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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.

Just tossing in the lowrider parts from the 1997 reissue of the 1965 kit I'd wager.

The big dump of toys they got in last week (and suspect new stuff will flow in through Christmas) is the final liquidation from Toys R Us. Now TRU did carry some models like the Revell Junior Series - the odd non-scale cars you assembled with a big plastic kid sized screw drivers. But everything shown in the flyer and mentioned by people here is either more of the old Lindberg stuff they haven't sold or it's 18+ month old Round2 kits. That would leave the most obvious suspects to be HobbyLobby and Wal*Mart. Because in addition to the fact Wal*Mart carries some models on the online "store", they also placed Round2 kits back into a bunch of stores that had prior success selling models over the past 5 years. The lack of anything Revell (or even Moebius) makes me lean towards Wally World because H.L. would have sold off all the stuff that didn't sell. It's a sales outlet large enough to get these models by the case load - my local Ollie's always has a couple of cases lying around on top of shelves when they do these kit blowouts and they are factory sealed full cases in their original boxes, not mixed case lots being boxed up by a warehouse liquidator.

It was also released in a collector's tin style packing as a "plain jane" '74 Roadrunner in 2012 (the DoH kit was released back in 2009). I would doubt at the time the tin was sold at H.L., and the 7-9 yr point is the traditional cycle of kit reissues.

I would presume (since there are no mentions of fixes in the kit literature) it's a straight reissue of the same kit we last saw in 2012.

Frankly the most entertaining part of this push of 80s & 90s race cars has been the blast from the past sponsorships. I wonder how many people under say 35, even know what a Travelers Check(que) even is (there are several 1st National Bank liveries out there), but I vividly remember my parents getting $700-800 worth at AAA to pay for the hotel on our trips to the beach during summer vacation in the 80s.

We have a winner! Hasegawa continues to be the Japanese distributor for at least the German half of Revell, that never changed through all the ownership shuffles since it didn't involve Hobbico.

Already established that it is an RX-7, the 911s are in dry dock while they work out how to best engineer in the changes necessary to not lock the cars into their previous racing seasons and dead end them at 2018. The Mazda 3 wheeler is 1/24

This kit is just the '57 Custom with the Gasser parts out of the wagon. The only new parts in it are the inner fender well pieces which allow the headers to pass through.

I think most automotive guys would be familiar with KA via their P/E sets. They also made a few resin conversion sets including one that turns the Protar/Revell/Academy S Class into an AMG.

Well the guy who owns Beemax also owns NuNu (along with AutoColour) so nothing was "gotten", kits are just being moved over to be distributed by Platz instead since Aoshima is in some sort of ongoing kerfuffle in relation to their distribution deal with Beemax. The Totip Lancia is going to be a Europe only release.

Yes but they had a fixed chassis and then scaled the car to fit it regardless as to the actual wheelbase, width, or length of the 1:1.

I believe the RX-7 which is the first of the "Easy Kits" which appear to be taking a generic universal adjustable wheelbase chassis angle - which will no doubt not please everyone - is based on the Jun liveried entry from the 1981 24hr of Le Mans.

Vince I said they require final product approval, they have several checkpoints along the way including an initial approval process. So no you wouldn't go blindly into the night investing in a tool that would ultimately be instantly turned down, but VAG (the parent company that owns VW, Audi, Lamborghini, et al) is very serious about protecting it's image. Also while that might not be what's holding up one or both of the VW kits being talked about here, it's not guessing or "maybe-so stuff" it comes directly from talking to the folks at Belkits & Beemax who happen to be the last two companies to work on all new tool VAG subject matter. Anyone who remembers the Galaxie Limited '47 Chevy Coupe release will also remember that kit was tangled up with GM licensing for an extended period of time in a debate over the box art in regards to the clothing the young lady washing the car was wearing in terms of whether it was too revealing. 1:1 Manufacturers always have last right of refusal on the finished product.

VW requires you to submit a final copy of the item to them for final licensing approval. Which means someone - in Revell's case whomever is building their stuff in Germany - needs to be hooked up with a production kit with a production box, decals, etc and then has to build the kit and show it to VW's licensing department.

I'm still not sure who this kit is aimed at exactly. The MSRP on this is a buck or two HIGHER than the one for the actual Italeri kit. Even a good hobby shop that's gonna come down off MSRP, is probably still going to have a better deal than this rebox, especially if they want to move the Italeri kit off the shelf before this shows up. It would be a nice deal for it, if you can get one at Hobby Lobby, but even then it's still an odd Pete. I can probably count on my hands without adding toes the number of 378s I've ever seen in person in 21 yrs of driving being used the way the box art suggests. The 379 was the Petercar 98% of people bought, the 378 was a HD shorter wheelbase truck that was never really designed to be a "long haul" truck. More like something you'd drag around construction equipment with, and needed a bunk just in case you got stuck out on a site.

The only viable cost effective way to get a '68/'69 Coronet at this point would be to start over with an all new kit that you could tool in the drag/NASCAR/convertible, et all versions in from the jump. There's not a single piece of tooling AMT or MPC made that's in a CAD format that can just be tweaked to re-cut the old tooling. Plus since the 68 & 69 begat the '70, you'd also have to convince Round2 that they should destroy a "free money" kit they currently have on the market in factory & Pro Street formats to clumsily backdate the tooling.

Well Mike (Indycals) does make very nice decals, however these are designed to fit the K2, so they probably fit fine on there. But as you point out that's not accurate. I'd say the one place where accuracy does become a "very important" thing to an extent is within the racing community. If you're building a '66 Impala, you can do pretty much anything to it, and people would be hard pressed to argue you're wrong. If you're building the Hawaiian Tropic 935/77 Le Mans car - you're making an exact replica of something that existed in an exact specific way.

Where on earth are you getting $100 from? The kit is $30, the P/E (which certainly isn't required) is $20, and shipping it from Japan - unless you want it in 2-4 days is gonna be another $10. A well stocked LHS should be able to price the kit itself in for around $45. The most expensive regular run kits available these days are the Belkits offerings and they slot in around $55...which is still a long way from a C note.

This seems to be the only hobby I know of where some people seem to intentionally revel in not improving. This whole tired - "I build for myself"- cliche jumped the shark with the Fonz. News flash unless you're building on commission we ALL build for ourselves. Nobody takes up golf in hopes of being bad at it. Nobody's gonna give you a high five and congratulate you on bowling a 37. Next thing that needs to go is all of the Whataboutisms. What if he had is arm blown off in the Nam? What if he lost 98% of his vision to an attack of rabid badgers? What if he was buried alive with his model? Like YOU could do any better dead in a coffin!!! This is a lost cause here, long ago a decision was made by the powers that be that MCM is a no critique (unless explicitly sought) zone.

Round2 bought all of this tooling - minus the Lindberg stuff - over a decade ago at this point. They're hardly new owners anymore. I'm fairly confident that as we're creaking into 2020 it's more than been paid for at this point.

The longbed Styleside is next, should be out in a couple of months tops as they are pushing vendors for pre-orders to be in shortly after Labor Day.

Sure it's a goofy tie-in. But they created that new tool SnapTite kit and then a few months later the world decided Dukes of Hazzard was no longer acceptable. They have to do SOMETHING with it to amortize the tooling costs since it mostly likely will never be a General Lee again.