Kyosho now on the re-re bandwagon - Scorpion

[markbt73]

Interesting... now the question is, buy a re-re, or grab an original (or two) for less during the inevitable collector sell-off?

[Puffdogg]

I wonder if the Javelin is coming as well?

[j-sou]

Just like with the Sand Scorcher, I'll pic up one or two of the re-re's but I'm glad I have a few of the originals! It will be interesting to see the differences between the original and the re-re. Hopefully they make the parts slightly different like AE did with the RC10 so collectors aren't tooooo pissed. I wonder if the Beetle will come at a later date!?

[Hcp22]

I'll buy one, because I'm a fan, but I am not loving re-releases because I love the hunt for cars and parts, almost as much as owning them.

X2

It remains to be seen how true they stay to the original.

X2

I've never owned a Scorpion so I don't know what the weaknesses of the car were, but hopefully they would be addressed. The shocks & shock collars, easily bendable front shock tower and gearbox would probably all be weak links. If I were to buy one, I'd hope it would survive a reasonable modern electronics system.

I also hope it won't be ridiculously expensive...which it might be, if Kyosho indeed had to re-make all the molds, as the rumor was that all the molds were destroyed for their classics.

The only week point is the rails

[Coelacanth]

I wonder if the Javelin is coming as well?

Hah...I can already envision the pissed-off hoarders of ludicrously-priced Javelin rollcages if they ever made THAT announcement.

[scootmike]

WOW, who saw that coming!
Great News!!!
Can't wait for more information, just went thru the 50th Anniversary book on their site, nice to see them recognizing the classic cars.

[Lowgear]

Well, that's it nothing is sacred

Nothing in this day and age seems to be sacred anymore. As more of a collector I'm not a big fan of re-releases and thought Kyosho was immune to it but definitely understand the appeal and intent.

[scootmike]

I'm surprised they waited this long to do a re re, they had to see the sales Tamiya have made with their re re's.
I had to take a double take at this post when i read it, honestly I was kind of shocked, I've spent way too much on parts for these cars, but on the other hand an original is still an original, a re re will be a re re. The only thing I will watch out for is original cars with re re parts.

I'll buy a re re, if anything just to run the crap out of it and not worry about broken parts

[RC10resto]

and just last year at RCX, a nice man in the Kyosho booth said "no re-releases, at Kyosho we look forward not backward"

hmmm, reminds me of several people at AE back in 2009 that said never on a re-re

Maybe I need to start collecting money, at least I already know they will re-release that

[GoMachV]

Come on Mugen, your next! Bring on the Bulldog ReRe!

[Phin]

Come on Mugen, your next! Bring on the Bulldog ReRe!

[TM Ru22311]

Interesting. I would love to have a re-release Scorpion. It would be nice to have much of the aluminum chassis and (as Coelacanth said) addressing the originals weaknesses, newly designed shocks an a modern electronics system..awesome!

[stulec52]

I've never owned a Scorpion so I don't know what the weaknesses of the car were, but hopefully they would be addressed. The shocks & shock collars, easily bendable front shock tower and gearbox would probably all be weak links. If I were to buy one, I'd hope it would survive a reasonable modern electronics system.

I also hope it won't be ridiculously expensive...which it might be, if Kyosho indeed had to re-make all the molds, as the rumor was that all the molds were destroyed for their classics.

They didn't really survive a period electronics system, including old 27 turn motors, very well.
We used to modify the cars and put them on a diet to get them just under 3lbs.
Diffs needed rebuilt constantly, dog bones were always falling out shocks were pretty poor.
But I loved those cars !

[j-sou]

and just last year at RCX, a nice man in the Kyosho booth said "no re-releases, at Kyosho we look forward not backward"

We'll see if that guy is back this year. Maybe they fired him.

[Phin]

It would be amazing if Kyosho also re-re'd a line of Option House parts as upgrades. Ball diff, SC-108 castor locks, and CB-88 shocks.