kingiguana Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Confirmed by my LHS. I don't know why,....haven't heard that part yet. Maybe licensing issues ?? Maybe Revell was tired of all the nitpickers whining about bumper guards? They just hit my LHS Last Wednesday. It's not even a week.
kingiguana Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 Cool. A fellow builder says our LHS confirmed it. Hopefully it's a misprint. I saw on here to at some point someone else said it too.
jbwelda Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) So, you think Revell would just chuck all the tooling into the wastebasket over some missing bumper guards and a dozen people here pointing that out? Somehow that doesn't sound right. Meanwhile, the Blue Bandito still seems present and accounted for. jb Edited July 7, 2015 by jbwelda
mrknowetall Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Not true. Tower Hobbies lists it as discontinued, but that's a miscommunication between the parties involved. I say again, NOT TRUE!
1930fordpickup Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Funny they just put a post on facebook today about the new kit.
mrknowetall Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 No. The Del Rio ('57) wagon. Rumors had it discontinued, which isn't true.
mike 51 Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Tower now says "limited supply" maybe (even with the comments about the missing guards) it's nearly a sell-out? Of course after all the "whining" about the chopped Mustang look what happened....they issued a 2nd version! (apparently still "chopped") Try not worry (or to blame) folks....
Dave Van Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 (edited) Like Abe Lincoln said......'don't believe everything you read on the internet' .....now it seems he should have added LHS too... My buddy who is a wholesaler said he sold out in minutes when he thought he had ordered a 2 month supply. It is proving to be more popular than Revell thought. Rumors of the death of plastic models is just rumors.... Edited July 7, 2015 by Dave Van
mike 51 Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 No. The Del Rio ('57) wagon. Rumors had it discontinued, which isn't true. No it wasn't a "rumor"...Tower Hobbies showed it as "discontinued" for the last few days. It apparently was an error.
niteowl7710 Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Several online vendors that I know both here in the States as well as in Japan will automatically list a kit as "Discontinued" if they can't get more kits from the supplier. Sounds like the run sold out, which can't be a bad thing at all regardless to your opinions of the bumper, fenders or any other part of that kit. Sell outs = Money Money = MOOOOOAAAAR models Nobody remembers the '70 Hemi Cuda being "Discontinued" for a couple of days a few years back when that run sold entirely out to the point they actually had to make more in China when they ran the tooling again for the new Sox & Martin Cuda?
mrknowetall Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 I shouldn't have said "rumor". Tower Hobbies had bad information, but I can say for a fact that "limited supply" isn't entirely accurate either.
Longbox55 Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 I find it amusing that Tower Hobbies would get misinformation about a Revell kit, they're both owned by the same parent company. Not saying that internal message errors can't happen, just find it amusing.
mrknowetall Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 It is amusing, and what a stink misinformation creates!
Howard Cohen Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 I just checked my local warehouse and they have some stock; I'll get mine tomorrow
kingiguana Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 Lol sorry. I was just going by what my LHS said.....maybe he was fed a load of BS also.....? And the part about the bumper guards was tongue in cheek. Ha ha. Mis communications are a pain. But manufacturers have done stranger things.....I thought it might have been a licensing issue. With the way thing are with that.
kingiguana Posted July 7, 2015 Author Posted July 7, 2015 Lol sorry. I was just going by what my LHS said.....maybe he was fed a load of BS also.....? And the part about the bumper guards was tongue in cheek. Ha ha. Mis communications are a pain. But manufacturers have done stranger things.....I thought it might have been a licensing issue. With the way thing are with that.
slantasaurus Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Maybe they listed it as discontinued because some joker slipped a Confederate flag onto the decal sheet.
Jon Cole Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Like I needed to read down this far to find the truth.
Robberbaron Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 My buddy who is a wholesaler said he sold out in minutes when he thought he had ordered a 2 month supply. It is proving to be more popular than Revell thought. Rumors of the death of plastic models is just rumors.... ...Sounds like the run sold out, which can't be a bad thing at all regardless to your opinions of the bumper, fenders or any other part of that kit. Sell outs = Money Money = MOOOOOAAAAR models... That would be the best encouragement for Revell to tool up some more longroofs. Wouldn't it be sweet if they decided to cook up another variation of their tri-five Chevy tooling with a 150 Handyman wagon? I can picture one of those being a nice seller, too...
Robberbaron Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 My buddy who is a wholesaler said he sold out in minutes when he thought he had ordered a 2 month supply. It is proving to be more popular than Revell thought. Rumors of the death of plastic models is just rumors.... ...Sounds like the run sold out, which can't be a bad thing at all regardless to your opinions of the bumper, fenders or any other part of that kit. Sell outs = Money Money = MOOOOOAAAAR models... That would be the best encouragement for Revell to tool up some more longroofs. Wouldn't it be sweet if they decided to cook up another variation of their tri-five Chevy tooling with a 150 Handyman wagon? I can picture one of those being a nice seller, too...
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