Wandy
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Didn't get round to posting this. Was a little Christmas present to myself 6 months ago....
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Just now, Nobbi1977 said:
Might grab a Grasshopper if this lock down lasts much longer 🤣
Best be quick, just noticed that Jadlam have bumped the price of the Hornet back up.
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Got all three of mine for £270 a couple of weeks ago. £85 each for the Hopper & Hornet from Jadlam and £100 for the Frog from Time Tunnel.
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13 hours ago, BP2411 said:
Where did you get these from? Have you built them yet?
Got the Grasshopper and Hornet from Jadlam for £85 each and the Frog from Time Tunnel for £100. Won't be building them any time soon as have other builds on the go.
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Been after these three for a while now and finally got them all in one go for a great price of £270 in total, which represents roughly a 33% saving off the full retail price. Also grabbed a spare Frog bodyset as only one of these will be a runner.
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On 3/3/2020 at 10:22 PM, moffman said:
Very nice! Was never a specific fan of the clodbuster simply because I had one and because of the size of it I was forever moving it out of the way and I got tired of it!, Why can't tamiya do all the black edition boxes like this one the monster beetle just got a little sticker on the front and sides?
Agree. They are all over the place when it comes to deciding how to present the Black Special kits. No consistency at all.
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SuperClod. Very super indeed.
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Mine arrived today. Loving the artwork on this kit.
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Never thought I would want a ClodBuster in my collection but this one has been calling out to me as they really nailed the ideal look with that black body/silver decal/red shocks look. So a kit is winging it's way to me now.
This one is by far the coolest looking of the three colour schemes they have done, IMO.
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So this is just a re-release of 58193 but without the decals? If so, then it's interesting that this is the second Racing Porsche that they have brought back simply as a "street" version, as they did the same with the GT2 when they re-released it without the Taisan or PIAA decal set. This offers a little bit of hope that we may yet see the 959 re-released on original chassis as it's always the Rothmans livery that has been seen as the barrier to that classic coming back.
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33 minutes ago, Grotty Otty said:
Wow, no kidding! Any chance of a build thread of the Ultima? Such a cool buggy.
I will do my best. Not gonna lie though, I already have another five projects on the go...so it might be a while.
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Santa was kind again this year...a NIB Ultima, Blue Edition Subaru Brat & Black Edition Monster Beetle.
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20 minutes ago, graemevw said:
I have been and prices are weird. BIN prices are always sky high, and they seem to sell. Auctions always seem to end at a far more reasonable price.
Ive not committed yet due to import charges.
It's the just the same old story where once something becomes scarce it becomes more desirable.
It did suprise me that they didnt sell out immediately upon release in 2003 as AE didn't exactly make a boatload of them.
The Worlds car was even worse though. It was being discounted in some US stores not long after release.
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8 hours ago, NWarty said:
That's a real bummer Wandy. The gold pan RC10 is one of the only cars left that I wanted to collect and prices are already stupid for beat up, POS RC10s.
Have you only been looking for one quite recently mate? Honestly, there was still plenty of them on ebay in the early part of this year.
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Amazon have the Chiron on sale for £189 at the moment. Thats the cheapest price I have seen for it anywhere. So I bought one.
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There won't be any more RC10 re-releases. AE tried it and it flopped, that's the bottom line. If they did another re-run of the Classic the kits would sit on shop shelves. Harsh to say it but true.
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Associated didn't underproduce the RC10 Classic. In fact the kits were freely available for a good while after release date and even up until recently the kits were selling on ebay for under retail price. The problem with the Worlds was that it just doesn't have the iconic status of the original gold pan car. In addition though, RC10 fanatics love the originals first, second & third. Even when the classic was announced there were plenty of naysayers on rc10talk.com. Those buggies have a very different kind of enthusiast compared to that of the vintage Tamiya lovers.
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Mine is on the way from Stella. Won't be able to look at it when it arrives until December 25th though.
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Never mind the chassis, the body on this thing is awful with a woeful lack of detail. This is one of those very few kits that should never have been given a re-release.
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Licencing costs can be the only reason why a Ranger re-release hasn't happened. Tamiya seem to be rather tight when it comes to what they are prepared to spend on re-releasing a kit. Which means that even if they do bring back the Ranger it won't come back with the original front grille, in the same way that the Buggy Champ didn't come with Sand Blaster Jr tyres and the Sand Scorcher body lacked the original wide wheel arches.
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On 10/12/2019 at 9:51 AM, WillyChang said:
Depends what you mean by "value"... sure it sounds "cheap" compared to paying crazy resale prices for original mint old stock. But if you consider its all repop and IMHO pretty overpriced (vs a modern BMX)... well I wouldn't call it "investment"
Everybody's in the repop game now, go into bike store see all these shiny retro Kuwahara ETs, brand new PK Rippers etc... meh. Looks nice sure. Got no soul methink.
Although gotta admit im kinda eyeing those super sized ones
26" sweet.
To be fair, I am not intested in it for the performance....just the nostalgia. And as long as it is "reasonably" good value for money then that will do.
Those 30th Anniversary Kuwahara E.Ts seem to go for crazy money.
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Surprised that nobody has bumped this thread in recent months as I just stumbled on the fact that Raleigh have re-popped the Super Tuff Burner... https://www.raleigh.co.uk/stbur19-super-tuff-burner ...but didn't they bring this one back in 2007 too?
I know that they re-released the Aero Burner a little while ago. Was that a success?
Anyway, the reason I ask is that I am tempted by this Super Tuff re-release. If nothing else, it's a beautiful looking thing. Most of all though, probably the one and only thing that I never had as a kid when it was popular was a BMX. Not that I couldn't have had one, but I just prefered the marauding beastliness of the Raleigh Bomber back then. So this might be an itch that I finally get to scratch. Unfortunately though I missed the "pre-sale" so when they go on general sale on October 23rd it might be really difficult to get one.
To all of our resident BMX experts on here...does the spec of this Super Tuff look good for the price?
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4 hours ago, Avante2001R said:
Got another set for my standard top force.
So the Avante Racing Steering Set fits the Top Force too?
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2 hours ago, Wooders28 said:
If they go in time line order,.was it not the Optima Pro and a couple of different body colour salutes, before the Mid?
Yes. Personally though I don't see them bringing all of those back. Maybe the Optima Pro and then 2 SWB Mids plus 2 LWB Mids.
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VQS (2020) in Tamiya's pipeline.
in Re-Release Discussions
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Nice to see another in-demand classic come back. I'm not a massive fan of the buggy myself as in standard form it's the ugly duckling of the Avante series IMO. It looks best when like the example below, sitting on an Avante chassis with Hi-Cap-type dampers fitted, so at the very l least I will buy the body parts and the Hi-Caps. If the kit price is around the £300 mark then you can count me out of that though. Good to see that the re-re programme hasn't completely ground to a halt, even if it's been just trudging along for a few years now.