Lunajammer Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Another reason why model producers operated on a whole other level... By comparison Revell/Gears this year offered top winners 12 kits, apparel and misc. A lot's changed.
2000-cvpi Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 There's no way I could fit into a mini dune buggy. I would take a ten pack of 1971 MPC kits though.
bbowser Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 I would have been all over a mini-bike back then. Probably just as well......
Tom Geiger Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Simply put, the model companies had a lot more money to spend in those days. Back then bad selling kits sold a million copies. I've actually known two old modelers who won 1:1 cars in model contests. Augie Hiscano won a Mercury Comet. There was another guy I met named Chuck from Michigan who won a contest where Ed Roth was supposed to build your custom in 1:1 and give it to you. Chuck won, Roth never delivered. The model company eventually gave him a Corvette to settle it.
Lunajammer Posted August 16, 2013 Author Posted August 16, 2013 I've actually known two old modelers who won 1:1 cars in model contests. Wow, that was pretty exclusive, even then. It's not just what the MPC prizes were, but the volume. As a kid, that would have been something to get excited about. I was building back then, but they were R-O-U-G-H!
pharoah Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Does anyone remember the contest that Monogram had where someone would win the Orange Hauler? i bought the kit when it first came out and the entry form was in it. I lay awake for several nights thinking what I would do with it. Hey- I was 10 years old, what do you expect?
JM485 Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Dang, they really had prizes like that back in the day? I would build the best model of my life if there was something like that now! On a side note, since there will be no more speed channel and I'm assuming then no more Gearz, will there be a 2014 contest?
PappyD340 Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 OH, those were the days, you could take $20 to the hobby shop and leave with a truck load of kits literally, all sorts of companies gave away great stuff back then, well for some of us we have some great memories and stories to tell the grandkids HUH?
Harry P. Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Notice how those prizes are geared towards kids? That's because back when that contest ran, most model car builders were kids, not adults. Today it's the other way around... so what would the appropriate prizes for that contest be if they ran it today? Big-screen TV? Trip to Jamaica? Not too many adults would be interested in winning a mini-bike!
Lunajammer Posted August 16, 2013 Author Posted August 16, 2013 Dang, they really had prizes like that back in the day? I would build the best model of my life if there was something like that now! But that's the kicker. From the incomplete info in the ad, sounds like you didn't even need to build anything. It's a "Kit Idea Contest." I mean, nobody here has any opinions about what kind of subjects the model companies should develop.
Tom Geiger Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 Notice how those prizes are geared towards kids? That's because back when that contest ran, most model car builders were kids, not adults. Today it's the other way around... so what would the appropriate prizes for that contest be if they ran it today? Big-screen TV? Trip to Jamaica? Not too many adults would be interested in winning a mini-bike! Now that you mention it... the South African NNL gives bottles of whiskey away with the trophies! Different culture, that wouldn't go over too well here in the US
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