Newly Announced - Hasegawa 1/24 1974 Toyota Celica LB 1600GT

[Justin Porter]

Hasegawa is FINALLY taking the step with their excellent run of early 70's Celica coupes to tool up the popular LB fastback version. This should be quite the popular piece once it debuts!

[iamsuperdan]

This will sell really well for them!

And there is going to be a TON of aftermarket support for that kit.

Good times.

 

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Went from an ain't-we-got-a to a YES PLEASE soon as I saw the pic.

yyaaaaaayyy ??

[Daddyfink]

Nice, very nice! 

[stavanzer]

Love the wheels pictured!

I had a good friend who was a Toyota Factory Trained Technician.

He always called them Seel-ee-Ca's. Not Sure why.

I miss him, and when ever I see one, I hear his voice is SeeLeeCa

[Spottedlaurel]

Fantastic! Looking forward to seeing what other versions they offer.

The 2-door version is a very nice kit, even though it's one of their older Historic Cars now. This is only going to be better.

[niteowl7710]

This will ride the chassis/drivetrain of the original "notch back" 1970 Celica (2003 tooling) with a new body and interior for the Lift Back body style. Something that's been desperately needed forever and a day since the only alternative is the Aoshima kit which was tooled up in 1982 and shows every bit of it's over simplified motorized age at this point.

[RomanII]

Thank you for sharing this information.  Do you know of online sources for additional Nuremberg 2024 announcements?  I've looked and haven't come up with anything.

 

[niteowl7710]

2 hours ago, RomanII said:

Thank you for sharing this information.  Do you know of online sources for additional Nuremberg 2024 announcements?  I've looked and haven't come up with anything.

 

The IPMS Germany page has some photos of a few of the booths, but they really didn't do a huge photo spread like they have in past years. There's only one picture at the Heller booth and it's of a random kit that's been around almost as long as Heller has been. So unless manufacturers upload their own, I'm not sure we'll see much as the Toy Faire is an industry show and isn't open to the public. 

This particular Hasegawa kit was just part of their monthly kit pre-orders, nothing to do with the Nuremberg show. 

Edited February 4, 2024 by niteowl7710

[Justin Porter]

Just got this kit in at the shop yesterday and it's genuinely a fun piece. In particular, Hasegawa really knocked it out of the park with the interior detail which is good with that big rear window.

[dino246gt]

On 2/2/2024 at 9:27 AM, iamsuperdan said:

And there is going to be a TON of aftermarket support for that kit.

LHD dash for sure..................... I hope!

 

[papajohn97]

Hasegawa makes nice car kits. I have the old Aoshima kit in my stash but I may have to pick up one of these to reproduce my first “nice” 1:1 car, a green ‘76 Liftback. It was the first reliable car I owned after several beaters in college and allowed me to take many fun roadtrips back in the 70’s when gas was cheap and national parks were empty. 

[Kenmojr]

I thought 1975 was the first year for the fastback Celica? Or at least in North America?