The General Lee

jetmaker

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I think perhaps you are correct

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GMorrison

Oh geez, well times are changing. And I don't but it's not something to fight about here.

You are seriously mistaken if you think gay people would be offended by a tee shirt that says "straight".

You are also mistaken if more than a handful of African Am's would take offense to a tee shirt that says "white".

Probably true, "they" themselves may not get offended by it...but ya know the sensitivity police would deem it offensive.

mustang1989

Anybody tried finding a General Lee model in the stores? ....

Actually, I saw two kits in one suburban Chicagoland store today..................nobody was arguing about the kits, either..........

On the topic, being an A-20 Havoc enthusiast, as soon as this all started going down a couple weeks ago, I swiped up a set of Eagle Strike 48-203 asap. Just in case.

www.ultracast.ca/.../default.htm

Hmm.............looks like there are new horizons for folks in search of forbidden fruit..............

Now I didn't go north of the border or pay that price! They are still on Ebay at the moment. But that might be the only future option.

Hmmm..............there appears to be an opportunity for anyone interested in a business model based upon supplying non-PC decals

Yuh'd think?

GMorrison

Yuh'd think?

Outa curiosity, I've been reading reviews of the MPC 1/25 Gen'l Lee kit.

Not good.

The overall impression I have is : keep the decals, throw away the plastic model.

Retailers selling the model must be thanking their proverbial lucky stars for this knee jerk buying frenzy.

Just sayin'

Yeah it does have bad reviews.  I made one a very long while back and have no remembrance of it.  Thankfully,  when I found one a few days ago it was so cheap and I just planned on keeping it as a display kit and avoid building it.  

Out of curiosity, I checked for reviews of the MPC kit I did buy: the Dodge Monaco police car ( mainly for the 1/25 weapons) .

http://modelingmadness.com/scott/cars/previews/mpc/mpc707.htm

a quote from the review:

" For those who are not used to MPC kits, they were generally the lowest quality and poorest engineered kit of all the various car kits made in the US." 

( I would like to add that the M-16 is very poorly molded and I will need to construct a new lower receiver so it can be used with my Monogram Huey  ) . But , I digress..............

The kit decals include Confederate Battle Flag decals in a smaller , license plate size.

Hmm...........I don't even recall the decals; guess I was more interested in the weapons and car.

Sprue-ce Goose

Hmmm..............there appears to be an opportunity for anyone interested in a business model based upon supplying non-PC decals

Looks like somebody in Canada is making decals for your full size, every day family hauler: 

Has anybody put eyes on the Pro Modeler GL kit yet?

I don't know about a Pro Modeler kit.

All I can state is that, during my search for reviews about the MPC kit, the general comments stated the Revell Charger kits were superior compared to the MPC glue kit.

The Pro Modeler kit isn't promoted as a General Lee. It came in a black box, with the Pro Modeler logo and featured a yellow Charger on the box top. It's been repopped in the regular Revell box lately, but I don't know if the decals are the same as the ProMod kit. This is it:

Seriously folks not to demean any "Dukes of Hazard"  fans but people don't buy this kit because they thought of the series as a great example of classic  TV reflecting real life in the South.  They bought it because, as someone already noted, a kick ass car or it was the most popular car model ever marketed and part of the history of the hobby.   In 1966 AMT marketed a model of the automobile featured in "My Mother the Car, said by some to have been the worse TV series ever aired, but it has become a collectors item {because it was from the worst  series ever aired?).  The cars of "Citizen Kane" is yet to be released.

Also political correctness at the hobby shop isn't new.  in the early seventies Aurora was put out of business because of their "Monster Scene" series, during the same decade the flap over the "angry spider" on the tails of World War Two aircraft started and, in the early nineties I still remember looking for the Coors sprint car because activists pressured the major beer companies not to licence model kits of race cars they sponsored.  The "Dukes of Hazard" controversy is just the latest example.  Model building is largely adult activity often pressured to conform to child friendly standard or to be totally nonoffencive  to everybody.

One thing is certain.  Round Two has probably sold more models of the General Lee then they ever have.  Nothing tastes sweeter the fresh forbidden fruit..  

i disagree Gear Head. It has nothing to do with being "being from the South" as you like to think but the show is pure comedy and action. In a word - ENTERTAINMENT!!! When I was a kid, I watched that show faithfully because it was a nice family show. What's even better we as kids used to play pretend The Dukes of Hazzard.

And yeah the car was "the cool factor". What kid didn't want a toy or model kit of The General Lee, Daisy Duke's Challenger or Roscoe's Police cruiser?

The show never was about controversy to begin with.

That's basically what I posted.  The series wasn't about real life in the South or anywhere else.  It was pure escapism.

Sprue-ce Goose

GMorrison

Yuh'd think?

LOL.........

GMorrison

Sprue-ce Goose

GMorrison

Yuh'd think?

LOL.........

Except that just about the time someone gets the art together, prints a bunch and markets them; AMT will come out with the "General Lee- 150th Anniversary Appomattox Edition"

Perhaps.................

Or Warner Brothers will suddenly decide that demand for DVD's on e-bay warrants issuing the tv show on Blu Ray.............

Oh, the humanity!

LOL.............

I'd call wb management a " bunch of Dingle-Berries " but they might be offended.

Oh heck no! This summer they are releasing "Dingleberries XXL"!

If a Canadian company can do one to one scale General Lee decals they could do some in 1/25th scale. Then Revel Monogram could do a smooth roof version of their 69' Charger with the right optional wheels and roll bar.  Of course some one would probably figure out what's going  on and raise heck.

GMorrison

Oh heck no! This summer they are releasing "Dingleberries XXL"!

Gear Head 6

If a Canadian company can do one to one scale General Lee decals they could do some in 1/25th scale. Then Revel Monogram could do a smooth roof version of their 69' Charger with the right optional wheels and roll bar.  Of course some one would probably figure out what's going  on and raise heck.

B_one fixer

After visiting my local Walmart today I noticed they had the general Lee back on the shelf but.......... The new kits no longer have the flag on the vehicle, just the numbers and the box art reflects that too. These are sad times.

Figured it's now time to say IBTL. :)