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Just won this old Robotech Revell Model on Ebay? Should I or Shouldn't build?

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Just won this old Robotech Revell Model on Ebay? Should I or Shouldn't build?
Posted by broadshore on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:33 AM
Well, this well be the 3rd maybe the 4th time I have posted here. So I'll leave this question that been biting me for a week sence I won this kit for 12.00 on EBay.

It the old 1985 Revell Robotech model kit called EXAXES it is 1/48 scale size. Now the Wripping is all gone but all the contents are inside the box. I been thinking on building the old kit but something is stopping me from doing it. I know it not really worth much heck, I keep finding this same kit on Ebay for 5 to 15.00 tops. What do you guys think.


Broadshore, OUT.

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Posted by kylwell on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:14 AM
Build it. No reason not to.

It can be a bit of a pill to build, the fit isn't the best but it's still fun, and such a cool shape.
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Posted by SNOOPY on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:59 AM
Have fun with it.  If you buy it, build it is my motto.  Why keep it in a box.  If it is not a very good kit, fool around with it and make it better or be creative and do something wacky with it.
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Posted by DanCooper on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:18 PM
Actually, if I were you, I wouldn't built it. Instead I would mail it a nice guy by the name of DanCooper Smile [:)]

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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Posted by Admiral Grasshopper1 on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:02 PM
I would not build it,I would hold on to it for 5-10 years and relist it on Ebay. Then you would make a tiddy little profit on it since it would be long out of production.
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Posted by Phil_H on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:01 AM

I would just build it and (maybe Smile [:)]) enjoy rather than hang onto it in the hope it  might increase in value...

It might increase in value, but...

  • The anime series from which it came, Orguss was (sticking my neck out here)  pretty obscure and somewhat overshadowed by other series (like Macross) which were around at the time. It's likely to be only of interest to die-hard fans of the series.
  • It's Revell boxed, rather than boxed as an original (by Arii) item from the series, and so will most likely to be only of interest to die-hard fans of the series, who couldn't find an original boxing.
  • It's already long out of production and likely to be only of interest to die-hard fans of the series.

Just because it's an old kit and out of production doesn't automatically mean you're (maybe) sitting on a goldmine.

Edit: - Just located an "original boxed" version of this kit on Evil-Bay. The Buy it Now asking price is $55.00  Shock [:O]- so you seem to have got a bargain. (or the Revell rebox does make that much difference.)

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Posted by Lufbery on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:58 AM
I don't think of 1985 as old! Wink [;)]

-Drew

Build what you like; like what you build.

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Posted by kylwell on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:11 AM
Being that it's already 20 years old i don't think it'll increase in value much int eh next 5-10 years. Buy models to build not make a profit off of.

'Sides, I built mine and liked it so much I went out and found a few more in teh series and built them too.
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Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:16 PM
I agree, buy it, build it. No point in in saving it, they were made to be built. I still have one i beleive mine was called Zebo? It was also from  the Orguss series. It's the the guy with the rounded curves and the pilot in the lower "belly". It transformed into a robot, tank, flight mode, and gerwalk I think. Got it in shoe box.lol
"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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Posted by broadshore on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:47 PM
Thank you everyone! I'm going to go ahead and build this mech. Been a while I did a kit like this, lets see how it turns out. Stay toon.
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