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To add to Dave's point, in this litigious society we've evolved into, the method of suing people is to blanket sue everything that isn't nailed down. So if little Johnny choked to death on the Goodyear branded tires from his Revell NASCAR kit, in addition to Revell getting sued, so would NASCAR, the team, the team's main sponsors, GM or Ford, and of course Goodyear. Because how could of all those entities be so negligent as to allow Revell to produce such a deadly toy car...blah_blah_blah

Geoff is correct, there is no LHD dash as part of the tooling itself. There are two versions of the kit, and the rubber bumper one is the one to get if you're not sure which version you want to build as it includes all the parts for both versions. The "new" wheels must have an interesting story behind them as the kit itself was tooled by Aoshima in 1993, and the new wheels were tooled in 1994. It's like someone realized the wheels were wrong for a 1974, made the correction - and then either due to lack of sales, or perhaps the licensing expired they were never included. The Euro Sports Club Series only had 4 kits that I'm aware of the two "civilian" MGs and then a road racing, and rally racing versions that have what look like a set of Minilites that have never been reissued. The two "civilian" MGs got released in the equally short fated "Lightweight Sports" Series in 1998 that also included things like the Honda Beat, Suzuki Cappuccino, and a Mazda Miata MX-5 that until it was reissued last year was (and still is) the only LHD 2nd Gen MX-5 kit. They tool shared the RevellAG Mercedes E Series Wagon as a Euro Sports Club RV(I suspect that's when RevellAG got a run of the MG kit for their sales) and the Range Rover was done (and also tool shared with RevellAG) and *poof* European experiment over. ?

Not at all in terms of releases for U.S. kits since it's all based on what Round2 told Platz to tell their Japanese retailers. We get them months in advance of when they're distributed in Asia.

Retail is $47.95, no date as of yet, but usually stuff with finished box art is in the 90 days away realm from when it's finalized.

That's a screaming deal, that's only a few bucks more than they're selling for directly in Japan.

It's on a substantial pile of "TBA" kits that might be out before the end of the year if things don't go sideways with the world.

15-20k in tooling for the engine parts, then a few thousand bucks in mods to the body core tooling to remove the hood, then another grand or two to mold a separate hood. Probably makes the kit cost $5 or so more...it's already $42.

Usually clear parts do not receive their final tooling polish until the kit goes into production in case any last minute changes have to be made in shapes/contours before hand.

I totally understand your point, but at the same time it's a bit like buying a KITT Firebird and then complaining it doesn't come with a stock dashboard and steering wheel.

It is correct for the vehicle it represents.

The livestream video that was done was the 31st of January and they were on just starting their second go-around trying to get the front core tooling sorted out at that point. So while Coronavirus has invariably delayed things since then, there was 0 chance that kit was ever coming out in February.

I dunno $24.50 is well below the box MSRP on those, and $8.61 for shipping is reasonable since the actually shipping is gonna be $7, and that buck and change probably offsets all the eBay and PayPal fees and contributes a few pennies to the packing materials. The cheapest one up there right now is $32.99 which is right at MSRP. Sure it would be $19.77 + tax at Hobby Lobby, but I'm not really sure I can see the organization that is HL carrying that product. Not something that necessarily fits within their "value system" as it were.

It was confirmed in that live stream that the problem is the new tool 70.5 Camaro from the 90s isn't actually equilateral when comparing the two front fenders side to side so the new front nose piece didn't fit...at all. This is the reason these "new" kits based on old tooling are so labor intensive and take so long to finish and you see things like the Vegas just getting entirely new bodies done.

I can't speak to that particular site, but my LHS got them in on Thursday and there are several vendors selling them on eBay, so they are out there.

The sticker on the box lid in the video says - New 4 Piece Body. One would hope that means NEW NEW, and not "New"ly reissued thing we tooled up previously.

Japanese - U.S. relations have just normalized after the debacle of that Supra. Aoshima reboxed it with both body kits and aside from being the entirely "wrong scale" from what people expected, it's also a total flop when compared to the Tamiya Mk.4 Supra kit. It's probably the most loathed cross-Pacific tool sharing in decades.

It will show up in a few days, there's quit a bit of backlog at Round2 that is scheduled for release in June. The Impala and the Haul Away Trailer are at the point of that log.

Model Roundup expects theirs in on Monday.

There is indeed another multi-year truck project at Moebius that isn't related to any of the Ford kits that exist, or are planned for release this year. But people who know about stuff like that are sworn to secrecy until Moebius themselves are prepared to release that information to the public. The one thing that Moebius doesn't have that the other domestic kit guys do - even Salvinos JR when they managed to swing acquisition of all the old Monogram NASCAR tooling - is a "reissue catalog" of kits they can crank out on the regular to help supplement the income between new tool releases. So be patient, build some model kits, and eventually I'm guessing at least half the people in this thread will be happy.

PF was at one point racing three of them across both series. There's an orange one with Shelby stripes and a hot pink one too.

That box Casey is showing pictures of has a 2020 Copyright on it, so SOMEBODY has one. Being that June is a week away that's not out of the question if it's a distributor.

No this whole argument comes up with Tim only when it involves Tamiya and a Ford product. You see a DECADE ago Tamiya made the grave error of producing the Aston Martin DBS with only a partial engine insert. Mr. Boyd Is personally connected to the engine that powers the DBS from his time at Ford. So every...single...time Tamiya dares release a Ford product that doesn't have a full detail engine inside of it, we get this beating of a dead horse that's been going on so long now that there's no molecule of the horse left, nor even a stained spot on the ground. Just Tim slapping the dirt with his "bad Tamiya" stick. I have to say Tim I respect your opinion to have an opinion, and lord knows nobody will (or should) change it. BUT at the same time, I'd have a lot more respect for your position if you carried this torch for EVERY model kit produced, not just one company and one product line. I fail to remember a single muttered comment about the lack of engine in the AMG GT3, TS-050, or either of the Mazda MX-5 kits, or either 370Z, or the new Supra, or Toyoda AA, or the partial lousy inserts in the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ, or ANY kit from ANY other manufacturer when it comes down to it.. We get it, we understand it, we comprehend it. But at the same time when you lambast kits that people enjoy - regardless of your subjective opinion of their degree of completeness or disqualification from yearly awards presentations - you come across as talking down to everyone else here. Because somehow your personal opinion is seemingly more important and/or relevant than that of any of the thousands of modelers who've purchased this kit in the past two weeks.