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Originally Posted by Spoolio
Jimmy, you're spot on, the TC forums are hilarious, there are some seriously unhappy people there who've probably mortgaged their house and spent the "college fund" buying SRB's in the expectation they would act like a pension fund. Oh deary me. Some excellent counter-arguments too.
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If you actually read through it properly there's no one complaining about the value of their collections falling because of this rerelease, only all those idiots saying that "collectors must be crying". They must know a whole different bunch of collectors than all the big ones I know. Not one collector I know is in it for the money, they are all intelligent enough to kn ow that r/c kits aren't going to make you anything, never mind a fortune. Most of them pay a lot of NIBs, quite often with the intention to build it at some time, never with the intention to sell it. We all know the way to make money is the chop shops, buying cars and splitting it to sell the parts individually, and I'm glad it will put all those out of business. As for the price of the old cars and parts, not a lot will change there as virtually all the rerelease parts are different to the originals.
There's only one person unhappy, and that's because it kills the hunt for parts to restore them. I lost interest in SRBs myself when it became obvious that if you picked up a wreck you could restore it in a week or two of ebay searching, while my first one took 9 months to find all the parts I needed to get it running again. Taking the Sand Scorcher out for a bash used to always be done with a little care, if you broke it you used to wonder how long until you could get it fixed, recently you could get the parts faster than for a modern buggy which takes the edge off running it carefully. It's why my Predator XT is worth more to me, because of the time invested in it, it took me 3 years to get that together.
The other person doing most of the moaning has no interest in vintage stuff, Dready is a scale fan and just wants new hard bodies and scale chassis.
You should see the rubbish I've had to deal with in private amongst the members.
The rerelease doesn't interest me at all, probably because it's a lot more expensive than the original SRBs I already have, when you consider the Sand Scorcher that I wrecked at the beach last weekend cost me all of £40 including the repro body. I always find stumbling across one going cheap at a car boot sale more interesting than just ordering it from a shop. Best bargain was a battered Rough Rider, Sand Scorcher, and a Ranger body, all for £30!