the innards, the frumpy 68 Shelby kit everyone loathes?

Since Jamie only mentioned a new body and wheels that makes me think the innards are the 65/66 Hardtop parts. Wouldn't they have shared the same guts originally prior to the Fastback getting modded off into the 1967 & 1968 kits?

They will be new stuff sooner than one might think based on the chatter in Vegas. Also that big tool purchase didn't cost very much at all. Remember Blitz/Quantum bought the entirety of the Revell US tooling for $49,999.00, and the stuff that Atlantis rescued were items that if Atlantis didn't purchase were going to be scrapped in order to empty out and leave the Elk Grove Village lease on time. B/Q kept some of the U.S. based tooling as well, so Atlantis didn't even buy everything stored in Illinois, and then proceeded to sell the whole lot of NASCAR tooling to Salvinos J R.

Well if they're going to offer the Fiat Gassar as a FIAT Gasser they would have to been in the process of securing licensing from the Mothership as it were, Stellantis is subsidiary and it's not like Mopar has been particularly hard to deal with in the past in terms of kit licensing. The best part of the news from a big picture perspective is that it unlocks the ability with further licensing tweaks to produce anything in their inventory that's "Stellantis" and Ford related - something that didn't exist while they were GM only.

The Durango has been pursuit rated for a few years now, and has been selling more and more units. Ford dropped the Taurus based Interceptor back in 2018 and now only sells the Explorer and pursuit rated F-150. GM only has the Tahoe available as it's front line pursuit rated vehicle. (Yes there are other things like vans, non-pursuit rated trucks, and other Special Service vehicles but the 3 SUVs, F-150, and Charger are the only ones pursuit rated.) The Charger is a bit archaic at the moment, or the only sedan option left depending on how you look at it. The whole Charger/Challenger thing has certainly lived a much longer and more productive life span than was intended on that old E-Class Merc chassis design that's for sure.

The "best" part of that post on FB was the subsequent reaction by some folks who felt it was Atlantis' duty and obligation to provide everyone with a public list of what they purchased even after the post mentions they wouldn't do that.