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Old 04-23-2009, 08:46 AM
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I hope they don't turn out to be "vaporware" just like the "coming soon" for FOUR+ YEARS 18mm D they were supposed to have.
I really like my composite SU and RMS stuff from Aerotech, but it would be nice to get some larger BP SU stuff that has not been available from a major manufacturer since FSI folded up.

Announcing/cataloging a product that never comes out in my book is extremely irritating.
Noted examples of this in the past include:

Enerjet 18mm D in the early/mid 1970's
Estes Battlestar Galactica Cylon raider kit in 1979
Estes Black Hole Cygnus Probe Ship in 1980 (or 1981 ?)
Quest 18mm D (recently)

Those were the largest examples of this in recent memory by major manufacurers, but none got more hype of "it will be out soon" than the 18mm Quest D.

Actually the first SATISFACTORY and believable explanation of the two never released Estes kits just came in the past few weeks from Mike Dorffler. This only took almost 30 years to get the real story on those two.
That being said, it still does not excuse the fact of a corporation announcing a product that had a chance of NOT making it into users hands.
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