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Just saw this posted on another site and thought I'd share with those that may be wondering!!!

 

big news....Revell sent out notice today to their distributors that the Model A Coupe and Roadster kits will return later this year. New ship dates and kit numbers to be announced later. Great news for serious adult model builders and scale hot rod enthusiasts everywhere.

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Guys, all the angst about this tooling expressed here was totally unjustified.  The tooling was damaged, that can happen, but is RARE.  Did you all REALLY believe all the false news about it?  Really?

Art

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Guys, all the angst about this tooling expressed here was totally unjustified.  The tooling was damaged, that can happen, but is RARE.  Did you all REALLY believe all the false news about it?  Really?

Art

The desire to embrace the least likely explanation always amazes me.....

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I am surprised it took this long to fix it. They must have been discussing who was paying for it. 

Glad I was just kicking myself in the butt for only picking up 1 when they first came out. LOL  I wonder how fast this next run will fly off the shelves?

 

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The desire to embrace the least likely explanation always amazes me.....

One of the best books about that was written way back in 1841: "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay.

Want to understand the 2008 economic meltdown?  Just read the chapter on "Tulipmania" in 17th-century Holland.  For a while, a single rare tulip could buy a mansion, and people went deep in debt to buy tulip bulbs. Until the market crashed and tulips went back to just being pretty flowers. 

Similar chapters cover France's 18th-century Mississippi Scheme ("Louisiana has mountains of gold and silver!"). And about the same time, Britain's South Sea Bubble investment insanity.

Just make sure you get a complete edition of the book.  It's no longer copyrighted, and some cheap versions that only include the economic stuff are on the market.  Mackay's complete book covers even more chapters in human gullibility and greed, like witch hunts, alchemy, haunted houses and phony psychics.  It's still incredibly modern for a book written over 170 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

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I know some people who are speculating in bitcoins who are letting none of this discourage them.  Every you get these speculation booms, people think this time will be different for sure.

 

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I know some people who are speculating in bitcoins who are letting none of this discourage them.  Every you get these speculation booms, people think this time will be different for sure.

 

No no no no!

The ones that went for big money are the FIRST EDITIONS. The ones on the way now are COPIES. The originals will be as coveted as AMT uni body pickups! The copies will be two for $10 at the swap meet.

:D

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Mike, I'm totally going to check out that book!

I've been reading a lot of free ebooks lately that are out of copyright, so generally about 100-120 years old. I've been repeatedly struck by the fact that the people of 1890 or so were _exactly like us_. Their clothing, technology, and social codes were a little different, but their relationship to all those things was the same as we experience today. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that I'm reading something written in 1900 when it seems directly relevant to my life or the world around me, as if it was written yesterday.

And I'll probably get at least one '30 coupe kit when they return. If only I'd invested in tulips, I could afford more :D
 

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Still incredibly modern because for all our technology and smart-phones and driverless cars, we ourselves (most of us, anyway) haven't really changed emotionally.

Why does everyone assume that evolution is a good thing? :D

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Mike, I'm totally going to check out that book!

I've been reading a lot of free ebooks lately that are out of copyright, so generally about 100-120 years old. I've been repeatedly struck by the fact that the people of 1890 or so were _exactly like us_. Their clothing, technology, and social codes were a little different, but their relationship to all those things was the same as we experience today. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that I'm reading something written in 1900 when it seems directly relevant to my life or the world around me, as if it was written yesterday.

And I'll probably get at least one '30 coupe kit when they return. If only I'd invested in tulips, I could afford more :D
 

I tried to get my Dad interested in Game of Thrones. He didn't get it. Finally I said, "It's about power and money and illicit sex and greed and lust and corruption and family and politics and treachery and betrayal. In other words, it's exactly like Dallas or The Sopranos or Deadwood or The Godfather or all your other favorite stories."

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... "It's about power and money and illicit sex and greed and lust and corruption and family and politics and treachery and betrayal..."

Pretty much sums up all human fiction ever written. Hmmmm....history, too. 

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I tried to get my Dad interested in Game of Thrones. He didn't get it. Finally I said, "It's about power and money and illicit sex and greed and lust and corruption and family and politics and treachery and betrayal. In other words, it's exactly like Dallas or The Sopranos or Deadwood or The Godfather or all your other favorite stories."

It seems to me kind of a Renaissance Faire soap opera w/ dragons...a bunch of my friends are really into it, but I tried watching a few times but couldn't get into it.. I.prefer dramas set in the modern era, I guess...of current shows, I like Ray Donovan, Better Call Saul, Bosch and British and Scandinavian crime fiction..

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I found the '29 at Hobby Lobby last week. Looks like I can have my LHS order the '30 in a few months.

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