Here is an awesome discovery! This was discovered by The H-Man, friend to The Sphinx and expert on all manner of Godzilla-and-related video releases (check out his channel). He contact me to say that he had been researching the old Lindberg model kit from 1995...
...and in doing so, uncovered an Ebay listing for a 1995 Lindberg Dealer Catalog...
...which not only showed their cool Godzilla kit, but also one for Rodan! Who knew?
Once he shared this with me, I knew I had to buy the catalog so I could scan it to share here, as well as get this item added to our List of Unproduced Items (and in our Godzilla Guide of Vintage American Items, too).
This lovely-looking kit would've stood 7.5 inches tall, with a wingspan of 9 inches! Elsewhere in the catalog, it even shows a mock-up of store shelves, showing what your Lindberg inventory would look like...and once again, there is the Rodan kit!
It's too bad that this kit never saw the light of day, for whatever reason. Except for Trendmasters' 1994-96 output, Rodan was certainly getting no love in the U.S. at the time.
I guess a good question would be: what happened to the prototype and/or molds for this kit? Are they in private hands, or were they perhaps destroyed?
1 comment:
Whoa! I would've loved to build this in '95.
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