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When I was a Kid, my Dad always called Wishful Thinking, "Thinkful Wishing" because he always had a clear direction to his wishes.

As a ran errands this morning, I had some thoughts about kits I'd like to see back. Not Clones, Not New Tooling, just plain old kits that I think are still very marketable.

Some of them are:

The '34 Ford Pick, but with the Stake Bed, and the Dual Rear Tires restored.

The '25 Model T Ford Paddywagon. Brought Out Once, it should probably do well again.

The '34 Ford Tudor Sedan. Issue it as a 2'n'1 kit, and use Coke, Sprite, Hostess, or Sunoco decals.

The MPC '32 Chrysler Phaeton. (be nice if the Ma Barker) parts were restored back to the Kit.

The MPC '27 Lincoln Roadster. Gangbusters or Connoisseur Classic, I don't care.

The '27 Model T Ford Fire Engine. 

Just some of my thoughts. 

None of them really need anything but Fresh Decals and and of course Fresh tires, but I think all would have decent sales potential.

 

What are your thoughts.

The Rules for the List.

No. New Parts. (if it hasn't been tooled, don't ask for it)

No Re-tooling. This is just for Clean the Tooling, Open the closed off sprues, and Run the Tool Kits.

Any New Decals are fair game. Think of how Round2 can leverage current IP's for new kits. (Coke, Sunoco, Texaco, Hostess, USPS, Ect.)

Alan

 

 

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Just now, thatz4u said:

67 Buick Gran Sport

70 Cougar

67 Cougar

 

All, are all those Kits that AMT Tooled?

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"Show & Go" '40 Willys Gasser / '32 Ford Sedan Custom double kit

"Model T Ford" '25 Model T Phone Booth Coupe and Pickup double kit

ANOTHER vote for the '25 Model T Paddy Wagon

Meyers Tow'd Dune Buggy - only released once, 1972

Gapp & Roush Pinto Pro Stock

Gapp & Roush Mustang II Pro Stock

Sox & Martin Duster Pro Stock

Dick Landy Dodge Challenger Pro Stock

Don Carlton Motown Missile 'Cuda Pro Stock

"AC Accelerator" '68 Corvette Roadster

'68 Shelby GT500 with the tear drop bubble hood and drag race parts mold channels reopened

'68 Cougar XR-7

'69 Cougar CJ428

"Nostalgic Drag Race Set" - '79 Ford Bronco, Kenz & Leslie Cougar Funny Car & Trailer triple kit

'68 Olds Toronado - Christmas 1968, I asked for Mustang, T Pickup and Corvette models. Santa brought the MPC '68 Toronado and the Chuck Miller Fire Truck show car. I was deeply disappointed, but built them both anyway. When I left for college, my younger brother, with whom I shared a bedroom, threw all my model cars into the trash. I got the Fire Truck when it was repopped a few years back, and would LOVE to build the Toronado again

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STRAIGHT reissues? Here's my list:

MPC 1981(?) Chevy Chevette

MPC 1988 Fiero

MPC 1982(?) Chevy Cavalier

MPC 1988 Chevy Beretta GT

MPC 1978 Pinto  (PLEASE!!!)

AMT 1971(?) Chevy van with camper top & interior

ERTL International F-2575

ERTL International F-2674

ERTL International F-4270

AMT American LaFrance pumper

MPC Chevy Monza

AMT 1996 Chevy Blazer 4x4

AMT 1995 Ford Ranger

 

 

 

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MPC 1974-1976 Pontiac Firebirds

AMT/MPC 1974-1977 Camaro

AMT/MPC Late 80's-90's Firebird/Camaro

I'll second the MPC Chevette

Last but not least the MPC 1/16 scale Dodge Super Charger/Charger Street Machine. My personal Holy Grail kit!

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  My reissue list would be:

   AMT 67 Galaxie hardtop,  MPC 1968 Dodge Coronet Feverbee, MPC 69 Dodge Coronet Superhemi, MPC 75 Firebird

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Yes I agree with the 68 Dodge coronet feverbee funny car  69 Dodge coronet superhemi funny car 

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Two kits that I can think of (because someone already mentioned it) is the Flying Dutchman funny car, and the 1974 Camaro.

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MPC Dodge Monster Truck (Molded in Orange) 

MPC 57 Corvette Gasser (Molded in Black)

Ertl 29 Model A (Molded in Red) 

Those are the 3 big ones for me. Primarily the first one. That one gets repopped and I will have 6 in my stash and I will build them all. 

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- MPC 1/20 scale c.1970 Econoline

- MPC 1/16 scale 1979 C20 Pickup (black one with the snow plow) Action Snap

- MPC 1/16 scale A.C. Cobra 

- MPC c.1978 Econoline 

- Monogram 1/32 scale Malibu 9C1 

- Monogram 1/8 scale 1967 Corvette 

- Monogram 1/8 scale 1985 Corvette  

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5 hours ago, thatz4u said:

67 Buick Gran Sport

70 Cougar

67 Cougar

 

There never was a 67 Skylark kit.  Amt made a 66 though.

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53 minutes ago, rrb124@sbcglobal.net said:

1967 Pontiac Grand Prix 428 Convertible.

The only full-size 67 Pontiac kits were Bonnevilles.

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So many awesome kits!

A few personal grails I don't yet have:

MPC Super Charger (74 Charger)

MPC Stunt Van (70s Econoline 4x4)

MPC Night Prowler (70s Camaro)

MPC Rising Sun (Datsun pickup)

MPC Custom Corvette "Enforcer" (Mako Shark II)

MPC 82 Cavalier

Revell Mustang II (Monroe Handler tool)

 

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Amt Pontiac Bonneville -63 hdtp with Royal Oak decals / drag parts + appropriate 1963 Nascar decals/parts

Amt Ford Galaxie -64 hdtp with appropriate LaFayette Ford Nascar decals/ parts

Tamiya Morgan +4

 

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MPC Chevy Chevette

MPC AMC Pacer

MPC ‘73/‘74 Dodge Charger

MPC 1/2 ton 2WD Chevy truck

MPC 1/2 ton LWB Chevy stepside truck

MPC Late 70’s Ford Econoline van with full interior.

AMT ‘70/‘71 Ford Thunderbird

AMT ‘71 Chevy Open Road camper van

 

 

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10 hours ago, Stef said:

So many awesome kits!

A few personal grails I don't yet have:

MPC Super Charger (74 Charger)

 

I would like this as well, but would rather see them clone a ‘73 or ‘74 annual kit, as the Super Charger was an attempt at changing the Petty NASCAR back into a street car.  A lot of the original engraving and detail was lost from the conversion of annual to NASCAR and then back to street car.

However, if it’s just a matter of digging out the Super Charger tooling and squirting some styrene through it vs an expensive cloning project that might not happen, then yeah, bring back the Super Charger (IMHO of course).

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