What's the difference between the two Round2 releases, 2 box sizes, the flat art series box and standard.

[Greg Myers]

 Flat Art series ?

Standard box ?

Anything different inside ?

Edited July 16, 2016 by Greg Myers

[Rob Hall]

The larger boxes have an 'art print' of the box art inside, and often the color the kit is molded in differs between the two versions.   Some releases may have extra parts in the art versions. 

[Mark]

Which kit?  If you are referring to the '65 Grand Prix, the standard box kit is molded in turquoise.  Flat box kit costs a bit more, is molded in white, and has a larger decal sheet.  There are probably other differences too.

With the '29 Ford double kit (which isn't out yet), the standard box kit is molded in yellow (same yellow as the Der Beetle Bus if I remember right), while the flat box kit is again white.  Again, I'm not sure of all of the differences.  I'll wait until both are available before deciding on which one to get, but I'm leaning towards the one molded in yellow.  

[Greg Myers]

So the flat "Art " box is likely to have more good stuff ( opened up old parts) than the "Standard" kit ?

[keyser]

Same kits. Same parts. Molded in color in small boxes it seems, and white in big box. Art print, some detail/history booklets, and maybe a display. 

That's it.

Kinda been discussed in past about the 65 GP, the Munster's kits, some others over last few years here. 

[Mike999]

With the flat "art" boxes: on some kits you have to watch out for the small sticker telling you the color of the kit plastic. If Round 2 is still doing that.

The '40 Ford coupe flat-box kit came molded in either orange or white plastic. At one local hobby shop in Los Angeles (Smith Bros.), the white version sold very quickly. The orange version didn't, and was steeply discounted not long after its release. 

Pretty much the same with the Chevy Rescue Van. It only came in "standard" box size but could be molded in either white or red plastic. The white ones flew off the shelves, the red ones didn't seem to.  I now live in Upstate South Carolina. A local hobby shop still has molded-in-red vans on the shelves, but I don't believe they have any white ones left.

The '65 Grand Prix is...interesting. As many others have said, it's only molded in turquoise for the standard box. But is molded in white for the flat box.  Personally I wish they'd just release everything in white.  But I guess R2 has a reason for experimenting with colors.

[Greg Myers]

Kinda been discussed in past about the 65 GP, the Munster's kits, some others over last few years here. 

With little to no interest in those kits I obviously missed those discussions.  

[keyser]

You're welcome. Glad everyone answered your completely non-specific question with specific examples. 

We'll all check your preferences next time. Then tell you to google it up 

[Fabrux]

I do recall there being a difference with the special edition metal cases, too. The Double Dragster tin definitely has more parts in it.