Moebius Official Announcement 1964 Mercury Comets

[Erik Solie]

Ok, time for the official announcement of these two kits.

Kit 2750 is the 1964 K-Code Mercury Comet.  Retail is $37.99

 

Next up is kit 2751 a Pro Touring 1964 Mercury Comet.  Retail is $39.99

The Pro Touring car has an all new chassis and some very big rims!

These should be hitting port about the end of the month.

Thanks,

Erik

[stavanzer]

Sign me up for teh K-Code car!

Steel Rims, Big Motor, All the Fun!

[Chuckyg1]

Oh I'm in for sure. 

[Bucky]

Put the K-Code in the "Gotta have it" category!! Back in the late 70s I had a '65 Caliente and my bro-in-law had a '64 Comet. Not sure if it was a K-Code, but this kit will get me close!

[Dragline]

These prices though...

[tim boyd]

Looking forward to both of these!   Thanks Erik...TB

[mikemodeler]

3 hours ago, Dragline said:

These prices though...

Those are MSRP. 

 

I just checked Wes's Model Car Corner and the red car is $29.99 and the white car is $31.50, available to pre-order today. I am sure other online sellers will have these at discounted prices. 

[W-409]

I'll need a couple of the K-Code Comets for sure! It's one of those body styles that I've always wanted to build.

[Tom Kren]

cant wait!!!

[Justin Porter]

4 hours ago, Dragline said:

These prices though...

Are only $2 more than the current MSRP of $35.99 that Round 2 put on the Craftsman Plus Comet Caliente kit. You tell me which is the actual unfair price.

Edited 9 hours ago by Justin Porter

[Zen]

Looking good! Can't wait ......

[thatz4u]

I will get one K-Code, I have an extra AMT 64 Comet stock hood which I will modify if needed.

[Mark C.]

Has it been confirmed that the stock version doesn’t have a stock (flat, non-scooped) hood?  I really don’t want to raid another kit or buy from the aftermarket just to build it correctly.

Edited 5 hours ago by Mark C.

[Zoom Zoom]

41 minutes ago, Mark C. said:

Has it been confirmed that the stock version doesn’t have a stock (flat, non-scooped) hood?  I really don’t want to raid another kit or buy from the aftermarket just to build it correctly.

I've seen/heard nothing about a stock hood. That said, I'll bet there will be more '64 variants of this kit down the road. I have the stock AMT Craftsman kit and never found it enticing enough to actually build it. The street machine of this new Moebius '64 is on my radar. 

[Mark C.]

4 minutes ago, Zoom Zoom said:

I've seen/heard nothing about a stock hood. That said, I'll bet there will be more '64 variants of this kit down the road. I have the stock AMT Craftsman kit and never found it enticing enough to actually build it. The street machine of this new Moebius '64 is on my radar. 

I could be misinterpreting the intent of this version, and I apologize in advance if this is the case… as it stands, however, I’m just a little perplexed as to why a ‘stock’ version would be conceived with a hood that was reportedly not available for that model.  Granted, it’s a cool-looking hood, but it’s in the most visible location on the model, such that anyone wanting to build it out of the box as a stock vehicle has to rob another kit.  It’s not like having an incorrect carburetor or wiper motor that only the purists would notice… it’s the hood, out there in plain sight.

The last thing I want to do is to turn this into some sort of issue, as it’s really not a big deal.  I already have an AMT kit, and I like these cars, but not enough that I want to build every version of them.  So for me, I’ll probably just pass on this one and build the crude but stock appearing ex-Craftsman kit.  If it had a stock hood, that would be the final push to get me to purchase one for the extra details, superior chassis, etc.  I will still likely get the pro touring version though.  And as you say, maybe there is a version coming with a flat hood that will satisfy folks like myself.

I did buy the almost-stock versions of the ‘65 Belvedere and Dodge 2-door sedans, however.  So I’m sure this philosophy has enough of a business case behind it to make sense to the bottom line for the company, and capture the majority who don’t mind scavenging parts from other kits, and TBH I’m happy to see it coming out.  It just frustrates me a little to see it go 95% if the way when it seems to the layman like myself that it wouldn’t have required much effort or expense to put the proper hood in the stock version and the scooped hood in the pro touring and race versions… or put both hoods in all versions (again, maybe my protestations are premature…).

But in the end, not a big deal, nobody lives or dies because of it, but IMHO still worthy if discussion on a discussion forum about model cars. 👍🏻

[Justin Porter]

At least from my cash register I see this.

The Nova Gasser and Restomods outsell the factory stock Novas.

The A990 outsells the Coronet.

The Super Stock versions outsell the base Satellite and Belvedere. 

Were I the one with the purse strings over at Moebius, I would be prioritizing street machine and drag versions of new tools first to grab the casual builder sales and then send purely factory stock "base model" kits out to bat clean up.

[Luc Janssens]

1 hour ago, Justin Porter said:

At least from my cash register I see this.

The Nova Gasser and Restomods outsell the factory stock Novas.

The A990 outsells the Coronet.

The Super Stock versions outsell the base Satellite and Belvedere. 

Were I the one with the purse strings over at Moebius, I would be prioritizing street machine and drag versions of new tools first to grab the casual builder sales and then send purely factory stock "base model" kits out to bat clean up.

You're selling a dream, so yes people want the souped up version, and if there's room for the builders personal touch other than paint color, even better.

When one want to buy a real car the reality of life (financial, practicality) prevents that.

Cheers!

[Mark C.]

2 hours ago, Justin Porter said:

At least from my cash register I see this.

The Nova Gasser and Restomods outsell the factory stock Novas.

The A990 outsells the Coronet.

The Super Stock versions outsell the base Satellite and Belvedere. 

Were I the one with the purse strings over at Moebius, I would be prioritizing street machine and drag versions of new tools first to grab the casual builder sales and then send purely factory stock "base model" kits out to bat clean up.

That’s a good take on this from the front lines.  The wallet speaks loudest.

In case there is any confusion, I wasn’t suggesting that the street rod versions should be sacrificed in order to sell pure stock versions, only that it would be nice for the pure stock builder to have a flat hood in the stock kit.  However, as Bob said, there are likely many versions in the queue, so maybe we will see a flat hood someday.  If not, that’s okay too, as long as Moebius continues to be able to bring us great product as they have been for some time.

[mikos]

2 hours ago, Justin Porter said:

At least from my cash register I see this.

The Nova Gasser and Restomods outsell the factory stock Novas.

The A990 outsells the Coronet.

The Super Stock versions outsell the base Satellite and Belvedere. 

Were I the one with the purse strings over at Moebius, I would be prioritizing street machine and drag versions of new tools first to grab the casual builder sales and then send purely factory stock "base model" kits out to bat clean up.

It seems no one likes to build stock model car kits anymore.  Everything seems to be ProStock, Gasser, Street Machine, Lowrider, Circle Track, Dirt Track and Drag versions.  That’s all they can come up with when making these “business case” decisions.  The only problem is, when they make their money selling the non-stock kits, they just stop at that never offering a stock build version.

In some ways, this is very short sighted.  If they added the stock parts or tooled up new parts to make it stock, the kit would be complete.  You can build it custom or stock.  Of course, the knee jerk answer would be they can make more money on different versions of the kit than simply offering everything in one issue.  However, in many cases, this never comes to fruition.  
 

 

[mikos]

41 minutes ago, Mark C. said:

That’s a good take on this from the front lines.  The wallet speaks loudest.

In case there is any confusion, I wasn’t suggesting that the street rod versions should be sacrificed in order to sell pure stock versions, only that it would be nice for the pure stock builder to have a flat hood in the stock kit.  However, as Bob said, there are likely many versions in the queue, so maybe we will see a flat hood someday.  If not, that’s okay too, as long as Moebius continues to be able to bring us great product as they have been for some time.

It’s ironic you say that because many stock kits have been sacrificed to make the custom race versions.  In many instances, the tooling was permanently hacked up making a stock version never possible again.

[Erik Solie]

4 hours ago, Mark C. said:

Has it been confirmed that the stock version doesn’t have a stock (flat, non-scooped) hood?

Ah, and here's the confusion.  This release is not the stock version.  It's the K-Code version.  

[Justin Porter]

23 minutes ago, mikos said:

It seems no one likes to build stock model car kits anymore.  Everything seems to be ProStock, Gasser, Street Machine, Lowrider, Circle Track, Dirt Track and Drag versions.  That’s all they can come up with when making these “business case” decisions.  The only problem is, when they make their money selling the non-stock kits, they just stop at that never offering a stock build version.

In some ways, this is very short sighted.  If they added the stock parts or tooled up new parts to make it stock, the kit would be complete.  You can build it custom or stock.  Of course, the knee jerk answer would be they can make more money on different versions of the kit than simply offering everything in one issue.  However, in many cases, this never comes to fruition.  
 

 

Who's this "they" that you're talking about? 

Moebius has offered stock versions of every subject they've kitted. Chrysler 300's, '61 Pontiacs, the various Hudsons, all of the 1965 Mopar products, the Novas, the Ford trucks. ALL of them have factory stock kit versions. 

Revell's general idea of modern "street machine" is a vaguely lowered suspension option, some wheels, and maybe an air cleaner or some disc brakes (case in point, the '56 Del Rey kit) which reveals their focus on factory stock. Their most popular all-new tool kit - the 1971 Mustang - hasn't even BEEN offered in a non-factory stock version.

Round 2 has spent this decade so far restoring or remaking tooling so that factory stock builds are possible with kits like their '68 GTO, the Nova II wagon, the '64 Olds, and the '64 Malibu. They even "unmade" the Street Machine version of the Mueller-era 1971 Charger to create a never before offered factory stock '71 Hemi Charger kit. 

I don't know what you're on about because from where I'm sitting, factory stock builders are being treated better by the industry currently, not worse. 




 

[stavanzer]

3 hours ago, Mark C. said:

The last thing I want to do is to turn this into some sort of issue

Too Late. Three Long Paragraphs of commentary makes it an issue......

33 minutes ago, mikos said:

It’s ironic you say that because many stock kits have been sacrificed to make the custom race versions.  In many instances, the tooling was permanently hacked up making a stock version never possible again.

 And as mentioned before, most (not all, but most) of those kits were modified by a Toy Company fighting Bankruptcy in the 1970's using old, Mostly forgotten tooling in order to generate revenue, on the cheap. By selling toys! To kids! They never expected that tooling (and the nostalgia for the stock versions) to extend 50 years into the future.....

37 minutes ago, Erik Solie said:

Ah, and here's the confusion.  This release is not the stock version.  It's the K-Code version.  

And the Head Honcho of the company making the Kit, Enters the Chat.......