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New Episode 3 Star Wars kits - anyone built one yet?

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New Episode 3 Star Wars kits - anyone built one yet?
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 25, 2005 6:57 AM
I haven't seen them in shops yet (here in the UK that is) but I've seen a few for sale on Ebay.
The prices seem to be the same as the ready-made figure-scale toys of the same vehicle. E.g the AT-RT (mini open-topped Scout Walker) is £14.99. The others are (I believe) the ARC-130 starfighter, Jedi starfighter (new type with TIE-style cockpit), Droid trifighter and Republic Assault Ship (big Star Destroyer-type capital ship).

Has anyone built one of these yet (or at least bought one and opened the box) - if so, what are they like? I'd be very interested to know - what's the overall level of detail (inside and out) and what scale are they? (Most of the older kits
were around 1/72)

So far I've built one Star Wars kit from the "snap-together" range (the Y-Wing) and, though of course
the older kits are 20-year-old moulds and (hopefully) not comparable to the newer ones, I was not impressed
by the level of detail, accuracy or fit - I'd much rather spend the time rebuilding and superdetailing a toy ship/vehicle in most cases!

Are the new kits any better, though?
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Posted by thunderbearr on Monday, April 25, 2005 7:33 AM
I've seen them on sale at eBay, but the fine print says "This is a pre-order, and will be shipped upon release."

Probably a hobby shop fishing for sales.
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Posted by philp on Monday, April 25, 2005 4:47 PM
Several people from the UK have purchased them and put reports over in the Starship Modeler forum. The Cruiser is the only one that is not prepainted and the detail looks pretty good. Fit for the others seems to be good but they are prepainted kits so you have to deal with seams, etc and they say they are not weathered enough (or at all). Still look like they can be made into decent models.
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Posted by diggeraone on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:04 AM
My lhs has a few and I saw some in wal-mart.Digger
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Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:26 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by diggeraone

My lhs has a few and I saw some in wal-mart.Digger


Those must be for the original AMT kit re-releases (Snow Speeder, X-wing, etc...). The Revell AG Episode III kits have no North American distribution date (so far). Sad [:(]

Mr. Usher, would you happen to have any insight about US releases for Episode III kits?

 

 

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Posted by Matthew Usher on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:34 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Aurora-7

QUOTE: Originally posted by diggeraone

My lhs has a few and I saw some in wal-mart.Digger


Those must be for the original AMT kit re-releases (Snow Speeder, X-wing, etc...). The Revell AG Episode III kits have no North American distribution date (so far). Sad [:(]

Mr. Usher, would you happen to have any insight about US releases for Episode II kits?


Unfortunately, no -- no official word here yet.

Revell Germany's been great about getting new products to us of late (we got an early-production sample of their 1/32 scale Salamander) so hopefully we'll see the Episode III kits soon.

As soon as I hear anything more I'll let all of you know!

Matt Usher @ FSM
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:52 AM
Revell Germany---getting new products to FSM for review or getting them to the States for sale??


Dennis
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