Did old MPC kits have a Fundimentions trademark?

[highway]

I got an old beater Toyota Corolla from a friend of mine and was looking on Drastic Plastic's instruction site. I checked all the MPC/AMT related pages with no luck. Am I correct that old MPC kits had a Fundimentions trademark? The only markings I found anywhere was the Fundimentions Trademark with a date of 1982 under the trunk area on the bottom of the interior pan. Any help is greatly appreciated as I would like to see if there might be anything important missing and I have a part or two I have no idea where they go. Also, if it helps, the kit is molded in a sorta metallic blue and if pictures would help, let me know, I'll take some.

P.S. If you would happen to have the instructions to this kit, I'm sure Drastic Plastic's (and me, too) would appreciate you sharing them.

[Eshaver]

Mark, in addition to Fun dimensions , remember to that they were also owned together as a part of Big G or General Foods . Ed Shaver

[highway]

You are correct that MPC kits in the late 70s/early 80s had Fundamentions trademarks molded to them, and on the box.

However they never kitted a Toyota Corolla. They did a Celica Supra (which would be molded in either red or light blue) but not a Corolla.

Thanks, Mark, I thought that was the case, but just wasn't sure.

The light blue Celica Supra does sound like what this might be, here's a pic of it and you can see the original color on the back portion of the frame. I'm definitely no Japanese car expert!

I also noticed after you said that the hood and front end are different from the Corolla, because I compared it to these screenshots of the car I'd like replicate from an online racing game I used to play before it was shut down. This was a Corolla AE86

[ZIL 111V]

...As mention, check Under MPC "Supra".

Food Giant General Mill$ (...Kids Cereal!) bought MPC in 1970, their "Toy" division(s) were placed under the FunDimension name consisting of:

-MPC: Plastic kits.

-Lionel: Electric trains & acces

-Craft Master: Paint by numbers... (talk about a typical 60's-70's Hobby )

Starting in early 70's (approx 1971) General Mills Logo will appear on all MPC kit (top)boxes. Fundimensions trademark will appear shortly later on (side)boxes....instruction sheets & parts of kits:(under body, frame, etc): got a few 1974 edition MPC kits with the FD Logo everywhere!.

In late 70's FD will be taken by CPG Corp, the Logo will be redesigned & kept on sideboxes & kits parts until ERTL takes over in mid-late 80's.

The brand "NEW" '82 Supra..(boosted Celica) was quite surprise from MPC back then, think was first..& last!!! japanese subject totaly made by MPC...quite a nice piece of machinery back then.

AE86 totally different on your pix, based on later "bread & butter" ... Corolla econobox.

[highway]

Thanks for all the info and getting me sraightened out on what it is. I agree with both of you this is a very nice kit for it's age, and heck, I couldn't beat the price, NOTHING! My friend was cleaning his model room out and getting rid of things he'd gotten from another friend of ours that he lost interest in. If I wouldn't have given it a happy home, it would have probably been in the trash!

[Railfreak78]

All the "parts" cars (Dodge Monoco/Coronet 2 doors) for my MPC 75 Road Runner have the Fundimentions logos. I may be wrong but I think the Force 440 kit is one of these. Anyway Cool corolla in the game and to bad the game went down. I'm going to make a couple kits of cars I've made on Playstation games. You can get the Corolla kit and make yours and make something else out of the Supra.

[highway]

All the "parts" cars (Dodge Monoco/Coronet 2 doors) for my MPC 75 Road Runner have the Fundimentions logos. I may be wrong but I think the Force 440 kit is one of these. Anyway Cool corolla in the game and to bad the game went down. I'm going to make a couple kits of cars I've made on Playstation games. You can get the Corolla kit and make yours and make something else out of the Supra.

I'll have to check the Force 440 the next time I go to my friend's house, he has one of those, too.

Thanks for liking the Corolla, Brian. I found the game is going to be restarting soon under a new name, which stinks because I'd spent a year and a half to get to the level I was in the game, but will probably start playing it again. That's one reason I took the screenshots, so I could more or less have my old cars back. I also have a Corolla in the new Need For Speed World online game, I just haven't figured out screenshots on it yet.

Of course, I did get a couple kits to build another one of my old in game cars, and older Mazda RX-7, I just haven't figured out to build it as my race car or my drifter! Here's the screenshots of each.

This was my racing look.

This was my drifting car, I couldn't race with it because the ground effects dragged on the track, and I had to have a sinister look!

[TurboKitty]

what game is this? You have gotten my attention, lol

[highway]

what game is this? You have gotten my attention, lol

It was called "Project Torque". The servers were shut down Aug 1, though. There is another that just started Beta testing today called "Heat-Online" that is EXACTLY the same game. I downloaded and started playing it today, even though I'm upset I had to start all over!

[Chuck Most]

-Lionel: Electric trains & acces

Fun fact- Neil Young is co-owner of Lionel trains today! 'Nother Fun Fact- Mike Gross (the dad on "Family Ties" and Burt Gummer from the "Tremors" movies) is an avid model railroader. What? I look in on other hobbies sometimes!

[Scalper]

Fun fact- Neil Young is co-owner of Lionel trains today! 'Nother Fun Fact- Mike Gross (the dad on "Family Ties" and Burt Gummer from the "Tremors" movies) is an avid model railroader. What? I look in on other hobbies sometimes!

Neil young is Lionel junky. but i had no idea he was part owner now.. I am more of a n-scale rr guy. I have tons of N- scal stuff but no room yet.

[Railfreak78]

Hey Highway, How did you get such good screen shots? I want to try to get some pics from my PlayStation games so I can make a couple cars. I like the RX-7's too I used to own a 1:1 that style.

[highway]

Hey Highway, How did you get such good screen shots? I want to try to get some pics from my PlayStation games so I can make a couple cars. I like the RX-7's too I used to own a 1:1 that style.

I'm not sure about the PlayStation, Brian, but I got these by pressing F12 on my keyboard. My best advice, since I don't have much expierence with any of the game consoles, well execpt for playing my friend's XBox a couple of times, would be check your options screen to see if you can take screenshots first. If you can, you should see something in either control options or gameplay options that will tell you what button to press for screenshots. Then if you can do that, if you have a USB port on the PlayStation to plug a flash drive into, try to copy it to the flash drive and download it to your computer or if you can share it in your network, copy it straight over. I don't know if that will help or not, since I just do my gaming on the computer, but it's worth a try!

By the way, for computer based games, it's about the same technique, just look in the options, again either control or gameplay, then push the button for screenshots. In the case of mine, after I pressed F12, I heard a camera shutter type noise letting me know the screenshot was taken. You'll probably find, as in my case, they will save to a subfolder named "Screenshots" inside the main game folder. All you need to do is go to "Program Files" (on whatever hard drive the game is saved to if using multiple hard drives like me), then the folder of the game or game maker, then sreenshots. Then either copy and paste to your picture folder or if you want to upload to Photobucket, find the same on the list in the uploader.