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All of the "1966" cars were based on, and then reverse engineered versions of U.S. kits made to be slot car bodies by a long defunct Japanese toy company. Somewhere along the lines the tooling wound up in Hasegawa's vaults about 30-35 years ago, and they decided to tool up some basic universal style chassis and interior bits for them and sell them as complete models.

A full size vending machine wouldn't fit in a 1:1 van, that's why you need that C600 Stakebed for...?.

A couple of Tamiya DTM kits for $20@ and a 2nd in Competition Closed Wheel 1981-Present at the TAMS Show in Norfolk, VA this weekend.

It won't get the kit here any faster, but it's also purposely telling a falsehood. If you can pretend that there's only one active GM licensee at any given point, and Revell just reissued the Buick GN/GNX and '65 Impala in the past week (not to mention Monte Carlo SS last month) - you'd be implying Moebius has to wait for that licensee to expire before they could release the Novas. That would be at LEAST 3 years based on the duration of past Revell licensing cycles (thank you Bankruptcy Filing paperwork). People need to understand sometimes it's O.K. to just say "I don't know" to questions rather than making up a story on the fly.

Three actually, since Salvinos JR holds a GM license for the NASCAR kits they're producing which at this point are ALL GM products. Edit - Four if the license is still active with whatever is currently left of Galaxie Limited... Five if the license is still active at Meng to produce the Hummer H1...

Licensing has durations, it might need to be renewed, or it might have only covered the items being released at the time the agreement was signed. It all depends on the licensor as to whether it's a blanket "for all like items" type, or on a case by case basis.

I think the swindling would be relative to whether or not her husband is alive or dead. She seems to realize this stuff is worth something, kinda makes me wonder if he's still above ground and breathing and you'd be stepping into the middle of a divorce proceeding in trying to buy that stuff. We had a widow come to a show about 3 years ago with about 500 kits - all of them old stuff, original JoHans, old annuals, and she took $5 a box for every single one of them. She was downsizing and moving to Florida with her daughter and she just wanted everything gone so she could move. Bunch of us told her she was giving up a wild amount of money doing this - but she said $2,500 was more than enough for her needs and she just wanted to see her husband's stuff go on to other people who might get around to building it.

Quite possible the licensing isn't finalized yet, that's a place holder box art, not the final version.

Interesting this has a Monogram logo on it...so we're back to trying this again. Let's see if the combined might of Germany & U.S. branches can figure out how to correctly use the "divisions". Hobbico Revell managed to cross brand things incorrectly listing 1/24 kits as Revell and 1/25 as Monogram on the concept that Monogram branding indicated a simpler building experience.

They may or may not being discontinuing international sales. But since the entire flyer itself is a hoax, and all this "no international" stuff seems to be based on rumors, the mention of "international" in the hoax, and "US & Canada" in the official response. So it's hard to tell...

I believe 1988 into 1989 was the last hurrah of an independent MPC. That year begat the '69 Olds, along with the initial C1500 Silverado & Beretta annuals that continued on as AMT annuals.

If you think that's real, then I know a "Holy Missionary" who needs to rent his beautiful home to someone.

That makes more sense, you wouldn't pay to have box art drawn a year in advance. More like 90-120 days so that they can be printed and get in before the kits do.

Ford isn't planning to field factory works cars until the next set of DPi specs go into effect for the 2022 season unless they decide to field a Hypercar for WEC in 2021. But most articles state Ford didn't get the technical specs they were looking for in Hypercar and weren't planning to pursue it.

Coke jokes aside happy to see the GMC come back, I tracked down an original Bison a year or so ago and wanted it's sister, but eBay is what eBay is and prices of the AMT/Ertl reissue were more than I paid for the Bison.

Ed Sexton told me to my face back in April at NNL East the '29 was coming back in early 2020. That's about as official as an announcement as you're going to get about those kits. I mean at this point only Round2 is (mostly vaguely) doing a monthly release sheet anymore. Revell, Moebius and Salvinos are just running on a - When we get it in, we ship it model. The new ownership in Germany felt it was more important to release some of the new and/or highly modified tooling they had just bought (Ford GT LM, '68 Chevelle, Sprint Car, '69 Mustang) than reissuing the Model As. More broadly keep in mind when you're paying a 3rd Party to manufacture your product, you're basically buying xzy number of hours of production floor time, months in advance. You can't just plug something in to be run, without pulling something back out in exchange. So do you pull say the new tool Chevelle out to put the '29 with swapped engine/wheels in, when you consider it didn't sell as well - compared to the '30? I'm guessing they sold more Chevelles than they will of these reissued '29s, if for no other reason than the '29s were lingering around well after the tooling was kerfuffled.

Ehh it's been 9 years since this kit was originally released as a modified reissue of the '65 tooling. It was due for a reissue on Revell's timing cycle, plus it has the '65's lowrider parts tossed in to broaden the appeal.

We can't curse here, or even use Peanuts style typewriter characters to serve for it...but I'm getting ESL (I'm gonna guess Chinese) ads for ED "meds" mid-post? I get the point about revenue, but if you can't keep the ads family friendly then what's the point?

There really should be a class called "Why the Business of the Hobby Should Be Your Business"... First of all who's to say they WON'T reissue the '71 at some point? Just because it hasn't happened YET, doesn't mean it won't happen EVER. Secondly - the last time the '74 was out was 2012. 7 years ago...in a collector's tin...that everyone wailed to high heaven about because it was too expensive. 7-9 years is a standard reissue cycle for everyone, remember Round2 makes no money off eBay. Lastly - In the course of this thread you've basically accused some mystery figure at Round2 of intentionally not reproducing this kit..ON PURPOSE. Amongst the other naïve ramblings...Here's the thing, if they need to cut a new body for the kit for whatever reason, that is LITERALLY the most expensive single part of a the assortment of parts we call "tooling". If the average model tool costs somewhere between $250,000-400,000 (depending on the complexity and size, 1/32 aircraft for example are more expensive than a 1/24 car), then retooling the body is going to be $80,000-100,000 of that cost. By the time you add in the other so called "minor" parts you've mentioned it's really almost more cost effective to create a new kit altogether. Why don't they do that? Well can you show me where you're going to sell say 25k of these Road Runners in say 3-5 kit variations? Making a NASCAR version is out of the question since Salvinos JR is going to get there eventually, and builders in 2019 aren't going to happily accept one of these 1 kit that tries to be everything to everybody 3n1s that nobody really cared about back in the day - cause everyone building them was 15 years old. The other downside to trying to put new parts into old kits, especially in terms of putting a new body on an old subpar 70s chassis is making everything play together nicely. There's no CAD data of the chassis, so you're air mailing a hope that it actually all assembles easily enough to not burn off the support of the casual builder. What if in measuring up a '71 Roadrunner - or even better 3D scanning one - you realize that whoops MPC didn't make the wheelbase correct, or cut some corners on chassis length and width so it could serve as the standardized Mopar chassis under several different cars? Everyone remember how the newly re-tooled stock grille for the '76 Gremlin doesn't actually FIT the body of the '76 Gremlin? The 1% Forum Warriors might cry out - Are Ye Not Modelers?!?!?! But collectively we also only buy about 1% of the kits that you'd need to sell to not take a financial bath in this endeavor. The reason the 2016 Camaro kit exists is because there were EIGHT kits produced off that piece of tooling between the SnapTite & Glue releases. You're going to sell 2,500-3,000 of each of those kits just to HobbyLobby Corporate HQ alone. Move another 2,500 of each to other hobby retailers globally and *poof* you've sold 40k models off one tooling, which means even though everyone supposedly hates the last Gen Camaro you turned a handsome profit on that investment.

If the worst thing you can say about the kit is the doors don't work and some inconsequential interior parts were sacrificed to the budget in order to make the part of the model kit you actually see when it's sitting there on your display shelf better. Well that's a balance I'm willing to accept.

Revell has all of the "normal" methods of social media with a Facebook page for both Germany & U.S., along with Twitter, Instagram, et al. They've also been sending Ed Sexton out on a U.S. Tour this year, I think he's been at more shows in 2019 than he would normally go to in 2-3 years, plus there are still larger shows upcoming in the fall. Plus I think they've realized that some of the best advertising they can buy is actually free. You have people such as Tim Boyd, myself and others who are always pushing out new kit announcements here, on social media, and in my case on a weekly show on YouTube. Then you have guys like Chris who are getting the kits in advance to do build reviews for them as well. Magazine advertising may actually be cheap enough for the model companies to buy considering how far down the road to doom the magazine industry is as a whole, but I think one of the things that have really cratered hobby magazines in particular is the online world where models can be shown and reviewed (for better or worse and with how much honesty vs. criticism can be argued another time) in almost real time. YouTube allows instant dissemination of how-tos, build tips, and all of that as well - to me the one downside of how-tos in magazines was always the static photos, blocks of text, and limited space. It's one thing to say I did X, shaved Y, and then *POOF* Z happened, but SEEING it actually happen in a video is far more instructive (IMHO) than trying to piece together what the author wrote, with what photos the magazine decided to run with the story.

Actually what we've seen out of Revell since it's U.S. "reconstitution" is only a part of what had already been planned for 2018. One new tool in the '68 Chevelle, and the modified reissue of the Sprint Car, '69 Mustang and insertion of new fender well inserts to make the '57 Custom into a Gasser. As we've discussed in the thread about the Chevelle there's more baked into that tool than one release and all tooling is cut at one time, so it's just a matter of waiting until you feel you've sold enough '68s to not be flooding the market with the next variation. Also model companies have their plans pretty mapped out for at least 18 months into the future - otherwise you'd never get the R&D, tooling designed, cut, test shots ran, tooling improved and have a product out in any reasonable time. So there's plenty more - at least a year's worth of releases - backed up at Revell in terms of new tooling that's already been cut or just needs to be approved to move beyond the CAD stage, plus whatever else Revell had in R&D phases that they choose to proceed forward with in 2020 and beyond.

I'd say the La Ferrari is competitor to the Porsche 918. The FXX-K is a track specific non-street legal car. There eventually was an RSR version of the 918, that's not what the kit represents, and while several of the Weissach package cars sported retro Porsche Le Mans liveries they were all street legal.

From what I've gathered (again speaking to folks who know visa-vie Beemax/NuNu) and heard second hand from other sources - BMW licensing isn't particularly difficult to get, it's just REALLY expensive. When Beemax was licensing their M3 DTM kit, it was almost shelved because they wanted $250,000 for final approval. A large group of us did everything but pay the fee to convince them that it was worth taking that financial risk, and the kits have gone onto having 5 boxings (2 China only) and been a sale success. It seems once you swallow that huge introductory fee, the ability to further license things is more reasonable. Which is why Beemax/NuNu have released the M6, and have a multi-use E46 3 Series kit coming, E90 3 Series, M8 GTE, & M1 Gr. 5 in the pipeline. The same thing goes for Hasegawa's 2002 - with the '69 Monte Carlo Rally reissue coming out this month that will be the 3rd Rally kit, and 6th boxing over all. Plus Hasegawa has seen it worth the cost to reissue the street and touring car versions of their 1994 318/320 kits.