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The Fujimi GT40s are on a constant reissue rotation, you just have to know which kits at what time since they only run off a few hundred and they usually sell out pretty quickly.

As much as they rebox other people's military stuff, I'm almost certain the only two times they did that in 1/24 car kits were the 850i you mentioned, and it's "companion" RoG 325i.

This is widely available from any Japanese online seller - all the usual suspects. I believe HK is getting it before the weekend, and here in the U.S. we're sorta at the whim of the L.A. Ports as to when things will arrive. The Sauber C9s just were arriving in Hobby Shops about two weeks ago nearly a full month after they were released in Japan. Our release of the Senna was also delayed more than a month and half past the original U.S. release date. *shrug* Nothing you can do about it really. It's either wait for them here, or import them - mine's sitting over at HLJ waiting for a couple of Hasegawa June releases to drop before I ship the crate over.

Undoubtedly someone who vends at shows, and with those coming back this year. What better way to get inventory? /sarcasm

It's the Sunny kit it actually came out nearly a year ago in August of 2020. I wonder if MegaHobby is stuck sitting on a pile of them and that's why they're suddenly emailing about a year old release. You'd have to dig a bit in here, but this kit and it contents were discussed at length when it came out.

That's two different sets of consumers.

We figured out on here last Christmas that these are runs of kits that Round2 is doing directly for Ollie's, rather than the good ole days when they were actually getting close outs from hobby distributors. This all started with a fake warehouse fire at Lindberg years ago, and then there were a few years when there would be a good mix of Revell and Round2 stuff, but the past two years or so, especially since Hobbico imploded and Revell was sold it's only this - eclectic - choice of Round2 kits. They do these twice a year, once in the summer - I'd argue right as schools let out of the year, and then again at Christmas. Looks like there's a few new things to this "dump" than there was at Christmas time last year, but a few of them are the same kits. Either they sold well enough they ordered more, of they've been hanging out in the warehouse for the past 6 months.

The MSRP is $60, so somewhere in the $50s is the decent price...

The price directly from Round2 (via AutoWorld) is $61.99. So I'd consider that to be the upper ceiling. It's the shipping that'll get you considering the size and weight of the kit vs. a normal car kit.

This was released in Hong Kong this morning, not sure how much lag there will be for widespread distribution.

Kit is released in Japan as of this morning. Assume normal crash positions for pre-order fulfillments... ?

I don't disagree with you, but they've already sold how many Astros in the past several years. I wonder how many people would buy ANOTHER one just to get the engine vs. people who can now just pick up the Parts Pack and put it into the kit they already have if they desire.

The irony here is pretty deep. You guys are acting like the Maverick - which lasted all of 7 years - is some sort of institutional car at Ford. It was a cheap, crappy, economy car aimed at the Vega and things like the Civic & Corolla. Sure a few had a 302 in it, and some people decided to make a drag car out of it, but be HONEST. The vast majority were powered by one of three anemic inline 6s, and even the 302 was only around 200HP - which is incidentally 45HP LESS than the Turbo 4 that's in the Bronco Sport this little truck shares it's platform with...The Maverick is the epitome of "an appliance", the really only ones that survive are some of the Grabber trim levels ones, nobody saved the rank and file cars for anything, they rusted to pieces and were replaced by something else.

ZoomOn Models out of Hong Kong also offers over 130 different mask sets, so chances are between HiroBoy and there you can find masks for pretty much all older Tamiya kits and a fair amount of unmasked Aoshima, Fujimi, Hasegawa, etc https://www.zoomonmodel.com/window-masks

F1 (and FIA as a whole) had banned tobacco liveries by 2006. Certain countries had started banning them earlier than that, it's when we got the Buzzin Hornets and Marlboro "Barcode" and Rothmans Racing dropped the Rothmans part. Although Ferrari is still sponsored by a fake company called Mission Winnow which is "owned" by Phillip Morris.

They already set aside the space at Flat Rock to build a smaller electric SUV, plus Cuautitlán Assembly has been open since 1964 and with the Fiesta coming to an end with the whole "no more cars" plan they had to put something in there to keep it open.

Those are made by "Zero Designs" part of the "family of companies" that Steve Hemming owns along with Zero Paints and Hiroboy in the U.K.. There might be other sources for them if he's selling them through other vendors, but Hiroboy is the most direct way.

Might not be a Mustang, but Ford has sold everyone of them they built, according to an article today there are none of them left in stock in the U.S.

They're selling it separately, it's not in their financial interest to throw it in any of the Astros now as it would cannibalize the Parts Pack sales.

I know Revell reboxed the Fujimi 190, and not to terribly long ago reissued that kit itself. But the ESCI and Fujimi kits are NOT the same kit. Not even vaguely. Fujimi's kit is a mediocre curbside (sure the ESCI kit isn't an award winner either) with the awful universal one-size fits all RWD plate chassis that it used in a number of late 80s kits including their BMW 3 Series kits. Which again explains why some of that era kits from Fujimi are so bad proportionally considering the same chassis width and wheelbase served a 4 door Merc and a 2 door Bimmer.

What makes it more lulz is I had looked up the box art to make sure I got the name right, because "Cal Drag Combo" is pretty vague even if it is the original name. It's clearly a Galaxie staring at me, and it says Galaxie on the box... BTW for anyone who's interested apparently they've added a new hitch for the trailer...

Whoops, that's what I get for typing straight out of waking up...let me fix that.

Actual June releases... Ford Courier "Minivan" Ford Galaxie Taxi Cal Drag Combo (Galaxie, Falcon, Trailer) International Transtar 4070-A Turbine Engine Parts Pack Firestone 500 Drag Slick Parts Pack

Fresh off the plane from H.K. via HobbyEasy.

When Hobbico imploded and Quantum (via the Blitz holding company) bought the assets the got RevellAG (or GmbH) as an operating company and the assets of Revell U.S. - the tooling and all the trademarks (Revell/Monogram/SnapTite, al). At that point when the unified under German ownership Revell reopened Revell U.S. as an office/operating division of Revell, Revell "of Germany" ceased to be since it now owned everything and was just Revell. Quantum also owns Carrera, which is based in Austria. Carrera also has a U.S. office/operating division. This consolidation is the merger of the two U.S. operating divisions into one warehouse in Atlanta under the new Carrera Revell of Americas name with both heads of Carrera and Revell staying on to operate their respective specialties. Without knowing precise specifics I'm guessing as with a lot of things during COVID-19, the bulk of Revell's day to day things can be done remotely. Once kits are designed the entire manufacturing process is taking place in China, or the plastics facility in Chicago Heights that tends to the remaining U.S. tooling. Now Quantum isn't paying for two separate warehousing & shipping fscilities. Additionally if there can be a sharing of CAD/Design data between divisions where Carrera can make more "Revell" type slot car subject matter and Revell can make kits of the "Carrera" subject matter and the combined nature of the company means one licensing can cover everyone, this could potentially be very good for both modelers and slot car fans.