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Will be reissuing Surfink which has not been reissued since 1990
I need a new one mine broke.. And Mouse Millers Flip Out never been reissued..
I'm looking forward to both should be out by April.
I talked to them last week they said they don't have the mold for mouse millers
Speed Shift.? sad..

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scuzzfink85 wrote:Will be reissuing Surfink which has not been reissued since 1990
I need a new one mine broke.. And Mouse Millers Flip Out never been reissued..
I'm looking forward to both should be out by April.
I talked to them last week they said they don't have the mold for mouse millers
Speed Shift.? sad..

I still have my Revell surf-fink got it back in 91 at Hobbystore by me.

scuzzfink85 wrote:Will be reissuing Surfink which has not been reissued since 1990
I need a new one mine broke.. And Mouse Millers Flip Out never been reissued..
I'm looking forward to both should be out by April.
I talked to them last week they said they don't have the mold for mouse millers
Speed Shift.? sad..

Did they give their thoughts on what might have happened to the mold?

Did you ask them about any other kits?

He said they couldn't find it. he can't figure out what happned to it.?
It's odd.. but based on revell and monogram track record it's miracle
they find as much as they did.
Just whats listed on there website.

scuzzfink85 wrote:He said they couldn't find it. he can't figure out what happned to it.?
It's odd.. but based on revell and monogram track record it's miracle
they find as much as they did.
Just whats listed on there website.

Seems like a case of poor inventory control to me

I don't think Revell believed in inventory control.
They really had no idea what they had, or where it was most of the time.

It makes sense in a way. They bought out all these companies over the years. Aurora, Monogram, etc.
All this before computers were really a thing. Everything was paper trail. Things get mis-filed, mis-classified mis-placed. And when older employees that knew what was what, move on, the newer ones have no clue as to the history of some things. Stuff buried in the corners of warehouses. No one really cares about the old stuff. The number-crunchers are busy with the new tooling, and tracking that stuff. No one wants to allocate time or resources to pull out, inspect, investigate what is what. Especially, since whatever they find and document becomes a taxable asset that will then have to be tracked and traced from there on out.

So, when the company goes belly up, someone like Atlantis comes along and buys the whole lot, and gets to explore what they've purchased.
It gets even more complicated when they assets are split up by 3 different companies, depending on where they tooling was when the company went out of business.

Remember, Atlantis only got the molds that were still sitting here in the United States.
The stuff in Germany, and the stuff in China went to different buyers.

I think Germany , got most vehicles what I remember..
Maybe some molds where thrown away because they were damaged or they wanted to make room
It sad, how alot of it is lost to history ..