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[sfhess]

1 hour ago, doorsovdoon said:

ah, I see, trying to promote the show type of deal. What a shame, they should have used an existing mould of something else instead.

Then people would be "outraged" about whatever other kit was altered for a show tie-in.

[doorsovdoon]

32 minutes ago, sfhess said:

Then people would be "outraged" about whatever other kit was altered for a show tie-in.

Sorry, I meant existing as in something already butchered.

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, doorsovdoon said:

Sorry, I meant existing as in something already butchered.

I agree.

Could have used one of the many custom "show rod" kits, but as Mark said, trying to wring a few more bucks out of something that the powers that be thought was a dead horse.

Too bad that they couldn't have just retained the stock parts and still included the custom dreck for anybody who wanted to build something that horrible.

They did it prior to the "sweat hog" swill.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Snake45]

14 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

They did it prior to the "sweat hog" swill.

A lot of great molds died that way. It is so very sad. 

[Tom Geiger]

4 hours ago, Mark said:

The reasoning behind those kits, at that time, was to wring one more use out of an item then thought to have little or no value in the years ahead.  One more hit, then on to the scrap pile.  Nobody involved thought there would be any interest in this stuff forty or fifty years down the road.

Exactly! Different times, different market, different  customers!

The late Bob Paeth, who was with Revell in this era, told us all at GSL... they were in the toy business, selling to the whims of 12 year olds.  At the time the focus was the now and maybe next year.  

A year or two old tool was toast. Nobody thought the market would ever want to see that model again!  Before scrapping the tool, if a project manager could figure a variation that would get one more run out of it, he was a hero!

They never ever thought that 40/50 years in the future there would be a collector market... toys were not yet collectible back then! And Bob was very humbled that people remembered their work. 

[GMP440]

6 hours ago, Casey said:

George, you've been corrected more than once on this topic, and I distinctly recall Mark B setting the record straight. It was not Round2 which made a preliminary announcement, so please stop propagating that falsehood.

 

    Ok.  Thanks for your input. 

Edited July 27, 2020 by GMP440

[doorsovdoon]

Yes, that's very true. Same situation with television and radio studios, a lot of stuff was never recorded or just thrown out. Nobody thought there would be any interest in that kind of history.

[Brian Austin]

When was Monogram's "Predicta" custom last issued?

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Brian Austin said:

When was Monogram's "Predicta" custom last issued?

Seems to be 2000. 

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/monogram-85-0095-predicta--1150513

[Greg Myers]

On 7/26/2020 at 8:23 PM, GMP440 said:

    Ok.  Thanks for your input. 

Casey, how can you debate what someone hears ? Why don't you just answer the question? Many here look at other sites besides this one. There are other sources of information .