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by Coreyeagle48 » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:18 pm
Hi Everyone,
I agree, we are talking about toy airplanes and not the real thing here. I like P-51's, enjoy seeing them fly, talking to their owners and would kill for a ride in one. They are terrific airplanes. They clearly have many fans because people continue to buy replicas of them and hold them dearly in their hearts and many people work very hard to keep the survivors flying and maintained to airshow worthy condition. I salute these efforts, the people that flew these airplanes, fly them today and the people that built them. I agree with lots of history books, without the P-51 in World War II, we would have been in big trouble.
The point I am making is that I feel that the toy companies in general have overkilled this airplane. There are way too many of them on the market. I'm glad we have these choices, but what bothers me is that when a new company comes along, guess what plane is the first to be made, the P-51 Mustang. I understand it is popular, people buy them, and people are brand loyal and will buy whatever a company makes, but it's just getting to be annoying seeing the same airplane available by every company when I would love something different. Even in the R/C world, every R/C maker has a P-51. I just wish we would see some different things.
I like the F-18 too, but with the exception of the fact that the Blue Angels fly them. I was never much the fan of it. I grew up hearing about the F-14 and love the F-14. I'm not saying the Hornet is not a great airplane, it is, I just like the F-14 better. The only reason I said anything about the F-18 was that it just seemed that when it came out, at least around here, they kind of just sat here for awhile collecting dust. By comparison a bunch of toy F-14's with a little helmet gizmo thing that allowed you to talk to it sold out within a few days. Top Gun made the F-14 very popular, for better or for worse. The F-18 is an airplane liked by the aviation community and the people who fly it and people who follow the Blue Angels, but I wonder of the appeal of it outside our world.
It's kind of like the A-10 thing we have been talking about for the past few days. We love the A-10 here, but does the general public know enough about it to purchase it, or will they simply say "Who Cares?" and keep walking. I think that is why we see the same airplanes over and over again.
I don't say "Who Cares" to any real airplane because they are all so cool, and everyone here has favorties. But for toys, sometimes I do, simply because they have had so many replicas of that particular plane.
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