bbi: New F-18C VFA-86 SIDEWINDERS

C00per · Post by **C00per** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:42 am

Hello everybody,

I just got the info that a new bbi bird is on the horizon! It´s scheduled for June 2012.

Greetings from Germany!

c00per

gburch · Post by **gburch** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:14 am

My wallet ! ! ! !

rohirrimknight · Post by **rohirrimknight** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:21 am

Yeah!

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:41 am

C00per wrote:Hello everybody,

I just got the info that a new bbi bird is on the horizon! It´s scheduled for June 2012.

Greetings from Germany!

c00per

no way they add working part i see the landing gear still has issue

C00per · Post by **C00per** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:15 am

Well, it´s up for preorder at the german distributor.

They cost us here a little bit more than the recently released Blackhawk so I guess that for you in the US the price will be equal or a bit more as the bbi Blackhawk.....

rohirrimknight · Post by **rohirrimknight** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:21 am

Hi, what is the preorder price in german?

C00per · Post by **C00per** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:36 am

I havn´t seen any "official price" from any shop or etailer yet. But they can preorder the models from the german bbi distributor now. And I was told that the preorder price for the shops/etailers is a bit more than the one for the Blackhawk was. So since the bbi Blackhawk is sold to customers for about 160 Euro my guess for the F-18 would be a selling price of about 180 Euro then....

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:15 am

That actually looks pretty nice

Question is whether I get it. I'm still very happy with my S1 "Golden Dragons" version, but this looks snappy with the cammo and all, but without being overdone.

astronut1885 · Post by **astronut1885** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:24 am

Don't like that camo... Why can't we just get a nice low-viz grey scheme?

supersonicfifi · Post by **supersonicfifi** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:22 am

almost 2 years ago a Camo F-18 was scheduled too ! i was waiting for it anxiously .... THIS GREY ONE LOOKS über COOL !

Can't wait ! but the brown camo was cool too !

Bring anyone Mr BBI ! we are ready !

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:16 pm

The BBi promo pic doesn't look like it's the actual product to me. (Unless they have made many changes to the existing tooling.)

supersonicfifi · Post by **supersonicfifi** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:23 pm

THe promo pics are of a REAL plane ( look the tail control wich are lightly up + the antennaes behind cokpit + doors of the front landing gear ...)

It was just to show the camo ....

IF i am wrong and that is a real picture of the final product you can count on me for 10 of theses !!!!!

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:25 pm

tko211 wrote:The BBi promo pic doesn't look like it's the actual product to me. (Unless they have made many changes to the existing tooling.)

that is what i was thinking too...

if it is the same mode i just skip it i have two birds already and need no further repaint.. if it is a f 18 c with change i buy ... it...we will see i hope they have air break

Post by **p51** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:48 pm

I thought it was too good to be true (the photo). I was starting to get excited about the new tooling, and what looks like movable horizontal stabilizers. But alas... if it's just a repaint of the original F/A-18C with this scheme, and at the cost they've been selling other re releases, I'm going to pass. LOVE the F/A-18, but I've got three Golden Dragons ($49 error on Toys R Us! Those were the days...) and one Blue Angel already and this scheme doesn't really excite me much.

Beeavision · Post by **Beeavision** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:58 pm

That's not the real photo of the scaled down jet. The image used was taken from the photo below....

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:32 pm

BadCat's blog has some info now -

http://www.talesofthecat.com/

Sabrefan · Post by **Sabrefan** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:45 pm

BBI is saying on their Facebook page the landing gear will be made of new stronger material. That is good news.

Nugget · Post by **Nugget** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:53 pm

Sabrefan wrote:BBI is saying on their Facebook page the landing gear will be made of new stronger material. That is good news.

My wallet will have to be made of stronger material too to survive the hit it's going to take if I buy this

.

This makes me regret getting a PTE F-18 at TRU for $20 perhaps 6 years ago. The BBI was only $15 or so more on sale, but it was too big and I thought I would break it by playing with it (The logic of an 11 year old, can't beat it

).

If only we had time travel!

snake · Post by **snake** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:25 pm

Not sure that I like the camo scheme on this one. For an "Aggressor" squadron, yes, but not for an operational bird.

If they were going to do VFA-86 Sidewinders, would much prefer a more standard "old school" scheme.

Beeavision · Post by **Beeavision** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:59 am

This just in from Badcat....

According to my sources, this press release came from Asia and the BBI USA office did not know this news was coming and is still trying to get more information. Picture is not of actual product and USA release is not expected until later in the year.

http://www.talesofthecat.com/journal/20 ... -june.html

gouchy · Post by **gouchy** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:05 am

I really like this scheme

Even with the way prices are now and already having 3 F-18s in my collection, it will be very hard to resist indeed

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