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Originally Posted by davidmog99
Didnt losi lose a lot of old equipment in a fire? Im sure i read about it in an american magazine.
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Gil Losi had a lipo fire which destroyed his home garage completely.
http://www.pe.com/local-news/riversi...an-ignite.ece#
That's Gil Losi, not the division of Horizon Hobby known as Team Losi.
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I was reading on another site that schumacher havent kept their old moulds and tooling, and a re release would be expensive to produce. Im not sure how true that is though.
I do think they would sell a lot if they did produce them.
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Considering CML could only have a couple of hundred RC10 Classic kits, there are still plenty available in UK shops, such a big seller that they have been reduced in price and DMS are giving free bodies with them to try and shift them.
As well as the publicity from the Classic, Associated has done it to retool the spares, there are still plenty of original RC10s being run and several parts have never gone out of production, for example the only time the Protech body was out of production was when it had to be retooled when the vac forming shifted to Taiwan.
Schumacher doesn't have a huge fan following outside of the UK so unless someone can come up with a way for Schumacher to make a profit from selling at most just a few hundred vintage buggies it isn't going to happen.
It's like when it was announced that Horizon Hobby UK wasn't going to import any more XX4 rereleases and everyone complained about stopping a popular kit, when it was revealed in reality they had only sold 4 kits.