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bought a couple of FOV tanks (Grant, M-60) at TRU, was checking the FOV website and did not see any Centurion.


DH

They have a Challenger II

schizuki wrote:It's a shame. Probably the best tank of the post-war period, widely exported, and battle-proven in the Middle East.

It's all about box office. WWII and Iraq have it, Arab-Israeli Wars don't.

Box office and poltical issues should never influence a toy's status.

DH

I kind of agree that the average Joe will buy a tank that he knows about - for instance, most people around the world know what a Tiger is, hence the 10,000 Dragon Tiger variants and the large number of 21C and FoV Tiger releases. You also have significant demand for replicas of American equipment that was used in the 1st Gulf War and is still being used in Iraq & Afghanistan.

However, I would have thought that there would be a lot of demand for Israeli armour considering how popular that state is in the States right now. Hell, I know I'd pay a fortune for a 1:32 or 1:72 Merkava from Dragon, FoV or even 21C - never mind the plethora of other AFVs the IDF is famous for. I would be more interested in a Canadian version of the Centurion purely out of patriotism, but a Sho't or Ben Gurion would be a close second.

Let's hope that Dragon, Unimax and 21C eventually figure out how much money they could make from just one release of the Merkava in any scale