Posted on January 4th, 2012 at 9:21 AM by admin
Category: Opinions
TAMIYA 2012 ?
As in the previous years
a) which products do you think Tamiya could release this year (static, RC, mini, anything else) and
b) which products would you personally like to be released (regardless of if their chances are realistic)?
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Hi all
My guesses :
M05 Golf Racing Gr.2
RM01 Porsche 956 Newman livery
RM01 modern LeMans protoype (Audi R18, Peugeot 908)
Wild One
Falcon
F104W/F103 Ligier Matra JS-9
TB03 M-Four (rally version) unless a TB04 shows up (since WRC DS3/Focus/Mini look smaller, DF03Ra doesn’t seem appropriate anymore due to its wheelbase)
TA02T Prerunner / Dakar Mini
Wishes:
About the same
Lancia 037 on a M06L chassis with TL01 suspensions.
This will be a great non expansive model and rear wheel drive is what the 037 all about.
No idea what Tamiya will be up to, but here´s my wishlist:
*Bruiser/Hilux
*Porsche 959 + Celica gr B
*Egress
*Cheetah
*Super Champ
*The Fox
All on original chassis of course:)
@ZEPPELIN : not sure the body would fit over the M06 motor
Well, here’s my wishlist (not in alphabetical order):
~ Bruiser
~ Wild One
~ Porsche 959
~ Celica Gr. B
~ Cheetah
~ The Fox
~ Toyota Hilux
So, Mr. T….hope you’re reading this!
Too many rumours about so I’ll skip the guesses and go straight to wish list:
Fox. In the same spirit as the forthcoming Super Hot Shot and as original as possible. Maybe the ‘Super Fox’ or similar.
That’d do for me
J
Guesses :
Almost the same list as BHS, plus a Vanquish, something on DN01 basis but more scale-ish.
additionally 2012 could be the year of the highly awaited comeback of the legendary 959.
Wishes:
-Astute
-BigWig
-Renault RE30 F1 or anything vintage Renault Formula one
-After the acclaimed release of the MiniZ buggy, it would be nice to have a mini4WD RC chassis
More WTCC/BTCC body set!
Guesses are just crystalball thoughts, probably as reliable as rumors and new year’s good resolutions
Question to Tamiyablog people: you always publish [i]reliable[/i] info, once are year you ask [i]us[/i] what are [i]our[/i] guesses and wishes: but what about [i]yours[/i]?
I’d like if tamiya will re-release old rc body with decals like:
Castrol Tom’s supra
Pennzoil skyline
Mazda 787b
…
more F1/ LeMans body like:
F1 Red Bulls
Audi R18
touring cars like :
TVR Sagaris
Shelby Cobra
and cool Drift Bodies
and some Short Course TRF models
I’d like a rere Bruiser too, the originals are too damn expensive, and still the vintage 3sp is part of tamiya’s history.
A sure guess would be that Tamiya will release new bodies for the RM01, they haven’t designed a chassis from scratch simply for one kit, from Tamiya that would be unheard of.
Lamborghini Murcialago Super Veloce
Lamborghini Reventon
Lamborghini Diablo
The Fox
The Wild One
Avante 2001
RBR Renault Turbo Sebastian Vettel F104 (!!!)
Toyota Hil Lux
Bruiser
Thats my list.
hi all got to be porsche 959 and toyota grb ,wild one willys wheeler and the ford ranger f150 xlt then my collection will be getting there!!!
Guesses and wishes :
Bruiser and 959
The Wild One
Hilux
Bruiser
Egress
a) Not so long ago I read a very interesting post here about the outstanding designer Mr. Takuya Yura. So … Gentlemen what about the Big Wig?
Hotshot, Super Shot it was very nice and it would be great!
But where the same have lost my favorite Hotshot 2?
I really hope to compliance history.
b) My personal wish is not very different from others
HOTSHOT 2
SUPER BigWig
SUPER Champ
SUPER Wild One
SUPER Falcon
SUPER Fox
SUPER Lancia 037 Rally with frog chassis
SUPER Celica Gr. B
SUPER Toyota Hilux
SUPER Blazing Blazer
SUPER Opel Ascona 400 Rally
SUPER Martini Porsche 935 Turbo 1/10
SUPER every Tamiya classic RC!!!!
c) It is very personal. Please Tamiya make a
Lancia Delta S4 body with Martini Racing color scheme!
Why Tamiya? Because Tamiya – the standard of quality!
Attention to detail makes us modellers.
@Eugene: I really like that idea of new “Super” Versions, like they also did with the Avante Black Special, Super Blackfoot etc. and various Mini 4WD. I actually would prefer them to identical re-releases as they bring a new spice and life to the versions that most fans and collectors long have by now.
I am also a bit disappointed that it seems that some fans only wish even more re-releases and have no ideas and hopes for something new and possibly even more interesting or nice then those “boring” classics that have been flooding collections, websites and ebay since a decade…
Regards,
Admin
TRF 418
TRF 202
would be possible
my wish-list:
Big Wig
Super Champ
Willy´s Wheeler
Audi & Ascona
Bruiser
I hope a hummer H3 dakar version robby gordon
@admin: not easy to anticipate what “real new stuff” Tamiya would release as their range of products is already wide (never been that wide, actually).
I suggested an M-size 4WD shaft-driven chassis suitable for rally and newest shorter WRC cars (that would nicely complete the M-chassis family).
Apart from that, I can’t think of any new chassis type that wouldn’t be a follower (Short Course) or confidential (moto, dragster, go-kart, quad/ATV bike, rocket cars). Something more “scale-Baja-tube-frame” like Axial’s Exo? Or a new Solar Eagle concept? Cell-fuel vehicle? I don’t think technology is ready for that at affordable price.
May be you have an idea, wishes?
Wish that Tamiya would have a go at some new “Scale” buggies or other vehicles like the ones in MotorStorm (PlayStation3) for example, in 1/10 scale.
Or give us a decent line up from the British Touring Car Championship again in 1/10.
Or some of the cars from Group B of the WRC from the mid 1980′s LOL
I’d settle for The Fox rerelease! It had better be close to the original!
Cheers,
Alistair G.
No guesses – only wishes (dreams):
- M05 Abarth 500 (not the asseto corse version but the street version) – just a body set will do, too!
- A chassis to compete with the Axial SCX10 (TLT-ish axles, very small gearbox, front mounted motor, and a nice ABS body with interiour like a G500, FJ Cruiser, Jeep JK, … Tamiya quality! + waterproof electronics box)
- M1A1 Abrams tank
- APC type tank like the Bradley
- TXT-2, similar to TXT-1 suspension-wise but with heavy duty 1 motor (BL) gearbox with low COG and behind-the-axle steering rods.
- Avante body parts set
- Nissan R91CP body parts set
- Group C interiour re-re
- Top Force Evolution re-re
- Separate decal sets for all cars (w/o body)
- 1.9 and 1.55 beadlock wheels + decent crawl/trial tyres
- Aston Martin DBS body parts
- McLaren MP4-12c LM body parts
- Dakar type racing truck (lorry if you will)
And last but not least – perhaps just least likely:
- Mr Tamiya’s signature on my copy of Master Modeler
I’ll end it here as this probably exceeds my RC budget for 2012 already. Happy new year!
@Black Hole Sun: The other editors of TB and me as well some other posters have posted in the past years several wishes, there exist so many cool vehicles like classic rally cars, off roaders, trucks etc. Also as I wrote above, from re-releases I would prefer new “Super/Special” versions with improved chassis and spiced look then the originals.
Admin
@admin: I agree for “vehicles” and I’d also like classic rally cars (not “super” versions of re-releasese since I prefer “as per original”). Would love Lancia Stratos/Delta S4, 205/405Turbo 16, Audi Quattro (A1 & Sport), Metro 6R4, Ford RS200.
I was more focusing on chassis types and/or usage type when talking about “real new stuff”
@Black Hole Sun: About chassis types I would like to see a new “CC02″ with solid front and rear axles and a new scaleish buggy chassis. Even many new vehicle types like amphibians are possible but I understand Tamiya that at current hard times it would be a too big risk. For me a re-release will never be an original and if I want an original I buy one. I love re-releases though for running and trying alternative paint schemes and modifications which I wouldn’t “dare” on the rare and precious originals.
Admin
@admin:
“I am also a bit disappointed that it seems that some fans only wish even more re-releases.”
Oh no! See item “с” from my post. There’s wishes for the new, that will immediately become a classic…
Classic Rally Group B cars, which listed by Black Hole Sun.
Just sometimes I think that in this current hard times easier to produce tamiya re-releases that are guaranteed to be sold!
This spring, I built 1/8 Lancia Stratos based on Avante chassis. And it was great! Photography is not hard to find. But this is classic! Interestingly, the suspension design of Avante bit like Stratos. And what a beautiful physics…
But do not ask me what body I used …
You’ve guess …
Best Regards
Eugene
@Eugene: As I wrote I really liked your wishes and found them rather to be the exception
Do you have photos of the Stratos, even if it has a K… body? Sure for Tamiya its easier to produce re-releases but sooner or later they will run out of them (the most interesting stuff has been re-released even now already) and then will have a problem if people start wanting Tamiya only for oldies.
Best regards,
Admin
What about a 1/16 Israeli Merkava tank…
The Merkava is an excellent choice -esp the MK IV!
Abrams M1A2 is another both in 1/16 !
@admin
Of course I have a photo. This is my project and it’s not a secret. I can send or post photos as you like.
@Eugene: Please feel free to post links to them here in the comments section.
Regards,
Admin
My wish for a long time (and I mailed my wish to Mr. T many years ago) is that Tamiya steps into the golden years of motor racing: the fifties. I like to see bodies (on rwd chassis with narrow tyres) of the Jaguar C and D , Ferrari 330, Ford GT40, Aston Martin DB1, etc. Kyosho made some in the past but Tamiya can do new versions. A field of cars, drifting around corners must be a good view. Bonus: these cars are easy on the decals
wishes
bruiser
1/8 road motorcycle, brushless
1/5 dirt bike, brushless
admin i here what you say about one day they will run out of re-releases! but back in the days of the rough rider, hot shot, avante etc tamiya were way ahead of any other rc maufacturer on quality and ease of build and the hop-ups were endless!. but buy the early to mid nineties they started to lose there way i think it was when the touring cars started to hit the tracks,out went the lovely white boxes with the painted models in came the pictures of the actual model on the box! and the cars reflected the dare i say lack of imagination, so when i see those white boxes again i get that feeling i got when i was a kid looking in beatties window “i so want that!” hopfully with that new vw camper coming out tamiya will go back to the excellent quality and fun of the white box years!!!
@Philip: I also like the “oldschool” box arts, but they were the rule even quite later, only after approximately 58300 (around 2003) the dark boxes and even later the generic boxes with small adhesive photos took upper hand. It seems though Tamiya knows about it and still does great painted boxart for many important scaleish RC kits plus off course for their static kits.
Regards,
Admin
@hi admin, i had no idea it was around 2003 that they still did the painted box arts was that mainly all the on road cars ie: tb02 etc? and ya right there box art for there static kit are excellent! i just think people are starting to knock the re-re but if it was not for them i for one could not afford the originals that i would like and i no that people have probably thought that its wiped the value off there original collections but you can never replace an original and if i had the money id only go for originals so the re-re are a good second best!!
@admin
Avante-Stratos album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/115028140488377913808/AvanteStratos?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCOfy_uqp2a30GQ&feat=directlink
Best Regards
Eugene
@Eugene: Really interesting and nice combination, well done!
Regards,
Admin
I really hope Tamiya releases a Solar Eagle v2: With looks a lot like the original Solar Eagle (because it looked ace!), Integrated Lithium cell so it can be charged in the sun when stationary so it’s not completely dependent of the sun, 3 wheels layout with 2 at the front like the original and more efficient, modern day solar panels.
@Origineelreclamebord: Nice proposal, a newer solar vehicle would represent the innovations and clean technologies of Tamiya and Japan in general very well. Last year in Nuremberg there was also a small Asian company that showed a hydrogen (fuel cell) powered RC car. I guess the first Solar Eagle didn’t sell very well as it was too forward for its time, to develop such trends a new race series would be helpful, where not speed but efficiency counts (like similar exist lately for 1:1 vehicles in different universities).
Regards,
Admin
I´d like to see a brand new 1/10 on road nitro competition RC car
For sure I’d love to see a 956 re-issue. Then any vintage F1 cars would be fine by me. Does Tamiya take these comments into account? They should…
Last few years have been good for Tamiya Releases, here’s a few wishes:
Porsche 959
Audi R18
Mercedes SLR
Pagani Zonda C12
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
McLaren MP4-12C
Lotus Exige
You guys have many great ideas and wishes and I am with you on most of them.
I am just waiting for Tamiya to take up my idea of converting the 1/8 TGX into an electric version using todays powerfull brushless motors and lipos.
I did convert a 1/8 TGX in the 1995/1996 (as I recall) using a Tamiya modified motor, a Predetor motor mount, a custom made carbon fiber chassis and a Ni-Cd stickpack. Fairly heavy and yet pretty nimble
Best Regards
GreatDane c”,)
Hi Admin
Here are a couple of my all time favourites:
Porsche 959
Ford F150 Ranger XLT
Toyota 4×4 Pick Up or the Bruiser or the Mountaineer
Williams FW14 Renault
Williams-Renault FW18
Pennzoil Nismo GT-R
Nismo Clarion GT-R LM
Pennzoil Nismo GT-R R34
Lancia 037 Rally
March 782 BMW
Red bull Racing F1 2011(Vettel/Webber)
Thanks!! Great BLOG!!
“NO GUTS NO GLORY”
JD Skyline
Dear Tamiya team,
I wish very T-34/76 Tamiya 1:16 RC tank, initial or 1943 version. There are several T34 at this scale in the market, but none in the quality of Tamiya.
Thank you.
I wish your company a succesfull year.
Martin
My wishlist
:
- Blazing Blazer
- Toyota Hilux 4×4
- Porsche 959
- Toyota Celica Gr.B
- Egress
- Cheetah
- Super Champ
- Ford F-150 Ranger XLT
- The Fox
- Wild One
- Astute
My wishlist in no order of preference…..
- Super Champ
- Ford F-150 Ranger XLT
- Lancia 037 Rally
- Audi quattro & Ascona 400
- modern LeMans protoype (Audi R18, Peugeot 908)
- proper Nascar shell on group C chassis
and if you’ve any time after that…how about a 1/12 scale version of modern buggies like the Honda Pilots, Rage etc…would be mean dirt machines!!
The Fox
The Audi Quattro
Regards Andy