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Lego's competition , Cada , did an Alfa Romeo car that I wasn't aware of

I mentioned in another thread that Lego seems to be more proactive about what the market wants than the legacy model makers. Here they are again with 5 new F1 based sets coming in March. A big and small sized Mercedes F1 W14. A McLaren MP4/4 and a small 2023 McLaren race car. This year they already ...

Orso wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:06 pm Tamiy did the SF70 as well. When was it released?

It was a 2017 season car and the kit was released in 2018.

Yep Stu! we gotta be positive. Dammit the TWO MP4/4 and the L99T are all GREAT news, as the MP4/2C re-release is. Our new and welcome fellow blue can see at a "complicated" field as he´s assimilating all the history of this in a few days. But if we are to rate if we are, right now, in a g...

Out of interest, I checked the age of the CEO of Tamiya. Mr. Shunsaku Tamiya is 89 years old. That probably explains some of it.

I also learned that Tamiya sponsored an F1 car in 1991

I think whether new injection molded model kits will be produced by the big name model companies is still down to money. Fujimi released a new lot of 1/20 F1 cars of the early 2000 and than stopped. If the sales are very good and Fujimi is having a good return, there is no reason to stop producing ...

Age is an interesting question. I am 38 and I remember most of my friends did at least one model. And then a few got good at it and made a few more. This was the era of Super Nintendo and N64. We had video games but it wasn't as interactive as it is now. You could only play with your friends when th...

F1 was a niche sport. It has come to a whole other level since 2020 onward. I recon one of the mainstream kit companies will eventually get a modern F1 kit or 2 out there. Even Lego has got in on the F1 boom and offered a licenced McLaren F1 Technic set. And it is selling really well. They were har...

wonder if Tamiya are also going to wake up and stop re-releasing old kits and make some new f1 cars for a change think the last kit was the f2001 apart from the rb6 and the rb6 is almost 4 years old fujimi has been killing Tamiya in sales the all the cars they have available Well its 2024 and the o...

Oh, there are likely dozens of issues the folks here could list as to the gaps in the market, lack of kits, etc. The simplest is that scale modeling is a niche hobby and F1 is a niche sport. Throw in money, and, well.... F1 was a niche sport. It has come to a whole other level since 2020 onward. I ...