update on JSI F-14

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Post by vmf214 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:20 pm

Personally I'm convinced the Tomcat, again when and if and I myself am optimistic it's a for sure, will be a homerun and will sell out rather quickly. The big Bbi jets kinda set a precedent for price as the avg 21st plane was what 30-40 bucks at the time and then here Bbi comes with a big jet that was well over 50, I remember the mass onslaught of complaining both in the early days of this site and the prior original GPXD site when TRU raised prices from 30 to 45. You take that in to account plus what those "old" Bbi big jets are bringing on ebay and most guys are gonna jump on it if at all humanly possible, my opinion unless a dude us just absolutely literally starving he's gonna find a way to get one, and I can assure you the fleabay scalpers are gonna hoard their fair share of Tomcats for later sale. Now based on overall Tomcat sales figures especially in the amount of time it takes for them to sell them "all" will determine if JSI will stick to the "limited" release plan. Personally I hope if they do sell out quick JSI continues with repaints instead of reissuing the same schemes later. But I just don't think JSI with their current market plan is going to realize full potential until they get something on the market, especially something totally new like the Tomcat, Eagle, or Sukhoi because we've all been told "so much" and seen "so little" it's human nature to be skeptical of anything new anytime soon. If they follow thru with these 3 jets and they're successful and imo they will be then I think we can expect JSI to be around (in 1/18 anyway as they do a great many other things too) for quite some time. Again JMO. :)

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