Does anyone out in rocket land remember the Estes Great Garages ?

Est 8030 1/24th scale
For Die Cast and Plastic Models


Est 8001 1/43 scale
Chevrolet Corvette
includes garage, die cast car (Corvette) , and all the tools shown on the box cover.

Another short lived odd ball from Estes

Just for fun, list all of the other odd balls that estes has come out with since it's beginning.

/West Wings
MDS mufflers
Great Garages
Sterling balsa planes
Kick Dis
Dude

OK, i started the list, what else?

I remember the Light Gliders.

I had the Hi-Lite and the Flight Master. Both flew beautifully and the Flight Master was HUGE!!!

It had a 24 inch wing span and a 9 inch diameter prop IIRC.

The only problem I had with the planes is that the propellers were very flimsy. Even with just minor impacts, one of the blades would snap off.

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Donald Besaw Jr

Wheel-O

Yes, I do. I just found a partial box of them today. Dodge Vipers.

And I stilll have a bunch of that other stuff. West Wings, Sterling kits and others. Thankfully we got rid of all our Dudes recently. The other stuff still haunts me.....

- Rich

Hello Rich

Do you have a hobby shop? What else do you have "haunting" you?
RD

Yes, hobby shop and distribution business in my Dad's name. Dad can't manage things anymore so I am helping him out.

The two things that haunt me (in regards to Estes product) are the rocket powered race cars and Star Wars Episode One kits. We have cases of the cars and kits.

- Rich

Do you have any of the Flight Master light gliders, I'd like to have another one of those.

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Donald Besaw Jr

So they misspelled Dud, eh?

I remember when those came out. Many of us had a good laugh, but still went out and bought one, using our 40% off coupons, of course, or got them at WalMart, where they had 2-packs of the D motors cheap.

I didn't realize there was such a backlog of unsold product out there. I didn't think they were great sellers, but I didn't realize they had done so poorly.

FWIW, mine's up in the attic having only ever flown one time. Maybe I ought to get it out and take it to a club launch. There's a whole new generation of fliers out there who've never seen this thing.

Doug

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Yes, we have some up on eBay right now. Item number 160467045432.

If you don't want to go the eBay route then PM me and I am sure we can work something out.

- Rich

Either that or my Dad just bought too many of the darned things. He's been known to do that on occasion.



You should. I watched a few YouTube videos of them and as long as they are inflated correctly they look like a fun one to watch.

- Rich