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There was mention of the possibility of it being scaled up in the future.

Hasegawa has released test shot photos of the parts on the runners. http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hc39b/

Doesn't seem likely, both of the previous AMT Italeri reboxes have been more expensive on the shelf than the actual Italeri kits themselves. Other than getting these on the shelves at Hobby Lobby I'm still not sure what the point of these kits are as they're not releasing kits that are otherwise hard to find.

In regards to the McLarens, it's a 765LT which is the brand new car introduced this year as a track focused version of the 720S. The P1 - which everyone and their 3rd cousin's 4th mother wanted from Revell after they did their 570. Lastly a P1 LM which set the unofficial fastest production car lap time at the Nurburgring. They didn't have a front license plate on it, so technically it was not "street legal" within whatever cockamamy set of rules regulates the lap records there. *shrug* Why can't McLaren get any love? I mean we've gotten kits of far less inspiring Ferraris over the course of time including TWO companies doing both versions of the 360, and Fujimi doing 3 street and 1 track version of the F430 (plus the Revell one). Separate up top and down top versions of the California? ?

There will be a Liberty Walk R35 released at the end of the month in a Hobby Design box, and then another Aston Martin (either the Vantage or DB11) will be the next Alpha kit. Nothing on this list will see the light of day before 2021. Given that they alternate between doing HD releases and Alpha releases this probably covers their plans through most of next year. They're based in Wuhan itself, so this year's events really put them behind in terms of getting out projects that had been announced in 2019 for 2020.

Glad to see I'll still be in debt to them throughout 2021...

They appear to have the ones that were based in Elk Grove Village at the time of the sale, there's never been any mention or record of Atlantis buying (or Revell selling for that matter) the kits that had been sent over to China.

Picked this up off eBay, my LHS had some the last time I was there, but when I checked back recently he said someone from Guadalupe (of the Tropical Island in the Caribbean) bought all three. Cost more to ship them than the 3 kits did...

An update, the U.S. Price has been announced and the MSRP is clocking in at $449.95... My LHS said the best he could do in terms of final shelf price would be $337.50, which when you figure shipping something that monstrous from HK is probably pretty competitive overall. Expected delivery in the U.S. is January 2021.

Should be a pretty robust SnapTite kit along the lines of the two agricultural tractors. It's something like 10 parts shy of the parts count on the new E-Type Jaguar.

The last post I saw on FB relating to that show it was still going ahead with masks, social distancing, and capacity limits.

Yes that was the way the Ninja H2R was done. If you look the kit number on this one is 0002 and it's a new Series as there are no other 1/12 automotive kits. 0001 will be the other version.

It's available for pre-order at HobbyEasy in Hong Kong for tentative delivery date of 11/24 for $257.81 (without shipping) based on the current exchange rate. Unless they really keep a lid on distributors outside of the home market expect this kit to be well into the $300s, maybe even close to $500 when it's all said and done. Their 1/24 kits are somewhere in the range of $35 in Hong Kong vs. the $50 they were sold for here. Also the 1/9 Kawasaki Ninja H2R is $63 in Hong Kong and the U.S. MSRP is $139.99. Sooooo get ready to crack your wallets WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE open for this one folks.

C-HRs have been available in North America since the model was introduced in 2016.

This past weekend the LHS hosted a "Sidewalk Swap Meet" putting out tables for independent vendors to sell in the parking lot. Turned out to be 3 guys with 3 tables each, all of which I passed on, but since I had taken out some "just in case" cash I went inside and spent it there.

So I bought this stuff on Yahoo! Japan Auctions pre-Rona, but missed the end of the global Postal system as we used to know it. After nearly 7 months with no end in sight I bit the bullet and paid to ship it over with DHL.

Both are Isuzu G engines, but the Chevette used a OHV 1.4 or 1.6L, and the LUV used a SOHC 2.0L.

It's still going to be in a RevellAG box and most likely only sold through brick and mortar shops, eBay, and other hobby eVendors de jour. There was a U.S. boxing of the Samba Bus back in 2010.

It's a lot easier to produce more kits when something sells out than it is to move a bunch of dead stock and sell it for below wholesale to Ollie's. Manufacturing and production is the quick bit, it still then has to be containerized, take a long Pacific vacation by boat, and then ride a train up to Chicago and a truck to South Bend. Then get offloaded, inventoried, broken down, repacked and the shipped to the vendor your pre-order is purchased from...

Set of decals for the BeemaNuNu 935 K3 I've been after for awhile. Not sure if it was a limited run because of licensing, or a lack thereof, but a lot of places (like HLJ) never even stocked it because of Studio27's habit of doing 500pc runs.

For everyone doing handstands about vague pictures of boxes, here's the entire flyer.

Mustangs from eBay, Camaros from a fellow hobby hoarder

It was a limited run because RevellAG whacked the roof off to make a Cabriolet in a very permanent way. Which is why the Cabrio has been reissued, but there was only ever a single run of the Coupe. They did the same thing with the 8 Series BMW in a time before people wrapped their minds around not destroying things to make other things out of them.

1983 Camaro Z/28 0-60 = 8.8 1983 VW Golf GTi 0-60 = 9 Tell me again how boring this car is again...because seems to me dependent on day, time, weather, and driver those 0-60 times are within the margin of error of each other, and one of them has a 1.8L 4 cyl...

No it's the AMT 27' Trailmobile Post Van, originally from the 70's era issue of this combination that was liveried for the U.S. Postal Service. Or it's one half of the Double Header Trailer set, however you wanna you look at.