Attention: BANDAI will stop selling kits outside Japan

[Sourdoh]

Disney has restricted Asian makers from selling into the US in many areas of modeling. It is a new strategy(?) that I hope will be re-thought by clearer heads at Disney Merchandising. They are making life miserable for any licensee that is trying to use, or sign a new, agreement for any Disney intellectual property. Disney has always been a hard taskmaster when it comes to merchandise licenses, and they have driven many good makers out of business because of it.

 

[TazMan2000]

Disney and Revell didn't do themselves any favours with this debacle. Limiting the consumer to purchasing less accurate/quality items only seemed to backfire. It's surprising that their executive team didn't foresee the problems that this would cause. Our preference for Bandai prevails and we will continue to purchase their products somehow. Perhaps someone at Disney will take note and select Bandai to become the international licensee for all of their SW models at some future date.

TazMan2000

 

[JLKahn]

Disney and Revell didn't do themselves any favours with this debacle. Limiting the consumer to purchasing less accurate/quality items only seemed to backfire. It's surprising that their executive team didn't foresee the problems that this would cause. Our preference for Bandai prevails and we will continue to purchase their products somehow. Perhaps someone at Disney will take note and select Bandai to become the international licensee for all of their SW models at some future date.

TazMan2000

This would be Ideal, considering that Bandai's makes a better product, that is surprisingly cheaper (as long as purchased at its domestic price) than Revell's ummmm... things, stuff, abominations? I really am at a loss of words when I try to speak about those horrors that Revell so proudly revealed.

 

[Robiwon]

I find this a bit amusing, but do you guys remember when it was announced that Bandai was getting the SW license? Remeber how a LOT of people could not believe that there would be any greater SW kit than that made by FM? Now look at us, were scratching our eyes out and ready to take down Revell/Disney just to get our Bandai SW kits!!!

Anywho, I have my peeps in Japan getting ready to pounce on the TFA kits as soon as they hit the shelves.

 

[Pinousse]

 

[astroboy]

Are there any blogs that would find this newsworthy? Den of geek? The nerdist? Ain't it cool news?

 

[JLKahn]

Are there any blogs that would find this newsworthy? Den of geek? The nerdist? Ain't it cool news?

Actually Forbes has a few bloggers that have been known to talk about geek related issues, for example one actually wrote an article about the Samura Boba Fett from bandai

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/08/07/bandai-turn-boba-fett-into-a-ronin-this-november/

I am sure he has heard about this considering he also blogs at Mecha Damashii but I still dropped him a line to ask him to maybe bring this up on his blogs when he has a chance. Get your brothers, your sisters, your mother, father, grand parents, second and 3rd cousins, get all your modeler friends and their families and friends to write to Disney, Revell, Bandai, and news outlets that might care. Complaining on niche web forums really doesn't do anyone any good.


I do want to mention that I was having my pool closed up for the winter, and one of the guys doing it saw my Bandai R2-D2 and C-3PO, and this is just your average joe, not someone who looked like a big geek or nerd, and he asked where I got them because he said he would love to get them so he and his own kid could work on them together. So the potential interest in high quality kits is there, as something that parents and their kids can work on together and enjoy. A bandai kit is at least an afternoon project with your kid, while these Revells look like, 2 or three seconds worth of snapping two halves of a cheaply made plastic shell together and bam, Jr can go crash it into the wall, hell, that actually might improve how the revell kit looks.

The really sad thing is this stupid ban really doesn't help anyone other than Scalpers and primarily only hurts consumers, without Disney, Bandai or Revell really getting any serious benefit from it at all, unless they have plans to officially import the bandai kits.

 

[astroboy]

I think this is worth. Not just because I care about it, but because it might be the shape of things to come

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[DarkKnight]

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The new kits look nice, but if you have a closer look at them, they just lack the love it would need to make them a great model.
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youve hit the nail on the head, thats exactly the problem with Revell! they lack the love to make the kits right, they do it like it s a business with out of touch employees and seriously "box scale" kits in this century, you must be kidding. Revell, you design kits for people with wal mart minds and expect the real enthusiasts to praise you?

 

[astroboy]

Here's what we need.

We need a statement that we should post on the Facebook walls of some media outlets to see if we get a bite.

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[Roboted]

Here's what we need.

We need a statement that we should post on the Facebook walls of some media outlets to see if we get a bite.

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I was thinking maybe starting a hashtag being the day and age we live in. iv never done it before tho so would need to look into it when i have a free few hours. unless someone here is internet savvy. that im sure would be the fastest way for poeple to catch the drift of what this whole shabocle is all about.

 

[astroboy]

I've thought twitter too....but I don't understand it

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[DaveG]

Hobby Link Japan has a banner declaring September 20th as the cut off date for ordering Star Wars kits from the U.S.

 

[DaveG]

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[Jaitea]

Show the comparison of what you get for £17,....The new light & sound toys compared to Perhaps the AT-ST, C-3po or R2 & R5

J

 

[edge10]

Hobby Link Japan has a banner declaring September 20th as the cut off date for ordering Star Wars kits from the U.S.

The picking is getting pretty thin as well. I ordered 4 kits on Friday and they have already shipped.

I noticed that Gunjap's Star Wars 'banner' link is gone, but the existing content is still there. <sigh>

 

[rbeach84]

I was thinking maybe starting a hashtag being the day and age we live in. iv never done it before tho so would need to look into it when i have a free few hours. unless someone here is internet savvy. that im sure would be the fastest way for poeple to catch the drift of what this whole shabocle is all about.

"I am modeler, hear me roar!"

If only....
Regards, Robert

 

[Hope4Sun]

Funny enough tweeted @RevellUSA @Disney @RevellGermany similar with the images

#Thesearn'thekitswherelookingfor



#Thesearethekitswherelookingfor

 

[Reelo]

Funny thing is, RoG keep responding to my comments on fb, stating that Bandai "decided" to not sell outside Japan anymore (and refuting the claim that Revell and Disney had a "deal" to *make them* stop selling worldwide)

I responded by saying that nobody denied the fact that Bandai probably just had the rights to sell in Japan. Furthermore, nobody denies the fact that it is probably Disney who watches over the upholding of said license-agreements (and not Revell) Nobody denies those things. What people care about is that Revell, now de-facto world(minus Japan)-distributor decided to release those half-assed toys, alienating their customers.
People don't flock to Bandai because it's such an awesome company: they do so because they release a better product. And that's a matter Revell hasn't adressed in any statement as of yet.

Revell seem more concerned about the rumor that they might have bullied Disney or Bandai into submission than about the fact that most modellers find their SW products crap! Go figure...

 

[Roboted]

Funny thing is, RoG keep responding to my comments on fb, stating that Bandai "decided" to not sell outside Japan anymore (and refuting the claim that Revell and Disney had a "deal" to *make them* stop selling worldwide)

I responded by saying that nobody denied the fact that Bandai probably just had the rights to sell in Japan. Furthermore, nobody denies the fact that it is probably Disney who watches over the upholding of said license-agreements (and not Revell) Nobody denies those things. What people care about is that Revell, now de-facto world(minus Japan)-distributor decided to release those half-assed toys, alienating their customers.
People don't flock to Bandai because it's such an awesome company: they do so because they release a better product. And that's a matter Revell hasn't adressed in any statement as of yet.

Revell seem more concerned about the rumor that they might have bullied Disney or Bandai into submission than about the fact that most modellers find their SW products crap! Go figure...

I love what you said. but who is RoG?

Id like to see those comments