Round 2

With the aquisitiion of all tooling and rights to the AMT, Mpc, and Polar Lights names by Round 2 some modelers think it's the best thing since sliced bread. However it is a business venture to make money. Some builders think that there is a HUGE warehouse just loaded with ALL the tooling for all of the kits of the past. Not so my friends as much of the tooling has been re-worked to issue other models, some of the tooling has been damaged beyond, repair, some of the tooling lost, and some scrapped also.

While I have enough kits to keep me building for the rest of my life and then some and I don't care if another kit ever hits the hobby shop shelves, there are others with hundreds of unbuilt kits that await the arrival of new kits or re-issues as if they were just finishing up their last unbuilt kit.

It will be interesting to see what Round 2 brings to the table as far as re-issues go as I doubt that they'll ever offer a new tool when they can produce kits from the tooling they already have. Round 2 has been good to us builders so far as several re-issues and maybe more have made many modelers 'happy campers" and with good reason as they have given us some great kits from the past.

I see that I stand to be corrected already as Round 2 DID give us a new tool when we got the Polar Lights Batmobile that looks to be a big hit with a lot of builders both young and old. Like I said, it will be interesting and I'm sure that Round 2 won't disappoint most builders.

Floyd Anthony Raines Scott Russell Riggs Hiroshi Fushida Beppe Gabbiani Bertrand Gachot