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Posted: Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 09:40 PM UTC


MENG announced their latest model kit. Check out the company's press release.

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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 04:39 AM UTC
Looks like a good ol' jeep to me. Even in 1949 they were copying hings, eh ?
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 06:40 AM UTC
Takom did a Jeep, now Meng. Hopefully it will also be released without the useless figure.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 08:06 AM UTC
The Mao figure is essential if you're collecting evil dictators. He takes first place as a mass murderer, beating both Stalin and Hitler.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 08:39 AM UTC

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The Mao figure is essential if you're collecting evil dictators. He takes first place as a mass murderer, beating both Stalin and Hitler.

But Pol Pot beats all three when it comes to proportion of their respective country's populations.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 09:49 AM UTC
This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 10:14 AM UTC

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Looks like a good ol' jeep to me. Even in 1949 they were copying hings, eh ?


This isn't a copy, it is a Jeep. The US supplied lots of equipment to the Chinese during WW2 and it continued to see use during the Chinese civil war and beyond.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 10:18 AM UTC
Is the jeep a new-tool? I see T-latches on the hood, which is a plus compared to some. And the handrail on the windshield is unusual.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 10:46 AM UTC

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This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head

Does the cult of Mao even exist in modern China? I thought the current leader has an even bigger cult in his country.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 01:57 PM UTC

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The Mao figure is essential if you're collecting evil dictators. He takes first place as a mass murderer, beating both Stalin and Hitler.

Hadn't thought of that.

The odd hand rail is probably mounted in holes at the top of the wind shield. The posts are hollow. The bar could also have been part of a raised top attachment, and repurposed as a grab rail.
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 02:53 PM UTC
https://af.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AAer:Mao_Zedong_in_jeep.jpg
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Posted: Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 09:23 PM UTC

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This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head


Surely you know that Chinese companies long ago joined in with the Western practice of knowing an opportunity to cash in when they see it.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 01:02 AM UTC
Annoying to say the least.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 02:55 AM UTC
Talk about appealing to the home market. What next, a Taiwanese version featuring Chaing Kai Shek? A Soviet GAZ with Stalin?
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 03:00 AM UTC
Why is this annoying and such a bad thing. If the jeep is good, build it and throw away the figures if you don't want them. It is only plastic and resin. I find it funny how people get so offended when Meng comes out with Trump, Putin, and Mao figures; but people have no issues building figures of Hitler, Goebells, and other Nazis.


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This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head


I doubt it. More like a poor machine translation.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 03:02 AM UTC

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Why is this annoying and such a bad thing. If the jeep is good, build it and throw away the figures if you don't want them. It is only plastic and resin. I find it funny how people get so offended when Meng comes out with Trump, Putin, and Mao figures; but people have no issues building figures of Hitler, Goebells, and other Nazis.


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This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head


I doubt it. More like a poor machine translation.



Well spoken!
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 08:04 AM UTC
No doubt the first in a series of Meng 'Jeep' models.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 09:04 AM UTC

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No doubt the first in a series of Meng 'Jeep' models.


It will actually be their second jeep in hopefully a long series.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 10:14 AM UTC
[quote]It will actually be their second jeep in hopefully a long series.
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I forgot about that one.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 11:12 AM UTC

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Why is this annoying and such a bad thing. If the jeep is good, build it and throw away the figures if you don't want them. It is only plastic and resin. I find it funny how people get so offended when Meng comes out with Trump, Putin, and Mao figures; but people have no issues building figures of Hitler, Goebells, and other Nazis.


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This looks like a fun joke release, but the description sounds like the poor guy at meng's office had a gun pointed at the back of his head


I doubt it. More like a poor machine translation.


Hear, hear Gino!
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 12:30 PM UTC
I'm not offended by the included figures as they can always be given away if I'm not interested, and I doubt very much that I'd build any Nazi politicals. Or Fascists for that matter. Not my stuff. Just found it interesting that they'd include Mao on tour; the Jeep is a welcome addition provided I don't pay too much for the Supreme One.
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 05:44 PM UTC

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The Mao figure is essential if you're collecting evil dictators. He takes first place as a mass murderer, beating both Stalin and Hitler.


The arrogance or more likely the ignorant of some people still amaze me till today...
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Posted: Monday, September 30, 2019 - 09:33 PM UTC

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Just found it interesting that they'd include Mao on tour


Given this is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the communist Chinese state, and there are big celebrations going on in China, it makes perfect sense for a Chinese company to release a model of their state's founder in his early "glory days". From a marketing standpoint they get a triple-whammy - customers who want a) Chairman Mao, b) a new jeep, c) a souvenir of the big 70th. (Or indeed folks who welcome all three...) Bear in mind us westerners are not Meng's only market - I'm sure they are big back home, where funny enough lots of folks still celebrate Mao as a founding father.

My own interest is the jeep - I've built them from a number of other companies over the years, and would like to know what the Meng kit brings to the party!
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 - 12:42 PM UTC
Please excuse my inattentiveness in regards to today's date as being the 70th anniversary celebration of the Communist Chinese state; I've been rather distracted by the riots in Hong Kong to notice the festive anniversary celebrated by China. Now Mao in a Jeep makes sense. Sort of.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 - 09:12 PM UTC
That's ok. I too am not a fan, and am also a bit worried about the way things are going in HK. "Interesting times" as they say...
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