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ONE pack only of each at $1.00 ????
I'd buy out the whole stock at that price.
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Heck, I still use the Estes Rubber shock cord method. I just bought all 4 new kits for about 13 bucks each, not a bad price for hours of enjoyment. With the new balsa parts, kids will build these like we did when we were younger. Remember, these kits are there to attract new people to the hobby. Once they are hooked, then they can build, and buy better kits online. I am still not too crazy about the white Bt. but thats ok.
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Is Estes being more generous with the shock cords in their new kits (a sufficient length of rubber will prevent "smileys" or "Estes Dents")? Also, what do you not like about their white body tubes? (To me, they always seem a bit "soft" compared to the older brown or tan natural-color kraft paper body tubes.)
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Amen to that. At one local WM I was able to get some motor packs for $4.50 a couple of weeks ago, but everywhere else where there ARE some, they're $5.97. The one I visited today had a spot on the shelf but no motors. |
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1. Nostalgia 2. I agree, they are softer than the brown, don't know why. I think the last few kits I have bought from Estes the cord has been 1 to 1 1/2 the length. That is good enough for me. |
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Today I picked up an Estes "Classic Series" Hornet at the local hobby shop. Following in the classic vein, the kit comes with a balsa nose cone and an Olde Skool brown body tube [EDIT: I misspoke. The tube is a normal white one.] Apparently these kits had just arrived and I bought one of the first ones.
As part of the Semroc Christmas sale about a month ago, I had picked up a Magnum Hornet kit so I just couldn't let the Estes "new" old Centuri Hornet go by without taking a shot at it. While at the LHS today I also picked up an Estes CC Express that I will be bashing into a Cherokee Double D but that's the subject of another/future thread.
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[QUOTE=blackshire Also, what do you not like about their white body tubes? (To me, they always seem a bit "soft" compared to the older brown or tan natural-color kraft paper body tubes.)[/QUOTE]
I thought them sort of soft as well. I also thought of the two I purchased (Ricochet and Star Stryker) that the diameter of the BT was a bit narrow to stuff a chute and shock cord into. (not to mention wadding.) I put streamers on them. Did they release some of the others? Plasma Probe, Space Eagle, and Vector Force? I only found the two I purchased and the Taser Twin. |
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I went to Hobby Lobby today, but found nothing new except for a few RTF birds. Quite disappointing. I thought I'd at least see one of the Classic Series.
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