Small Scale Military Headquarters

Someone posted on another message board that BBI is releasing, in Germany, two new 1/18 F-16s in Thunderbirds and Enduring Freedom paint schemes in June. He said it would be equivalent to $130 in US dollars. He posted photos that didn't post, so I asked for more info and the photos.

I thought BBI had canceled the Thunderbirds F-16 and the Enduring Freedom is a new one to me....Has anyone else heard of BBI's new F-16s?

dragon53 wrote:Someone posted on another message board that BBI is releasing, in Germany, two new 1/18 F-16s in Thunderbirds and Enduring Freedom paint schemes in June. He said it would be equivalent to $130 in US dollars. He posted photos that didn't post, so I asked for more info and the photos.

I thought BBI had canceled the Thunderbirds F-16 and the Enduring Freedom is a new one to me....Has anyone else heard of BBI's new F-16s?

BBi F-16 Thunderbird is canceled and all preorder refunded.
F-16 Enduring Freedom will be release in June or July. It will cost 120€ (157 US dollars).





phil

EXETHER_MEGA:

Thanks for the info and photos.

dragon53 wrote:EXETHER_MEGA:

Thanks for the info and photos.

phil

If it does come out Id love to get it but I dont understand why BBi would release something so American in a European market

For what it's worth, here's the F-16 Thunderbirds being offered in Europe (Germany?)

http://www.heo.com/Elite-Force-F-16-C-1 ... i01156.asp

dragon53 wrote:For what it's worth, here's the F-16 Thunderbirds being offered in Europe (Germany?)

http://www.heo.com/Elite-Force-F-16-C-1 ... i01156.asp

Very nice, would shipping to the US be prohibitive?

YT:

Assuming the F-16 Thunderbirds is actually going to be released, it might be sold in the US by Militarytoyshop.com which has it as "Coming Soon"...


http://www.militarytoyshop.com/prodtype ... istory=cat

It will probably get cancelled too. I hate that they tease us and then snatch it back. I would be all over it if it does get released though.

Yeah I guess I thought both of these were canceled, this thread gave me some hope that may not be the case.

it is my understanding that, the way bbi is operating now, is they will only release items if some etailer/retailer/importer foots the bill first. Merit paid for the desert 109G, so we got a desert 109G.

If someone in germany is willing to take on the thunderbirds, enduring freedom or anything else than bbi will make it.

so theres a minute chance? hey thats better than no chance at all :/

sure, there's a chance we could see lots of stuff from bbi....if someone is willing to front the money. We may even see their Hind produced one day..

MMM...Hind!

After the fiasco of the zero being stuck in the new government testing, I would be surprised that they would want to deal with the United States again

the enduring freedom F-16 is a franklin mint model !!!!!
it's not a bbi bird !!! just look at it real close....
Dcway

it sure looks like this one:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1

Here's a German ad for the BBI 1/18 F-16 "Enduring Freedom". It appears to be saying, if the Google translation is correct, that is a pre-order and will be released in Germany in late June, 2009.

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... v%26sa%3DG

That would be great.

Yeah I will get one since I dont have a F-16

Movable flaps? Yeah, that's not the bbi F-16.

From the German website, 48specialmodels.com, dated April 5, 2009:

"Blue Box has canceled the 1/18 scale F-16C "Thunderbirds" and announced a F-16C "Enduring Freedom" Version now. Because we don't know if this is changing again, we will not provide any product information until the item is in stock."

The Enduring Freedom F-16 is listed as a June, 2009 release.

Well, I hope it rings true as I'd like to pick one up.

The F-16 Enduring Freedom may be a reality after all---Coreyeagle posted this recently:

"Interestingly enough, I had emailed BBI recently about a spare tail for the F-16 for my missing one and got a reply back from them.

They said they did not have any spare parts, however, they were thinking of possibly opening up the production line with a new model for the F-16 and then replacement parts may become available. I took this to mean they were thinking of doing another F-16, possibly in the near future. "

A German poster on another message board said his dealer told him BBI has canceled the F-16 "Enduring Freedom". Earlier, the F-16 "Thunderbirds" was also canceled.