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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.

There aren't any on the distribution list for this month going into March unless something gets added this week.

Obligatory Blazer shot Big pile of high end resin winding it's way through the mail. I'm interested/dreading in whether or not I'm going to have to pay some mysterious government entity 10% or not to actually receive it.

Sure but none of them overlap. They're all different tooling.

Revell has been tooling up multiple kits out a single tool since the late 80s when the '69 Camaro and '32 Ford series of kits were started. If anything the AG (or GMbH) side of Revell is the one that does one-off kits. There's never been a follow up to the AMG SLS, AMG GT, McLaren 570S, Porsche Panamera, or any of the three Vintage tractors, etc, et al. Really the only single use kits that come to mind from the U.S. side of things are the very custom Foose kits (Ford P/U & Eldorod) as they managed to recycle the Rat Roaster into a different '32 Hot Rod concept.

The original set of Stranger Things kits were first leaked out of the NY Toy Fair in the Fall of 2023. Which means those kits were in development well before that, so it's not hard to imagine as a license holder for the show they'd get information well before anyone else to develop a Season 5 vehicle that no one knows about. Revell U.S.' other releases for 2025 are modified reissues that are already tooled up so they have nothing to do but make the new S.T. kit. Salvinos JR for example on their Next Gen kits get the entire planned sponsorship scheme art work for their licensed teams before the previous year ends for the following year. But race fans only get that information in drips and drabs before Daytona and into the Spring.

Are they doing something else with it? The e-Tron kit came out in 2022.

The box art was literally the first post of this thread.

It's not the beginning of anything, this is an old thread and was supposed to occur back in 2016. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread and reviewed a few posts ago Revell let their Ferrari license expire and this project never came to fruition and it forced them to stop selling all of their own kits as well.

Actually the opposite, when Ferrari was under Fiat they had Mattel doing all of their licensing, but when Ferrari was spun back off in 2014 (fully implemented in 2016), Ferrari took their licensing back in-house and the rate when up by multiples. Revell, Hasegawa, and Tamiya all declined to renew their licenses when they expired. Fujimi of all people has kept theirs active the entire time. Tamiya also recently re-upped their license quietly and have done "silent" reissues (restocks) of some of their kits (360 Modena being the most recent). Of course knowing what we know now in 2016 Hobbico was already hemorrhaging cash from it's failed R/C pursuits and then imminent Traxxas copyright lawsuit. They probably at that point legitimately couldn't afford to allocate that money to Revell.

Oh yeah? Oh YEAH?!?!? Well I buy a hefy helping of import kits, but I need to get my hands on that Barracuda and Nomad Wagon. That's right I'll throw a spanner right into the entire one side or the other!! Sorry I couldn't help myself 🤣

Yep and discussions were held here about the show last week. The thread is about 2/3rds of the way down the page.

For a multitude of reasons, this analysis is wrong. I could spend a half hour writing a novella, but nobody would bother to read it. Suffice to say your impressions of market size and market share, to say nothing of funding and budgets are incorrect. In 2025 Round2 is now the largest company in the U.S., and their CHOICE to stick in the nostalgia niche is one they made, not one they were forced to make. For the record I don't begrudge their (Round2) decisions either. I think they have a unique "it" angle to play with scanning and recreating the old kits and they should run that out as far as it will take the profits. As a general statement all the - Wish they made this, or they should make that, et al. Ya'll need to keep in mind development runs 12-18 months in advance, the stuff you know about is 6-9 months in advance. There's an entire year's (plus) worth of planning already done that everyone else has no idea about.

Umm... Soooo... That's the same video as the original post in this thread...

Aoshima's deal wasn't exclusive, Hasegawa and Fujimi have been reissuing their various Lambo kits the whole time and Revell kicked out the old Monogram Exotics based US Spec Countach along the way during that time as well. But no neither are SnapTite kits (Bugatti/Revulto), and as Frank pointed out the EB110 was originally released back in 1992.

Two newest Alpha Models kit, which are modified reissues of early kits. January HLJ shipment

Other than the decals, it's the same kit that Revell tooled as a 23 Window "Samba Bus" in 2015. Updated with new parts into the panel version (with Porsche Dealer Service livery) in 2018.

Top of the line would have been a Mach 1 with a 351 CJ. The 429 was a '71 only engine. The other '73 engines would the 250 I-6, 2bbl 302 and 2bbl 351.

Not particularly, Season 5 hasn't been aired yet and there's no schedule for it yet beyond "2025".

It says it's 60 pieces and that's a bit much for an engineless SnapTite kit that's curbside. I'd suspect (with 0 actual knowledge of the project) that it'll have a simplified engine the way the 2014 Mustang GT (Pre Painted/Unpainted) kit had a 7 part Coyote engine. The tractor kits they've done are all EasyClick and they have engines as those are exposed on that type of vehicle. I believe the Snap version of the 1/16 356 (there was a glue one based on that same base tooling one was a Coupe & one a Roadster) had an engine. The 007 Aston was a curbside, as was the eTron. But in fairness the eTron doesn't actually have an engine. Again based on 0 knowledge, just supposition, if they can make a Snap & Glue kit out of the 356, then with enough planning and engineering they could theoretically make a glue version of. Darkhouse or GTD in the future.

Straight reissues in 2025 include '66 Mustang Racing Version '64 GTO '85 Pontiac Fiero '68 Corvette Roadster The first three out of those four being of Monogram origins