Coming attractions! 1965 Dodge AWB car from Moebius and Model King

[Luc Janssens]

Hope the non-altered W-B is not far behind, preferably in the back of the same shipping container.

[Daddyfink]

19 hours ago, M W Elky said:

They haven’t done so with the golden commandos  65 awb Plymouth yet 

I am sure something is in the works. They did it with the 65 Plymouth Super Stocker, I am sure the Altered car is coming back soon. 

And I am sure the same will be done with the Dodge. 

[Mr mopar]

Dave Strickler 1965 Dodge Altered Wheels Base Funny Car 1/25 Model King (megahobby.com)

[Daddyfink]

Fellow Model Car Club member Bruce Snyder stopped by Pegasus on the way to GNRS and got some info on some kits, here is what he was told on this kit. 

"The AWB and street versions of the 65 Dodge are about to be started in the mold process and expected to be produced late this year…"

 

So as Mr Mopar's post shows, it will be later this year indeed. 

 

[crazypainter]

now it's july-2024 and the dodge boys car is still not out-I saw a test shot at NNl-EAST thinking it would be out soon--???????????

[66c10]

When is this kit coming I'm tired of waiting for this kit 

[Mr mopar]

From what I have been told the pricing is the hold up ? 

[Erik Solie]

3 hours ago, Mr mopar said:

From what I have been told the pricing is the hold up ? 

Nope!

[Mr mopar]

15 hours ago, Erik Solie said:

Nope!

well fill us in ?

[Erik Solie]

8 hours ago, Mr mopar said:

well fill us in ?

Eh, it's just all mundane and boring work issues.  Imagine it's like one of those long winded word problems from grade school (at least they were there in my day).

Something like this:

Fritz has three model car projects that he wants to bring to market.  Fritz is a founding member of the league of one armed modelers, and has many friends and league members. Fritz hires Sven to help him on these projects, as Sven is very talented and has done great work for Fritz in the past.  But Sven only eats Durham wheat strudel on Tuesdays in Smarch.  So to cope with the global strudel issues, Fritz has to contract thru Johannes for extra paper for the free-range cricket enclosure that is maintained by Ole.  Ole has the capacity for all this, and sees an opportunity to improve efficiency of production for Fritz.  Fritz likes this idea, and wishes to implement it in these four three projects.

What is the coefficient between how much will Fritz's sales go up by for implementing Ole's improvements verses the ratio between Sven's strudels and Johannes's free-range cricket ranch expressed in Dainish Kronner?

[Watertown]

9 hours ago, Erik Solie said:

Eh, it's just all mundane and boring work issues.  Imagine it's like one of those long winded word problems from grade school (at least they were there in my day).

Something like this:

Fritz has three model car projects that he wants to bring to market.  Fritz is a founding member of the league of one armed modelers, and has many friends and league members. Fritz hires Sven to help him on these projects, as Sven is very talented and has done great work for Fritz in the past.  But Sven only eats Durham wheat strudel on Tuesdays in Smarch.  So to cope with the global strudel issues, Fritz has to contract thru Johannes for extra paper for the free-range cricket enclosure that is maintained by Ole.  Ole has the capacity for all this, and sees an opportunity to improve efficiency of production for Fritz.  Fritz likes this idea, and wishes to implement it in these four three projects.

What is the coefficient between how much will Fritz's sales go up by for implementing Ole's improvements verses the ratio between Sven's strudels and Johannes's free-range cricket ranch expressed in Dainish Kronner?

Best post on any forum I've read in months!! Thanks for the chuckle!!

 

[Mr mopar]

You can now pre-order from Model round up the price is now in !

[Altered Ego]

I preordered 5 this morning

[66c10]

I'm getting mine from the company 

[GMP440]

Anyone know how many 65 Coronet awb kits Moebius will be producing?

[Mr mopar]

3 minutes ago, GMP440 said:

Anyone know how many 65 Coronet awb kits Moebius will be producing?

6000 kits

[Mr mopar]

Word has it that this kit will be out next week ,I hope so !

[66c10]

Got email from the company saying they are in I got mine coming from the company 

[GMP440]

Will Moebius be doing any other versions of the 65 awb Coronet kit ie;  Grand Spaulding Dodge, Dick Landy, Hodges Dodges, etc?

[Mr mopar]

48 minutes ago, GMP440 said:

Will Moebius be doing any other versions of the 65 awb Coronet kit ie;  Grand Spaulding Dodge, Dick Landy, Hodges Dodges, etc?

I would have to say no ,that's where the after market comes in like Slixx  Decals etc....

[Mark]

I'd say yes, but not right away.  Different decals will freshen the kit when a reissue is needed.

[niteowl7710]

2 hours ago, Mark said:

I'd say yes, but not right away.  Different decals will freshen the kit when a reissue is needed.

Sounds easy, but some of these licensing agreements have wild machinations written into them about what can and can't be done. Plus you'd have to relicense the whole kit with the driver/heirs, sponsors, et al of the "new" kit.

[Mark]

They did it once, they'll do it again.  Moebius didn't tool that kit to sell only 6,000 of them.

[stavanzer]

8 hours ago, GMP440 said:

Will Moebius be doing any other versions of the 65 awb Coronet kit ie;  Grand Spaulding Dodge, Dick Landy, Hodges Dodges, etc?

Well, Model King is handling everything with the AWB car. I'm not sure when or if Moebuis will be bringing out the AWB for themselves. Model King might be working on other License Agreements that we know nothing about. I'm perfectly willing to see what the After Market, Model King & Moebuis do in the next few months before worrying too much about what is next.

[niteowl7710]

1 hour ago, Mark said:

They did it once, they'll do it again.  Moebius didn't tool that kit to sell only 6,000 of them.

The 65 Dodges are 65 Plymouth AWB kits with a new body on top. A new body that shares itself (with different side inserts to A the WB) with the two other 65 Dodge kits. Selling all 6k of them would be happy dance for everyone involved. It would be 12k sold AWB kits that both share 98% of the same tooling. The 30,000ft view is that when August is over there will be 9 different 65 Mopar kits that all in some way share the same base. Moebius has out varianted the variant happy Japanese companies with their product line.

Also other than the relative quick turn around (2 yrs) on the Melrose Missle and then Golden Commando Super Stock Satellites Moebius has yet to ever do two versions of the same drag car. Butch Leal's Super Stock was a Belvidere. 

If you wanted to speculate about something that is going to happen next it would be what '65 Dodge A990/Super Stock will be done, since that's the obvious next kit.