09-12-2021, 10:35 PM
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Too Many Initiators is Never Enough
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 2,404
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
The end of 1977 was a dark day for discontinuation of Estes kits.
The K29 Saturn 1B, K57 Astron Sky Dart, and K37 Astron Scrambler were all discontinued and missing from the 1978 catalog. That catalog added all the lousy Star Wars kits, which were the most over-produced Estes kits ever.
Those 3 discontinued kits for 1978 are in my top 5 of all Estes kits.
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Actually, the most over-produced (Or should that be under-sold) Estes models were anything from the Star Wars Episode 1 product line.
My understanding is that Estes asked LucasFilms to be released from their contract for that product line. LucasFilms was happy to do so. It only cost Estes $17 Million. 
The money that went into the Star Wars product development and production was taken away from the NCRBE product line. Had NCRBE received that money the Orbit Starter Set and G70 and F62-9 Dark Star motors would have gone into production. 
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