Revell (Revell of Germany and Monogram)

[zenrat]

can we stay on topic please? 

Agreed. This has wandered right up to the edge of the No Politics rule and is currently dangling one foot over to see how far the drop is...

It's a long long way.  Into a bottomless chasm of bile, irrationality, hate, and bigotry.

[Rheged]

can we stay on topic please? 

Agreed. This has wandered right up to the edge of the No Politics rule and is currently dangling one foot over to see how far the drop is...

It's a long long way.  Into a bottomless chasm of bile, irrationality, hate, and bigotry.

An excellent moment to carefully turn round and stroll gently off in another direction.

And now for something completely different!      I've just been given a Revell Millennium Falcon.  The one already in the stash is to become an RAF Transport Command machine.................how about  this one becoming  a Fleet Aerospace Arm  transport in EDSG upperworks and white belly?

[kerick]

can we stay on topic please? 

Agreed. This has wandered right up to the edge of the No Politics rule and is currently dangling one foot over to see how far the drop is...

It's a long long way.  Into a bottomless chasm of bile, irrationality, hate, and bigotry.

An excellent moment to carefully turn round and stroll gently off in another direction.

And now for something completely different!      I've just been given a Revell Millennium Falcon.  The one already in the stash is to become an RAF Transport Command machine.................how about  this one becoming  a Fleet Aerospace Arm  transport in EDSG upperworks and white belly?

Sounds like a great idea! Replace the blaster turrets with quad .303 guns?

[Wardukw]

can we stay on topic please? 

Agreed. This has wandered right up to the edge of the No Politics rule and is currently dangling one foot over to see how far the drop is...

It's a long long way.  Into a bottomless chasm of bile, irrationality, hate, and bigotry.

An excellent moment to carefully turn round and stroll gently off in another direction.

And now for something completely different!      I've just been given a Revell Millennium Falcon.  The one already in the stash is to become an RAF Transport Command machine.................how about  this one becoming  a Fleet Aerospace Arm  transport in EDSG upperworks and white belly?

Sounds like a great idea! Replace the blaster turrets with quad .303 guns?

Great idea 💡 👍

[Weaver]

Kathleen Kennedy's just quit Disney, to a near-unaninous round of "thank f*** for that" from the Star Wars fandom. There are signs, tentative so far, that big companies of all sorts are stepping away from the woke agenda. Early days and baby steps, but promising, non-the-less.

Not to dig up near-politics again, but I do have to correct this: it now turns out that the rumour mill got it wrong. KK is currently looking for a successor but will be hanging around indefinitely in an advisory capacity even after they take over.

Latest rumour mill (caveats, caveats...) is that Disney has been looking to sell some or all of the Lucasfilm/Star Wars/Indiana Jones property (scope unclear) for the last seven months and has failed to find a buyer.

[Old Wombat]

Kathleen Kennedy's just quit Disney, to a near-unaninous round of "thank f*** for that" from the Star Wars fandom. There are signs, tentative so far, that big companies of all sorts are stepping away from the woke agenda. Early days and baby steps, but promising, non-the-less.

Not to dig up near-politics again, but I do have to correct this: it now turns out that the rumour mill got it wrong. KK is currently looking for a successor but will be hanging around indefinitely in an advisory capacity even after they take over.

Latest rumour mill (caveats, caveats...) is that Disney has been looking to sell some or all of the Lucasfilm/Star Wars/Indiana Jones property (scope unclear) for the last seven months and has failed to find a buyer.

They've probably damaged the brands so badly that the money they're asking is way beyond their perceived value outside of Disney.

[jcf]

The only people who see the brands as "damaged" are fans, most people don't give a toss. Which holds true for all of
the big SF "franchises". To the majority
it's all just entertainment, they don't
bother their heads with the pointless, and pretentious, BS of things like "lore" and "canon". The whinging about woke only comes up because of people with an axe to grind that has nothing to do with filmmaking.  

[Weaver]

The Acolyte was cancelled after one season because nobody watched it. Several other shows have done poorly and been cancelled. The widespread opinion (second-hand again) is that its because they were rubbish. If the viewing figures are down, then that isn't just the die-hard fans, it's the general public, who allegedly "just want entertainment", who are not feeling entertained.

Disney put out an upbeat release to investors recently which claimed they were turning over a lot of money on the Lucas Film franchises (Star Wars & Indiana Jones). However buried in the small print was the kinda important fact that headline numbers were receipts, not profits: none of the costs had been deducted from them, including the $4bn cost of buying Lucas Film in the first place. Somebody independent dug up the cost numbers and did the maths, and it looks like Disney haven't made an overall profit on any of it yet, after over ten years. That may be why they're looking to offload some or all of it.

[jcf]

Correlation is not causation.
The competition for eyeballs has never been stiffer because of the sheer number of options available to consumers. The numbers have been dropping across the board for both of Disney's mega-franchises, Marvel along with Star Wars. The issues around saturation have been brought up regularly over the past few years. The seemingly endless generation of films and series has had a negative effect on casual viewership. The meh factor has increased. Why watch something you find boring when there are so many options to find something that holds your interest?

"Profit" in the film industry has long been a game because claiming that they haven't made any profits, or very minimal at best, has been, and is, to their financial advantage. Disney didn't need to make a profit on the purchase of the Lucasfilm, associated IP and ILM. But the truth is that they have, the Forbes article claiming otherwise, and grabbed onto by others, claims they haven't because of the "production costs" of the follow on projects, which is a specious argument that has no actual relevance to the purchase. It's the kind of accounting smoke and mirrors that's beloved of financial "analysts". Of course it costs money to produce a big budget movie or series, so what? Whatever you make is going to have a cost.

[kerick]

I've said this before but maybe not here. If someone has a really interesting story to tell, and can get it across concisely, people will watch. When things are dull repeats people will turn to something else. That's true of any type of media. One thing that ticks me off about Hollywood in general is the fear of originality. They would rather make 50 sequels until the public is sick of it than write an original story. How many Spiderman movies does it take to tell his story? Apparently, no one knows because they are still making them. I think most of the problem is the money people who don't know a good story from a bad one controlling what gets made and what doesn't. And that's why I don't go to movies very often. I need my money more than they do.

[jcf]

Getting back to the subject, Revell 1/32nd scale Gloster Meteor F.8-FR.9.
Photo of 3D printed mockup from Britmodeller.

Revell 1/32nd Meteor

Meteor on Revell site
119.00 €

[jcf]

This is an odd one. A car from Season 5 of Stranger Things, which has not yet been released.


Stranger Things Season 5 Mystery Car

[zenrat]

This is an odd one. A car from Season 5 of Stranger Things, which has not yet
been released.


Stranger Things Season 5 Mystery Car

Dodge Viper?

[jcf]

This is an odd one. A car from Season 5 of Stranger Things, which has not yet
been released.


Stranger Things Season 5 Mystery Car

Dodge Viper?

Viper wasn't put on the market until, 1992. Season Four of Stranger Things was set in 1986, I don't think Season Five will be six years later. 

[scooter]

944, but I doubt it.  Although a Z-car is a possibility.