Badcat: 1/18 F-4 Phantoms

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:30 pm

I just looked at TheMotorpool's website again and now the 1/18 Phantom is listed as a September, 2008 release.

TODAY, the Phantom had 3 release months: February, March and September.
Maybe their site is having a technical glitch. I'll contact them tomorrow and try to get a definitive answer.

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:37 pm

Latest update on the 1/18 Phantom--from Badcat's blog:

"UPDATE ON 1/18 SCALE F-4 PHANTOM AND MIG-21...
21st Century says now that the F-4 phantom won't arrive until late 2008. The B-25 Mitchell will come out probably early 2009 and then the Mig-21 afterwards."

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:13 pm

2010 for the Mig-21? Someone call Pegasus..

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:15 pm

September, 2008 for the 1/18 F-4. Someone call BBI...

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:45 pm

somebody wake me if these things ever show up....

*yawn*

i think it's time i switched scales. Very, very tired of the empty promises and endless waiting... What possible logic is there in announcing planes in early '07 that will not show up for at least 2 or 3 years.

CW4USARMY · Post by **CW4USARMY** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:04 pm

Here we go again!

Jericoeagle1 · Post by **Jericoeagle1** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:11 pm

dragon53 wrote:Latest update on the 1/18 Phantom--from Badcat's blog:

"UPDATE ON 1/18 SCALE F-4 PHANTOM AND MIG-21...
21st Century says now that the F-4 phantom won't arrive until late 2008. The B-25 Mitchell will come out probably early 2009 and then the Mig-21 afterwards."

I can't find that on Badcat's Blog do you have a link?

mountian-man · Post by **mountian-man** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:16 pm

dragon53 wrote:
Latest update on the 1/18 Phantom--from Badcat's blog:

"UPDATE ON 1/18 SCALE F-4 PHANTOM AND MIG-21...
21st Century says now that the F-4 phantom won't arrive until late 2008. The B-25 Mitchell will come out probably early 2009 and then the Mig-21 afterwards."

I can't find that on Badcat's Blog do you have a link?

It was posted on Bad Cat's blog in the form of a comment, by a registered user under the thread about BBI's 1/32 scale phantom. It apparently is not an offical Statement from Bad Cat Toys. I don't know where this poster recieved this information. The Motorpool has now changed the 1/18 F-4's shipping date to 4th Quater 2008, and the Mig 21 is listed as "To be determined." I don't know what logic the Motorpool is using to determine these dates either. This is where the "flow of Information" on Area 21 would really help by minimizing all the conjecture about release dates. When you blow by an announced release date (Christmas 2007 for the 1/18 F-4) It would be nice to at least post an update about it's delayed progress. I do hope that the release dates for these models aren't as distant and bleak as some of the above statements forecast.

Sabrefan · Post by **Sabrefan** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:25 pm

By the time the model is released, I might be to old to know what the frick an F-4 is.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:55 pm

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:05 am

Hahahahaha, Grunt, love it. But yes, I'm very confused about these dates. I only started collecting 1:32 about 8 months ago and then 1:18 and now I see the insanity we all face... Hell, why don't we all just move to China, together, work IN the 21st factory, then we'll know EXACTLY where everything is...

Plus I'm sure we'd get an employee discount.

Downside...

I think we'd all get fired for playing with $10,000 prototypes...

...and we'd be pretty poor.

BUT WE'D HAVE PERFECT PAINTSCHEMES EVERYTIME, ALL THE TIME, NOW WOULDN'T WE?

dragon53 · Post by **dragon53** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:20 am

Friday morning: Motorpool still has the F-4 release in September (on Thursday, they had 3 different dates).