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| Subject: | Re: Several things |  |
| Date: | Jul 3, 2002 |
| From: | Thorsten Wieking | |
"Peter Ong" schrieb:
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> * Toy stores no longer carry "serious" model kits, only SNAP kits and
> sometimes not even that! Small toy stores and the big ones too just don't
> bother to stock models unlike the 1980s. (snip)
> I haven't seen a DML or Tamiya kit in toy stores ever since the 1980s.
Luckily (???) german Toystores carry model kits, Revell, Italeri, Tamiya,
but the downside is that there are only a few shop dedicated to kit
modelling alone.
> My first kit was from a drug store.
Just like some of my first kits did. The barber shop is / was straight
across the street from the drug store and after each time my mom took me to
the barber, I visited the drug store afterwards and got a kit. Still have
the 1/72 Airfix Bristol Blenheim MIB in the basement. Don't think I will
ever start it, it will serve a as a reminder of the easier (???) days as a
child.
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> * References and box text info. I've seen kids in the hobby store all
> gather around a kit and "ooh" and "ahhh." These young kids DO know the
kit
> is unassembled and they have to build it. But they DON'T know what the
kit
> is about and thus with so many questions and no answers, they pass up.
Still don't know how as a child I could make out the different tank versions
without reference materials. I bought some airplane mags, but tank magazines
weren't available at the regular newsstand.
Just my 0,02 Eurocent
Thorsten |
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