POST AVENGER FINDS AND DISCUSSION HERE!

[Sabrefan]

Nice, I love the way the Avenger looks in the Bunker Hill scheme. Now where will I put that model?

[normandy]

The only Avenger I've seen in my AO is the one at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale. As for 21st's Avenger it never made it to the walmarts in this part of the North East.
The funny thing is that during WWII Grumman was making them right here in Bethpage on Long Island. I wonder how many 1/18th Avengers walmart could sold with thousands of former Grumman employes still living on the Island?

[Jolly Roger]

I had to bump this, just remember people!
At one time you were griping about paying 35$ for a Avenger.


and you wonder what happened....


Really I was looking for pictures of the Flight 19 Avengers, and trying to see some boxed photos, so don't get mad that I bumped it.

[tmanthegreat]

Not a problem - its good for all the newbies to see an old thread and what our discussions were like 5-6 years ago. This thread began July 27 2006, so just a tad over six years ago! Dang how time flies. Funny seeing all the posts from the old members now long gone, including the good and the bad. That twerp Catman would be 18 now

For the record, I never saw Avengers at the six Wal Marts in the Fresno, CA area. Never! My local hobbytown eventually got in Avengers, but I never saw them at a local Wal Mart - and six years later I'm still annoyed

But for perspective, look at the comments in the first pages of the thread - we are complaining about the $76 Wal Mart price and the fact that the online retailers were charging the same - $76 would be a bargain today! Then they did go down to $35 and there were those fabled "piles of Avengers" at every Wal Mart save mine. We were actually paying that little for them!

The release of the Avenger, especially at mass retail, was something to be celebrated, but the lack of screw covers on the S1 plane was a serious breach in QC and overall, the Atlantic version sold poorly. Sales would certainly have been improved with better QC and a more recognizable scheme such as the Flight 19 special edition planes or even the never-produced George Bush Avenger. Those might have caught the general public's eye better... Funny how we complain about the high prices now, but I'll tell you, save for the JSI F-14, all my other new aircraft models have had better detail and screw covers - and I didn't have to rely on Wal Mart's crappy distribution system. Worth the higher price to me

[Jolly Roger]

I'm not really a newbie, I just didn't post all that much. I still have scars from the A-10 hunger strike

I was able to snag a Atlantic for around 25$, at the same time they had everything from the Cobra, to the Tiger stripeF-104, and Dragon smoke F-86 for 15$ on clearance for months.

Hindsight is trully a pain.


the FW's and Sky captain P's were around for years before finally selling out.


I'm happy to say that I snagged a Flight 19 Avenger this week for a good price.
Happy to finally get one, now that I have some room for birds again.

[normandy]

The Atlantic version of the Avenger would sold well, had walfarts sold
them on this side of the country.........the side with the Atlantic!

[tmanthegreat]

I'm not really a newbie, I just didn't post all that much. I still have scars from the A-10 hunger strike

I know you've been around for a while, just bringing up old threads (especially this old) is fun - and the people that weren't around in 2006 can see what we were talking about. Makes me realize how long ago the "good old days" really were and how long I've been posting here (since the original GPXD site back in 2003).

Glad you were able to get a Flight 19 Avenger at a reasonable price - they are getting harder to find. I just pulled my Flight 19 plane out of storage and swapped it for the time being with my Bunker Hill aircraft (I saw Spielberg's film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" the other day, which naturally got me thinking of Flight 19 and Avengers ). The Bunker Hill Avenger is my personal favorite, though, with the Flight 19 coming in second. I had one of those S1 Atlantic Avengers with the missing screw covers that I got from a fellow board member in 2006, but eventually sold it and got the "fixed" version of the same aircraft. That one has the worst-sagging wings!

[NWarty]

Sigh...The George Bush Avenger was such a pretty bird. Darned shame we never saw it released.

I have an S1 Atlantic Avenger and love it, missing screw covers and all.