I read on “The Modeling News” that Italeri has seen fit to re-re-re-release their 1/35 Elephant, from the '70’s, this month! Is this some kind of a joke (the kit is)? It’s been done many times since, and any one of them infinitely better than Italeri’s. From the sprue shots it looks like the same tired old kit, with errors, from almost 50 years ago! 
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“If you want an Elephant real bad, we got a real bad Elephant”
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The joke is on whomever buys one …
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Hmmm…
Adding your own weld seams, cutting off every other track guide horn, scribing some interlocking armor lines. And experimenting with making your own Zimmerit.
Yeah, not your most up to date kit, but if you know that going in, (as opposed to being bamboozled by an incorrect review of it) it might actually be fun.
At the right price point, it might even attract new modelers who want something big and cool, and who knows? Maybe they will want to use it as a learning platform.
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Well…I guess that’s the silver lining! 
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I suppose if the price point for the kit allows it to be easily affordable to those new to the hobby to use as a test bed for developing their skills, then it’s not such a bad thing so long as it goes together easily enough.
We must remember that for many venturing into the hobby, they just want to build something that looks like what they see on the box art.
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Just shootin the breeze here…
Yeah. This model came up in a recent discussion. Once upon a time, the Italeri Elefant was considered a great model but it is no longer good enough for most people who frequent Armorama. It is for people who like easy, inexpensive models that look right. It is for people who do not enjoy, or have trouble with, brass parts, individual link tracks, and small parts. There is no shame in seeking easier models for any of those reasons.
There are a few people around here with the skill and will to turn this model into an excellent display piece.
As a kid, I really wanted one of these. If someone dropped one in my lap (with replacement tracks), I might build it and dress it up just to say I built it. Or not. It would have very low priority.
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The key factor for me right there. That’s why mine is still unbuilt …
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Elephants,Tigers, and Panthers…oh my!
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Italeri kits are the Micheal Meyers/ Jason Vorhees/ Freddie Kreuger s of the model world. THEY JUST WONT DIE!!! And are just as terriffying! Between their own reboxes and the likes of Tamiya,Zvezda, Revell reissuing them…
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So? How does this affect you? Why do you care?
KL
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So? How does this affect you? Why do you care?
KL
So who asked you?? 
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I’m always curious about the motivations of those who criticize model companies for daring to issue products that the poster has no intention of buying in the first place.
KL
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If I don’t intend to buy cheap products produced by child labour in a poor country I don’t have any real motives for criticizing the companies that sell these products?
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I think that most of us like to express our opinions here, and a good number of us have purchased the Italeri Elefant at some time in our modeling career. Most of us think it’s pretty pretentious and ballsy of Italeri to re-release a 50 year old kit with an MSRP of $50.00. If that’s Italeri’s decision, then so be it, but a modeler would be ill-advised to purchase it with the excellent alternative of the Amusing Hobby kit available.
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Italeri provides “entertainment” only rivaled by Border Models.
Both make several products good for laughter 
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That makes for happy hobbyist because it gives us something interesting to discuss.
Did Italeri see this ebay?
Planned their re-re-re-re-release accordingly?
Real street value of that box of Dog Dookie this summer?
Paid $10 for that exact kit. Vendor had that thirsty Snatch-a-Hamilton look he was so eager to be rid of it.
The kit plastic is pristine and pure vintage.
This one isn’t the typical $#i++y short shot, sink mark riddled, low quality garbage 2/3 of Italeri kits I’ve purchased previously always proved to be 
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In time, I think this one will go on the bench because it’s actually good mold quality which has proved incredibly rare in the Italeri AFV kit’s, I purchase.
Sarcasm/On
Is this one a possible counterfeit product since it doesn’t suck and has good quality for a 1973 kit? I wonder 
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1985, I’d have been delighted with it.
1995, I’d have been happy enough with it.
2005, Free? No thanks.
2015, I’d have offered $7.50 for it
2024, paid $10, the same as ~$7.50 in 2015
If someone really wants a nostalgia build, it’s nice the kit is commonly available.
Hopefully, folks do their research and don’t get burned paying $53 to $63 for it like they do on occasion for this pile of Italeri pig poop from the early 1990’s.
Buyer Beware, otherwise modeler’s end up like this…
…that 
Feel the Love…for Italeri!
YMMV
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Great. Now you guys have me looking at local model shows. Maybe I can score a few cheap kits to practice on and make some old guy really happy. “Ha ha! Sucker!” Looks like there are two coming up in my area, both about 90 minutes away.
Or…I can save that gas money, wait for Black Friday and after Christmas sales, and buy up a bunch of new kits.
Or…I can save even more money and build one of the hundred stupid models falling out of my closet. At least there are none stored in the bathroom and crawl spaces. Yet.
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