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I really wouldn't care, I haven't gotten to the point of selling anything as of yet. But if I were to sell a contest quality model, it would have already made the yearly circuit with me in the first place. At that point it's a nice shelf piece, or something to bring out for the club display, but I wouldn't be entering it into another regularly attended contest anyways. I know *gasp* actually building new models for the same contests - a bit shocking and unheard of these days. One group of old fuddy duddies actually had the audacity to talk VERY LOUDLY about re-entering the same models over and over again every year. To the tune of - "What do they expect us to build new models every year? REAL CAR BUILDERS DON'T DO THAT!!!" I personally would love to see the reaction at AMBR or similar show if someone drug out the same car and re-entered it again the following year. Seems like the people who build real cars - and by that I presume they meant professionals of that level - most certainly do build new cars all the time, especially for "competition". Sure Joe Schmoe might only ever own a '69 Nova in his life, but going to Cars n Coffee every weekend and a couple of summer cruises isn't a competition either.

The Linkin Park/320 Change Direction AMG GT entered by Gruppe M Racing at the 2017 FIA GT World Cup race in Macau. 320 Change Direction is a mental health/suicide awareness organization run by Chester Bennington's wife. Irony...or perhaps a bittersweet twist of fate Chester never got to see the car run that race.

Couple of things floated over on the SAL Donkey.

Yeah the leg to Customs is never actually put into tracking. If people knew what did or didn't get secondary screenings they'd be able to avoid it.

There's a couple of them in there about waiting multiple years for parts. I mean if you're that...patient...keep waiting and maybe someone will remember to put "Never Got Those Parts" on your headstone, because obviously you should have dealt with it 2+ years ago when the request wasn't filled within a month.

Well if your package has been "Processed Through the ISC" as far as the tracking goes, and then it disappears, that means USCBP has a hold of it - and they'll give it back whenever they dang well please. Packages don't hang out at the ISC, there's no room considering the 2 way volume relative to the size of the facilities - I worked hauling mail in and out of the Chicago ISC (at O'Hare) for several years, most days you'd lose an hour or more just in line waiting to dock the truck into the building, Christmas time is sheer insanity.

Just having it up and running in the correct hands is progress enough for me - we know what kits are coming when (more or less) through the end of 2018. I found it rather disheartening that some of the first comments on that post were about the price - and alleged price gouging. I know people are sensitive to cost, especially when they refuse to mentally move beyond a certain fixed date in their past, but I still want to know what other hobby has such a loud vocal whining. Do people who ski sit around the chalet and complain about the price of lift tickets and lament the fact that skis used to cost $25 "back in their day"?

Revell's U.S. FB page has come back to life under it's new ownership.

Within the automotive genre I see the most amount of money being sunk into 70s-90s race car subject matter right now. For manufacturers it's almost a given that any customer who buys one of a given kit, is going to buy SEVERAL of them once the aftermarket decal support spools up for them. Say what you will about the accuracy and quality of the Salvino JR Oldsmobile there are almost a dozen different livery sheets either available or coming in the next 45 days.

Well Atlantis' whole schtick (if you will) is releasing seriously vintage and odd-ball genre model kits. I can't see why they would want to make new models in the first place, especially after picking up all the cast-off odds and ends from Revell's old vault. Round2 pretty much constantly develops new models all the time, just not in the automotive subject line. If you want this month's kit video Chad will tell you all about how the Polar Lights Star Trek kit is in fact new tooling.

It's probably doable, but unless someone fronted the money for it, I'm not exactly sure Okey is in a position to lay out the cash. You'd be talking a low 5 figure number when you consider the tooling costs combined with trying to make a new body fit a nearly 50 yr old base kit.

But would Blitzvell really give up things like the 60s Tri-Five tooling? I mean is Revell even Revell if they can't further subject people to the awfurrrrdubious nature of those old "everything opens" kits?

They seem to think so, since the drag version is going to be released by itself before the end of the year.

I believe there's a 7 minute section of double speak and back talking all about it...not to mention there are two bodies to the dragster, one of which is clear.

The 80s kits are the ones that are expensive and hard to come by, the most recent reissue of any of them was in 1998, with a few others in 1994. Some of the stuff hasn't been seen since the 80s like the Olds Delta 88, Olds Cutlass Supreme and the later 80s Regal.

Logically Blitz would have to keep at LEAST the U.S. tooling for items that were in the active catalog before the bankruptcy like the RX-7 which just got reissued before hand. From the whispers I'm hearing Blitz went through picked out all of the stuff they wanted/needed and liquefied the rest to Atlantis. Pretty sure that press release also said "all remaining U.S. based tooling" which is also a big tell.

Rick Salvino made a post on FB that they do in fact HAVE the Lumina, so assuming the Cutlass Supreme body and whatnot are still around, the guts are in possession.

No it was a regular 1991 release as I remember it. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/175603-monogram-2941-10-purolator-chevy

The Lumina was released as D.E.s car, Darrel Waltrip, Ricky Rudd's Tide & Derrick Cope's Daytona 500 car (at least) in the early 90s after the three DoT kits.

Does anyone know the exact drop dead date of when the tools were shipped to China because the square body T-Bird, and Pontiac Grand Prix were both run as part of the "Legends of NASCAR" series of kits in the late 90s.

Well Blitzvell only paid $49,999 for ALL of the tooling. How much could the scratch n dent bargain bin unwanted tooling have possibly cost Atlantis. That stuff they bought will pay for itself with a successful run of one or two of the tools I would imagine. I bet Salvinos JR got a screaming deal on the NASCAR stuff being they were buying it off the guys who bought it off the people who basically paid nothing for it in the first place.

It may not, Mike (of Mike's Decal) seems to think the Lumina is NOT part of what they got, probably owing to the fact the chassis went on to underpin the Monte Carlo that came in 1995, but was reissued well into the 2000s past when the tooling was sent overseas. The body cavities might be here, but the rest of it probably isn't - which mean that Olds Cutlass Supreme doesn't have any innards either unfortunately.

From what they have posted on FB, they only got the pre-1990s molds, but I suspect that would also cover the very early 1990s as well. So technically the swamp off the 90s/00s over-releasing doesn't necessarily effect them. They should now have - Three generations of Buick Regals Two generations of Oldsmobiles The Monte Carlo tooling, and you'd have to think the Lumina tooling - since that was right in 1990 when the DoT cars came out. Two generations of Grand Prixs, as the "rounder" one came out in 1989 The square T-Birds, the "round" 80s T-Birds, and then also possibly the really round T-Birds as the first of those kits were also released in 1990. Looking at that the most obviously thing to spool up would be a G-Body Cutlass to put on the 80s GM chassis. Also a "2+2" Grand Prix. Frankly with race car kits in general the 1980s into the extreme early 1990s is where all the action is at right now with the exception of Rally & Customer Racing (GT-3) in the hobby. This really does open up a "once in a lifetime" chance for them to wildly expand their offerings for a very minimal investment - and put things on a established platform that is already well liked and very buildable (as were most Monogram kits) by modelers.

Makes sense...more stuff Blitz would have no use for in reality. Even Revell hasn't bothered to do anything with them since doing some of those multi-kit releases, and that was what? Has to be at least 20 years ago at this point. I mean you basically can't even give most of those kits away at shows, I saw someone try to sell 3 of them for $1 and nobody bought them. That being said, it would be nice to have some model year specific corrections done to some of those since the base kits weren't exactly updated year to year. 2018 is the year the niche becomes...nichier?