Dragon..."Leopold" rail gun was particularly impressive.

Dragon used to have a line called "Panzer Korps" in 1/144. Their "Leopold" rail gun was particularly impressive. Looks like Dragon is just re-issuing these kits again - same old, same old!

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Dragon used to have a line called "Panzer Korps" in 1/144. Their "Leopold" rail gun was particularly impressive. Looks like Dragon is just re-issuing these kits again - same old, same old!

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They claim this is a new venture.

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Dragon used to have a line called "Panzer Korps" in 1/144. Their "Leopold" rail gun was particularly impressive. Looks like Dragon is just re-issuing these kits again - same old, same old!

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They claim this is a new venture.

Hey, here's a better idea: fix the current issues with overpricing compared to other companies, fix known problems with existing kits, put Magic Tracks back in, and stop reissuing the same vehicles over and over.

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Hey, here's a better idea: fix the current issues with overpricing compared to other companies, fix known problems with existing kits, put Magic Tracks back in, and stop reissuing the same vehicles over and over.

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My guess is that they're not going to do that.

I don't understand the animosity toward DML. So they don't make what you want, to your desired detail and accuracy level, at the prices you want to pay. They have no obligation to do so, and you are not out any money for things they don't make and you don't buy. Why do you care?

KL

Robin that is the best comment i have seen on any site.

Don't buy what you don't WANT. Yes, I was a D fan for a decade - have a big stash of D''s mostly-great German stuff. But why does anyone expect ANY company to keep doing the same thing in the same way "forever"? D is a business. It's owners / managers / directors see possible other things and ways to do. The SUPPLY of fantastic model kits, and kit manufacturers, too, is exploding. Modelers have more choice then ever. Vote with your buying power! If the D is going a different direction, why carp about it? Just go to another company. I've moved along. So can you.
@Robin: w great respect; why "call them out"? They KNOW what they are doing. Our written / posted protests are largely irrelevant. The ONLY reason they would respond in your preferred way would be that they somehow came to believe that YOU (we modelers) know BETTER how they should run their future business then they do. Folks have carped for YEARS about things the D has done to diminish their lines and kits... to no avail yet. They KNOW what they are about, I think. Regardless of whether it displeased some of us old D fans or not!
Bob

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Hey, here's a better idea: fix the current issues with overpricing compared to other companies, fix known problems with existing kits, put Magic Tracks back in, and stop reissuing the same vehicles over and over.

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My guess is that they're not going to do that.

I don't understand the animosity toward DML. So they don't make what you want, to your desired detail and accuracy level, at the prices you want to pay. They have no obligation to do so, and you are not out any money for things they don't make and you don't buy. Why do you care?

KL

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Why do we care? Maybe to raise a small warning flag, maybe it could be called caveat emptor, to prevent others from getting too excited about the news from DML.
The days when a producer could control their image are past, nowadays consumers "spread the word".
Those who don't like the message are free to close their eyes and ears, nobody is forcing anyone to read any posts they don't like
A producer who tries to sell kits which deviate in a negative way from their previous quality standards should be called out. If they move the other way and improve their act they shall be applauded for it. For the sake of fairness if nothing else.

You'd be surprised what combined voices can accomplish. Check the video game industry to see the effects of combined customer displeasure with the latest releases of Battlefield, Diablo, Fallout 76, etc. Similar things have happened with Star Wars (the poor box office of Solo was a result of fan displeasure with Last Jedi. Marvel's comic book division is suffering from fan reactions to identity politics being injected into story lines.

If enough people complain or vote with their wallets, Dragon will start to give a [auto-censored].

. . . a new-tool Bergepanther (You know; the kit you kept claiming the Great Conspiracy of Manufacturers were not going to deliver.)

I think I need one of those new RPM Russian T-80U kits!

Bob

The flurry of NEW Bergepanther kits (along with Panthers w interiors) is an interesting case in point for the notion that folks can gang up and force a company to do what they want...

People did indeed carp and cry for a new and modern-tech / standard Berge for years. But we had to wait until NEW kit manufacturers saw the potential market for that subject. The operative is NEW. No old mfgr was successfully coerced in any way to get onto that.

People carp about the D not doing what they want. The D hasn't changed its horse on hardly anything folks have carped about. DS tracks came in, and Magics mostly went away. Folks (me too! ) squealed and shrieked and posted. The DS stayed, and Magics went away (with a few exceptions). PE and extras were reduced and cut out. Folks shrieked and whined and moaned and carped and posted. PE hasn't made it back.

The D isn't listening, guys. If the D isn't selling what you want, just go elsewhere. That's the way the free market works!

I think I need one of those new RPM Russian T-80U kits!

Bob