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I hate to disappoint you three, but no that is not remotely close to what I had passed before my eyes under the cover of darkness.

Fresh off the Round2 FB page.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the show yesterday. Had good (but not uncomfortably packed to the rafters) crowds for the day, and we actually ran out of contest entry forms before registration closed.

Atlantis would have to pay Revell to run the kit as the tooling is in China. They had this one done and ready to go prior to Hobbico imploding and were displaying it as an upcoming kit from the reconstituted Revell U.S. before TD took his ball and went to sulking.

The Flatbed and the earlier Fords were underway prior to the sale to Pegasus. I can say I know of some new tooling that has been cut, but again it's more of a heavily modified reissue than something ALL new. The "issue" with the Nova/Chevy II as previously stated is that the tooling wasn't done before hand, just the rapid 3D prototypes. As far as anyone knows (or anyone who's whispering in the winds as it were) Pegasus hasn't decided to necessarily green light any self-funded new tooling. But they haven't officially canceled any project either. Guess we'll see what happens in 2021 if any sort of "normalcy" returns later this year.

That Dragon/RevellAG E36 M3 is still floating around out there somewhere, so it's hard to see someone making an entirely new one just to have the original one get reissued right into the profit margin. While I understand your point, the fact that IMSA ran/runs it's own spec setup at times, and the majority of American builders want loud things that go in straight lines, it's hard to argue the viability of a project like that unless it can be run along side a similar "World Spec" (bonus points for Guia Race of Macau potential) kit variant as well. That's why you see things coming up like the E46 M3 GTR - which was spent so much time winning in IMSA abusing a dubious loophole in homologation rules they banned it, because it also won 24h of Nurburgring 2x is a row. Or the Audi A4 Touring project which won several years in Macau in addition to BTCC.

I would find it highly unlikely that they would ever seriously consider a street legal vehicle. Much like Belkits, they've found their niche in doing in-demand racing model kits.

Everyone is very gun shy after the disaster of the R-SV GT1 kit. The subsequent poor sales of that kit scuttled plans at Aoshima for further racing Lamborghinis. With BeemaNuNu, there's also the bad experience of dealing with Aoshima as a distributor, and Aoshima holding the main Lamborghini license in Japan. I've tried to no avail (so far) to get a Huracan project advanced, and I keep hearing there's not much interest in kitting an M4 when it comes into being in the 2022 season.

When does the Z400 go on sale? It's marketed as a 2022. I guess it could be the Fall kit if they do another new automotive tooling this year, but I'm not sure we'd see it in kit form prior to the real car going on sale.

That is indeed a no. Actually when the 911 was announced there was a minor raft of complaints from people who didn't realize the rally body was different than the street car and/or Gr. 4/5 Touring Car. Many whines of incorrect rockers and flares. But the SC/RS was a purpose built amalgamation of parts that doesn't exactly match any other 911 of that period. As for the Volvo, someone at Banzai mistyped an input incorrectly. The number shown in the link itself actually, as well as in the listing is an Aoshima SKU.

Found a few of the Good Smile Racing kits I was missing from my collection on Yahoo! Japan Auctions along with a decently priced Tamiya Supra that has a set of replacement decals in the box.

Hasegawa doesn't have anything to do with any of the Beemax/NuNu projects. Hasegawa is the Japanese importer for Revell, and Italeri. The SC/RS is a clean slate new tool. Fujimi's rally 911 is a '73 Carrera, the "84 SC/RS was a Group B machine that was supposed to be a stop gap until the 959 based "4x4" rally car was ready. Gr. B died before it was completed, although the 959 based car did run Paris to Dakar a few years.

You know too much, people will be there shortly. Or I can read a press release, but you keep doing your snark if you think it serves you. The large scale Lotus, the large scale bike were under wraps. If you understand tooling sequences and have an imagination then you might have been able to figure the Evo 2 modified reissue of the Peugeot 306 Maxi and Evo (2019+) Audi R8 LMS GT3 were distinct possibilities, but neither of those were widely known outside of the aftermarket community who need advanced bodies to measure for P/E & Decal upgrades.

Shizouka is going to be a 2 day event that is closed to the public. It will be manufacturers and distributors only and those people from outside of Japan that represent foreign manufacturers who have met/will meet the quarantine protocols prior to the show. It will not have it's traditional Open to the Public weekend hours, nor will the traditional show/display from the various modeling clubs take place.

Latest box of stuff from HLJ. Also booked all the flights, hotel & rental car for the IPMS Nationals in Vegas in August, but that's just blurbs of text, so here's a picture of the HLJ box instead. ?

Unless it's been canceled again the German Toy Faire is in the summer. There is also (pending disasters) going to be an in-person 2 day Shizouka Hobby Show in May that I expect several of these items will/would have broken cover since they're conjoined to Platz now.

Based on the estimated shipping time of the end of May/beginning of June, and the fact the kit has no firm release date in Japan (as compared to being on the release list for April here) I'm guessing several people either think they got a "cheap" original kit, or paid for an exceptionally expensive pre-order.

They're well aware of it, and BeemaNuNu isn't the only company they do it to, they're very well known for posting EVERYTHING that happens to be on a sales list regardless as to whether that information was for release, or the "inside baseball" information that wholesalers normally get in advance. But like Michael said they're one of the largest EU vendors, especially for Motorsports and likely being "leaky" is offset in Pre-Orders than NuNu is more than happy to fulfill. Having seen a few behind the scenes email exchanges I'd have to say the opinion their customers have vs. the opinion their suppliers have is somewhat...different.

They (along with the '72 Chevy w/Coke stuff) got added to the April distribution list over the weekend. Online vendors would do themselves a solid if they'd stop aggressively guesstimating release dates, all it seems to do is rile up customers when things are "late". I get both sides, they want to generate interest and pre-orders, but then everyone blames Round2 when stuff doesn't show up at those pre-planned times. Of course Round2 fuels that fire by putting stuff in monthly videos they aren't actually releasing in the given month of the video as well.

I'm guessing SpotModel moves to much Beemax/NuNu product to get in trouble for it, but there's several items in that release that weren't public knowledge, and weren't supposed to be made so until after next month at the earliest.

Huh I don't walk on my models...must be a feng shut thing I haven't heard of before...

Less than 40 counting the tires, it's a SnapTite kit.

It's most certainly not a new kit. Atlantis is all of Round2's Nostalgia turned up to 11. So this is the original 1957 tooled Cadillac with every problem it's had for the past 64 years. Revell last reissued it in 2010, I can't expect people are exactly going to be storm down their hobby shop door on this one, and there's one on eBay that's up for less than a 20 spot, which I imagine will be cheaper than this release.

The Zonda is with Aoshima, Nao left the company 6 years ago to start Rocket Models. There was thought he might do automotive stuff, but he makes too much money supporting World of Tanks and alternative universe intergalactic Nazis to be sink money into the cheapness abyss. There's going to be an actual in person Shizouka Hobby Show in May, cut down to 2 days and not open to the public, so we'll see what is shown there. This had to break cover prior to the show because it's a June release and pre-orders need to get started.

Hey guys here's a simplified kit that costs 800¥ more than the McLaren Senna!!! Aoshima gives templates to cut out the inner fenders on the LB R35s, and RB Toyota 86s...then to prove how easy it was made a couple videos of their female office staff making the body modifications. The cost here is the one use nature of this tooling. They might be able to redo it as a pre-painted kit in the future, and while this is certainly cheaper than buying a regular Huracan and the HD transkit, I'm not sure it's worth $58 Japanese MSRP with it being that decontented.