04-29-2009, 10:00 AM
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Craftsman
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 312
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MDorffler
This is interesting that at least one of the kits got out. It should not have happened. We had a contract with Disney that they were all to be destroyed.
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Mike,
You would be SURPRISED what made it from the Estes Dumpsters and the Old Estes Home / Estes Storage to private collectors ... you would be surprised.
Hey, Bill Simon had said that last year he finally threw away boxes of Estes records detailing the number of Estes kits manufactured though the years.
You mentioned the Astrocam and that 50,000 units a year were produced ... wow!
How about those 1960's kits? Kits that had to have hand turned balsa nose cones and hand wound body tubes like the BT-30.
Any idea what the production number of a pre-damon kit was? How about the Cineroc? How many of those were produced annually?
Thanks in advance,
Bob
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