Round 2 September 2025

[Daddyfink]

 

[gasman]

Nothing really interests me in 1:25, maybe I’ll get another scirocco, 1:64 will be a very expensive month for me. 

[Jim B]

4 minutes ago, gasman said:

Nothing really interests me in 1:25, maybe I’ll get another scirocco.

Agreed.  Maybe a Scirocco.

[Stef]

What a phenomenal September; I want the Batmobile, Scirocco, Nova, and prolly everything else, too.

[stavanzer]

The Nova is the "B" Team at it again.

Lousy (Unimaginative) Decals, Only 4 Tires, no extra wheels. A One & Done kit....I wish they had done better. The Lenco Trans and Tunnel Ram really limit how you can build the kit and the parts included aren't really "Pro-Street" either.

The Scirrocco is the "A" Team in Action. Great Decals, Nifty Box Art, Nice options.

The Rest of the "Class of 69" is a mixed bag, IMHO.

I like the Merc Cougar, but the Chevy and Olds are Blandly 'Meh'......

The Batmobile will be a success, but they always are.

The 2013 Camaro is a Love-It or Hate-It kinda kit. The Folks who love it will buy multiples, the rest will pass it by. Lacking an Engine is a liability, but not huge.

The Diamond Rio is nice, and good to see again. The Decals are noteworthy.

 

Edit:

Added Instructions for the Nova. The Lousy Box Art on the first issue must have killed sales....

https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/amt-instructions/automotive-cars--pi/chevrolet/1971-1980/amt-1976-chevy-nova/?view=roll#1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by stavanzer

[Stef]

A few years back, I got the early 2000s reissue of the 76 Nova with the orange car on the box. Was pleasantly surprised this "street machine" looking box art car turned out to be a fully-tubbed Pro Stock / Pro Street kit, yet perplexed that it ran on undersized rear street tires that do not fill out the tubbed interior/chassis. It's nice to see Round 2 correct this oversight.

[Shon Wittenbarger]

I don't know who is calling the shots at Round 2, but they need to go. The Nova is another reissue they have butcherd. I bought 2 of them when it first came out in the 70s. It was a Pro Stock not Pro Street when it first came out. Again they have halfa$$ a pretty decent kit, they have taken the fiber glass bucket seats out and put the puffed up bucket seats in it and added mufflers and of course a new decal sheet.

        They screwed up the Baja Patrol reissue, and now they screwed this one up.  I can not tell you when the last time I have bought a kit from them. I not going to pay the price what they want for a kit with less parts and more decals. It's beginning to be a joke.

 

[Chris V]

Sheesh, give it a rest guys...

I still don't get the number of people who take offense if nothing in the monthly news fits their personal taste. 

As for "butchering" the kits, you can hardly blame Round2 for (pointless) tooling alterations that happened under the previous ownership, and you can't expect them to spend fortunes tooling up new parts for every single reissue - only to complain that the new parts or decals weren't exactly the ones you wanted.  

[sidcharles]

when i was a boy . . . 

[BKF]

I'll get the batmobile. I don't have one of those versions. 

[Volzfan59]

I’m definitely in for the Scirocco, probably the Cougar.

4 hours ago, Chris V said:

Sheesh, give it a rest guys...

I still don't get the number of people who take offense if nothing in the monthly news fits their personal taste. 

As for "butchering" the kits, you can hardly blame Round2 for (pointless) tooling alterations that happened under the previous ownership, and you can't expect them to spend fortunes tooling up new parts for every single reissue - only to complain that the new parts or decals weren't exactly the ones you wanted.  

Amen

[stavanzer]

9 hours ago, Shon Wittenbarger said:

They screwed up the Baja Patrol reissue

How did they do that, Shon.

Other than the Decals, it looks like the same old '53 Ford.

[slusher]

I like the Scirocco and the Cougar but want to see them unboxed..

[DJMar]

I'm not crazy about the Hot Wheels packaging, but I'm really glad they reissued the Cougar. I don't have any in the stash and haven't built one since the late 90s. Also cool to see the Scirocco available again. I missed it the last time around (2105-ish) and those new decals look pretty sweet.

I've got the Hurst Olds in the stash and I've built enough of those #6877 Batmobiles to last a lifetime, but someone will be thrilled to have them back.

I'm not much of a truck builder but the Diamond Reo has got to be a win for the big rig crowd.

[thatz4u]

YAHN!!!!