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Post by TAY666 on Jan 6, 2011 19:44:46 GMT -5
I have no idea how many other people share my interest in nailing down all the production info for the kits and reissues.
But it is going to be one of my main focuses this year.
So, I thought I would start this thread.
Even if I end up talking to myself, sometimes it helps me sort things out putting it into type.
But hopefully, there will be a few others that can chime in, and give me ideas, or info I don't have.
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Post by TAY666 on Jan 6, 2011 20:02:30 GMT -5
Well, the first thing I am trying to sort out right now, are the 1993 reissues. Which it seems are actually 1992 editions. I have scans of a 1992 catalog with them in it. www.tylisaari.com/prehistoricscenes/rev92catf.jpgwww.tylisaari.com/prehistoricscenes/rev92cat1.jpgwww.tylisaari.com/prehistoricscenes/rev92cat2.jpgI just got a 1993 catalog that doesn't list them at all. So, they must have run them all in 1992 and sent them out to distributors. I always thought they were issued in 1993 becaue of an article in Collectable Toys in June of 1993, which talked about the kits being repopped and available. But here is the part that has me scratching my head. Look at the 2nd and 3rd links above. The pages inside the catalog. They list the kits numbered from 6470-6475 (which doesn't include the Mammoth or the armored dino) But more importantly, those are the wrong numbers! Those are the Revell Germany numbers. The Revell USA numbers 6335-6339 (not including (which doesn't include the sailback, spiked, or mammoth which I have never seen in a US box) Lots to ponder. |
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Post by theropod on Jan 18, 2011 23:02:36 GMT -5
I have a question I've wondered about for nearly 40 years now. In at least two places within the instruction sheets of the Flying Reptile, there is a mention of a "clear suspension line" which is supposedly included in the kit. This is obviously meant to be tied to the hook on the Pteranodon's back so the model could be suspended in "flight". I had gone through a couple of these kits way back then and not once did I ever find one of these "strings". It was no big deal to be able to just use fishing line or something that would do the same thing, but it has always perplexed me that they would mention this thing twice and not include it . Any thoughts?
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Post by TAY666 on Jan 19, 2011 21:44:23 GMT -5
I know what you mean.
My theory is that they originally planned on including a piece of fishing line, but then changed their mind. By then the instructons were already printed and they saw no reason to make a change.
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Post by TAY666 on Feb 16, 2011 7:01:19 GMT -5
Well, I just scored another 10 Revell catalogs.
Hopefully after looking through them, I will have a better idea of when things were actually available.
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Post by TAY666 on Feb 19, 2011 10:04:46 GMT -5
They list the kits numbered from 6470-6475 (which doesn't include the Mammoth or the armored dino) But more importantly, those are the wrong numbers! Those are the Revell Germany numbers. The Revell USA numbers 6335-6339 (which doesn't include the sailback, spiked, or mammoth which I have never seen in a US box) Lots to ponder. Figured it out. The scans that were sent me are from the Revell-Germany catalog. I own several of those catalogs now, and discovered the covers only say Revell. It only becomes obvious that it is the German branch of the company when you check a few places inside. |
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Post by TAY666 on Feb 19, 2011 10:15:30 GMT -5
Well, I now have Mogram catalogs 79, 80, 83, 87, 89 Revell catalogs from 1993-1999 Revell-Germany catalogs 96-98, 2000-01 I have updated the catalog page on my site with pics of any PS kits in those catalogs. www.tylisaari.com/prehistoricscenes/cat.htmlEventually, I will get around to doing actual scans of the pages, but the pics should work for now. |
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Post by RetroArt on Jul 17, 2011 21:50:41 GMT -5
Speaking of Production History, so what of the "Mystery of The Lost Kit"?
You know, Kit #737.
Why is that number skipped over in the line?
What's the back story on that?
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Post by prescenes2 on Jul 18, 2011 20:35:55 GMT -5
Can't remember the full details on it but 737 was just skipped over. No lost kit or anything like that but just a gap in the numbering system. I think it was believed to be the number for the Stegosaurus but that was deemed as false. everyone "Sigh"......  |
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Post by RetroArt on Jul 18, 2011 23:25:11 GMT -5
Hmmm, just "skipped over", eh?
I can't buy that.
They were consistent with the rest of the kits' numbers so why skip a number?
It seems a logical guess would be that there was a concept for a kit assigned to #737 but wasn't released- more than likely during the First Wave of '71.
And it probably had to do with production budget to cut the initial line down one kit from 9 to the Original 8.
But the kit concept was probably shelved with the thought that they'd get back to it at a later time for production.
That's why the number was not used, or skipped over, because it existed as a concept as they planned out the Second Wave of '72.
Only, they never decided to put it into production.
The Stegosaurus seems to big and too "Cochran" to be a First Wave kit.
Wasn't Cochran involved with the later PS kits rather than the earlier?
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Post by TAY666 on Jul 19, 2011 20:04:08 GMT -5
If you mean Cockrum, then yes. He was involved later.
More around '74 - ish.
I wonder if the missing number might have been for a Neanderthal Woman.
The source who says that the missing number was just a mistake, has also said he wasn't around for most of the first wave stuff. Coming in more in time for the second wave.
So it is possible that he wouldn't have actual knowledge if there were some obscure reason for reserving the number.
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Post by pbbass3313 on Aug 14, 2011 12:32:18 GMT -5
Could #737 be the once proposed "out-of-scale" Archaeopteryx?
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