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That kit was released as the Saldana car AFTER the implosion. It was run in China and labeled under the Revell GmbH ownership, so they still have it.

The kit came out 2 years ago, and this thread would have stayed dead if someone hadn't decided to raise it like a zombie.

Usually 1-2 months in advance under the Pre-Order tab. Right now the December kits are up there (there are no actual kit releases coming this month).

Today's box of goodies fresh off the DHL Flight from Japan.

Round2 posts all sides of the box and the bottom on Auto World Store their direct to consumer retail site. So it's out there to ponder to your heart's content, if you know where to look.

Revell Germany reissued the Type 3 kit last year and it also has a Yellow & White van on the box. That's probably what you've seen floating around. When I talked to Ed last end of the year was the expected release date for the Stranger Things kits.

I believe technically they're all "our" (Revell US) kits that are getting reboxed for the European market.

Catching up on this month's wares...I went to the Plastic Undercover Show outside of Akron. Then we have this month's HLJ crate. Got a few "regular" kits. And the rest of my lifetime supply of NuNu Hobby Porsche 911 RSRs and the corresponding etch set. I already have decals for all of these.

Heh..I do find it amusing that this kit is supposed to be released in a month or so and they're using CAD teasers instead of actual parts...or even a built test/production shot of the models. I wonder if that isn't to try to...for lack of a better term - trick - people into buying it sight unseen. A number of Italeri's new tools across the spectrum of their ranges have been critiqued for bad dimensions or odd/bad engineering choices.

No love it's a straight reissue. The 64 could get tweaks as it was a new tool.

Oh I wholeheartedly agree Chris' channel is a fantastic one stop "shopping" site for seeing kit contents/minute changes, especially on all of the eleventyhundreth reissue of the same AMT kit with new decals.

Well I mean this thread was drug out of the depth of the dungeons. He suddenly replied to a comment I made over TWO YEARS ago. At any rate my comment still stands. His quick and dirty builds show all the warts a kit posseses (whether that's intentional, or just a by-product of 48 hr rush jobs) and I don't understand why anyone would want their product featured in such a way as to imply a new/returning modeler can't build a decent looking model out of the box with a bare bones set of skills. I'd want my products sent to someone who was either gonna take the time - or possess the skills - to make it look as excellent as possible. He gets all this stuff for free, it's in everyone's best interest if it showcased the product in the best light. For all the static Revell has gotten here over the years, other than some 4x4 ride heights on sports cars you never see their kits look bad when Chris builds them compared to how the F-250 that was the subject of my comments back then.

And one that doesn't exist in any kit form. The Alpha Models GT3RS is close, but still not the right model year. But the Tamiya kit is an entire chassis platform newer than the one he wants.

SnapCar is a brand new 1/24 line of kits which have a traditional style of parts. These '22 GTRs are the second kit. Next will be a current Suzuki Jimny. Next three after that will be a '17 GTR, a Mk4 Supra and Mitsubishi Evo III. SnapKit (what you built) is a 1/32 Scale Series of very simplified starter models.

I've never understood why that kit doesn't exist, especially given Aoshima's decades long obsession with the movie.

Should be a thing or two debuted at the Detroit show in November.

Demon is a new tool, gotta spread the costs around to other projects to amortize the costs. Plus all the pre-Round2 kits were all done the old school way with no CAD files so it's a colossal PITA to add to/change them 30 some years later.

Yeah but they showed that way back in April at NNL East. It's done and ready, they're just letting the police car version have it's time to sell.

Round2 was on hand today at the Plastic Undercover Show removing a few projects...from under cover *rimshot* Polar Lights kit - Hemi parts were in the tooling, but never run in the kit previously. 76 Nova Pro Street - last seen in 2005 Next Variant of the New Tool Demon. All parts in gray are new

I'd guess 75th...

The single cab pickup has always come with USDM parts, apparently those are seen as more desirable in Japan for some reason. Also the single cab has NEVER come with the LHD parts included, as it's a separate tooling created in 2001 vs. 1991 for the quad cab HiLux & HiLux Surf.

Given the absolute joke show of the previous reissue of the Tamiya 787B where they didn't even make enough to ship them out of Japan and screwed over everyone who had them pre-ordered at places like HLJ.